I'm giving up on product testing sites. I've been a member of some of them for years and years, but I think I'm done.
Part
of it is that they've gotten so popular that the products aren't very
good - instead of being given a product to sample, I'll be given coupons
for that product to give out. Or I'll be sent a cheap marketing trinket
with a single-use sample instead of enough of the product to really
give it a try. And the social media they ask you to do now! I try to
keep my social media personal, not tweet after tweet about products with
eight hashtags in each one. I just can't be that chipper. And so, goodbye guerrilla marketing. Goodbye, sites that take a year to earn enough to send me the minimum payment of $10. So long, Facebook pages of brands that I "liked" in order to get a coupon. Syonara to all the advertising disguised as "useful content" that I can "engage" with. My mental resources and my time are not for sale.
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