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Content Runner was built to help our community of Writers find work from our community of Users who need content written. Most of the time, this works out great, and you all have been super productive! But sometimes the demand for content drops off—say, near a holiday weekend—and all the open projects get snatched up. What’s a Writer to do? You could try completing some microtasks from our partner, CrowdFlower! What’s a Microtask? A microtask is just what it sounds like: a very small amount of work. More broadly, microtasking […]

One of the features our Users consistently tell us they love is the ability to customize their own Pools: lists of Writers with whom they’ve worked and to whom they’d like to send work more directly. Some Pools are built around a specific skill set: a Pool for Writers you trust to write stellar press releases, perhaps, or a handful of Writers who’ve delivered stellar content about a tough topic or difficult-to-research niche. Having the ability to hand-pick which Writers see which assignments is incredibly useful, but if you’re not […]

One of our goals when we built Content Runner was to streamline the process of working together for freelance writers and clients who needed their talent. We built our marketplace to do just that, and we baked in a bunch of different ways to place an order that would help our Users quickly and easily communicate to a Writer everything he or she would need to know to start working. Our hope was that Users and Writers would develop professional working relationships and get to know what to expect from […]

We recently announced that Content Runner would be switching from our current payment processor to PayPal. We’ve been getting a lot of feedback and a lot of questions, so this week I thought I’d sit down and try to address as many of them as I can. Let’s start with the basics. What This Means for Writers The primary thing that’s changing is how Content Runner will be handling payments. Previously, Writers provided our payment processor with their bank account information by filling out a form on our site, and […]

Content Runner is happy to introduce our newest addition to the in-house editing team: Amanda Nelson. Amanda has an eagle eye for details and the most infectious giggle I’ve ever heard. I sat down with her this week to ask her a few questions and get to know her a bit better. Our conversation has been very lightly edited for clarity and length. Tawny: Well hello. Thanks for taking the time to come into this other, separate room to talk to me, for normal reasons. Amanda: My pleasure! I only […]

This post is going to be a bit out of the ordinary for us: instead of me picking a subject and nattering on about it for a few hundred words, I’d like to shine a spotlight on one of Content Runner’s most successful Writers: lisakroulik. Lisa has been kind enough to let me tell her story, using some of her own words, which have been lightly edited for context, clarity and length. Meet Lisa Kroulik Lisa made writing her full-time career in 2011, focusing on online copywriting exclusively for two […]

Content Runner was founded with the intention of building a place where talented writers could build professional, mutually beneficial relationships with clients who need content. In fact, we’re so dedicated to helping our community of Writers and Users work together and form relationships that we’ve put together a new way to reward you for doing just that: the Fee Scale. Now, when a Writer earns $500 or more from a single User, Content Runner will reduce the service fee we take on transactions between them. That means that the more […]

Content Runner’s team is growing! We’re very proud to introduce Zachary Westall, our new Editor. This guy’s super talented and we’re thrilled to be working with him. I spent an hour or so distracting him from his work and sat down to chat with him. This conversation has been (very) lightly edited for length and clarity.  Tawny: Zach! First of all, welcome to Content Runner. What were you up to before you found us? Zach: Like many of the denizens of Seattle, I’m a transplant; originally from Miami. Before Content […]

We’re excited to announce a new feature that will be going live later this week: soon our Writers will be able to promote their Offerings! We want our Writers to be able to spread the good news and share their Offerings with their social networks, so we’ve built a feature to help them promote their Offerings in a tweet to all their Twitter followers or in an email directly to their target audience. Admittedly I’m a pretty excitable sort of person (you should have seen me when I learned that […]

It’s been an exciting year for Content Runner, and we find ourselves with lots to be thankful for this season. We’re thrilled to have partnered with so many talented Writers and enthusiastic Users. We’re excited to be working with a team of creative and determined employees who keep the site up and running and the content flowing (and check for typos!). We’re proud to have built this community of individuals dedicated to producing and publishing excellent content on every subject under the sun, all across the internet. If you’ll indulge […]