Sponsored Review
There are many writers looking to cash in on digital media by creating reading and writing communities, writing for online publishers or by creating independent columns on which to share their craft and artistry. Likewise advertisers are beginning to recognize the power of the blogosphere, and begun seeking to utilize the power of new age opinion leaders.
Sponsored reviews – being paid by a company to write a review about their website, product or service – are a fairly new way to do this, and SponsoredReviews.com seems to have the best model thus far.
Here’s what I like about SponsoredReviews.com:
Two-Way System. SponsoredReviews.com is the only site with a hybrid system that allows advertisers to actively pursue bloggers for specific reviews, or passively wait for the bloggers to find them.
Bidding System. This enables publishers and 
advertisers a bit more power by allowing them negotiating review prices.
Bi-Weekly Payout. Most sponsored review sites only pay monthly but on SponsoredReviews.com, writers get paid every two weeks! Faster cash is better right? They also have the lowest fee at 35%, which means you get paid more per individual review.
Company Blog. There is even a blog on which SponsoredReviews.com regularly evangelizes about the benefits of writing sponsored reviews. It started out as a resource guide for blogging. Check it out…
Visit the site and read the FAQs for more details, but it really is that simple.
Sponsored Review – Bibliodata
Like it or not, we are all writers now. We compose emails, write documents, jot down notes, creatively use shortened forms of words in instant messenger and chat rooms, and occasionally, almost accidentally, even produce poetry and coin new phrases worthy of memory.
For all of the excitement about social media, citizen journalism and doing away with editors and gatekeepers, we forget that it was their watchful eyes that kept writers accountable for quality work. Those of us who make a living by writing online, often with little more than spell check to edit your work, we long for the days when there was room for error because the editor will fix it. Although unhampered by tradition, it seems that we are even more accountable, to ourselves, to readers and the rest of the writing community on a whole for quality control. If you are like me, you need all the help you can get…
Bibliodata is a powerful thesaurus that includes other features such as a comprehensive list of commonly misspelled words. This list is then broken down further into the top 100 for those of you who like to keep it simple. With Bibliodata you can also search synonyms, look up homophones and read about the power of the mind.
I leave you with this from the creators of Bibliodata:
For all the talk of search engines, algorithms, ones-and-zeros and fibre optics, the internet itself is bound together and brought to life by the words flowing over it.
advertisers a bit more power by allowing them negotiating review prices.