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Keep it simple. Charge for reviews, let people choose what makes sense for them. One time transactional purchases: $5 for 3 reviews $10 for 8 reviews $2

by staunch 14y ago

Keep it simple. Charge for reviews, let people choose what makes sense for them. One time transactional purchases: $5 for 3 reviews $10 for 8 reviews $20 for 18 reviews Subscription plans: $5/mo for 5 reviews/mo $10/mo for 15 reviews/mo $20/mo for 30 reviews/mo Work to earn: 1 review for 3 reviews written 1 bonus review for every 5 written I think a ratio of 1:3 is perfectly fair, it may not be an even exchange, but it's fair. You have to have a profit margin built into the service to ensure its longevity. Reasonable people understand that. Since you're charging good money for the reviews they have to be very good quality. You'll need a moderation system and a way to very easily let people flag a review as bad and get a review credit refund.

ajryan 14y ago
I think this is the better direction to go. People will use your service to improve their sites, and they'll pay (and keep paying) to get the most improvement. I don't think additional screenshots/IFRAMEing will improve the review quality much. Getting more reviews (and higher-quality reviews, once reviewers/reviews can get feeback) is the most valuable thing. Actually second thought, the one place I can see screenshots being useful is to let people crop out a specific piece of UX for comment. Have you thought about letting review requestors add a comment to guide the review toward a specific question they're trying to ask? That could also be pay-for. Obviously the balance you have to strike to keep the site healthy is to maintain the balance of reviews owed to / owed by users. Staunch is on the right track with rebalancing the "free" tier in order to primine the "owed by" pump. You can further maintain the balance by paying reviewers (perhaps "top"/"verified" reviewers, as suggested by donutdan4114) a fraction of the income you get from subscribers to do reviews. I can see that you're drawn toward keeping the 1 for 1 simplicity, but I think it'll be hard to find other features worth paying for. PS, as an enthusiastic user of Criticue, thanks!

by staunch 14y ago

ajryan 14y ago

I think this is the better direction to go. People will use your service to improve their sites, and they'll pay (and keep paying) to get the most improvement. I don't think additional screenshots/IFRAMEing will improve the review quality much. Getting more reviews (and higher-quality reviews, once reviewers/reviews can get feeback) is the most valuable thing. Actually second thought, the one place I can see screenshots being useful is to let people crop out a specific piece of UX for comment. Have you thought about letting review requestors add a comment to guide the review toward a specific question they're trying to ask? That could also be pay-for. Obviously the balance you have to strike to keep the site healthy is to maintain the balance of reviews owed to / owed by users. Staunch is on the right track with rebalancing the "free" tier in order to primine the "owed by" pump. You can further maintain the balance by paying reviewers (perhaps "top"/"verified" reviewers, as suggested by donutdan4114) a fraction of the income you get from subscribers to do reviews. I can see that you're drawn toward keeping the 1 for 1 simplicity, but I think it'll be hard to find other features worth paying for. PS, as an enthusiastic user of Criticue, thanks!