Saturday 7 June 2008

socialspark review

As some of you in May, remember, I was invited to SocialSpark alpha, a few weeks. One or two weeks after that, I believe that came in its beta, which did not last very long. Now, is available to the public which means that anyone can sign-up for it. The company is behind SocialSpark first IZEA that came out with PayPerPost.

SocialSpark
As its name suggests, SocialSpark is more a social network site. The difference is that it not only allows you to communicate with fellow bloggers, but also with advertisers through its message center. You can also accept / reject friend requests, and communicate with their customer service from there. Also, you can manage feedback and comments left by other colleagues SocialSpark members - both bloggers and advertisers - on your profile, what you get when you create the application.

As for Opportunity, is similar to the list PayPerPost, that is, you can easily tell which ones are open, which you qualify for and basic requirements. However, there are two improvements over PayPerPost. They are queues and bonus system.

The bonuses are granted to those who write their posts and sponsored by the efforts and instead put it. This is a great idea, in my opinion, as it will improve the quality of these posts and increase the return on investment (ROI) for advertisers, in turn, more opportunities with higher salaries would be available to bloggers like myself and not for the blogs with terrible English grammar.

For closed opportunities, you can "ask for a slot", putting it in the queue, and you will be notified by e-mail when it re-opened. For some, you must reserve a slot, and when it gets to be your turn, you have 12 hours to complete it. I do not like this first, because what if the system tells me at 10PM? Then I would be more than to sleep in 12 hours. Well, I found that I can go back to reserve before the expiry.

Overall, it looks very promising… and people do not have to spend their lives in front computer screens anymore.