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Can you really earn money online?

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  1. CCitizen

    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    Or is it an urban legend?
     
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    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Daughter did writing internet text for commercials but you can’t live on it.
     
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    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    WelI had Amazon making unauthorized charges on my credit card basically using a computer to rob me.

    So you can be robbed on line and not much you can do about it because Amazon is a PC protected group in the hermit kingdom of California.
     
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  4. The Rhetoric of Life

    The Rhetoric of Life Banned

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    buy low sell at a competitive price make sure the markup covers costs and profit.
    I've seen it happen; eBay, Facebook's Market Place...
     
    The Rhetoric of Life, Jul 15, 2018
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    Seth Bullock Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    My daughter does it. She buys things online and resells them at a profit.
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Mine bitcoin?
     
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  7. CCitizen

    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    The consensus is that you can but it is very very very difficult. I lost all hope of earning money.
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    YouTube is the current moneymaker.

    Get enough followers, around 1.5 million, not hard, and you can earn hundreds of thousands a year.

    Just need to get something that those followers want to follow.

    Get more than 5 million and you will be a millionaire.
     
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  9. CCitizen

    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    I had a small channel in Russian -- had like 60 views per video.
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well I can link all the ways to make money on YouTube if you want but you can Google them yourself I'd imagine.

    It can be quite lucrative if you get followers.

    Basically, advertisers follow those who have lots of followers.

    There is some 20 something yr. old who does purely stupid stuff but lots of people follow him and he's worth like 30 million now.
     
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    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    Hopefully I will succeed. But most of my new videos will be in Russian. I have some English videos as well:
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Definitely do some research and target your audience.

    If you are appealing to people in Siberia you probably won't get as many hits as people in San Diego or London.
     
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    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    I will make videos in both languages -- Russian and English. I hope to get an audience.
     
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    You can. I'll tell you how if you just send me $100 on a prepaid debit card.
     
    perdidochas, Jul 17, 2018
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    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    Ouch!
     
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    I,m constantly seeing people claim someone is a paid troll??Is there such a thing and where do I sign up?
     
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    That's the hard part, finding something others want.
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Exactly.

    What they want most is porn but YouTube has a policy against questionable videos and don't allow advertisers to associate with anything sexual or violent in nature.

    Its a very strict policy actually.

    So no matter how many followers some girl gets on YouTube for slurping on a popsicle she will never profit from it.

    This is why we see kids doing stupid stunts or teaching you how to operate a welder can profit and you are right, its about tapping into that audience.

    As far as I know, nobody has conducted a study on the type of people who most frequent YouTube and developed a market strategy on how to target them.

    That would be someone's opening to becoming a billionaire, if they can figure that out.
     
    Spooky, Aug 5, 2018
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