YouTuber’s Making Money

Thanks to @brainopera for this tip.

The New York Times has an interesting post on YouTuber’s making money from their videos.

While most people are just happy to watch videos on YouTube, some have embraced the medium to carve out successful niches, earning six figure incomes from their endeavors. Take Michael Buckley; who quit his day job in September and now concentrates his efforts on his YouTube WhatTheBuckShow. Moving from a public access channel, Buckley’s show has had 100 million views on YouTube.

Like others, he has become a YouTube ‘partner’. A spokesmen said there are hundreds of YouTube partners making thousands of dollars a month. Buckley himself is making over $100,000 per year from his show.

Another YouTuber cashing in is Cory Williams, known as smpfilms on YouTube, has had one of his videos viewed more than 15 million times. Williams, who has 180,000 subscribers to his videos is earning between $17,000 to $20,000 per month.

What is particularly interesting in his case is the fact that he earns half of his income from YouTube advertisements, with the other half coming from sponsorship and product placements within his videos.

Product placements are traditionally a feature of movies and television shows; have you ever noticed Apple computers in movies and television shows?

Go and take a look at what these two are doing and see if you get inspired to create your own channel and be on your way to online fame and fortune.

WordPress 2.7 Review

Earlier today, I uploaded and installed WordPress 2.7 Coltrane. This is my first post with the new and from appearances and features, greatly improved WordPress.

As usual (for me anyway), the upgrade was a painless process. It was actually quicker than the last one I did a few weeks ago.

The first thing you will notice is the completely new interface. The developers have spent a lot of time listening and have made usability improvements in every area.

Dashboard

When you login, you are greeted by a completely new Dashboard. In the upper right corner of the screen is a ‘Screen Options. button that allows you to select the options to display in your dashboard by checking or unchecking the various modules.

Another cool feature is the ability to move the items in your dashboard into different positions that suit your workflow. It is a simple matter of grabbing the top of each modules window and dragging it to your position of choice. Now you have complete control of the features you want and the location of them on your screen.

Vertical Menus

One of the most prominent new features is the inclusion of vertical menus. This is a great improvement, as navigation is greatly simplified, with each section using Ajax to display a list of options for you to click.

This provides a major speed improvement, as it means you have far less screen loads to get to the section you want to edit. As an example, the Appearance menu option already has the current theme listed, making it possible to go directly to the theme options in one click.

Top level navigation items are Media, Links, Pages, Comments, Appearance, Plugins, USers, Tools and Settings. If you prefer not to have the vertical menu taking up valuable screen space, you have the otpion to minimise it to the side. Mousing over each icon provides the menu item subset. A very nice feature.

Plugins

Plugin management just got a whole lot better, with the ability to search for plugins directly from the dashboard. Do a search for a specific term, such as twitter and you get a rated list of the available plugins from the WordPress plugin repository.

Installation can now be done directly from the dashboard; you no longer have to FTP your plugin files to the server. This is another great improvement for those new to the technology.

Likewise, future upgrades of WordPress itself can be done in the same manner, so no more uploading and overwriting files.

Threaded Comments

Threaded comments is a welcome addition to the core functionality of WordPress. Many blogs already have the feature via plugins and services such as Disqus. I personally use Disqus on another blog, so this will give me a chance to compare that over the inbuilt system.

Sticky Posts

Another little feature that people have been requesting for a long time, is the ability to make a post ’sticky’, i.e. keep it on the home page no matter how old it is. Making a post ’sticky’ is just a matter of checking the box.

Take a look at the video below and then go ahead and try it yourself. As with all things though, be sure to make backups, just in case you have some problems…..

Make Easy Online Money

Make Easy Online Money. That is a claim made by many online affiliate programs, but only delivered by some. Below is an honest review of one such program, what you have to do to make easy online money with it and whether it actually delivers on its claim.

Blogging to the Bank 3.0

As nearly everyone who uses the Internet is aware, blogging is huge, with over 200 million online. But how many of the people behind those blogs are trying to make money with them; and out of the ones that are blogging for money, how many are actually making anything beyond a few dollars?

While I can rattle off a few names of people using blogging to make money, the majority are not making what you would call massive amounts. Sure, some of them are doing better than average, but only a very few are approaching real wealth from it.

Rob Benwell, the person behind Blogging to the Bank 3.0 is one of the few exceptions. Rob has made over a million dollars using blogs. Rob first wrote about his technique in 2006 and, as the Internet moves very quickly, techniques need to change to keep up, hence the rewrite and new release of Blogging to the Bank.

For those who don’t know Rob’s story, here is a quick summation:

Back in 2005 he was struggling to make any profit online, had dropped out of college and was getting deep into debt. He was trying all the techniques the gurus tell you and wasn’t getting anywhere fast. All of that went in the bin and he started using his own techniques and started making more and more money using simple blogs. In early 2006 he shared this with the world and had a great ebook called blogging to the bank. Tons of people got rich from using these techniques. He then spoke at Online Marketing Legend Yanik Silver’s underground Seminar where he revealed even more of his underground strategies. Then July 2007 he released Blogging to the Bank 2.0 which showed users his new methods to creating online wealth using blogs. In total both versions have been read by over 50,000 people across the world.

Blogging to the Bank 3.0 is a completely revised version of the previous offerings, covering all the new techniques Rob uses to maintain his blogging riches. Blogging To The Bank 3.0 teaches you Robs new step by step blueprint to creating highly profitable long term niche blogs using the newest optimization techniques. There’s even a section on advanced Search Engine Optimization, which he makes easy to understand. You wont have to wade through pages and pages of detail and come out none the wiser. It really is explained well and in plain English.

So what is his secret?

Basically, the technique Rob applies is very similar to one I use myself. Rather than going for a single blog and slowly building credibility and a following over time, he uses a multiple blog approach, building blogs in several areas and leveraging them for money.

Once you know the strategies, the system is quite mechanical and involves:

• Build your blog.
• Produce content for the blog.
• Market your blog to build traffic.
• Monetize your blog with adsense, advertising and affiliate programs.
• Rinse and repeat.

That is essentially what Rob does, but in order to make it work, you need to know how to do each detail correctly and follow each step. Blogging to the Bank 3.0 explains each step and guides you exactly through what you need to do in order to start earning a huge income.

In truth, you can honestly start earning money very quickly by following these techniques and once you have built one site, which should only take a half hour at the most, you can move onto the next and so on.

I can actually vouch for these techniques. As I said, I do something very similar myself and wish I had this book to guide me when I got started. I had to stumble my way through like Rob did before I found this way of doing things.

The other great thing with this type of program is that once you have setup one site, you can bascially forget about it and move onto the next. Each one will bring in passive income, without you having to nurture them or anything else. Once built, it really is a case of set and forget. The more streams you have coming in, the more money you can make.

To give you an idea, say you have one blog that you slave over and count the 50 cents a day you make from google via adsense. How about having 100 blogs that you write on once that get an averaged earning of $5 a day, without having to do anything. And this is conservative. I bet you can see the potential now.

If you are serious about getting on your way to wealth and making easy money online, you really should get Blogging to the Bank 3.0.