Writing The Review
There are a few options that you have to complete when writing your product review. Firstly you will need to think of a title, something that should make people want to click onto your review, and one which briefly reflects your opinion of the product in question. The ‘Advantages’ and ‘Disadvantages’ sections are self explanatory simply note the best things about the product, followed by the worst things and leave any of these fields blank if necessary. The next box to complete is for the main product review and this should be at least five or six paragraphs, but the more written the better. The next step is to confirm that the review is your own work and then you can submit the review to the Ciao website.
It is possible to add pictures to the end of your review to make the review more visually appealing and so that the readers get a good view of the product being reviewed. Select “Upload Pictures” and you can add as many as seven images from your PC. They need to be titled and in some way related to the review you have just written. It is only possible to add pictures once you have upgraded past the ‘White’ colour rating (read below for more information on the colour-rating system).
Paid Reviews
Ciao pays money when you write a review on a product and upload it to their website. For every member that reads and then rates your review you will earn a certain amount of money. There are also ‘bonus’ opportunities to earn money from your reviews, such as the competitions Ciao run and the Ciao Premium Award Fund every month. The Ciao website contains a huge database of products, all of which can be reviewed and which you will get paid for.
When you have searched for and located the product or service which you would like to review, click through to load the product details page. This page will contain links to existing reviews of that particular item, adverts and auctions relating to that item and the description or specification details. There should be a list of options on the middle of the page, usually next to the product title. There is one option to ‘Write a review’. Click on this text link, and now you will be on the product-review page where you can write your own personal review on that product.
Tips and advice on how to be wealthier…
Company directors have come under fire for ‘fat cat’ salaries in recent years. According to a recent report by the Incomes Data Services the average total earnings of the FTSE 100 chief executives have doubled over the last five years to a new record of £3.2m.
The Director’s Pay Report also revealed that the earnings of FTSE mid-250 chief executives have gone up by more than 90% since 2001/02 to £1.4m.
Public sector workers, who had seen average salaries rise at a faster pace than for those in the private sector earlier in the decade, last year received the lowest pay settlements since 1994, according to research company Industrial Relations Services.
The IRS said pay deals in the public sector were worth 2.5% in the 12 months to the end of November 2007 while private sector pay settlements were 3.5%.
• The current national minimum wage entitles adult employees to earn £5.52 an hour. So, theoretically anyone working full time, 40 hours per week, should expect to earn no less than £11,481 a year.
How to get a pay rise
If you are an employee, here’s betting you wouldn’t mind a pay rise. And if you are an employer – our bottom dollar remains safe if we say you hate having to discuss pay. Research shows only six in ten people actually bother to ask for a pay rise.
With more Coporate ‘downsizing’ and short-term contracts, there is an increasing climate of job insecurity in which people fear that asking for a pay rise will count against them – and could even cost them their job.
But if you’re happy in your position, asking for a rise might be the best option. If you enjoy your work and like your colleagues, why make life harder by job-hopping to increase your pay packet?
This is Money asked some senior executives for their opinions on how best to approach this knotty problem. We then sought proper advice from a group of recruitment experts and human resources directors on do’s and don′ts of pay-rise etiquette.