Investigating SlicethePie.com – Slice of pie or scam?

Have you heard of Slice the Pie?

This is a new site that is generating lots of buzz in the work from home community.  It really seems like the dream come true.  Listen to some music and get your “slice of the pie” by being paid.  This opportunity has extra appeal because you can listen to music while doing dozens of other tasks.  It makes it possible to increase your income without changing much of your lifestyle or draining your time.  Despite how effortless it seems, I had to wonder if it was all too good to be true.  With a little closer investigation, I was glad I took the time to look twice! The purpose behind Slice the Pie is to give musicians a chance to try out their music and gauge the public’s response.  Listeners give feedback to music artists in exchange for payment.

How Slice the Pie Works

Slice the Pie begins the process by recruiting new music artists to sign up.  The musician can upload three tracks for scouts (that’s you and me!) to listen to.  As a scout, you are responsible to listen to the song for a minimum of one minute and then write a constructive review.  Your review has to be about the length of a Tweet, at least 100 characters.  You will rate the song on a scale from 1-10 in different categories.  In exchange for this one minute listen and 100 character review, you will be paid somewhere between .02 and .20.

There’s Got To Be a Catch to Slice the Pie, Right?

Well, sort of.  You can’t just publish generic comments as reviews.  There has to be more to it than just “Loved

your music” or “Your voice rocks”.  You have to really put a little thought into it and give good constructive feedback.  Otherwise, your piece of the pie will quickly be chopped!  Slice the Pie rates scouts for their reviews using some top secret algorithm.  If your ratings are high, you make more money for each review.  If they are low, your slice of the pie will be quite small.  At the end of the day, all of the scouts’ reviews are compiled for the musician to look at.  They will then analyze whether the song has any potential to make it in the main stream music world.

Grabbing Your Slice

If you want a slice of the music review pie, you can sign up for free at slicethepie.com/signup.  Once you are in, you can select your favorite music genres and avoid the ones you can’t stand at all.  Then you go into your virtual “Scout room” where you listen to a song and write a quick review.  Slice the Pie never tells you the name of the artist you are hearing before you do a rating.  After your review is finished, you will be given the artist and song title.  You’ll also have the chance to “tip” the musician if you feel particularly warm and fuzzy over their music.  This is optional, which is a good thing since at .20 per review; you might not have a huge tipping budget to work with.

Wrapping Up Slice the Pie Impressions

You don’t have to be the next Simon Cowell to be successful at Slice the Pie.  You just have to be a tiny bit creative and have a really basic understanding of what makes music good.  Things like lyrics, pitch, harmony, instrumentals, and other aspects of the music world will come in handy when you need to write a great review.  Once you are an active scout, you will get paid through PayPal.  You must have $10 in your account before Slice the Pie releases payment and it usually processes within 5 days.

All in all, Slice the Pie is a good opportunity for music lovers.  You won’t get rich overnight and it probably isn’t the road to take if you want to replace your entire income.  However, you could possibly combine it with one of the other work from home opportunities and multitask your way to a larger income stream.

 

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