Still Like Video Games? Turn Your Fun Time Into Extra Income!
Anyone who likes video games has multiple chances to turn their interest into a profitable hobby.
Basic Ideas (Cash from your dorm room):
-Start a small forum or website community around one specific, popular game. Some of these niche sites grow very quickly, and are worth an exciting amount of money.
-Join existing game communities, for fun and industry contacts.
-If you can’t afford the latest games, pay attention to what your friends are saying about the hottest ones.
-New sites can be slow at first, but the results are very worthwhile when you build a community.
Fun Career Path: (You might expect too much competition, but) Do you know the graphics, design, and programming of cutting-edge, high-tech video games is a very hot field? If your good, the sky is the limit. You can even start your own company.
Just out of school the placement rate is really high, so you are in good shape when looking for a job. Whether it’s a fun hobby, career, or serious big-time business plan, the video game industry might be the most exciting option for you.
Best of luck, and let the games begin!
Getting Established At Key Forums
Making cash from your dorm room will take time and effort. If your looking for “truly easy money” plan on working even harder
One valid key to Internet income is getting established at key forums. Here is a basic, yet effective, plan to get started.
1) What do you like to do in your free time?
If all your free time is taken by parties and s^x, perhaps you need some balance and new hobbies in your life. Write down just two or three things (for starters) which you really enjoy doing. Activities which you would truly love to do, and would gladly do for a living are what you’re looking to write down.
2) Do you have a website, yet?
If “Yes”, remember to update with fresh content often.
If “No”, don’t worry, getting established on the Web takes time. The key is getting started.
3) Look at the short list of Fun Hobbies (you did write them down?), and circle the one or two which are your clear favorites.
4) Are you a member of any forums related to these fun, interesting topics?
Finding popular forums on any topic is not hard, Google is one way to look. Also, ask your friend who have similar interests.
5) Tips on looking for the best forums:
-Do they allow you to display a sig link back to your website, at the end of your posts?
-Do they have an established Adsense revenue sharing? Some large, and small, forums do these days.
-Look near the bottom of the forum main page. Are there over 100 people currently online?
-Pay attention to members making references to their favorite forums, and follow up on the new info.
The best parts:
- Share with others and express your enthusiasm for your fun hobby.
- Pay attention to the way established ‘promote things’, and do NOT act like a common everyday spammer.
- If you need advice, just ask. You can learn anything on the Net.
- When you can, help others, and you will quickly gain new friends.
- Once established at a key forum or two (be patient it takes time), your money making opportunities will multiply.
Most of all, remember to have fun!
Candy Anyone?
Alright, everybody knows that not all college cafeterias have the best food, and they aren’t always so cheap either; so a lot of students go ahead, and grab a quick bite or snack to satisfy them until they get a chance to get some real food. One of the best ways to make money as a student in your spare time is to sell candy. Now, you may be thinking to yourself about the little old lemonade stand you had when you were five years old, and how you only received business from the construction workers down the street. Despite the impressions you gave yourself from supplying your own lemonade; selling candy can be very profitable.
Everybody is used to buying candy for $1 from fundraisers, charities, etc. and most people don’t have problems with buying a candy bar to “hold them over” until they can find something else to eat. Here’s your chance, you can go to your closest wholesale store, and purchase a box of candy for a very cheap price. If you sell your candy at $1 each bar you will in most cases double, and possibly triple what you paid for your box. Once you sell your box, you can use that money to increase the quantity of candy you purchased, and receive an even larger sale. Eventually, you will be running your own little candy shop.
Making Money Creating Myspace Templates
Do you have skills in creating amazing Myspace templates? If you do, there is a chance that you could make some very nice money. One of the biggest markets these days is Myspace websites. You can see people buying and selling them, left and right, because they realize that there is a huge market. So many people sign up for the site that there is a bank of money to be made…IF you know what you’re doing. So, how could you walk away making a couple hundred dollars a month just on your Myspace site? Set up a site that has all different Myspace things. When I say different Myspace things, I mean: templates, graphics, codes, generators, anything that has to do with Myspace. The thing is that you can give all of this away for FREE! Yeah, you can give this stuff away for free and still walk away making hundreds of dollars a month. You’re probably saying, “Jacob, you’re a fool. How can I make money by doing something for free?” The answer, my friends, is simple.
LINKS! You give away a template for free, but on that template, there is a link that goes back to your site. So, if you make amazing templates, when someone sees how awesome they are, they will go to your site and then look at all your free templates. Now you’ve got people coming to your site. So, you plug a few adsense banners in there and the next thing you know, people are clicking like mad. I’ve found that people that are not sure what adsense is are the people that click the most. People from Myspace are chances are, not webmasters like you and me. Therefore, they see something that is interesting and just click without knowing what it is. There you go, you’ve made money. But what you need to do is ensure that people are coming to your site.
Now, you are more than welcome to create custom templates for some money if you want to. But, if you are looking to profit from traffic to your site, then your best bet is to try and get as many templates out there so that more and more people are coming to your site. It can be time consuming, but once your site is full of different things that people want for their Myspace accounts, you’ll have a lot of traffic each day. Then, it’s just waiting for that wonderful check from Google. Good luck!
Getting Traffic and Money From Myspace
Myspace is a cash cow. There is no denying that there is a lot of money to be made on Myspace, and you don’t even have to own the site. Just by creating an account and getting friends, you can make money off of the site. Now, you are probably wondering how that is possible. I would be wondering the same thing if I was sitting here, with a brand new site in front of me, adsense on it, great ideas, but no traffic. The solution, my friends, is very simple. Let’s take for example the blog that I created [you can link back to that post if you want]. I built it about the brain. So, I would post neurological diseases, psychology, anatomy and things like that. Well, that’s great and all. But who is going to read it? Low and behold, there is a solution! Myspace. With so many people on that site, there is bound to be SOMEONE that wants to read it…And chances are, with any niche, there are numerous people that will read about it in interest. So, where do we begin?
Let’s create an account. Since I made a blog about the brain, I would put a picture of the brain and design the theme to be around the brain. I would tell who I am, but mention my site quite a bit in the description of who I was. Then, I would go in search of groups that are similar to mine. I would go onto those groups and start to recruit friends. Now, you can either get a program that automatically adds friends for you, or you can just do it by hand. When ever I do it, I do it by hand. I don’t want to get fake accounts or anything and we all know there are dozens and dozens of those. So, we are getting friends. You’ll soon realize that the more friends you get, the more people that start to friend request you. I had a site about a TV show and I requested friendship with a lot of people in those groups and I found myself getting more and more people requesting friendships with me.
Now you have friends…That’s great. Chances are, traffic increased a bit because people were curious and clicked on your links. Here’s where you start to target those people to really start coming to your site. Since I run a neurology blog, I would take one of my latest articles and take the first paragraph or two and post it into a bulletin. I would then put a link to my blog saying, “if you want to read more, click here.” You’d make the click here a link to your site. This would therefore allow for you to get more people to your blog that you successfully created. More people come to your blog and you might just see an increase in clicks on your Adsense. It’s not a 100% guarantee, but the key to making money with Adsense is to really get an increase in traffic. So, once you’ve got a site, create a myspace account about that niche and then start to make bulletins about it. You should then see an increase in traffic and money earned. Good luck!