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Making Money with Restaurant and Movie Reviews No one wants to go out to dinner, spending good money, only to discover the atmosphere was unpleasant and the food bad. The same is true with movies. Many people will read movie reviews, which are written from the writer's personal point of view. Since not everyone enjoys the same venues, it means taking a chance on someone else's opinion. For people who enjoy getting out or even individuals traveling on business or vacation to your city, you can offer an excellent service with restaurant and movie reviews online. Keep in mind that rather give a restaurant or movie a thumb's up or down, you need to provide a summary of the high and low points. With this information, the reader can determine which restaurant to eat at and which movie to see. In other words, you want to report the facts opposed to personal viewpoint. To create your own city restaurant and movie review service, you need a website, which should be professional in appearance and easy to navigate. Once the website is up and running, you would begin creating content. Although you would have a variety of design options, one way to go is by creating a restaurant section and a movie section. Then, design the site so readers can input a zip code or favorite venue for searching. For instance, if someone lives on the north side of town, provide a means for them to do a movie search by zip code or even by theater name. You also need to provide a minimum of two week's schedule to include the name of the movie, the running length, rate (G, PG, PG-13, or R), brief summary, and actors. For the restaurant reviews, you want your website to again, be searchable by area of the city, as well as venue. In other words, if you have a businessperson in town who needs a quiet, well lit, and professional restaurant for meeting clients, this individual should be able to conduct a search by venue or even food type. In this case, the person may look for a French restaurant, rated with four stars, and near the airport. To make your restaurant and movie review website unique, you might also offer links to various sites offering discounts. For example, you could create an affiliate link (with permission of course) to www.restaurants.com. This site sells coupons for around $10, providing $25 worth of meal. The same type of discount is often available for movies. In fact, you might work with your local theaters whereby you can link to their homepage online, selling books of tickets or coupons for "buy one - get one free" specific to drinks, popcorn, hotdogs, etc. The great thing about making money online is that you do not need to personally, have a product or service of your own. Instead, you can affiliate with other companies, selling or advertising their products and/or services while still making money. Again, the key to a successful review site for restaurants and movies is to provide the right kind of information while making the process easy. After all, people using a restaurant and movie review site do so because they do not have time to spend searching for information. Therefore, the easier and more convenient you can make your site the more successful you will be. |