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Daytipper Community Tip Sharing Site Review
Ed Kohler
DayTipper is a website where people share small nuggets of knowledge on a wide range of topics in exchange for cash. Topics range from cooking and gardening to technology and travel. Submitting tips is easy. Just sign up for an account, give your tip a headline and category, then explain the tip. DayTipper's editors will review your tip to see if it's appropriate for the site. If so, the tip goes live and you receive three dollars.

Published tips are voted on by the DayTipper community, causing the best tips to float to the top of each category. The site initially launched as VitaminT.

If you could use $3, now is a good time to check out DayTipper since the site is relatively new and could use some more great content.

I like the concept since the contribution threshold is relatively low. Just about has a tip they could contribute and doing so is easy.

But, is anyone actually looking for "tips" online? Yes. I ran a keyword look-up for search volumes on tips related terms and found a big market here. Beauty and sex  tips (including specific sex acts) topped the list followed by things like dating, diet, golf, and poker.

They currently have an ad-supported monetization strategy, but I wouldn't be surprised to see other revenue opportunities including licensing and book deals down the road, assuming the tips keep coming in.



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1. Posted by: Friedbeef's Tech on January 5, 2007 11:32 PM:

[...] We’re into a new year - a time for new resolutions, new hopes and new dreams. What better way to kick off the new year by helping those in need? [...]




2. Posted by: Susan on January 29, 2007 12:33 PM:

Daytipper is a scam! Here's the news article with the details: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/134431/breaking_news_daytipper_the_newest.html




3. Posted by: Mike Brown on February 5, 2007 4:18 PM:

This link is to the author's own article. The tone is such that she must have some personal issues with the folks at daytipper. I joined and was paid $6 for the tips that were posted on the daytipper site. Certainly doesn't seem like a scam to me.




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