Consider Making Money with Advertising

My new mantra is ‘We are all brands’. No matter what you are doing online the best way to sell things is to create content around your product (or an affiliate product). This could be live streaming videos on Ustream.tv, videos on youtube, blog posts, twitter, articles and so on. If you’re thinking of just sending traffic to offers directly without adding any value than chances are you won’t be very successful.

Just like sports athletes and actors you are a brand but at a much smaller level of course. Sponsors often want to attach their products to the famous people’s brand. With people online there are tons of ‘content experts’ in all sorts of niches which is attractive to advertisers.

So the two main ways to make money are to sell products (yours or others) and advertising. While programs like Google Adsense haven’t been that lucrative (except for my YouTube videos), there are new exciting models such as Sponsored Tweets and Ad.ly. I know a guy in British Columbia, Canada who just got paid $1000 for one tweet!