Blogging Athlete

There are many ways to make money by posting videos to your blog and honestly the only limit is your imagination.  The following are popular, tried and true methods that can turn your video blog into a profit making machine.

Create Membership Areas
If you have created a video blog covering a specific niche then you can profit by creating a members only area.  This can be especially useful to those who are making instructional videos are videos that are designed for a certain niche audience.  Reserve some especially informative video posts for your member areas.

Also advertise additional bonuses to those who become paying members to your video blog.  Offer small gifts, free downloads, any bonus that would appeal to your visitors that would not cost you much money if anything.  Charge a monthly or yearly membership fee that would provide additional money to your video blog.  Some video blog owners charge as much as $70.00 per yearly sign up.

Sell Video Ad Space
Think of how much money the average company spends to create and air commercials.  Most small companies cannot manage that especially small, Internet based, companies.  Offer to create video testimonial/commercials promoting certain products or services.  There are many businesses that would benefit from this and you can get cash and free products by doing this!  Advertise your services on sites like:

Sitepoint.com
Craigslist.org
Ebay.com

When advertising your services come up with pricing guidelines and place ads offering your services in the small business sections or advertisement space for sale.  Let them know that you will be creating a customized video that they will be able to use on their own site.  This offer alone will get the attention of many business owners who are promoting new products are creating new advertisement campaigns.

When it comes to using these profit generating methods do not limit yourself to just one.  It is entirely possible to take advantage of all of the previously mentioned guaranteed money making methods to increase the revenue of your new video blog.  In addition to the methods outlined there are other things that you can do to generate income using your blog.  You can create video testimonials for companies that will pay for the promotion or even sell your own products on sites like Ebay.com or Etsy.com creating videos of yourself using or even making the products you intend to sell.

Blogging Tips

When you have all of the equipment you need to make your video posts then you are ready to get started.  Pick out a location that is interesting and clean!  No one wants to see a messy room as a background.  If you are more comfortable making a video using a plain background hang a sold color sheet or piece of fabric behind you since that is more interesting than a beige or white wall.  Create a short video clip for your first video blog post and upload it to your computer.

Use your video editing software to make changes to your video.  Enhance the quality of your video by making colors more video, increasing the focus, or even changing your color video to black and white.  Add any affects that you feel would be useful such as a fade in or out and even music.  Also use text affects to insert the domain name of your website and/or your logo so that if your video is shared or distributed later viewers will always know where it came from.

As soon as you are happy with your video use your editing software to compress the video into a small file size.  This is necessary to ensure fast loading and easy viewing of your video.  In addition to helping your visitors some websites only allow videos of a certain size to be uploaded so the smaller you compress your video the better.  Remember, compressing a video will affect its quality so only compress your video as much as needed and not more.

There are two easy ways that you can use to upload your videos to your video blog.  The first way is to upload your video to your own channel on YouTube or a similar site that is free and easy to use.  These websites will help your own site get traffic and will also let you easily embed your video onto your own vlog.  This is perfect for those using free blogging platforms like Blogger.com.

If you have invested in your own Wordpress blog and domain as suggested then you have the option of uploading your video the same method or upload your video to a folder in on your domain and use a video plugin to show the video on your blog.  A few plugins that can be used are:

XHTML Video Embed
FLV Embed
Embedded Video With Link

When you have created your video clip and posted it on your vlog you have successful created your first post!  Now your video blog is up, running, and ready to be viewed it is time to start making your money.

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