I did legal transcription from home for about five years before discovering freelance writing online. I have been doing freelance writing for about three years now and have written for Bright Hub, eHow, HubPages, Associated Content, Bukisa, and more. Then I discovered Mahalo Greenhouse.
I joined Mahalo in November 2008 when their writing platform was called "Mahalo Greenhouse". I didn't quite understand this platform because of the type of "code" that you needed to use, so I never ended up writing anything through Mahalo Greenhouse. Then in December 2008 Mahalo launched Mahalo Answers, which is Mahalo's Q&A site and that is when I started actively participating in Mahalo. Mahalo Answers was a fun way to earn a few dollars answering questions from a community of Mahalo members. It is similar to Yahoo Answers, which I was also active in at the time, but with Mahalo Answers you could make some money too. I never made a whole lot of money through Mahalo Answers, but I still enjoyed answering the questions. From December 2008 through April 2010 I answered 901 questions, 311 of which were chosen as the Best Answer. I also earned 8435 points, and a purple belt with brown tip. (You earn belt levels similar to martial arts belts by earning points in Mahalo Answers. The higher the belt level, the more privileges you receive.) Here are my Mahalo Answers stats:
In June 2009, Mahalo 2.0 was lauched. Mahalo 2.0 gave Mahalo members the ability to create Mahalo pages and earn ad revenue for managing them. At the end, I was managing around 90 Mahalo pages and earning about $400 to $500 per month (U.S. Dollars) in ad revenue from my managed pages. This was amazing and I was loving Mahalo. Whenever I was asked by anyone how they could make money online, I would always referr them to Mahalo. I loved Mahalo so much, that I pretty much stopped writing for other freelance writing sites and put all of my focus into Mahalo.
I quickly became one of Mahalo's top page earners and was a respected and valuable member of Mahalo. I spent a lot of time creating, updating, and promoting the pages that I managed, as well as occasionally sharing my knowledge on Mahalo Answers.
On August 5, 2009 I was invited to join the Mahalo "How-To" team for creating how-to pages. This is an excerpt from the email I received from Mahalo Staff Member, Eric Chao:
I just got the chance to look over the two sample pages that you sent to me the other week. They look fantastic!
Tech-related pages can be tough to write clearly, but you've got a good knack for how to break things down into component steps. Great work with the embedded images too. They add a lot of value to an already very good page.
If you're still interested, I'd love to have you join up with the How-To Team on Mahalo Tasks.
On August 24, 2009, I was invited to join Mahalo's elite group called Mahalo Mavens. I received this email from Mahalo Staff Member, Lon Harris:
We have an e-mail list called "Mahalo Mavens" that allows our site's top users to have off-site, more private, conversations with one another and key members of our Mahalo staff. It's also a great opportunity for us all to share links that we need help promoting, to assist in getting pages to rank higher.
Current membership includes a lot of top Answers and Tasks writers, along with Mahalo's CEO, Jason Calacanis, myself, and our Director of Product, Mike Rhoads.
Because of your impressive contributions to the site through Page Management, Answers and Tasks, I wanted to invite you to join the group. Let me know if you're interested and I will add your e-mail to the list.
Wow! I was really moving up in the Mahalo world and receiving much-deserved recognition. I was so excited about being a part of such a great group of people and a fun community. And on top of that, I was making a good amount of money.
So how did it all go so horribly wrong?
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