THE COMPANY: BRAINJOLT (brainjoltmedia.com)

Brainjolt is a leading digital media company with two sites in Quantcast’s top 100 mobile sites in the U.S. We are a team of constant learners who value scrappy cleverness as much as best practices.

And it’s working. Despite a lean team, we reach 1 billion users a month across our properties and social media channels with engaging, smile-inducing viral stories, quizzes, and more.

Highlights…

• Our flagship viral site, 22 Words, is ranked in the top 60 mobile sites in the country with 20M unique visitors a month.
• MagiQuiz is ranked in the top 75 mobiles sites, boasting 3-minutes on site per visitor and whopping 60% completion rate.
• Our social following is at 27 million and is growing fast.

Brainjolt is a culture of constant and continuous learners, who strive to better themselves every day.

THE OPPORTUNITY: FREELANCE AFFILIATE WRITER

Brainjolt wants to surprise and delight everyone who uses the internet. We reach over 1 billion folks per month with our content, and that gives us a wide audience to sell products to…

We’re looking for affiliate wizards who know who to write content that converts.

• Rigorously select clickable products that have a unique angle or story.
• Create all content with an eye for evoking emotions and motivating a reader to make a purchase decision.
• Happily work across a number of affiliate styles - listicles, DR-style copy, etc.

Requirements

• You have a clear, casual, punchy writing style.
• You have a keen eye for products on Amazon, Walmart, and other networks that are CLICKABLE. Aka, there’s an angle to the product and you know how to pull it out.
• You write content that converts. You get folks to click purchase, rinse, repeat.
• You are extremely familiar with the viral web.
• You never stop asking Is this clickable? and Is this shareable? When the answer is No, you know how to fix it or nix it.
• You are familiar with the tools of this trade — at bare minimum WordPress, HTML, Facebook, and a photo editor of some variety.
• You work well with a team but are also successful when working independently.
• You have experience. You’ve written for the internet before, and you’ve done it well.
• You work fast and you’re clever as hell.
• You’re funny.
• You’re a sideways thinker.
• No drama.

Benefits

COMPENSATION

• Affiliate writers are paid a flat rate of $150.00 per standard listicle. Fees may vary depending on other styles of content.

HOW TO APPLY

• Please send your work experience, along with any writing samples you feel are relevant.
• Include 4 pitches for affiliate listicles, along with five products on Amazon (URLs) per each pitch that are both VERY clickable, and purchase-worthy. Search for products with a high novelty factor, tangible utility, an impulse-worthy price point, and fantastic images.