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It would be good of bloggers could search for advertisers and propose to review their site/product. It is possible that they are already using it, or that they have big knowledge in wanted area.

You might limit number of proposals to 4 in a month or similar in order to prevent spamming. Also, advertisers should be able to turn off this setting for them self. This way, everyone should be happy :)

I believe that this will increase number of total reviews.

I'd like to some way for review buyers to rate sites they've bought reviews from. Right now there is no way for a potential buyer to see if a site listed on ReviewMe has ever done any reviews and, if it has, how quality they were. Having this feature -- maybe just a sentence or two of feedback and a star rating -- would go a long way towards allowing excellent reviewers to build a reputation as such within the ReviewMe system.

Robert, we don't store any advertiser data at this time so I think your request unfortunately won't happen in the foreseeable future.

Aaron, yes, totally agree, we started working on that feature at one point and it got pushed aside, I will get it back on our radar.

thx!

[...] While the ReviewMe blog did state we can set our own price today, I have not been able to find that feature anywhere in the ReviewMe publisher control panel - it looks the same as it did yesterday. I guess they haven’t turn on the feature yet. Even if I can set my own review price, I don’t plan to change it from its current $250. [...]

[...] You can suggest them your thoughts as well in their blog posting here. [...]

I've purchased two reviews so far from reviewme, my experience overall was good. If anything I felt like it was troublesome to find the right blog to advertise on, once I chose a blog it was really straight forward from there and worked very smoothly.

In any case, its a good service and the best of its kind that I've found. I look forward to the affiliate program which I'll happily join!

[...] ReviewMe, the site that pays bloggers to review products and services is contemplating on letting bloggers set their own review price [going live today]. This would be great for bloggers who think their ‘review price’ is too high to attract advertisers. One blogger I know would be glad to know of this development since his blog was set at an inexplicable high price. Although it feels great when someone pays you more but the high cost may be putting off several potential advertisers. It is definitely better to have more number of low-paid reviews than once-in-a-blue-moon highly paid review. Of course, that means you might have to play around with your review price until you hit equilibrium. Otherwise you might set it too low and attract a deluge of advertisers and soon your blog would be solely devoted to ReviewMe reviews. And that would suck. [...]

@Aaron - Do you think that is necessary? After all, the advertiser can simply go to the website and search for the reviews himself.

@Patrick - Do you think this will put pressure on bloggers to give "good" reviews as opposed to unbiased?

[...] From March 1st, ReviewMe will be introducing affiliate program for publisher to earn more by referring fellow bloggers into the network. No much detail has been disclosed regarding this on their blog. I hope, the affiliate program would be similar to Text Link Ads referral, where we earn flat 25$ for referring a publisher to them. [...]

let me review on my own schedule. the 48 hour deadlines don't fit with how I blog and i've turned down at least one review because I was unable to get to it.

I'd also like more of a dialog w/ the reviewers -- the ability to pose them questions during the review process.

I agree with Matt entirely. 48 hours is very quick. I can understand having a time frame, but making it something like 1 business week would make more sense (to me). I like the idea of being able to ask the advertisers questions as well.

Since I am in "agree" more I would like to be able to chose the advertisers myself as well (I did read Patricks response but want to reiterate it anyway). IMO This would give reviews that are targeted to each website better.

Great feedback! Ok here is what I have on the hitlist in order:

1. Affiliate program.

2. A way for paid advertisers to review the reviews, ala an Ebay style review system to keep reviewers in check. (thanks Aaron)

3. More time for reviews. You may not have seen this but we do give 48 hours to accept the review work and then 4 business days to complete the review. It would be pretty easy to extend these but seems like a good amount of time now.

As far as allowing the bloggers to choose the advertisers...

this is not how our marketplace currently works. You do get to choose your advertisers its just that they must choose you first :)

We could open up the marketplace and add in a reverse marketplace like others in our space have done and allow advertisers to list their offers and the price they would pay for a review but my opinion is this would drive the quality and payouts way down and would be attractive to the high reach blogs we allow into Reviewme. But I am open to your thoughts, what do you think?

I think you're right about lowering the standard of the marketplace if you do the opposite. The reason I came to ReviewMe was precisely because there are high reach bloggers that I could pay to review. It is a really good way to reach key opinion makers in a transparent, simple way without 'buying' their opinion.

I have a feature request for you to consider as well. When I browse the listings of blogs to advertise on the only metric I can look look through/sort by is the star rating. This is good, but sometimes I might say want to look for the highest traffic blog but not care what their technorati ranking is or vice versa. Also it would be for example useful to see actual numbers for Alexa rankings. Currently I can find the information but i need to actually click on a blog and then i see it, this makes searching a little more laborious than it needs to otherwise be.

Anyhow as i say though a great service which i'm very happy with!

[...] After having declared that all Advertisers get a 50% off on reviews, ReviewMe has announced that as of this Monday, Publishers will now be able to edit the price at which they want to sell the reviews. [...]

[...] To reiterate, this hasn’t happened to me or anybody else yet, the rating service isn’t even live, but I just wanted to share a concern for the rating system and felt like the comments area of the ReviewMe post wasn’t good enough. Think I still have Patrick Gavin’s email address so I’m going to send along a link to this post as well. Maybe he’ll respond in kind below. [...]

One thing that you should think about is giving publisher the possibility to use their current balance to purchase reviews and then became advertisers as well.

Right now the only way to purchase a review is by using a credit card, maybe if you allow paypal as it happens on TLA you will get more advertisers on the list and, of course, more happy publishers as well ;)

I love the ability to set your own price and the new affiliate program, but I would suggest getting more buttons in various sizes made up.

Also, the current image for the affiliate program has a transparent background, but the cutting around the image and text is terrible. If it's not on a light colored background it looks terrible.

I want to use the affiliate image, but I'll have to wait until it looks presentable first.

Thanks!

Pay for the reviews, don't just say you will then never send a check.

Regarding the complaints against the 48 hour time frame, you have 48 hours to *accept* the review opportunity, and then something like an additional 96 to actually post the review. That's a business week and then some.

The advertiser should be able to put a note about what specifically they'd like reviewed. The site itself? Design? A service? I turned down one review of a fairly basic site because I had no idea what I was reviewing. Some are obvious - a tool, a video, etc. But some are not obvious at all.

Patrick,

My concern is with point #2.

I can see the situation where an advertiser gives a reviewer a poor rating because of a negative review.