Thank you for your support in outsourcing your reviews.
Dec 11th, 2007 by Charles
Along my blogging career, I have received emails which came in as proposals. While they might be genuine enough to ask for it, I wasn’t able to fulfill all of them. Some of them are quite weird in one way or another. And sometimes you can’t really differentiate them out of the flood of spams everyday.
While I am doing external reviews for bloggers, I am also continuing to review websites on my own blog. As you can see, I have just increased my video review from $10 to $50.
$50 for a review with video is well worth the value. That’s because the reviewee not only gets to have exposure from the website, it also receives exposure from the video’s viral effect of sharing around the web. And with my focus on writing reviews, people will be here to look for more reviews of different websites.
As for outsourcing your reviews on your blog to Charles Online Review Element, I will be all ears to understand what you have to tell me. But please don’t ask a ridiculous request which is hard for me to accept. Usually for the first time, it will be hard for me to know who you are unless you have been writing comments in my blog frequently which I got to know you someway somehow.
Please do let me know if I should maintain at $50 for my video review… Or I should increase or decrease my price?
Way to go Charles.
$10 for a great review is just insane for me. How could you set your review price that low? did you underestimate your self?
I have learnt about this “review world” quite awhile. there are some main points i think we should put more attentions
1. Don’t set our price too low.
on some marketplaces, like reviewMe, sponsoredReview etc. setting our price to low will set our blog invisible on the crowd. there are so many blogs with low price set. How could advertiser find us on that crowd? so i guess set our price higher would make our site stand out of the crowd.
2. Don’t set your price too high.
haha, i know it’s pretty ironic, but setting our price to high will make us get no bucks at all
So what we have to do now? how much we must set our price?
It’s my own experience, I have set my price so high (based on my site stats) and there was only one order I received on 2 months.
This means that even our site worth for a high price, lowering it would be a wise decision i guess.
just think if we want to catch all the big fish only, then probably we will get only 1 advertiser in 2 months or more. but with cheaper price, we can get so many order. so which one you choose?
3. Site Stats.
People are ordering a review not just for your thought about their products or sites.
They can just ask their friends, or family for free to review their sites, ask about their thought. but that is not what they paying for.
traffics, feed readers count and pagerank to help them get a better position on search engine result, that are the other reasons why they want to pay (higher) for our review.
if we don’t have those factors, then i guess we can’t set our price higher (yet).
well it’s all just my humble opinion actually. there is no formula for this, what’s good for me, could be bad for the other. and what doesn’t work for me, could work for the other.
just wish you luck with your decision on setting up your review price. but i guess, with your current stats, i wouldn’t set my price that higher. but again imho
* ps: have you done my order charles? the allin******.com?
Hi Jack, that is such a lengthy comment you have written. Thanks for sharing so much about it… I am feeling so much more confident in my pricing now..
it is only about 1 day again to the duedate.
if you haven’t create the review, i will create it by my self charles, because i have told to my clients that they will receive their review at most 6 days after i receive their order.
thanks
Hi Jack, I have emailed you. Please revert from there. Thanks.