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.
译文:
网络致富秘诀：创造引人注目的内容
在互联网上赚钱没有那么神秘的，你需要做的就是去发表那些人们想听，想看，想读，想要知道的任何东西。
不要误解我的意思哟，我并没有说我的内容引人注目或从任何方式值得你利用时间来看。我只是把我头脑里那些我觉得值得分享的东西宣告出来，一开始是为了消解下无聊的现实。
即便这样，每个月我依旧可以通过把偶的想法发布在互联网上的方式，得到还不错的收入。
人们来，看到一些，读到一些东西，有时这些东西还可以让他们笑一下（我并灭有考虑到这些），然后不知怎地，就有钱每个月飞到我的贝宝账号上。我只需选中结算（我平时不常做这事的），然后就发现1500多美元到了账上。
想象一下。从我的大脑到我的银行账户上，钱（可不是容易赚的）就这样的出现了，你仅仅需要开动脑筋，再把他写出来，发到电脑上。在很好的想法与赚钱之间一定有一种很微妙的联系，我天天都在思考也就没有时间关心这类算术问题。
实际上，我现在所有的经济来源就是思考。人们付给我钱让我整天坐在那，想。想想吧，这生活方式还不赖（喂，喂,写出一段文字要多少想法呢？想啊想啊想，就想出来了！真不赖啊，唯一不好的，是因为都是自己的真情实感，而被拿出来，所以有点受伤的感觉而已）
我为什么要告诉你这些？因为我刚刚受到了一封让我成为youtube合作人的邀请函。我猜这是因为我有一个超过2000订阅量的栏目吧，那个栏目我从十一月开始就没有登陆了，上面的人还以为我死了（下面是我从那个栏目栽下来留言）：
作为tony的一个好朋友，我必须告诉你们tony现在正在医院里，接受着癌症的煎熬。
哦，不好意思。正式的告诉你，我不知道那人是谁。
内幕内幕，那人没死啦！他只是有4个月没有登陆youtube了。
是啊。
喂，别在这TMD异想天开了，他才没有在医院呢，也没得癌症，更没受煎熬。你这个骗子，他还有在astronomybuff（一个介绍天文学的网站）活动过呢！
搞笑啊！这种事也有，我跟我同事们说，他们都乐翻了！
是啊是啊。AstronomyBuff.com，欢迎space的饭们来这里啊（怎么还没来呢？）。
就这样，更多的财富都在路上呢！怎样做才能得到它呢？从youtube得到的方法是：
你所要做的只是创造符合观众需求，而且引人注意的视频而已。