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Earn Money Online From Video Tutorials

Last updated: October 16, 20189 Comments

There are loads of ways you can make money online. The moment you start taking things seriously, and believing that you can indeed earn your living from online ventures, many doors will open in front of you.

A very good opportunity I’ve found is that of earning money online by creating video tutorials. Virtually anyone has expertise about something, and there are probably many people out there who would like to learn about that topic which you know inside out.

Here are some websites which act as online video training marketplaces. On these websites you can create courses and sell them. The websites will typically take a commission and you will get the rest of the cash.

Udemy

Udemy is one of my favourite video tutorial marketplaces. It is very well designed and there are already authors who have racked up some massive sales numbers. It has been around since 2010 and has experienced very strong growth.
It gives a lot of freedom to the content creators, giving you the ability to release free or paid courses, and the ability to choose exactly what your course will be about. If you are charging for the course you keep 70% of the income from the course, and if you are promoting your own course via affiliate links, you can get 85% of the full price of the course.

What’s the benefit of joining Udemy as a trainer? You get a full marketing platform behind you, plus the infrastructure to not only show videos, but also have a question and answer facility and much more. It’s very hard for anyone to build up the features of such a platform for your yourself. The most popular tutorials are those in the technology and business niches, with top authors earning 5 or 6 figures a year with their videos.

Check out the video below to learn a bit more about Udemy.

Visit Udemy

Tutsplus Marketplace

The Tutsplus marketplace was created by marketplace giants Envato of Themeforest and Codecanyon fame.

The nice thing about this marketplace is that you can create and sell very niche tutorials, so you don’t have to commit to create a long course that would take you lots of time to complete. It’s a nice place to test the waters and see if creating online video tutorials is a thing for you.

Visit Tutsplus Marketplace

Learnable

Learnable is another marketplace that competes with Udemy, it is however focused on web design and development courses, so its more limited as a money making resource.

Visit Learnable

Udemy is, in my opinion, the most modern and open marketplace from all these, so I would recommend that you use it as your starting point. There’s a great earning potential on Udemy if you deliver the right course with the right content.

If you already own a blog and have a good number of followers, it will be easier for you to promote your course and make money.

Lately I’ve been doing quite a number of video reviews of WordPress plugins, and with each video I record I try to improve my technique. Here are some really nice tutorials and guides I’ve found along the way.

Tips from Chris McQueen at TechSmith
SuchaVoice – Voice over training and demo production

Do you have any other favourite resources? Let me know in the comments section.

Chiang Mai – A Digital Nomad Review

Last updated: March 30, 202023 Comments

One of the many Buddhist temples in Chiang Mai.

Earlier this month I embarked on a long trip from Malta to Chiang Mai, a city which can probably fit the bill as the world’s ‘unofficial blogging capital’.

While I was researching new destinations for my digital nomad lifestyle, Chiang Mai kept coming up, and so in the end I decided that it fit the bill perfectly. I could escape Malta for the winter and continue living the summer lifestyle in Thailand. I had never been to Asia so this seemed like the perfect opportunity.

Me and Alyona flew from Malta to Bangkok via Cyprus and Dubai with Emirates Airways. We stayed in Bangkok for a few days as we got accustomed to the totally different culture. While I found Bangkok to be way too hectic for my tastes, I still enjoyed our days there and the hot weather was just what I needed.

A one hour plane trip with Bangkok Airways and we were in Chiang Mai. My first impression was that the weather was even better here, less humid and a few degrees less than in Bangkok. I immediately felt the laid-back atmosphere that pervades this Northern city. Good start.

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Malta, a Top Digital Nomad Destination

Last updated: June 16, 201936 Comments

When embarking on the journey to become a digital nomad, one of the first things we search for is a great place to relocate to. Deciding to become a digital nomad is, often, a direct consequence of a wish to travel and discover the world, and get a break from your familiar surroundings.

As working as a digital nomad becomes more fashionable, we can see a certain list of countries establishing themselves as ideal locations, due to various factors.

Here are some of the cities/countries most cited by bloggers and digital nomads:

Chiang Mai – Thailand
Berlin – Germany
Buenos Aires – Argentina
Medellin – Colombia
Davao City – Philippines
Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam
Barcelona – Spain

The clear trend is that of moving to places which give you better value for money and an immersion into a new culture. You will seldom find cities in the US or Europe mentioned as ideal choices for a location independent lifestyle, largely because they are too expensive, or they are not deemed to be exotic enough.

Today I am going to bring you one more destination, a place which has been largely overlooked by digital nomads and location independent workers. I strongly believe that Malta is an almost perfect location and has been a well-guarded secret for far too long.

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What is EPC and Why Should You Care?

Last updated: March 22, 20202 Comments

When first starting off in internet marketing and affiliate marketing in particular, it’s easy to get lost in the terminology of this industry.

One of the terms that confused beginners is EPC, or Earnings per 100 Clicks.

When choosing an affiliate program to promote from markets such as Clickbank or ShareaSale, you will see this term associated with each of the affiliate programs available.

EPC is a computed correlation between clicks and earnings usually averaged on the last 7 days or the last 30 days. This can give you an indication of how successful a program is and how it will work for you.

So if a product has $190 7-Day EPC, it means that on an average 7-day period of observation, affiliates are earning $190 on every 100 clicks they generate. That can be broken down further to arrive at the value of 1 click: $1.90.

This one of those things you should look at carefully when choosing affiliate programs to promote. One program might promise a big cut but then have a very low EPC, while another might offer a slightly lower percentage cut on each product sold, but have a higher EPC. That meant that the latter product is more popular and I would thus usually end up promoting the product with the higher EPC.

In essence, EPC will give you a very good indication whether a certain product is sellable or not. I’m always on the lookout on EPC whenever I join a particular program, and you should be too.