According to Webopedia: “In electronic commerce, product reviews are used on shopping sites to give customers an opportunity to rate and comment on products they have purchased, right on the product page. Other consumers can read these when making a purchase decision. Often, the company will include a URL on printed literature or e-mail marketing to invite customers to review their service after a transaction has been completed.”
A well written product review can help drive traffic to your home business website. People are always looking for experienced, impartial opinions on a product or service they may be considering purchasing. The first step to writing a good review is to choose a product you have considerable experience using and on which you are able to offer an objective, unbiased view of its performance. Your review isn’t a sales pitch and it shouldn’t come across as such or your opinion will offer very little in the way of value to your readers.
Once you have settled on a product to review and before you take pen to paper or finger to keyboard you must continually remind yourself that you are writing for the reader. Someone is going to make a buying decision based on your advice and your experiences and they are depending on your unbiased and independent analysis in order to do so. So you should always tailor your review with this in mind.
Next, you have to consider the product itself? What does it do, and what does it claim to do? How well does it meet or exceed these claims. What are the expectations of the reader as far as the product is concerned? Does the product meet the reader’s needs? Is the product a good value for the cost? To answer these questions properly when using the merchandise you need to pay attention not only to what it does but also pay attention to what it doesn’t do.
Once you’ve made these determinations it’s now time to document your results. There are typically two types of reviews. There’s a comparative review where you compare your product to several others in the marketplace making the same claims and decide which one best solves the problem. The other type is a stand alone analysis in which you determine whether or not this product does what it claims to do and whether or not it’s a good value.
You begin your article with your introductory paragraph, which of course, is intended to grab your reader’s attention and gives them an idea of what’s going to follow. The following paragraphs will then go into detail about what the product does and doesn’t do and how well it keeps its promises. You can then detail what you like about the item and what you don’t like.
You’re then ready for your conclusion. State in no uncertain terms whether or not the product is a good value and whether or not it will meet the reader’s expectations and solve their problem. If you like it tell them why and if you don’t like it tell them why not.
Armed with this information you should be able to produce an impartial and analytical critique of any product or service you’ve experienced or would like to experience. These reviews can also drive targeted traffic to your home business website and help you get viewed as an expert in the particular field of choice.