Cameron Olthuis

In an attempt to get a piece of the $25,000 pie (I am being paid for this post) that ReviewMe is offering, the following is my review.

ReviewMe is service that pays bloggers to write paid reviews about advertisers who pay a pre-determined fee based on that particular blogs value. ReviewMe determines the value of each blog with an algorithm that is based off Alexa, Technorati and most likely a few other sources. Bloggers can decide to write either a positive or negative review, but they must disclose that they are being paid to write the review. ReviewMe splits the advertising fee 50/50 with the bloggers.

I know the guys behind ReviewMe (Text Link Ads) and I think for the most part they have done an excellent job on the execution. The site is well designed and the UI is pretty good, I had no trouble signing up and finding my way around. The one thing I noticed that could cause a problem is that you can signup with any blog. Just for fun I signed up a few popular blogs under my name just to see what their posts were worth, I quickly deleted them from my account. They should probably add some kind of security feature to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Overall I am fan of these kind of services. I think it offers a great revenue model for bloggers to make a decent chunk of change for writing. The problem I see here is that Google and the other search engines will frown upon it, since they are against people paying for text links. At least ReviewMe requires full disclosure for the posts and because of that I think they have a great shot of kicking Pay-Per-Post’s Ass. That and the guys behind this business know this market inside and out.

Rand Fishkin has a great post on speaking at SES, and although he tailored the post specifically to speaking at SES, I think it would apply in just about any public speaking situation. He covers everything from how to get a speaking slot to engaging the audience so no one falls asleep on you.

Rand is about 3 months late posting this as it would have come in very handy when I spoke at SES for the first time in San Jose. Rand was actually on my panel and let me tell you; he is a brilliant public speaker and knows what he is doing. I definitely learned a lot from him.

Here’s a couple other great posts I have bookmarked….

12 Tips for Creating Better Presentations.
How To Start a Presentation.

Here’s a good Introductory Guide to Social Media. It is a thirty-page pdf download that is aimed at educating larger corporations on everything social media. If you or your company needs to be brought up to speed then give this a read.

[via: Micro Persuasion]