Portfolio base. Show you can write. The editor contacts you via email to let you know whether or not your writing is worthy of being published. You pick the subjects and articles you write. After your accepted you must write a bio of your yourself with a picture too. Despite the low pay, it's a great feeling for a writer to have their work read worldwide on the Internet.

Fill out online application; add resume and a writing sample. It could take from a week to several months or more to hear from an editor through email, depending on what their writing needs are. You are given a three article maximum when you first start. Do well on these first articles, and you are allowed to claim more assignments.