Ciao.com
Ciao.com is a multi-million-strong online community that critically reviews and rates millions of products and services for the benefit of other consumers. (My nick in Ciao.com is babyfuzz).
Minimum payout: $5 (US dollars)
Mode of Payment: Paypal
Requirements for writing:
- Articles/reviews must be unique. Use correct grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation
- minimum of 120 words (quick review) which doesn’t cost anything; 150+ words (standard review)
Pros
- You get a $1* (now has gone down to $0.25) for every Standard Review you write. Reviews of some products will be awarded a small cash payment every time a member rates them “helpful”, “very helpful” or “exceptional”. To take advantage of this, write high-quality reviews about these products to ensure that you receive numerous positive ratings by other members.
- If you are the first member to review a product in a pay-per-rating category, you will be paid twice as much for the positive ratings your review receives
- Your review will be posted online immediately after you submit it. You can edit it anytime.
- You can refer other reviewers and get paid on every review written and published by them after 6 months of being active in Ciao.com.
- You can write your reviews which are existing/published in other sites as long as you include it in your article that you write for Ciao.com
Cons:
- You can only write reviews of products that are listed in the Ciao product categories, otherwise you can email the admin to request another category.
Ciao.com’s parent, Greenfield Online, Inc. is a global interactive media and services company that collects consumer attitudes about products and services, enabling consumers to reach informed purchasing decisions about the products and services they want to buy; and helping companies better understand their customer in order to formulate effective product marketing strategies.
Ciao.com’s brothers are Ciao.co.uk, Ciao.de, Ciao.fr, Ciao.es, Ciao.it, Ciao-shopping.nl, Ciao.se. Ciao.com is the international version, meaning anybody from any country around the world may join this site. On the other hand, Ciao.com’s brothers are local sites which only residents from that country may join.
Requirements for writing:
- Articles/reviews must be unique. Use correct grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation
- minimum of 200 words
Pros:
- You could review anything around you including: any products, hi-end technics, companies, hotels, politics, cities, stores on your street, or even your neighbors pets!
- $2 USD is their current review rate (subject to change)
- $0.10 for every vote you receive for your review/article (subject to change); minimum payout for vote receive is $5.
- every vote will be paid by ReviewStream. More votes – more cash you’ll get. You can place the links to your reviews everywhere – on forums, message boards, blogs, websites, etc. Everybody can follow the link and vote for your review.
- You can refer other reviewers and get paid on every review written and published by them.
Mode of Payment: Paypal
Minimum payout: $50 (US dollars)
Cons:
Usually it takes up to 72 hours to get your article published. No business hours during weekend and public holidays, which may or may not be rejected. You can always try again or pass your reviews through their Bulk Rates.
* Ciao’s review rate is now $0.25. The $1 review rate was only a 10-month promotion.
If you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to comment on this page.
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ciao.com is really a good place to write reviews and earn money from, but too bad, they have changed their payment system.
As for reviewstream, the payout is really very high, but it’s really good pay.
Nabayaran ka na ng Review Stream? Can I repost my articles from ciao to Review Stream?
Make or Break
@kaka: yup. I have earned good amount from Ciao.
@pehpot: I only have $4 in reviewstream. haha.
4 dollars? ako yata mga 20 something.. kaso di na ako nag rereview dun.. katams eh hehe.. e di sariling review site ko na lang:Reviews Inc
ang lake ng minimum payout sa reviewstreams ah. kamustah naman yun. hehehe. active ka pa rin ba dun?