Pros
Invoices are paid on time
Cons
The primary goal of the writer is to generate ecaps. The content of the article is of secondary importance, investment expertise in a sector or company is largely irrelevant. The job of the freelance writer is to optimise an article for SEO and generate ecaps. This means you will have to write about a handful of companies or specific themes to keep your ecaps per article high enough. You will be constantly reminded of your ecaps performance, I will say it again, your only job is to generate ecaps, this is not a job where you have the freedom to opine on the stocks you like or are familiar with because unless your articles generate lots of ecaps the content is of no significance. Most of the conversations you will have with editors and other freelancers are about which SEO tool is best, and how you can improve the number of page views your articles get. You will not be discussing which companies you like and bouncing ideas off each other about which sector is the best and why this company will outperform. You will spend most of the time stressing after being told you average ecaps are below the groups average, and the editor won't care about non-normality and skew.