For the past couple of days I’ve been looking into other options to make a few extra dollars on this site, without lets say alienating all of you… and you never coming back to see me.   It’s not easy - since everyone has an opinion about ads and reviews and it’s hard to find that fine line between too much and me not making enough to pay my hosting bill.  If you catch my drift.

So I thought I’d wander around the “paid for reviews” sites.  As I mentioned earlier there are some awesome bloggers out there who are willing to give reviews for nothing at all.   But me, I would like to make a few dollars from it, right now, at this point in my thought pattern.

Yes, it’s just how it is at the minute.

Many moons ago I’d signed up with ReviewMe.com - I’ve actually had a couple of reviews come down the tube and I’ve written about said products… but damn that was a long time ago.  I’ve also noticed that my price has come down by $40 to now land me into the $60 range.  When I started I was at $100 a review… now, not so much.

Am I sad about it?  Well, in a way yes - it’s money!  But on the other hand, hell no - and this kind of wins it for me - the fact that more people could afford a review from me.  I know from personal experience that $100 bills aren’t falling down around me to spend on 1 review.  So maybe making it a bit less, more people will be interested.  That’s what I want.  Maybe down the road… popularity will pick up and the price will go up… or not.    Who knows.

All I know, is that it’s been a long time since I’ve had a review request through them.

So I signed up for SponsoredReviews.com - and this is a bit different, I’m bidding on reviews from prospective advertisers.  I have a bid range based on numbers they’ve figured out from my Technorati, Alexa, etc, etc, info.  Not bad - I have a bid range and I use it to score some articles and then get money into my PayPal account.  Since signing up yesterday I put in a bids on 5 articles.  We’ll see if they’re excepted / Will the advertiser barter another price / or will they decline me.  It’s a bit of a wait.

I’m impatient!

Has anyone else tried Review sites and landed in the same boat as me?  No reviews for a while?  Never-ending waiting?  I’d be curious to see… and maybe to make myself feel better knowing that there are those of you out there dealing with the same shit as me

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