Yes, you can make money from video blogs as well. A video blog? Yes, a video blog is when you make a video, link it to your blog and publish it on the internet for the whole world to see. It is also known as vlog.
All that you need to start a vlog are: * A camcorder or a mobile phone or even a web cam (A web cam is fine as well , but a digital video camera will produce better results ) * A computer with video editing software installed onto it. * A blog. * An RSS feed to "syndicate" your content.
Additional tip - Instead of the microphone built into your camcorder or web cam use a separate microphone so that you will be able to produce a much better sound quality. Yes, that’s it! That’s about all you need to start a vlog!
What about the topic? You can make a video about anything that fancies you, but do pick a topic that you are passionate about ,so that you can continue to make episodes after episodes. Would you like to share your happiness, your talent, your craft ideas, a humorous episode, or maybe even a product that you would like to market? Just ANYTHING as long as it holds the attention of your audience!
You can use a variety of video file types like Windows Media, Quicktime, Real Media and MPEG to make your video. But then, FLV (Flash Video) or SWF (Shockwave Flash) file formats can be viewed by both Mac and PC users .
After you are done with the shooting of your video you can edit it in the Windows Movie Maker software that comes free with windows XP. You will be able to save it only as a Windows Media file (.wmv) but you can convert it with converters like Pazera Free Video to Flash Converter 1.1 to any format you want.
Now that you are done and ready with your video, upload it to your blog and create a RSS feed to syndicate your site. Yes, Done! Voila! You have started your very own video blog!Now you can make money from your vlog just like you would on a regular blog! In course of time you will develop your own style and there is no limit to creativity. Don’t hesitate, just do it! Your video doesn't have to be great, just enough to hold the attention of your viewers! Happy shooting and all the best in your endeavor to make money! :)
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Do you go about clicking away gleefully with your digital camera at everything and anything? And have you by any chance, been a wee bit impressed with all your photos? Then, do consider making money from your hobby! Make your digital camera your money spinning device. Sounds cool? Well it is! Freelance Digital Photography or Stock Photography has so much demand in the internet that you can make a tidy packet with it.Yes, go ahead and give it a shot! You do not need any expensive photography equipment, special printers, special photography training or diplomas for stock photography. Just your passion and your digital camera will do!
What is stock photography? Your photographs are bought by a company and stored in a database. These photographs are then licensed to publishers, advertising agencies, and other companies for their use. There are a many people out there willing to pay for your hobby like newspapers, magazines and book publishers. Even websites , stock photography sites , postcard printers and the travel industry postcard printers require these photos.
All you do need is a:
• Digital camera (minimum of 4 mega pixels) with 3X zoom.
• Access to the internet.
• A Light box.
That's it!
How do you earn money from the photos? First, you upload your digital photos to stock photo sites and whenever someone downloads your photo they pay a royalty to you. You can submit your images to more than one stock agency site and you can earn money with the same photograph all your lifetime! Moreover, you are allowed to sell the same photo a 'number of times'. Thus, each time a person purchases your photo, your royalty will earn money for you.
How to sell your photos successfully:
1. Sign up in Stock Photo Sites:
These stock photography sites will act as an agent to advertise and sell your photos. Register in at least 3 stock sites and make money from those sites at the same time.
2. Learn all about your Digital Camera:
Read and understand the user manual and experiment different modes and techniques with your digital camera. Many professional photographers use simple Point and Click cameras to shoot close-up, macro photos. Set your camera to shoot the highest quality and largest size photos.
3. Find out how to sell your photos:
You should explore and study what kind of pictures sell. Learn how to sell and where to sell. Send only quality photos. Photographs with people are the highest selling stock photos.
Few tips before sending in your photos to photo stock sites:
• Never provide exclusive rights to anyone.
• Refer to the Terms and Conditions of the photo stock agencies.
• Get a Model Release (which is a no-objection certificate) signed from people who pose for your photos.
• All your pictures should be watermarked, so that no one can steal them.
• Make sure that your image is original and truly copyrighted by you.
Don’t be disappointed and frustrated if you are rejected in your early days due to poor quality, or not having commercial value. Don’t quit! Never give up! Keep on practicing! You will be successful in stock photography in no time!
Good luck and start earning!
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The dawn of the digtial camera era has seen the mushrooming of many budding amateur photographers. Yes ,you too can become a photographer and all that it takes for you to become one is a snap! Or maybe a click! Actually many clicks! :) Just snap , click and shoot away as many pictures as possible .Your digital camera does not need film, right? And THAT is a great boon. In course of time you will learn all about lighting, backgrounds and staging your digital photos for better effect that you would become skilled at the subject! Some helpful hints before you submit your photos to photo stock sites: • When you apply, you will have to submit a few sample images. Your photos will be estimated for quality. • Shoot some sample images with bright light and preferably inside a photo light box.
• Always, always upload only the best images.
• Use relevant keywords. If your keyword is bad, your image will not sell or be seen, no matter how good your image is.
• Check out the most in-demand image subjects and do not wast your time uploading the least requested photos.
The 5 top stock photography sites where you can exhibit your photography skill are:
1.Fotolia - http://www.fotolia.com
The ideal files size that Fotolia demand should be at least 2000 x 3000 pixels. for web use and print use
2. Dreamstime - http://www.dreamstime.com/
Dreamstime requires that the images should be at least 3MP in size or more and it must in RGB JPG format only.
3. BigStockPhoto - http://www.bigstockphoto.com/
This site requires you to take a photographer test after studying their tutorial pages. If you get through the test you, then you can upload your photos, which will be reviewed by the editors.
4. iStockPhoto -http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php
iStockPhoto specifies that the images should be in RGB JPG format and a large file. All files should be 1200 x 1600 pixels minimum - anything smaller will be automatically discarded.
5. ShutterStock - http://www.shutterstock.com/
This site has a referral program from which users can earn money. Images must be at least 2.5 megapixel to be accepted and new photographers’ minimum size is 4.0MP.
Two other great websites to consider are crestock.com and StockAndPrints.com.
You make your own inexpensive Light Box at home to take awesome professional photos! You will find a great tutorial here.
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Are you a writer ? Would you like to expand your experience? Would you love to reach out globally?Well then,if so, online writing is just the right option for you! Or perhaps, you always wanted to be a writer but never did know how to go about becoming one. No worries. There are some sites where you can submit your articles and if you can get paid for it, wouldn’t that be gratifying as well? There are many paid to write sites and there are equal number of scam sites as well. You do have to be so very careful not to waste your time with them. These paid to write sites offer cash and not gift cards or prizes. The writing sites generally have the following methods of payments for the articles submitted.
1) One-time payment sites:
Sites like DailyArticle, Constant Content, Textbroker and Demand Studios make a lump sum payment on per article basis.
2) Upfront payment sites:
In Associated Contents and Helium sites, you may get paid upfront payments as well as ‘click money’. Click money is payment for each time someone clicks on your articles.
3) Passive income sites:
These sites either pay a writer based on the page views an article has generated like Triond Suite101, Shvoong or allow writers to display Google Adsense on their articles and take a cut from the revenue earned like Hubpages and GZYN
4) Specialized writing categories sites:
These sites focus on specific topics. At Letter Rep, you'll find only letter writing assignments, Wisebread focuses on finanical issues, Storymash specializes in works of fiction whereas Ground Report and Newsvine deal only in news articles. Payment schemes varies from site to site.
5) Liaison Sites :
Sites like Guru, Elance, Odesk and Get A FreeLancer are not publishing sites but they connect and liaison between writers and publishers. These sites generally take precautions to safeguard both the writers and as well as the publishers from getting cheated. Payments are always on a one time basis unless a writer is able to strike a sort of private arrangement with a publisher.
6) Scam Sites:
There are sites like Academia-research and Essaywriters.net. which are scams.Poetry.com is another scam site which promise that your winning poems will be included in their forthcoming collections and then go about asking for payment to get them published!
Warning: Stay away from sites if they-
• Ask for money
• Don’t pay up their upfront rates.
• Their websites do not exist
• Want you to do a test assignment
• Don’t spell out their requirements
So then, Good luck and Happy Writing!
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Affiliate Advertising is one of the best ways that can help you earn handsome money from your blog. But then, your blog should be sort of established and has some traffic before you can think of monetizing by putting affiliate programs on it. What exactly is Affiliate Advertising? Affiliate advertising is essentially a process where an advertiser either places advertisements or pays a blogger to promote the advertiser’s products or services on the blogger’s site.
There are three main types of affiliate ads:
Pay-per-click -'The advertiser only pays for qualifying clicks to the destination site based on a prearranged per-click rate.'
Pay-per-lead - 'The advertiser only pays for leads generated at their destination site. No payment is made for visitors who don't sign up.'
Pay-per-sale -'The advertiser only pays for sales generated by the destination site based on an agreed upon commission rate. '
All these three affiliate ad types have one thing in common- they are performance based .You earn money only when your readers click on a ad or link or click on a link and purchase the product on the clicked link page. So, if you have more traffic you will have more viewers clicking on the ads in your blog and you will earn more money.
On the other hand, there are a few well-known companies that offer affiliate programs which you can place on your blog irrespective of how well established your blog is.
The following are the three popular ones in this category:
•Amazon: Amazon offers a wide range of ads like text links, banner ads and more. You can also place specific Amazon products to feature on your blog.
•eBay: You have the option to choose from the numerous eBay’s auction and find the precise products that you would like to advertise on your site.
•AllPosters: From AllPosters you have a choice of 400,000 products to advertise on your blog.
Apart from these Affiliate Advertising Programs , there are Affiliate Directories where various online merchants post their affiliate ad opportunities which you can review and apply to host a specific ad on your blog. But then, they will evaluate your blog in terms of popularity and traffic and hence, if your blog is well established then it is more advantageous for you. Dont just jump at the first ad you see and place it on your blog, but do a little research on each affiliate directory to find what suits you and your blog!
A few Popular Affiliate Advertising Directories in this category are:
•Commission Junction
•Associate Programs
•Affiliates Directory
A few tips:
1. Different affiliate programs offer different payments and credibility. Read all the terms and payment options before you sign up.
2. Select ads that are consistent with your blog’s content. If the ads do not go with your content it will be clicked on less frequently.
3. Do not put too many affiliate ads or your blog may look like a spam site. Search engines will mark your site as spam as well.
4. Do not expect huge profits overnight. It takes a while and patience to see results, but then you will reap the benefits soon!
Go ahead and give it a try !
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Are you intimidated by the thought of starting your own blog, believing that they are all so very techno? Are you wondering what to do with all those amazing ideas, craft tips and how-tos that are brimming in your mind? Are you dying to share all your knowledge with the world? Well..well..well.. No worries! You have a wonderful option called Hubpages. What is Hubpages? Hubpages is an online writing community where you can write and publish any article on the internet free of cost and the icing on the cake is that you can earn money off your articles too! Cool! Thus, you can have your cake and eat it too! Let me explain how you money on Hubpages. Hubpages has tied up with Google Adsense, Amazon, Ebay and Kontera and you make money from these sites. It works like this:
•First you sign up for Hubpages by filling out their online form (it takes just a minute to sign up) and create an account.
•Next, you set up your affiliate settings in your account page, by signing up for Google Adsense, Ebay, Kontera and Amazon.
Within a week your account will be approved by these sites and you will be given a code number. Put those code numbers into the appropriate account boxes. Now write your article and publish it.Google Adsense will place ads on your page and when viewers click on the ads, you make money! In the same way, you can place stuff from Amazon and Ebay relating to your content and when people buy the product by clicking from your page you get a commission. Like wise, Kontera will place contextual ads on your article and when people do click on it ,you make money. The revenue is split between you and the Hubpages site. You take 60% and the other 40% revenue goes to Hubpages. So, actually Hubpages is a revenue sharing site for writers, which splits and shares its advertising income with its members. Now how cool is that?
Thus, HubPages offers you the opportunity to make money without any financial investment from your part. But then, you do have to invest in writing good original articles and of course a good command over the language and grammar is a must!
Also do remember that the article you put up on each page is an individual webpage called the Hub. So, there is no need for you to know fancy web designing, Html and so on and so forth to create a webpage! Well, are ready to join Hubpages and start making money?
Maybe you would like to Take a Tour first? More over it's free to Join Hubpages.Click here to Take a tour or click here to Join Hubpages for free. :)
Note:
Step by step instructions to join Hubpages will follow soon!
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Money, dough, green jack or whatever that crumpled piece of paper in your wallet is known as, it does make our world go round! So now that you are familiar with the basics of computer and have started browsing away happily..why not consider making money on the internet as well? Yes, there are countless ways to go about making money with your computer and on the internet. Is it easy? Of course it is..but remember a golden rule, ‘Never spend money to make money.’ At least for a beginner! There are umpteen spam sites that will offer you 'get rich quick’, ‘make $1000 a day’ schemes and so on and so forth. But,do keep in mind that there is never instant money anywhere-on the internet or elsewhere .You have to work step by step to build up your base and money will just trickle in at first and then maybe a little reasonable amount, as you get the hang of it! You do need enormous hard work and patience .Hence, your financial investment should be zero where as your real investment should be hard work ,effort, patience and time.
“Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.”- Owen Laughlin
The advantages of making money online:
• You will have a sense of achievement
• It will build up your self confidence
• Keeps your mind active
• You become more and more innovative
• You will discover many different ways to make more money
Finally you become a pro! Money pours in!
You cannot make money by building an internet company, but you have to use the internet as a tool to create value and get paid for it.
The opportunities and the list are endless-which we will be dealing in the following posts. Just go for it! Yes, that’s it!
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For those who are just taking the plunge into the world of internet, in course of time something is bound to happen! You will feel the urge to try out and earn some money without investment from the internet. After all, that’s what you keep reading all over the net about how so many people have turned billionaires overnight and how to make $100 a day and other get rich schemes. Well, of course you should most definitely give a try to make money on the net! According to me, I would recommend two ways to earn money on the net for beginners. 1. Get paid to do surveys.2. Get paid to read emails.
There are many, many paid to read email sites and paid to survey sites out there .You have to be careful tho’ as there are more scam sites than legitimate sites. How do you check out which are the genuine sites? Well, there are a couple of sites that help you in determining the paying and the scam sites. Check out both sites before signing up for the paid to read email.
1. Beenpaid.com - gives you a list of sites that are paying.
2. GPTboycott.com - lists sites that are known scams.
Here’s a small tip about evaluating good get paid to read email sites. First do check out their minimum payout level- that is, the amount of money you should earn before they pay you up. If the minimum payout level is like a $20 or more, just do not even think about signing up with them. Usually, most of these sites with high payout levels, have no intention on paying up their members. When people get close to the target payment, they just disappear. Anyway, in case you would like to give it a try, there are certain legitimate sites with very low payout level such as $1 or less or maybe even a no minimum payout level! Then there is a chance of you getting paid every month. For instance, Quick Rewards has no minimum payout level.
In the same manner, there are many scammers as well with the paid survey sites too. But then, there are many good sites and you do not have to pay money to do them. If you come across a site which demands a fee to join the so called survey site, then just forget them.
Here are a few websites that have allow you to earn some money without making an investment.
1. Survey Spot (www.surveyspot.com)
2. Global Test Market (www.globaltestmarket.com)
3. Zoom panel (www.zoompanel.com)
These sites pay the money to your PayPal account and you can withdraw your amount from your Paypal account. Dont have a Paypal account? You can sign up from here.
Nowadays, these sites reward you with sweepstakes entries and points. Hence ,my personal opinion would be to start a blog or website to make money!
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