Guardian Liberty Voice Reviews

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The hours can be long, but I am disabled and it can take me longer than average time to complete and article.

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Guardian Liberty Voice has a well-detailed history of refusing to pay its writers for work done. This history is easily found in hundreds of online accounts, in exposes written about the company, and in many blogs and articles about this company. This company is a well-known content mill that does not pay any salary to its staff, makes false promises about equity ownership, deceives the writers and forces people to work up to 22 hours per day for no salary. If a person Googles the name of the company, there is a huge wealth of information online regarding this problem. Most recently, the company's accountant left, citing fraudulent business practices. Her accounts of the deceptive business practices can be found online and they are easily accessed just by Googling Guardian Liberty Voice. She also indicates that this company has not filed any tax returns in two years. The owner is running a pyramid scheme, and most people who fall victim to it have not gotten paid. Now the owner is running a new scam he calls an "essay contest" in which he is charging people money to submit an essay. Many writers who have left have written about their experiences with this company.

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I was naive and blew off some early signs that I was being taken advantage of. I had read some negative material regarding the organization, but told myself that the authors probably didn't get paid because their articles didn't generate views. Well, I got a lot of views on my articles, through my own social media efforts and with no help from the organization. I had something like 100k views on my articles in my first month writing there, and never received a single dime. I worked hard to try to keep the brand afloat while it was declining, and the hopes of even the pitiful pennies he paid other writers evaporated. The site went from 300k views a day down to nearly 50k and never back above 100k.

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I completed about 30 articles for them with the writers boot camp. I was promised compensation and never given even a dollar for the work that I completed. My articles were submitted and are still active on the site today. Since I live in a rural area, I had to go to town and get a motel room for the evening so that I could complete the 9 articles in a day (or something close to that) because we wouldn't pass without doing that last day of boot camp. What I was going to get paid for the bootcamp would have just covered the cost of my motel room (and maybe a few dollars extra). I passed the boot camp and was never compensated for ANY of my articles. DiMarkco Chandler was rude and denied that they ever agreed to pay anything! I couldn't believe the audacity that such a biz would be ran by a guy like this. Even though I had proof of what they were supposed to pay me, with a dying mother, it was the least of my worries so I never fought it. I figure that they use the "bootcamp" as a way to get a bunch of articles written by others for them for free. Such an awful unethical company!

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- Very little to no pay. You need to "viral," as they call it, to get paid anything, and even then the payments are few and far between. - The management is a mess. You're not sure who reports to who, who is in charge of what, etc. It's essentially an online publication run by hobbyists with little, if any industry experience as journalists. - The training, while useful on the technical side, teaches very poor practices one might not want to pursue utilizing in an actual journalistic position. Essentially, it was an intriguing job for half a year as a college student before I quickly realized the pay was minimal and the website wasn't moving anywhere.

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No logic in how articles are assigned (not based on familiarity with the subject matter) and there is little ability to communicate with your editor/supervisor. Editors were brusque at best. Training was at set times over other real life obligations even though it is online and unpaid. Any mistakes or "absences" are used to extend the training writing period during which writers are not eligible for payment (it is a scheme to get more free articles). Even when accepted as a writer you need to go viral to make the pay break down for hours spent writing logical.

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Long hours but worth it.

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You basically work for free. They literally make you write articles for them and then fire you. And you get no pay and they get away with it by saying its an accredited course. But they are not accredited cause no school accepts it so its all for nothing. You get robbed of your intelligence. If you feel like learning something take the course but don't force yourself to do the work but at the end of the day its all bull.

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Upper management are crooked, no payment for articles, awful "journalism" emphasizing SEO over producing quality content so that they can make money that they won't pay you. The "boot camp" is awful and ridiculous and just a way for them to get free articles out of you. If they weren't so crooked, they would just operate like a normal company and ask people to submit prior writing samples.

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No work/life balance, OH wait we are freelancers, but not. The owner demands dozens of articles monthly with very little pay. I watched my articles get barely any views and the highest article on our site is one from 2013!! What a scam. This is not a citizen journalism, reputable company. It is a disgusting writing mill.