@Maria,
Thanks for your comment, do you mind sharing the articles you wrote on the review?

@Jonathan,
Thanks for your input. I agree with what you said, be excited about our readers and not our partners. Seth Godin shared that statement that helps me to change my perspective on the relationship with our affiliate partner.

@Raymond,
Thanks, you seemed to be an expert in reviewing. Will look forward to your knowledge too =) Thanks for the perspective that reviewing is actually helping as well.

For all your great comments,
thank you very much…

Thanks for sharing your perspective. I always see promoting or review a product on my blog as an action to add value to my readers.

But, I have to make sure that I have tested or read the product first before I recommend it.

I believe that my honest review will help my readers to buy only quality product.

I have bought some lousy products too and I never recommend those to my readers just to earn some commission from it. There are abundance of great products out there which I can happily promote without feeling guilty.

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Good luck!

Jonathan

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I agree there are a lot of gray areas in the blogging world. The only thing we can do is stay true to our readership and purpose as bloggers.

I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong in what you did anymore than it was right. Do what you believe in and don’t feel like you have to justify your actions to anybody. In the long run your readers will decide what they want to read.

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I am not sure how long ago I did my first paid review, but I remember I had to talk to a lot of people about it before I actually published it. What most people told me was that it was ok to do it as long as you write that it is a paid review.

… and of course, don’t let the money have any effect on your writing. I try to stay focused on what I want to learn and what I find interesting, not what will make me more money.

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Blogging certainly is an investment.

I got my first email this week asking if I took advertisements on my blog. I said I did but that I wanted to know a bit more – especially what they’d be advertising. I haven’t heard back yet (so I do wonder if it was a dodgy product or if they just went with someone else who said yes immediately).

The other difference with the business person is that (at first anyway) they do everything, while employees usually only work in one part of the business. For me this means doing marketing – which I’m not much good at. So I do it the way that is comfortable to me – providing (hopefully) value to others through comments on blogs, participating in carnivals and so forth. When I have a bit more time to write I’d like to do some article marketing. This way too (as long as the articles are good) it is a way of marketing by providing value.

Wishing you every possible business (and other) success.

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