Supplementing Your Internet Publishing Income

Check out reviewstream.com, where you write reviews on anything you can think of–books, movies, cell phone service providers, your third grade teacher– and get paid for each one.

The going rate of payout per review is displayed on the home page. Last I checked it was $2.00 per review. You write your review, title it, submit it, and within 72 hours ReviewStream will edit it. They will then either pay you the regular rate via PayPal (with a minimum payout of 50 bucks), or if your review is lacking in a few of their qualifying criteria, they may opt to pay you the "bulk rate," which is 1/5 of the regular rate.

If, however, you opt not to receive the bulk rate, they will simply return the review to you, at which point you can revise it or resubmit it for the bulk rate.

After you've been approved and paid for one review, you are what they call a "qualified writer" and can self-edit and submit your reviews instantly for a flat payment to your PayPal account of 20 cents. If you can write 500 reviews in a day and self-publish 'em, go for it.

I've heard that some people have written 500 word reviews and had them rejected for failing to meet the minimum length requirements. So, while most of the reviews I saw on ReviewStream were pretty brief, they may be looking for slightly longer reviews for the 2 dollar rate.

I submitted three reviews as an experiment yesterday, so we'll see how it goes. I expect some kind of a response as to the status of my reviews by Friday...