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Writing Reviews for Success on the Web

July 28th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

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Reviews are in high demand on the Web; in fact you could base an entire freelance writing career on them. So what kinds of reviews could you write?

Most writers immediately think of book reviews. However, while writing book reviews can be fun and entertaining, you can’t create a lucrative home based business on them.

Let’s look at the kinds of reviews you could turn into a business, as one writer did.

Your Own Home Based Review Writing Business - What to Review

My friend Anita fell into reviewing by accident. She now reviews affiliate products, but she started out reviewing Web sites.

She’s a magazine journalist, so she created a blog several years ago both to attract editors and to introduce her writing to them. She said: “I started reviewing Web sites on my blog, just for my own amusement - no one asked me to do it. Then something really odd happened. I got messages from Webmasters on many different Web sites asking me to review their sites, and offering payment for it too.”

Within a few months, her Web site reviews turned into a great little sideline. Anita explained: “After I’d done it for a while, I started to understand why my site reviews were popular. Firstly, they were a great source of links, and links are currency on the Web. Secondly, they provided credibility for the sites I reviewed - my reviews weren’t all positive, I was completely honest and tossed in a lot of zingers, but people loved it. Then of course, other sites popped up, whose sole business plan was providing site reviews.”

Knowledge is power, and Anita now understood just how popular reviews could be.

So Anita created several sites of her own, based on her reviews of affiliate products. Here’s how she tells it: “I was pregnant, so it seemed natural to create a waiting-to-be-a-mom type site, and review all the products I was buying for the baby. I simply found products which offered affiliate programs, and reviewed those products. I quickly made sales of the products, and received commissions.”

She created other sites in her areas of interest - cooking, photography, and real estate. All offered reviews, and all did well. So by the time her son was six months old, Anita no longer wrote for magazines, she was occupied full time with her review business.

Reviews are popular on the Web because they help people to make decisions. If you’re thinking of buying something, you’ll check for reviews, to see what others’ say. So reviewing products you use yourself, or buy yourself, or friends have bought, is a great way to get started in reviewing, because if the products have affiliate programs, you make commissions. Even if they don’t have affiliate programs, you can sell advertising on your sites.

How to Get Started in Reviewing

You can write reviews for others, or for yourself. To write reviews for others, just create several “sample” reviews on your own site, and advertise yourself as a reviewer.

You’ll also find many sites online which need reviewers, and although the payment is minimal, it’s a good way to get started.

Once you have some experience, branch out. Do what Anita does - review products and services in your areas of interest. You can base an entire home business on reviewing, so if the idea intrigues you, get started.

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Your freelance writing business - writing reviews

July 26th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Writing reviews is a great way to make money online. This week’s Fab Freelance Writing Ezine shows you how.

Our article this week is “Writing Reviews for Success on the Web”.

Here’s an excerpt:

Reviews are in high demand on the Web; in fact you could base an entire freelance writing career on them. So what kinds of reviews could you write?

Most writers immediately think of book reviews. However, while writing book reviews can be fun and entertaining, you can’t create a lucrative home based business on them.

Let’s look at the kinds of reviews you could turn into a business, as one writer did.

Read the rest in tomorrow’s issue. Fab Freelance Writing arrives in your Inbox each week. It’s packed with writing tips and ways to make money writing.

Enjoy.

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Web Writing: Top Five Web Content Items You Can Write For The Web (And Get Paid For Writing)

May 23rd, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

New to writing for the Web? The Web is a vast marketplace for your writing. Although each site has its own content requirements, some types of content are common to most sites because of the benefits they offer to site owners, and they’re easy for new writers to write too. In this article we’ll discuss five different types of content.

Before you start hunting for writing gigs, I recommend that you create a small site and post some writing samples on it. You can create a site for free very easily, and can develop your own comprehensive portfolio and lead-generating site later, as you grow as a Web writer.

So here we go, five types of content you can write:

1. Articles - Useful Information Which Attracts Traffic

The “content is king” mantra is sprouted by everyone online, simply because it’s true. All sites need content, and articles are easy to create, easy to put online, and they work as little sales people for years, attracting new customers to a Web site.

2. Blog Posts - Everyone Wants A Blog, But No One Has Time To Write The Content

As businesses see the benefits of a blog (wider online reach, great visibility, easy syndication etc), there’s a major problem. Who will write the blog?

You, of course.

3. Reviews - Read It, Use It, Talk About It, Review It

People hunt for product reviews online before they buy. Reviews are a must for many sites, and you can write them. Tip: make sure that you’ve actually used or read whatever you’re writing about. Fake reviews sound fake.

4. Autoresponder Copy - Helping Web Sites To Stay In Touch

An autoresponder is just an email address which sends out a message, or series of messages, when someone sends a message to it. Autoresponders enable businesses to lead customers along the path to a sale. Think of an autoresponder series as a series of articles.

5. Reports - For Lead Generation And Traffic

You may have heard the term “viral traffic” online. It’s often applied to short five to ten page reports. Businesses offer them free to generate traffic to a site and make sales. However, they sell reports too, when the information is valuable and is available nowhere else. You can easily write reports.

How To Use The Five Types Of Content To Get Writing Gigs

Just as you’re new to Web writing, most Web site owners and businesses are new to the Web. Use the list above to get writing gigs. Just explain to your potential clients that content is king online, and offer to write articles, blog posts, reviews etc for them.

You’ll get lots of writing gigs, which are easy to write, and lucrative too.

Want to become a highly paid Web writer? You can make a full-time income as a Web writer with Angela Booth’s ebooks “Writing For The Web” and “Beat Your Paycheck: Web Writing Secrets”

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