May 17, 2012

Make Money with YouTube

If you are like me then you spend a good amount of time watching YouTube. I actually spend too much time on Youtube and I should be using some of that time to make money. Well it seems as if I could do both at the same time. Many online marketing people have been talking about using YouTube to generate traffic for a while, but I’ve never gotten into it since it appears that the conversions for traffic or not all that good. Well the traffic may not be the only way to monetize Youtube any longer. This has been available for a while and many of you may even be members. You can add Adsense to your Youtube account and make a share of the ad impressions served on the site. So if you create a video which is getting a lot of views then why not ad your adsense to it and see if you can make a few extra bucks. Some people are doing very well with this. You don’t hear a lot about people making big money online with Adsense anymore at least people who are don’t talk about it. I do okay with Adsense still on several sites, but nowhere near the level as what the people in this article are doing. Perhaps I need to look at this a little more and see how I too can make 20K per month on youtube.

I’ve actually seen the Mean Kitty song on youtube prior to reading the NyTimes article on this. I knew the mean kitty video was popular, but I had not idea how much money he was making off a spoof such as this. I hope he bought that cat something for all the money the kitty made him on YouTube.com. Its the least he could do.

One thing that interested me on this is that my kid has really been into creating videos lately. He took a class and has gotten really interested in creating videos. He has not done a lot yet, but he is starting to post them on Youtube just for fun. The only thing he asked for at Christmas was a  new video camera so he could create more vids. I mentioned the NyTimes article on making money form Youtube and that really peaked his interest. It peaked mine too as I can help him in this area and possibly even help myself at this time. Now he wants some good video editing software. They used the built in tools for Mac at school, but I told him I’ll picked him up a version of Adobe Premier or Pinnacle if you wants a copy to edit his videos for Youtube with. I’ve never done much video editing stuff so I’m not really sure which is best. Of course I know some guys who are pretty good at editing videos. They do it professionally for a living and even teach college classes on how to do this. They mostly use Macs for their video editing activities, but I’m sure they can make a recommendation for some good software which will run on Windows too. So if you are thinking of making money online and you have a vivid imagination, then perhaps you should look at making money with youtube.

Mean Kitty YouTube Video:

WordPress 2.7 Coltrane

I was just taking a look at the new version of wordpress, Coltrane, and it looks pretty cool. WordPress is really making a lot of progress through the past few versions. I’ve been a fan of WordPress for a long time and its pretty much my platform of choice for building websites of all types. While WordPress is designed as a blog platform, with the right plugins it functions just fine as a content management system. Many people are starting to use WordPress in all sorts of ways which are very far from what you would call a blog. Regardless of how you use it, its a great platform and can really help you manage your web presence.

Best blogging tools

I’ve been neglecting this blog for a while but I had a good reason. This is always been a hobby to me and not something I really used to earn money but that’s about to change one thing that I’m going to do to make my life a little easier is to use Dragon Naturally Speaking in conjunction with live writer for my blogging activities I’ve tried Dragon Naturally Speaking prior to version 10. But I was never able to train it to my voice. Version 10 of Dragon Naturally Speaking is a little different. I just got it last night installed on my computer. My hopes were not high for Dragon Naturally Speaking as with version 8 I was never able to have it understand me with any level of accuracy. Well version 10 is a lot different.

 

At the moment I am using Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10 to type this blog post. While it does make some mistakes he does understand what I’m saying for the most part. The cool part about this is that typing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a lot faster than typing normally. This is one of the reasons I have not really kept up with a site like I should have. I just don’t have the time to keep up with this site because it does not a lot of money and as a result I spend my time on other tasks which do earn me money. But with the increased time I say by using this software then perhaps I can keep up with this site as well as my many others. I’ve never been a fast typist and I’ve always wanted to improve my speed but typing fast is just not in my abilities talking fast is another story. While it may take get some getting used to as I realize I do not tie the same as I speak and it does make some mistakes which I must correct. The four were some instances and as I get used to it I should do a better job and things should flow better.

Of course Dragon Naturally Speaking is not going to help with SEO. So, I will still be forced to utilize my keyboard to perform SEO type tasks. Right now I’m looking at probably 80% accuracy rate as I speak this blog post. Which is not really really bad. The one thing is a kind of messes me up with my flow of writing in this post does not seem like a normal blog post from me. But regardless perhaps I will give it a shot anyway as this is really helping my speed with typing a blog post. Right now I spent less than five minutes on this blog post and from looking at it I have a couple hundred words maybe 250. At this rate I can probably speak blog post a lot faster than I can actually write them. Of course it means my process for writing blog posts will need to change I will need to put it in my heated prior to actually starting to speak the blog post. Well this is all for now I just want to see how this would work out and it looks okay I’m have to do a little editing to this post and I may change a couple worked around here and there but for the most part I’m very please with Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10. So what blogging tools do you use have you considered? Dragon Naturally Speaking it may be worth the money no matter what your accent I have a South Georgia accent and it understands me just fine now. Of course this was not always true with version 8 it was a total disaster. But version 10 is definitely an upgrade.