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How To Get Paid To Do Reviews

August 24, 2012 By Filed Under: Blogging Tips, Videos 17 Comments

how to get paid for reviewsOne of the things you may hope for, when you start a blog you want to make money with, is to get paid to write reviews.

So how do you go about getting those?

There are actually a few simple ways to get you going, and I have tried them and they do work!

They worked both for me and some of my clients I coached from the beginning of their blogging days.

Start reviewing

If you don’t have any reviews on your site, no one will offer you to do one, because they won’t know you do reviews! So start reviewing anything you can get your hands on that is in your niche. 

If you were starting a blog like this one and wanted to review all the cool premium plugins, start reviewing the free ones! Review every plugin you use on your blog and write your honest opinion about it.

Write detailed reviews with a lot of facts, your experience with it, how it helped you, why you love/hate it.

Don’t limit yourself to text only, do videos as well. Here is little tool I loved and reviewed that sparked an email from a person that paid me to review a product of his (useful tool so check it out):

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If you are not in the blogging niche, you can still do this easy. Writing niche – review everything you read, car niche – review cars and car parts of your friends and family and so on. Just pick what ever is available to you and fits your blog.

Tell people you are doing reviews

Write a page about your review service and explain to possible clients how they would benefit from a review you would do.

It could be a video review posted on your YouTube channel with 500 subscribers. Or a post on your blog that gets 500 visitors a day. List all the benefits they would get from you as well as what they can expect and what the price is.

Make sure they understand you are not going to give a 5 star review to a sub-par product. You need to value your credibility and you are not selling positive recommendation (that is what ads are for), you are reviewing a product.

Honesty is the best policy in this case.

Look for opportunities

Go through blogs that deal with similar topics as you are and see what reviews are they doing.

By law, they have to note that the review is paid for or that they received a free copy of the product to review it. So when you see something like that on a post, you can safely assume that the company is open to paying for reviews or giving away free copies of the product.

If there is something you can offer them in return, contact them and ask them if they would like to give you the opportunity to review the product! Tell them what you bring to the table and you are one step closer to doing it.

Conclusion

Sometimes, the hardest part is starting it. Once you get the ball rolling and have a lot of reviews up, they will start coming to you!

Extra tip

To enhance your reviews, I highly recommend the Author hReview plugin (link takes you to my review of the free version of the plugin). It will make your posts stand out both on the blog and in the search engines!

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About Brankica Underwood

Brankica Underwood is a social media sharp shooter who helps small businesses, bloggers, and freelancers gain followers and sales and build better websites. Check out her blog if you want to learn how to earn online income.

  • http://coffeestylish.com/ Danijela

    I run a blog about coffee, so writing reviews is a big part of my work. I am currently writing reviews for one coffee company, but honestly, I didn’t invest too much efforts to bring this to the next level. I haven’t look for opportunities of my own, which is by the way amazing idea, and I don’t even have a page about my review service. You’re absolutely right. Thank you!

    • http://onlineincomestar.com/ Brankica

      Glad you liked it, Danijela. You know, if you are still working with that company, I am sure you can improve on that relationship by maybe offering them special deals when they buy more reviews at once or promoting the reviews a bit more so you give them more exposure, in return I am sure they will extend the deal :)

  • http://www.slymarketing.com Jens P. Berget

    That’s great advice Brankica. I haven’t been paid to write many reviews yet, but because I have written a few reviews, I have been offered free plugins and books if I’d write the reviews. And to me, that’s as good as money :)

    • http://onlineincomestar.com/ Brankica

      I agree and especially if friends or bloggers I know ask me for a review, I usually just do those for a free product. Like you said, they are as good as money. I did get paid for many reviews and some really nice money but I actually don’t get my prices up too high on that service because if it is a good product, I am happy to recommend it and that is good enough for me ;)

  • http://ProspectSnap.com/ Andrew Woo

    Hi Brankica:

    Great advice, I forwarded it to my fiance as she’s a photo blogger and Youtuber. I also signed up for your OnlineIncomeStar newsletter.

    • http://onlineincomestar.com/ Brankica

      Thanks and so glad you liked it!

  • http://113tidbits.com/ tonygreene113

    Surprised to see you adding content to a site that has Livefyre installed @Brankica. Nice article on how to search for and keep opportunities for reviews of products and services.I’m more of an in your face type and if a vendor has a service that I like, I look for their FB page or even a twitter feed to ask if reviews are encouraged.

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  • http://onlineincomestar.com/ Brankica

     @tonygreene113 why are you surprised about me writing here? Been writing here forever :) Not sure what it has to do with Livefyre :)  The strategy you are using sounds pretty cool and like it brings results! :)

    • http://113tidbits.com/ tonygreene113

       @Brankica I only made that comment because I remembered you being one of the anti-Livefyre types. If I’m wrong, I’m sorry.

      • http://onlineincomestar.com/ Brankica

         @tonygreene113 not anti-Livefyre. I did try it on my blog before and removed because it lacked some features at the time. I am partially against making it hard to comment for people so you aren’t really wrong. But on blogging blogs it isn’t that big of a deal, it really makes difference on niche blogs where people really have no clue how to comment and then you slap a commenting system in their face. But overall, I don’t mind it that much… ;)  

  • http://www.aginfosoft.com/ Sunil

    I agreed with Brankica, Doing Positive reviews can make lots of money online, we just need to find opportunities.

    Registering in Yelp, Local, Yahoo Local, Google place, Yello Pages and create an awesome profile then let find who need your reviews

    • http://onlineincomestar.com/ Brankica

      Actually, I didn’t mean just positive reviews :) I mean all reviews because if something is negative about the product, I think you should tell that to people :)

  • http://gravatar.com/jtepoorten Jason TEPOORTEN

    Thanks very much for the idea.

    I might start one up after my next holidays.

  • http://bry3d.blogspot.com Bryan

    Thanks for this idea. I would do this on my blog :)

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    Outstanding article and reference .Thanks for the effort you put into this.

  • Raven Garcia

    Thanks for the article, some good tips in there… the only problem I have is that my site is about many different topics and doesn’t have a specific niche, is it therefore harder to come by blog reviews??