Epinions - Get mass hits and be an advisor - yours for the taking!
Mar 02 '01
The Bottom Line Maximize your experience on the Epinions superhighway
Epinions hit the dotcom scene and suddenly it was like the gold rush had been reinvented. Panderers and prospectors alike came by the droves to exploit the landscape for all it was worth. Some reaped and sowed, some hoarded, a few hit-and-run, while others are still coming to experience the phenomenon first hand. The ever-changing Epinions community is still the last frontier it ever was - waiting for you to carve your niche.
Epinions has been experiencing growing pains, the whole economy has. Member hits are down, the money isn’t the same. It’s time to use this to your advantage. Gone are the “experts” who put a price on their time and knowledge. Vindictive parties left screaming retribution and the rest of the drivel that leaked from their crevices. A few crybabies went out with the dirty bath water. Frankly, I found these types ignorant, repugnant, greedy, quick to judge and often arcane in their reasoning as no one had stapled their hands to keyboards and ordered them to type.
Epinions functions as a content channel. They don’t influence the content created here. At the rate the Epinions are contributed to the site, 4000+ a day according to an old source, they have much bigger fish to fry. That is why it is important to police the quality of your work and aspire to improve – to make the site attractive as possible to all involved, particularly investors.
Epinions is doing what they feel is necessary to keep their product fresh, contemporary and viable. Members shouldn’t fret over the loss of the community feel. The new changes will take some getting used to but I feel confident Epinions will work toward a solution. In the meantime we should applaud the emergence of market share, thanking those who pulled stakes after feeling their integrity was being compromised through their associations with the site. These people who had better things to do with their time differ from those that stay. They spelled community - .com mutiny.
To some, the site will never be what it was. To others, the ones who have just arrived, this is everything it has promised to be – the ultimate online forum for consumer product reviews. A byproduct of that is the fact that this is the ultimate hub for consumer profiling. Members have virtually etched out their own extensive autobiographies by merely telling us about their consumer experiences.
The people who seemed most worked up over the site seemed to put all their eggs in one basket. Epinions isn’t the place for every starving student to come up with the rent or for every struggling, bandwidth-dazzling, writer to achieve immortality – but it is a good place to start. Money, hits, advisory positions – they are all here for the taking!
Epinions is an incredible training ground to flex your creative muscles. The education that they provide is invaluable at a price that’s right. Too many testimonials attest to that. This is a great writing supplement, money maker, source of entertainment – whatever your agenda – for those that want to create opportunities for their advantage. Experiences here should give you the confidence to transfer your new skills and knowledge elsewhere if the site isn’t leaving your fully satiated.
That being said: type until your hearts content, read & rate, enjoy yourselves and have fun. ;)
Gem of the day:
Web content is measured in terms of stickiness. Stickiness = Total site reach (How many visits?)* Frequency (How often?) * Duration (For how long?) How sticky are you?
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