Reviews of Reviewstream
Reviewstream.com is one of many online writing resources that will pay authors for accepted submissions. The premise is that anyone can review anything and if accepted, the website immediately pays the author a fee. The question is, can a person make real money with Reviewstream?
The website provides the answer on its homepage. While most of the standard reviews are not well written or useful, what stands out is the length of the featured reviews. Often they run on for 700 to 800 words with a maximum earning potential of $2.50 and the possibility of an additional .10 cents for each vote a review receives. Most reviews however, are paid a ‘bulk payment’ of fifty cents each. In comparison, websites such as textbroker.com, pay a decent writer approximately $10 for a 700 word article for subjects that are often more technical than writing about a shampoo with a new fragrance.
Authors willing to put in the time to write a lengthy review may be awarded the higher payment of $2.50 and hope for readers to vote on the review. However, with a database of over 7500 food reviews and almost 5000 restaurant reviews, standing out from the crowd and garnering enough votes to earn any real money is next to impossible.
One aspect of the website that is both positive and unique is that it does not require personal information beyond an email address. Access to account information including payments is through the address of record. The website attributes the simplicity of their log in to the fact that an author’s personal information cannot be stolen from the website if the website does not have it. That logic is hard to argue with.
Tere is the distasteful kicker to Reviewstream.com. If an author decides to dedicate their time to write numerous, lengthy reviews and agrees to accept the bulk rate of .50 cents per review in hopes of receiving votes from among the thousands of other reviews in the same category, payments may add up very slowly over a long period of time. However, unlike most other submission websites, the account balance cannot be accessed until it reaches $50.00. Quick math should warn an author that 100 different reviews consisting of approximately 70,000 words must be accepted at the bulk rate to earn $50. That is a lot of work and a long wait for pocket change.
If the question about Reviewstream.com is, can you really make $50? Then the answer has to be a resounding, yes! However, any halfway decent writer would be crazy to do so. The internet is rife with page after page of websites, blogs and article directories offering much more money than fifty cents for a seven hundred-word article without having to climb a mountain or wait a lifetime to access the earnings.
