Yesterday, I got an email from helium which mentioned the new changes that are made in their website. Helium have changed the way things work regarding upfront payments.
In the past, writers needed to have at least one writing start and at least one rating star in order to qualify for upfront payments. But starting from 1st of July, 2009, writers no longer need a rating star in order to get upfront payments.
This change will surely help the writers who do not have a rating start at the time of upfront payments.
However, writers still need to have a rating star in order to qualify for receiving daily revenue sharing from Helium. There is no change in the rating star requirement for Helium’s daily revenue sharing.
There is also a sad news.
Starting from 1st of July, 2009, Helium will no longer give upfront payments to articles posted under a title with 5 or more articles already submitted.
Helium will now only pay upfront payment if the article is submitted under a title that has less than 5 articles being posted under it.
This really is a sad news as I was thinking about writing articles under all available titles at helium.
Remember that you do need a rating star if you want to qualify for the daily revenue sharing.