Create Compelling Content
The secret to making money on the web isn’t all that secret. You need to have something to say that people wanna hear, or see, or read or whatever.
Now don’t get me wrong, I make no claims that my content is compelling or in any other way worth your time. I just spout stuff that’s taking up valuable synapse space in my brain, primarily just to get it the hell out of there.
Even so, it turns out I make ok money each month just by putting the thoughts in my head in web form.
People come, they read, watch or otherwise amuse themselves (I’m not about to speculate on that part), and somehow, money makes it into my PayPal account each month. I just checked the balance, something I don’t do very often, and found over $1,500 in there.
Imagine that. From my synapses to my bank account. Money, it turns out, doesn’t grow on trees, you just have to think and out it comes. There’s probably a close correlation to the quality of synapses versus dollars earned, but I’m too busy thinking to do the math.
In fact, now that I think of it, I make ALL of my money by thinking. People pay me money to sit around all day and think. Not a bad way to live when you think about it (heh, heh. How many times can I write think in a paragraph? Thinkthinkthinkthink….thought! There, that wasn’t so bad, but it did hurt a little).
Why am I telling you this? I just received an offer to become a YouTube partner. I guess because I have over 2,000 subscribers to my channel, one that hasn’t seen me log in since October. The irony here is they all think I’m dead (these are comments from my channel):
As a close friend of Tony’s i have to inform you that Tony is currently is in hospital suffering from cancer
No, sorry. And for the record, I have no idea who that guy is.
The man is not dead you dopes! He just hasn’t logged on to youtube in 4 months
Same thing.
Guys, stop making fucking retarded assumptions, hes not dead and hes not suffering from cancer you liar, hes still blogging on astronomybuff
Funny, I say that all the time to my colleagues. Weird.
Yeah baby. AstronomyBuff.com. Welcome space fans, what took you sooooo long?
So, more riches are on the way. What do I have to do to get it? From YouTube:
All you need to do is create compelling video content.
Oh. Godammit.
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This is completely unrelated to anything, but anyway.
I’m really interested in astronomy, but it seems that a lot of other people are too, so my question is are there a lot of jobs in astronomy.
:)
LOL…One of those comments you quoted are mine =)
I’m sorry if you didn’t appreciate my comment (”The man isn’t dead you dopes…). I just got tired of people leaving R.I.P. messages on your profile…it was annoying!
(is mine…not are mine)…Don’t you hate grammatical errors that you can’t edit! =(
Hey Tony! Grats reaching 2000+ subscribers! I’m proud being one of them. I have an opinion about what you wrote in your blog; That it’s possible to make kind of easy money on the web… I have to say its not that easy at all, You need the right timing of posting a video that is first and well done at the subject, in your case the Universe! It’s really not that easy, since there is videos of almost everything these days! Do you get my point?
And goddamnit! no one will make a better video about the Universe than you!
Keep your good work up.
/melker
Hi Melker,
OK, you make a good point. Maybe I was simplifying things a bit too much. After all, that $1,500 acrued over a long period so it’s not like I’m making lots of easy money here.
Timing is an important component I guess. There’s certainly a random element to whether you get lots of views on a video or not. I just got lucky with mine.
I’m really glad you’re here and that you liked it. Thanks.