Is Helium.com (Helium) a scam?
Helium.com
is a website that pays you to type up short articles about anything of interest to you. You can type up articles about sports, politics, cooking, parenting or whatever your heart desires. It’s one of the few places where you can actually get paid for discussing topics you have an interest in. Personally I wrote this review because I think Helium is a wonderful way to earn money. Oh by the way it’s totally free to join and participate!
However people seem to shy away from sites like Helium.com and AssociatedContent.com because it requires that you write to get paid.
Well people I’m here to tell you don’t need to be a professionally trained writer to earn money with these companies. The Internet is a wonderful place in that people want to read content from regular folks like themselves. They don’t frown on your articles because you didn’t graduate from some Ivy League University majoring in English. (Lord knows I didn’t as you can tell.) This is the reason why blogs are so popular. Because anyone can write a blog.
The same applies with Helium.com. If you’ve ever written an email then you can easily type up a short article for Helium. It’s not that difficult. Anyone can do that. Either way you will earn money for doing it. The cool thing about Helium is people even rate your articles. For some this alone can be a pure high to know that your articles have been rated favorably. (For me, it’s the money. lol) In either case, it’s probably a good idea to write about something you’re passionate about. And we all have interests we’re passionate about so don’t tell me you can’t write for Helium.com! Because you can!
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The Bad
Helium.com pays its users based on the money they earn from advertising. So they actually share some of their profits with you. Imagine if sites like CNN.com or MySpace.com did that with you? After all the reason those sites are making money is because of visitors like you. Helium.com understands this concept and shares their revenue with you when you write articles on their website. The more you write, the more you can earn. Now granted initially you won’t be making large sums of money but it does add up in time. If you’re writing emails everyday you can type up a short article on Helium.com everyday. And think about this, are you getting paid to type up emails? So the reason I say their pay structure is bad is because it will fluctuate from month to month depending on how much they earn. And from what I can tell there isn’t an accurate way to measure this.
The other thing is you need to earn at least $25 to get paid. They have a user area that tells you how much you earn per month. But again because this depends on how much they earn you’ll see fluctuations in your payment from month to month. The best thing to do is to type up as many articles as you can while being a member and your income should increase over time because you just have such a large body of work out on their site.
I think Helium.com is a great way to get paid to type articles. But don’t expect to get rich or make a large amount of money doing it initially. It’s one of those programs that should be supplemented with other work at home opportunities and work at home jobs. If you couple all these things together then you can actually earn a good amount of money from home. But I’ve yet to find anything by itself that can earn you boat loads of money that wasn’t an affiliate program or a legitimate home based business and from what I’ve gathered, most of you avoid these like the plague. So Helium.com would be a good alternative to make money from home. So go and get started people! Why go an type emails that don’t get you paid when you could spend your time more productively
typing articles on Helium.com that will make you money!
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November 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 am |
It’s a scam, they owed me over 800 dollars and canceled my account for no reason when I requested the money.
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:08 am |
Hi Maxwell,
Thanks for your comments. I don’t necessarily think your experience is common for the majority of people that join helium. In my experience there is always these weird anomalies with companies where they do something outrageous like this. Because if it was the norm, the word would get out really fast and the company wouldn’t be viable anymore.
Nitroclicks and paidresponse is a perfect example of this. So I don’t doubt what has happened to you. I’ve seen big companies like Google do the same thing. But to me that doesn’t mean it’s a scam because they do in fact pay people. But sometimes they screw people out of money and sadly they don’t give any explanation. So I think it’s fair to say Helium is not perfect, neither is Google and various other companies.
Needless to say that sucks what they did to you. It’s really frustrating with companies kick you out of their programs when they owe you money and don’t tell you why. I know it’s happened to me as well so I sympathize with you.
Sometimes we as users unknowingly have violated some rule but the parent company fails to tell us anything until it’s too late. So I feel your pain. Thanks for sharing the experience and your site.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:57 pm |
I agree that it will take a few honest good “apples” to earn a decent living online. I suggest that once you have earned the minimum required amount in order to be paid, to ask for payment of your current balance every time you hit that certain number. This will hopefully prevent you from losing any money.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:08 pm |
I agree with Maxwell. I have lost earnings, rather than gained them. Sometimes I have logged on to see an amount, and then in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep, I will log on again. This time my funds are actually lower and will not ever gain it back. Helium really is a scam and recommended Associated Content over Helium. AC doesn’t hurt the people that provide for them.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:52 pm |
Thanks for sharing your experience Terry.
We appreciate it.
Ed
April 26th, 2008 at 2:49 pm |
I doubt he had $800. I have .50 and I’ve been using it for almost 2 months.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:51 pm |
By the way, when I checked, he has only 14 articles. That would not have gotten him $800 unless they were ALL chosen by the Marketplace. And, his articles are badly rated most of the time.