When I first approached brightideas.com, I was very excited. I thought, how nice. A place to get some great information on all types of avenues in life and make a few cents for your time. For a few months, things panned out. I had acquired quite a file there, and received payment. The information ... Read review
Advantages: ~avenues to write ideas in Disadvantages: ~management, lost of integrity
When I first approached brightideas.com, I was very excited. I thought, how nice. A place to get some great information on all types of avenues in life and make a few cents for your time. For a few months, things panned out. I had acquired quite a file there, and received payment. The information I received on many things was a great benefit. But, something happened, the site went caos, people lost earnings, and the management at brightideas.com ... ...{understated} members who have not been able to cash out their money. Midway through my joining, the site without warrant, was redesigned and a new members status was incorporated. Instead of the usualy trust or distrust avenue on a lot of writing sites, members were forced against each other and levels of this particular society of the site were elevated. Selected members were kept lower on the status pole even though they indeed wrote wonderful ... more
When I first approached brightideas.com, I was very excited. I thought, how nice. A place to get some great information on all types of avenues in life and make a few cents for your time. For a few months, things panned out. I had acquired quite a file there, and received payment. The information I received on many things was a great benefit. But, something happened, the site went caos, people lost earnings, and the management at brightideas.com will not contact or respond to email. There are many {understated} members who have not been able to cash out their money. Midway through my joining, the site without warrant, was redesigned and a new members status was incorporated. Instead of the usualy trust or distrust avenue on a lot of writing sites, members were forced against each other and levels of this particular society of the site were elevated. Selected members were kept lower on the status pole even though they indeed wrote wonderful ideas. Brightideas.com lost integrity and writers. Problems pending and members left hanging. Not a way to organize or manage a website.
Website details: brightideas.com is a site which is asking for ideas on how to make avenues of life better. There is a menu to choose from to which you feel you could offer a better idea on that particular subject. You can select from home products to schools, from ideas on how to date to even offering better suggestions on the site. It is fairly easy to surf, almost self explanatory. A bar on the top offers areas of help and information on site situations. Their logo is a lightbulb. And you are rated and acquire so many lightbulbs for how BRIGHT your idea is. You are offered an easy access to the newest ideas just going in and also watch a board of the highest rated ideas. On each member's profile page you can read about them and click their link to their submitted ideas. They are in bins, offering you a ben of highest rated or recent ideas they have written. The personal account page of each profile is not very detailed. You can not keep track of anyone who you brought into the site and only go on trust {which they will not even discuss with you} of your referals and how they are doing. The members are listed at levels. There are 4 or 5 levels which you can climb depending on your idea. With this site, they are marketing your ideas but not actively paying for them. The site looks good, but the inner workings are deceptive. You also have an area to store ideas in a draft. People complain of ideas suddenly gone. If you check out the site, please select the Community area and read many of the past and recent complaints. That tells the story.
Dot.coms are a risk anytime they state up. They must try their wings and keep flying. All the writing sites I belong to with exception to brightideas.com have always been in contact in some way with their members. After all, members are the website, the force behind the site and the ability to keep a site running. Always, these types of websites need to have a way to weed out an abusive user. That is just. When a site is in trouble, they usually make amends, alert their members and things are worked out, or members are notified the site is closing. But, brightideas totally ignored their problems and left members hanging. With detail brightideas spun a detail of web and abuse on their members. Pending.
Integrity: With a simple dictionay, the word is easy to find. There must be communication between a website and their members. When that stops, the site goes down. Word of mouth spreads and things happen. Advertisment is in danger, and the website's ability to make money goes in the .com dumpster. Honesty is how a company keeps people coming in, and keeps people {and members} buying. That is the bloodline of the site. If someone cuts the imbiblical cord, the baby sinks or swims. If the site {parent} walks away, the member dies and so does the site. Bingo.
I am on three other writing sites. The main avenue that keeps me there is their avenue of communication. Oh, sometimes glitches happen, there is a short time or span between an email and an answer, but mainly that avenue stays open. This present site is a new one for me. I will be anxiously awaiting to see if communication stays alert. Just tell me before a change, or if you are in trouble. I can deal. It is the lost of integrity that I don't deal with. We shall see. I always have a benefit of doubt until the actual event. I feel ok so far. Enjoy life. Better things ahead.
Advantages: Fun Site;Pays for Ideas;Easy to Navigate;Lots of Categories Disadvantages: Has become slow;Non US members must accumulate US$100 to redeem
Brightidea.com is a US-based site that pays you to submit ideas. There are three categories, viz, Share, Compete and Develop. The vast majority of members participate in the first category, ie, in sharing bright, quirky, wacky or even silly ideas with other members. The compete section involves you competing against others in competitions on specific ideas, eg, new ideas for hand-held computers with total prize money of US $2,500 - a recent winner ... ...to say the least. However, brightidea.com is an interactive site which has considerable appeal and it's not bad, getting paid 3 cents for an idea which may just comprise a paragraph.
Update 21/05
Sadly since I wrote this opinion this reward site has gone from bad to worse. It now only pays one cent per bright idea, the E mailing of members has all but ceased, payments have not been forthcoming, and ideas are increasingly being rejected. There is ...
ashford 30.01.2001 (21.05.2001)
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I was surprised to see find this site listed here. It is one of many that I have been with and been screwed by.
It started out great, there was a bunch of categories to write about even silly odd things and you could write as much as you wanted. You built up your list of people you read and ones that read you and these were sent by alerts or you could choose to go by your list.For me being in the states I could cash out every ten dollars and that ... ...verify the info and that was it. The next week the check would come and most weeks I got several checks.
Then they change the rules. Gave us levels and started us all at level 1 and you had to work your way up sort of like here with the dots.
They wanted only marketable ideas. In other words you figure out a way to improve a product or come up with an invention that they could get paid for. Really now, who is going to write for pennies and let ...
Rosie6349 13.11.2001
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I had never heard of brightidea.com until very recently, surprising considering I am a member of most other sites of it's nature.
The premise is not that far removed from what we are all doing now, namely a pay for opinions site. As the name suggest though, the site concentrates less on opinions and more on peoples ideas on everything from politics to products. Unfortunately I seem to have joined the site at a problematic time. There are a lot of ... ...have not received cheques, and worst of all - emails are not being replied to. This could all be innocent, or it could herald the downfall of the site. However, it doesn't fill me with confidence - do I really want to start on a new site if it may be on its way out?
Anyway, according to the site all is good and well, so what does it offer? The premise of the site is ideas, not writing, although writing is obviously how you will put your ideas across ...
real_rob_writer 10.06.2001
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Advantages: VERY GOOD SITE, GOOD POTENTIAL Disadvantages: SLOW AT TIMES
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Everytime a registered Brightidea.com member rates your idea, you earn a cash royalty. The more members that rate your idea, the more royalties you earn. The more ideas you share, the greater your chance to have them seen by more members – and the greater your chance to earn even more royalties.
You can then redeem your royalties, once you have $100, although it’s a US site it’s a good way or earning a few bobs. I don’t ... ...for me but the tips on this site are worth reading. You get 3 cents for every idea you submit, and you can earn quite a lot per idea depending on how good it is. The rates are really good and some bright ideas get up to 60 hits. The site is really good to visit and signing up is really easy. Easy to navigate and well designed. The only think is that it can be a bit slow at times, very highly rated in the US and has a lot of members worth checking ...
WAD1-2-3 12.05.2001
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Advantages: sounds like easy money Disadvantages: certainly isn't, iffy customer service and buggy site at present
...FOR YOUR THOUGHTS!!! Brightidea.com is an excellent site which pays you for your handy hints and tips or much larger invention-type ideas. It seems that you can write about virtually anything here as long as your idea is valid and you will be paid for it. It works much teh same as dooyoo, with different categories to submit ideas under although because they are after ideas rather than specific things, the categories are much wider. You simply enter ... ...for the money to roll in. Well actually its more of a trickle, but it comes in nevertheless. You get paid 1c every time your idea is read(yes its an American site) which is not exactly an amazing return, but it soon mounts up. The only problem is that as a non-American member you need to have at least $100 in your account before you can claim your money - which is a LOT of ideas. Still, most people have tons of different hints and tips floating around ...
wampyrii 30.03.2001
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