Wierd
Get paid to play WarCraft?
Jul 13th
This may sound a little silly to most of you but this idea has been around for quite a while and am always a big fan of ideas that have been proven. Gold farming is something that most of you probably not have heard of but essentially it involves collecting items and tokens inside popular online games such as warcraft and everquest which he then sell on later to play as either don’t want to or don’t have the time to collect the items themselves.
The activity is very popular in developing countries such as China where they pay large numbers of people to save online all day completing menial tasks inside the game. I have to admit it doesn’t sound like much fun but then again if you do you like these kind of games then it could be an easy way to make some extra cash as they are only growing more and more in popularity.
One point to note though is that the game makers are often very reluctant to have these kinds of players online after all they are not actively participating in the spirit of the game. Still it may be worth a look…
Does anyone make money off Youtube?
Jul 13th
One thing I wanted to talk about today is that it is possible to make money from the popular video sharing website YouTube. Now making money may not be the first thing that pops into your head when you think about the visiting this site but with the right skills is very possible. YouTube recently opened a partner program where they pay you a percentage of all advertising revenue on your video page. It’s worth noting over the internal YouTube’s traffic is not high value due to the demographics involved. However at the same time it is possible to get huge amount of visitors to certain videos if they go viral.
I suppose the main point to note is that your video needs to have a kind of snowball effect on people keep passing on to their friends and eventually you have the top 100 are so videos or even make the homepage. The key as you can guess is volume because of the low quality of traffic. One problem that some people may have is getting the video off the ground i.e. that 1000 are so initial views. One way to overcome this may be to pay for the initial traffic that you receive. I’ve never used this kind of service myself but I have heard that you can purchase up to 10,000 initial views are quite cheaply. Have any of you guys tried this out? If so let me know how it goes.