The myth of the Starving Artist persists even today. The idea that artists like those who write for a living cannot do their best work if they are financially motivated. Artists who make a lot of money are often deemed as Sellouts and their work are deemed inferior to their poorly paid counterparts...
People have been making money from taking photographs of people, objects, places and so on. These are usually full-time or freelance photographers who work for companies where photographs are an essential products in their business. These companies can be news, books and magazine publishers down to wedding planning agencies and so on...
Anyone can make money in Youtube even with limited equipment such as just a mobile phone to example record blogs. Anything can be your video subject matter. You can for example just record a video of your pet going about its normal activity and if enough people like your video then you can earn money...
Affiliate Marketing and Referral Marketing are similar in that in both you get paid a commission when you endorse a product of a company and then the person you endorsed to buys the product of the company you are endorsing...
Affiliate networks act as the middleman between the merchant who wants his products to be endorsed by an affiliate marketer and the affiliate marketers themselves. They ensure that you the affiliate marketer is paid by the merchant whenever your client/follower buys their product...
There is money to be made by being a social media personality. In the business of social media your life and everything about you is the product. Your face, body, the clothes you wear, the cars you drive, the house you live in, what you eat, the places you go to, relationships like family, partner & friends, your ideas, your thoughts and so on are all sellable products...
Almost everyone owns at least 1 mobile phone. Each mobile phone has many software applications both created by the companies who made the mobile phone and those created by 3rd party software developers. They are more commonly known as “Apps” and they now number by the millions...
Electronic video games are big business especially the mobile gaming industry. The Newzoo website has an interesting article titled The World’s 2.7 Billion Gamers Will Spend $159.3 Billion on Games in 2020; The Market Will Surpass $200 Billion by 2023. As the title suggests electronic gaming is growing exponentially...
This is probably the most complex thing to undertake in earning online income. This is because you need to handle physical products. Physical activities such as ordering, receiving, storing, sorting, packing and delivery of your products are all involved. You also need supplies and equipments to handle your physical products as well as space to store and pack your...
What is online market research? As the name suggests it is a research conducted online about a specific market. The research may be for example to understand the buying behaviour of a certain market or a group of people for the company to know how to better sell their product to them...
What is industry analysis? It is the analysis of the economic, social, political and other factors that affect the people, groups and companies in this industry. It specifies the performance and outlook of the industry and the many companies in it...
Computers have existed way longer that mobile phones. This is the reason why websites have existed way longer than mobile apps. For example Facebook began as a website and then later after a few years passed...
There are many aspiring online writers who want to generate an online presence as early as possible because Google for example takes time to find and index their articles which could take months. Many try to write articles daily because their strategy is to find out which particular subjects will become popular so they can write more of it and get more popular...
I now write 2 articles a day consisting of about 1000 words each. At first it took me almost an entire day to write a single 500 word article. If I add the research I do to be able to write the article then to write a single article would take me more than 1 day. I knew then that if I do not become faster in writing articles I would not have time to do anything else...
Websites are just like any software and therefore have value. The 2 main commercially valuable parts of a website are its domain name and the actual website content itself...
The short answer is: NO! You cannot prevent your website from being copied. Your website is in its basic form an idea that is publicly displayed online and available to anyone with internet access. Your purpose for creating your website is to spread your idea to a global audience as much as possible and restricting access to it from anyone defeats its purpose...
There are many ways you can promote your business online. Of course everyone wants to maximise their presence online to have maximum reach to potential contacts which could turn into clients. If however you have limited staff and especially if you work on your business alone then you cannot possibly have enough time to take care of your online business presence...
Many people play video games for fun and is a very popular entertainment for many especially the young. But if one is serious enough they can also earn money from it with a little more effort than just playing the video games. Many people for example are entertained by watching other people play video games and entertainment is a marketable product...
Knowledge is defined as the information a person acquires from real world experience. This comprises many things like ones education, skills learned, things observed and thought of and so on. Knowledge can broadly be defined as everything a person knows about everything they learned from...
Starting any business can be very daunting especially if you have to put in a lot of capital to get it started. For example starting even a small Hotdog concession stand business can cost you thousands. You have to buy the equipments, pay for the permits to operate and of course you have to buy your hotdogs and all the other necessary ingredients...