Dooyoo 2013

sarahj1986

yes £50 is realistic to get by the end of the year. I joined mid may and it took me around 10 weeks to get to my first £20AGC but now I have got the hang of it the same amount took only 6 weeks. Im now just over £20 but Im hanging on and cashing out at £50, myself hopefully by the end of the year. I post around 4-5 reviews each week, I think you can do up to 5 per day but I would advise against this because multiple reviews tend to get less rates than those who post 1 or 2 per day. I would strongly advise you have a good look at the website and read/rate reviews as its a good idea of what's expected from a review, we are a friendly bunch so we will give advice if asked.

Good luck

pointress

Megann wrote: »

Hello

Yes, my username over there is Megann too. I am not very original with names lol

Could someone please let me know if I am being realistic aiming to be in a position to reclaim maybe £50 by the end of the year?

I agree with Katy and Sarah - this should be achievable. I joined 2 months ago and am now at around the £35 mark. I try to post something roughly every other day but do lots of rating which is time-consuming but it pays dividends (as well as being very interesting).

Will look out for you on the site.

Megann

Thank you x

milmol7

Megann wrote: »

Hello

Yes, my username over there is Megann too. I am not very original with names lol

Could someone please let me know if I am being realistic aiming to be in a position to reclaim maybe £50 by the end of the year?

Definitely possible. I was guilty of writing to the maximum allowed day after day when I joined up and looking back would have been better building up more reads, leading to more rates and getting to know other site users. All the same, it quickly helped me to get "Very Useful"s by seeing how to write better reviews, so see what works best for you. Pop back and add a few more details to your existing reviews, see if you can up the overall ratings to VU's then may get a few more reads. good luck

Megann

Thank you
It's quite an exciting challenge I reckon!

daniellaoxox

Another update..

dooyoo’s Writing Tips #1: Audience
10/10/2013 - (01:13 PM)

Keep in mind that the audience you’re writing for is external visitors to the site looking for product information. We love to see reviews with all different kinds of voices and personal styles, but we occasionally see reviews that seem more like a letter to an old friend rather than a consumer review - and sometimes the reason for purchase or introduction to the review is as long as the review of the product itself!

A good way to hold a reader’s attention is to keep your reviews concise and any extraneous information at the bare minimum. While a brief intro or mid-spiel deviation is unlikely to put a reader off your review, try to put yourself in the consumer’s position and then judge whether that three paragraph introduction about the delivery person’s extra short, short shorts is relevant, or not.

In a nutshell: Sometimes less is more.

-Hal
dooyooTeam


Problem is that short reviews often get rated low as many people don't actually read reviews properly, just glance and rate based on the length..

milmol7

Megann wrote: »

Thank you
It's quite an exciting challenge I reckon!

I've upped my rating on your last review why not add a pic, it somehow makes me take new members more seriously when they do that, goodness knows why!

Hiddenidenity

Megann wrote: »

Hello

Yes, my username over there is Megann too. I am not very original with names lol

Could someone please let me know if I am being realistic aiming to be in a position to reclaim maybe £50 by the end of the year?

Definitely doable, I had a few months away, but I have done 8 reviews and just hit my £20

azana_2

katykicker wrote: »

Maybe it is aimed at the people who seem to solely write their reviews for the benefit of their friends on Dooyoo.

I find it quite annoying to hear about 1000 words on the family and irrelevant things that people tend to include. I am not referring to people that talk about the age of their children, what toys they usually like or anything like that, just those people that pad and pad with useless crap that the consumer really couldn't care about.

Perhaps Dooyoo want to move towards reviews that are solely aimed at the consumer, rather than now when we all know in the back of our minds that lots of the reviews are read by our friends or mutual raters on the site. I have tried to aim my reviews more at the consumer now, where I can think of how to do it, and hopefully the tips will help the site, and in turn us too. Who knows though?! Things don't seem to be great there at the moment.

I think there are, or have been, an awful lot of written for peer reviews on the site. The problem is that won't stop because that sort of very long padded review does brilliantly on ciao so people will probably just cross post.....I'd love to see more pithy and short but informative reviews doing well. I've noticed that despite dooyoo saying this they are still more likely to crown a longer review than a short - so I really don't know what they want really. I fear the people who should read the tips won't or will and will carry on regardless.

It's very quiet on the site.

CC2

I have just written a review of my camera (level 1, amazingly), trying very hard to keep to simple facts and opinion on ease of use without too much back story. It doesn't make for a very interesting review though!