How You Can Become a Reviewer for Money

Writing Reviews for online products, services and books is big business. Product managers, authors, software design companies, you name it, they all need product ratings to present themselves well online.

The ideal product review would come from real customers and clients. The fact is real customers and clients don't always know how to rate a product or service. When so much is at stake, companies often result to adding professional reviews for their products, services or books.

Paying for reviews is all a part of ranking well and building your popularity, so that you can gain more customers, clients or readers. Reviews are proof of social acceptance. Either the product is good enough to warrant social proof from customers or clients, or the provider of the product or service, was smart enough to seek out social approval, either way social proof is attached to the product, service or book.

People, working from home are positioned to fill the need for professional reviewers, online. They can earn earn gifts, points, and or money.

Hundreds of thousands of employers, developers, authors and small business owners hire thousands of people each week to write about their products. You have only to look at the review categories on some of the world's largest freelance sites to verify this information.

People who love to read, find little discomfort in publishing ratings for a book. Although some of the major retail sites don't allow paid reviews, there are plenty of other major sites who don't seem to have a problem. So if reading new novels or testing gadgets intrigues you, becoming a person who writes about your experiences with a book or product could be a great way to earn extra income.

There are plenty of places to find work online. The problem isn't in finding the work, as much as it is finding experienced reviewers. Publishing ratings online comes unmder the category of writing. People who love to express themselves using words, will do well.

What most inexperienced reviewers don't understand is that no product, service or book is perfect. Giving out five star rating without substantial back-up is a sure sign of a fake rating.

However, a professional who gives out a five-star rating and includes at least one negative fact about the product is respected by readers more than those who don't.

Then you have to say, if there is a negative factor involved, how could the review gain a 5-star? What the person is saying is that the product, service or book is the best of the best, except for this one factor. And because the person providing the rating didn't think the factor was a deal breaker for me,, he or she express a positive experience with the product. Professionals entice people to buy.

Part of being a professional is being able to tell the truth and still make it sound positive.

Becoming a freelancer works well if you work from home or office. There are a number of ways you can train and get started. You have only to place the correct keywords into the search engines, or you could visit your favorite book store.