Make Money Uploading Youtube Videos
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Youtube started a new program this month where you can make money when you upload your videos. The program, called the "partner program," will give you a share of the money from ads that are featured on your video.
The reason Youtube is doing this is because they're legally not allowed to put advertising on copyrighted-content. To put ads on a video they first have to get permission from the copyright holder. Therefore, by entering the partner program, you give them permission to put ads on your video and they will give you a share of the money that's made.
Here is an example of the ads that appear on partner videos (its the text at the bottom):
Since Youtube videos have the potential to reach millions of viewers this can be very lucrative for the big names on Youtube. It may also be a good reason to take out your camera and start using Youtube if you haven't already.
Here are the requirements for the program:
- You must own the copyrights and distribution rights for all videos you upload.
- You must regularly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of Youtube users.
- You must live in the US or Canada.
Posted by Crystal 6:05 PM 8 comments
Labels: pictures and video
How to Sell News Images Online
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
To be a freelance photojournalist you need to have a lot of luck. You have to be in the right place at the right time when breaking news happens. If you have the opportunity to get pictures of a breaking news event or pictures of celebrities you will probably want to sell them.
There are two places online that you can sell your news pictures for money:
Citizen Image is a site that sells news images directly to major newspapers and magazines. You can upload your pictures straight from your camera phone or through e-mail. After you do that they state that they will push your images on news outlets and try to help you get your images sold. Here is a list of the sales channels they push your photography to.
If your image sells they pay 50% of the final selling price to you through paypal. Their entire service is free and you never have to pay hosting or uploading fees.
Spy Media is similar to Citizen Image. They also push your pictures on major media outlets and try to help you get your photography sold. Unlike Citizen Image, which has set prices on images depending on their size, Spy Media allows you to sell them for whatever price you want.
Other than pictures of celebrities and news events you can also sell recent sports photography, so don't forget to bring your camera with you to sporting events.
Even though it takes a lot of luck to be successful in this line of work, it's a great opportunity to make money and get exposure for your photography.
Posted by Crystal 4:46 PM 1 comments
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Upload Vidoes for $10
Friday, November 9, 2007
The site Funniest Stuff on the Net is giving away $10 to people who send in funny videos. According to the site:
This almost sounds too good to be true, but there's hardly anything to lose. If they don't pay, you won't lose rights to the video so you can just post it on a revenue-sharing video site. If they do, hey, thats the easiest 10 bucks ever. I'm going to try this soon and I'll let you know how it goes.This is not a contest, but a request for public submissions of video content.
For each video we receive and utilize on our site and newsletter, you will receive a $10 credit via PayPal's payment service. By submitting content you agree that you are ok with us using your name associated to the content unless you specifically request an alternative. [link]
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10 Funnest Ways to Make Money Online
Saturday, September 29, 2007
1. Blogging
Blogging is one of the best ways to make money online because you are part of a community. If you're good at what you do you can gain credibility and be recognized for your blogging across the internet. For instance, you probably recognize the picture above and the blog associated with it.
Along with gaining credibility there is also the potential to make a lot of money. Peter Cashmore, founder of Mashable, is reported to make $166,000 a month, all from the one blog.
If you are new to blogging and interested in making money you should check out the blogs Shoemoney and Problogger. These blogs have a lot of tips for beginners on how to make money and get traffic.
2. Create Your own Second Life Store
I'll admit it, I'm a recovering Second Life addict. Second Life can be a lot of fun, it will make you want to spend hours there. If you haven't heard of Second Life, its a virtual game where people can do pretty much everything they do in real life, including shop, which there is a lot of.
According to the SL website, there has been $1,265,653 USD spent on Second Life in the past 24 hours. This money is spent on virtual clothes, cars, even guns, which individual shop owners make and sell. There's less risk here then owning your own real-life business, but it can be just as fruitful and a lot of fun. [Read More]
3. Share Your Videos
There are sites that will pay you a share of their profits to share your videos on their website. A good video has the potential to earn you thousands of dollars - just think about how much Chris Crocker would have made if his videos were on a profit-sharing website. The videos don't have to be professionally done, just look at most of the videos on Youtube. People actually prefer amateur videos. If you like being in the spotlight this can be one of the funnest ways to make money online.
4. Share Your Pictures
Sharing pictures online is something people do every day - why not get paid for it? There are dozens of sites that are offering a revenue share for the page views that your pictures get. If you spend time on Flickr you should consider opening an account on a profit-sharing photo site. You can still have your pictures on both sites while making money on one.
A great thing about making money on these sites is that it can be a passive income. You can put your pictures up on a site, and as long as they get page views you will make money, even if you don't return for months. Some of the picture-sharing sites are pretty fun and will have you wanting to return, though.
5. Try Your Luck on Moola
Moola is an internet game site like no other. They give you a penny when you sign up that you can double by playing a game against another player. You keep doubling your money every time you win a game. You can cash out after you win $10, or you can play for the grand prize of $1,000,000. Its free to try and its super addicting.
6. Network With Friends
Since revenue-sharing sites have blown up this year, there are now a handful of sites that will pay you to do the same thing you do on Myspace. The most popular one is Dada - which pays you to chat, upload your pictures, and refer your friends.
If Dada's not for you, you should check out Mylot, Gather, and Squidoo. With so many options there's bound to be one that you will enjoy.
7. Play Guitar
You can earn extra cash by uploading your videos on Guitarvids.net. You can put up videos of you and your band, or make guitar instruction videos. Whatever you do this is probably one of the easiest and funnest ways to make money online if you're a guitar player. [Read More]
8. Design T-Shirts
Getting paid for your original designs is probably one of the most rewarding ways to make a living. There are three major websites that you can sell your t-shirt designs through for free. You can also sell your designs on aprons, calenders, and bumper stickers. If you love to design clothes and merchandise but hate sales, consider entering a t-shirt design contest instead.
9. Post on Forums
Posting on forums is one of the fastest and easiest ways to make money online. Granted, the pay isn't that great, but it may pay your water bill, and you'll have fun while doing it.
Check out my post where I review paying forums, or you can learn how to become a full-time forum writer.
10. Give Advice
If you are knowledgeable in any area there are places online where you can give advice to people who need it. There are few things that are funner than giving your opinions on topics you care about - and you don't need an advanced degree to do it. You can give dating advice, tips on gardening, even gift-giving suggestions. You can get paid an hourly rate, anywhere from $6-$20 to give advice over the phone, through e-mail, or through web chat. [Read More]
Making money through blogging and other online means is a great way to earn some cash to pay off those credit cards debts. Next time you get one of those offers for cash back credit cards or low interest, high reward business credit card offers, consider using the money you make online to pay them off so you won't be in debt.
Posted by Crystal 1:25 PM 19 comments
Labels: networking, pictures and video, writing
Make Money With Dada's Friend$ Benefits
Monday, September 10, 2007
Dada.net is a social networking site with thousands of blogs, videos, and pictures. In March of this year they partnered with Google adsense to offer 50% revenue share for ads clicked on users profiles and blogs.
With Dada's "Friend$" program, you also receive a percentage of revenue from your friend's pages and clicks.
There isn't a way yet to make good income on revenue sharing sites, but this may be one step closer to accomplishing that. On many other networking sites you only make money when you post comments or update your blog, whereas Dada's Friend$ system can be a passive income source. If you enjoy social networking this is probably one of the best and it doesn't hurt to make a few extra bucks a long the way.
Everyone's looking for a great way to make free money. If you're thinking about starting your own business, there is plenty of money for women entrepreneurs and businessmen. Or, if you haven't been careful about saving in your 401K, you can get money for retirement!
Posted by Crystal 10:17 PM 3 comments
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Embedding a Fortune
Friday, August 17, 2007
You can embed videos and earn extra money on your blog and social networking sites.
The News Room has news videos that you can embed into your site. They pay $4 per thousand impressions (CPM). They also pay an extra $.15 CPM if someone embeds the video from your site onto their site. You can search The News Room for relevant content for your site. You can also embed pictures from their site for $1 CPM.
One thing I like about The News Room is that the codes also work for sites such as Myspace, Facebook, and Me.com. This is a great way to monetize every site you spend time on. You can put the code in your profile and in comments.
Revver pays 60% of the total profit if you upload your own video and share it. This is great for people who already have videos on sites like Youtube. You can transfer your videos to Revver and get paid every time someone views your video.
Even if you don't have your own videos you can make 20% of the total profit just by sharing a video.
Right now I average about 3,000 page views on Myspace a month, which is an extra $12 a month or $144 a year just for embedding a video from The News Room on my page. This is a pretty easy way to make some extra money. I'm not sure if this is against Myspace's terms or not, so be careful if you try to do this.
Posted by Crystal 6:33 PM 3 comments
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Social Networking For Money
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Gather.com is a free site where you earn points for posting comments, posting pictures, making groups, and inviting friends. It's just like any other social networking site except it pays you money. Currently each point is worth .02 cents. The amount of points you receive for each activity depends on the popularity of your posts. Right now they have a promotion where you can get a $20 gift card just for getting 5 friends to sign up.
Your points are redeemable for gift cards unless you get over $50. If you get over $50 you can redeem them for cash via paypal.
A writer on Associated Content wrote an article saying that after creating an avatar, making a group, and posting three articles she had already written she had over 200 points when she checked her account the following day. It took her about an hour to do, and the points keep accumulating as long as her group and articles receive traffic.
Gather is also surprisingly easy to use. The layout looks clean, it's easy to navigate, and it loads fast. Earning points definitely doesn't feel like hard work on the site.
Posted by Crystal 2:53 PM 5 comments
Labels: networking, pictures and video
Play Guitar Online For Money
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Guitarvids.net is a site with free guitar instruction videos.
Guitar vids allows you to put your own ads up on the page with your instructional video. You can put up anything - from adsense, to an affiliate program, or even a banner for your own site. You keep all the profits you generate from the clicks on your ads.
Right now their Alexa ranking isn't great (120,000) but they just started in December 2006, so they have been growing pretty quickly.
I think this site is a good idea and I expect it's traffic to keep growing. Since it is new this is probably a great time to post your videos. They don't have a lot of videos up yet so by posting just a few videos you can receive a lot of exposure. I have seen some videos on the site which have over 10,000 views. This also seems like a fun way to earn some extra money.
This is their page that explains how you make money on their site:
http://www.guitarvids.net/?id=206
Posted by Crystal 4:46 PM 2 comments
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Make Money For Your Pictures
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Vume
Vume (pronounced view-me) offers an ad revenue-share for pictures uploaded on their site. The pictures have to be 100% created by you. The upside to using Vume is it offers you a lot more exposure with their easy interface. The style of the website is much cleaner than some other sites offering the same service. The downside is that Vume is ranked 57,000 on Alexa, which is low in comparison to the others. They have only been around since April 2007 so they may see a lot of growth in the upcoming year.
Share-a-Pic
Share-a-Pic lets you put your own adsense on your galleries which means you keep the profits from the clicks. They are also ranked higher - 2,700. The downside is that the layout is horrible. There are annoying pop-ups and there are no member profiles or comment options. To use the forums you have to have at least 5 successful galleries. I'm guessing this is to keep the people who haven't made money from scaring off new users. Here is their 90's looking public gallery:
My suggestion is to link your galleries to your myspace, blogs, and other sites if you want to make money with this site.
Flixya
It has similar features to vume only with more traffic. There are comment options, member profiles, and rating systems for the pictures. You put your own adsense on the site, which means 100% revenue. The only downside is flixya also has their own ads up so the site tends to look flooded with ads.
Places to sell your photography
Royalty-free stock photography sites are the easiest ways to sell your photos on the web. Many web designers use their services. These are the three most popular sites that are hiring photographers:
Shutterstock
Buyers subscribe for a period of time and get unlimited downloads.
IStockPhoto
Photo prices range from $1-$15. Photographers make 20% of the profit.
Fotolia
Photo prices range from $1-$3. Photographers make from 33%-80%, depending on their rank
More information about stock photography is available at photosecrets.com
Posted by Crystal 10:01 PM 10 comments
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Get Paid for Video Sharing
Friday, July 6, 2007
To compete with youtube, there are sites that offer money to people who want to upload videos. Most of them allow you to make money with the embedded video you put on your blog, myspace, etc. Here are a few:
Revver
Revver inserts advertisements at the end of each video. They pay you 50% of the revenue from your video hits. If you share some one else's video and they get hits, you get 20% of the revenue for sharing the video, even if you didn't upload it.
Vume
Used to be eloof.com. They offer a revenue share for ads clicked on your video page. You can also upload blogs, pictures, and audio.
Lulu
"Get played, get paid"
MetaCafe
"Metacafe will pay you $5 for every thousand views your video gets on our site. Payment starts after your video reaches 20,000 views and has a rating of 3.00 or higher - which tells us that the viewers like the video. On top of that, the license to Metacafe is a non-exclusive deal - you retain ownership of your video. Metacafe helps build your brand by marketing your content and making you money.
What's the potential?
With well over 1 million unique users per day watching over 400 million videos every month, Metacafe is perfectly placed to deliver the most receptive audience to the most entertaining content. Whether it's something spontaneous in your home or something you've scripted, if it entertains, it has a place on Metacafe."
Any way you get an increase in income will help you get better credit. Avoiding unnecessary credit card offers and paying off your business and student credit cards can also help you raise your credit score. If you are able to control your spending, you'll never have to get credit cards for bad credit again!
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