The concept is designed to keep money in your pocket by equipping you with accurate product information that can help you make wise purchasing decisions -- but it doesn't stop there. It's also designed to put money in your pocket, by allowing you to recoup some of what you spent.
Recoup you say?
SharedReviews is built around the experiences of our community. We collect those experiences and share them with other sites that want to tap into the thoughts of everyday people, with real opinions about actual products. In other words, by leveraging those experiences on the Internet, we're able to create actual monetary value around what you have to say.
How does this work?
SharedReviews is built on the simple idea that community comes first. Our community members are so important, that not only do we pay them a portion of the money generated from their involvement in the community, the amount is determined by how much effort they put into getting involved with SharedReviews.
Step 1: Create your Profile
Your profile is who you are, and although privacy is of the utmost importance, we encourage you to share the basic facts of your life, such as how many kids you have, what you do for a living, where you're located, how much you earn, and other factors that allow readers to understand not only the experience you are sharing, but what type of person you are so they can better empathize with you as a person, thus making your reviews more tangible and more valuable.
Step 2: Create Reviews
Review anything that you'd like from any one of our categories. Remember that the "tone" of your review is important, try to make it as enriching as possible. Imagine telling your best friend about a new product you bought, whether you love or hate it, that's what will garner you the most value for sharing your thoughts. Don't forget rich media! Real photos you've taken, videos you've recorded and even custom pieces of info such as your own rating terms make your reviews stand out.
Step 3: Socialize
The more friends and groups you join, the more likely it is that members who will vote when you post a review. Having an established network of friends on SharedReviews will help get votes for your reviews, and those votes translate to a higher ranking for the review in a category at the end of the month. The higher your ranking, the more you earn.
Not only can it be rewarding and fun to connect with your fellow consumers, those relationships will also be lucrative to everyone in the network.
Step 4: Cast your votes
Voting is at the center of how we share revenue with our reviewers, but it's also how we reward those who are willing to go beyond creating reviews to fuel the SharedReviews engine. Everyone who votes on a review that generates revenue earns a portion of the money earned from that review.
For example, if a review earns $20 one month, $10 of that is split between all the voters (Check out our diagram of how it works below). With only three little rules to remember when placing your votes, you can end up sharing in the earnings of 100s of reviews.
Voting Rule #1
You have a limited number of votes to cast in each category per month. The number of votes is determined by your ShareScore.
Voting Rule #2
For obvious reasons, you can't vote for your own review.
Voting Rule #3
You can only vote for a particular review once, ever.
Step 5: Earn Revenue
Each month, we share 50% of every dollar we make off of the experiences of our community. This includes both advertising revenue from the site itself, as well as lucrative syndication deal with third-party networks that place SharedReviews on other sites. The key is that you get paid when we get paid and each month the process starts so the earning potential never stops!
