Matthew Holden
Director of Content Marketing
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Matthew Holden is the Director of Content Marketing for Online Writing Jobs, and a frequent contributor to the OWJ blog. After receiving a Master’s degree in English Education from Sage Graduate School in Troy, New York, he began writing freelance, and eventually full-time, for various companies and media outlets. After spending some time writing marketing copy, he became interested in the various ways a company can market itself online through the use of different types of content marketing.
Today, as the Director of Content Marketing, Matt oversees strategy creation, production, implementation, and promotion, of content written by experts and influencers from across the country in every vertical imaginable. When he is not overseeing the creation and promotion of thousands of pieces of content a year for OWJ clients, Matt can be found writing some for himself.
Matthew Holden's Posts
The Great A-xperiment Ends
Happy Tuesday QG Writers!
I have some good news and some bad news. As I learned in Looney Tunes cartoons, I'll start with the bad news first.
The bad news is The Great A-xperiment (paying $40 for an A) is over. It was good while it lasted, but alas, nothing gold can stay.
The good news is that there is more than one piece of good news.
First, the rubrics are staying. While it hasn't been the smoothest roll-out of a program, with your feedback we've been able to create rubrics Read more [...]
Posted in Grading
Some More Modifications to the Rubric System
Hey QG Writers!
Once again, we've made some changes to the way the rubrics work. We were running up against some issues, so rather than just list out the changes, I'll mention the issues and how we have resolved them.
Grade Ranges Made Getting a C Too Difficult
Getting a C should be fairly easy, assuming the instructions were followed. All it means is that, while we were able to improve upon the article and make it viable for our client, we had to spend more time correcting mistakes than Read more [...]
Posted in Grading
The Great A-xperiment Continues…
Things do not change; we change. – Henry David Thoreau
… except the rubrics… the rubrics change… but we’re getting there! – Matt
Hey QG writers!
It’s been a busy few weeks as we continue the experiment of implementing the rubrics, paying over double the money for A articles, and raising the payouts for B articles. It’s going well and overall we are seeing more care taken in each submission, which is greatly appreciated.
Of course, this is an experiment, and as Read more [...]
Posted in Grading
We Edited the Editing Rubrics for the Editors
A PSA from the Department of Redundancy Department
Hey there QG writers!
Last week I wrote a blog post about the implementation of rubrics into our grading system, and since then we have received some great feedback about how we can make the rubrics better.
You spoke, we listened, and here are the changes:
Blog Rubric
Voice
Sentence fluency has been removed as a criteria in this category.
Presentation
Entire category removed and replaced with the Sentence Fluency/Word Choice/Conventions
Choice/Conventions Read more [...]
Posted in Grading
The Great A-xperiment: Paying More for As
So it's been a whopping 12 hours since our last blog post here at QG, but as I said in that post, we've got some important things going on!
We're going to try something new. As you know if you read our last post, we're making modifications to our current grading methodology by using rubrics. Part of this new system, as I wrote yesterday, was about finding a way to ensure we were all grading on the same scale, that grading was as efficient and objective as possible while still using the human Read more [...]
Posted in Payments