MARKETING YOUR TALENTS IN FORMS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES ONLINE

Do you know that people like artists, musician, comedians, writers, authors, poets, etc. earn royalties on their work for life? All they do is that they just walk up out to a bestseller and the deal is done? Consider Chinua Achebe.

SINGING
1. If you have a good voice and can sing well, this could be your talent and this means that you can make money online. What can you do with is singing ability of yours? Look for an MP3 recorder, enter a studio and do a recoding. Then visit this site: www.wemusicstore.com and register online as a musician. After you have done this then upload, your song to this place provided for you at the site. One thing I know is that you can earn 80% of the selling price of every song of yours that is downloaded via the internet for life. All you should do is to set a threshold for your account. This means that you should set the maximum amount you want your money to reach before it can be mail to you by cheque.
Once your royalty reached that threshold, your cheque will be mail to you. For you work to be well known, you will need to promote your work at www.youtube.com or www.facebook.com. If your song is on CD, you can visit:
www.projectpus.com. However, you will have to send them your CD by regular mail, once your work is approved, they upload it for you.

2. IF YOU CAN WRITE A BOOK, A STORY, OR POEM AND GETTING IT
PUBLISHED, THEN YOU CAN MAKE MONEY ONLINE.

Becoming a published author is not difficult at all. This is because there are several ways of doing this. Your work can get published through the traditional/commercial method or you employ the do-it-yourself approach. What some called self-publishing today. In the traditional publishing method, you simply approach a publisher with the manuscript of your book who takes his/her time to examine just for commercial purpose only. The demerit of this approach is that the publisher may not publish your work. This is because the publishing company may not see anything worthwhile in your work. However, you can become a published author either by self-publishing Print on Demand book, Internet-facilitated-Do-It-Yourself approach.

The internet provides you many opportunities to see your work published within minutes.

PROCEDURES INVOLED:

a. Get your work well written, typed, edited and proofread.
b. Format your book in line with uploading requirement of
the publisher.
c. Upload your book; check how it looks in PDF format. If you are
ok with the result, leave it or make adjustments where
necessary and upload again.
d. Write a summary of your book.
e. Write a brief profile of yourself and upload your
passport photograph.
f. Click the “Publish” button to get your work published. They
will send you a mail after a day informing you that they
have publish your book.

You will find many POD publishers on the internet. You can visit www.I-proclaim.com or www.diy.craigspress.com if you want to see your work in print.
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PROMOTING YOUR WORK OR BOOK
Now, you must understand that it is not enough for you to publish your work; you must also learn how to promote your work via the internet. You can promote your work by joining the community of authors and readers online by registering at www.authorsden.com and/ or www.redroom.com. Let me say here that you do not just register and go to sleep. If you do this, no one would buy your work. You need give your would-be-reader value added services. Write a story here and there; write an article at the article site like www.e-how.com, www.articlebase.com, www.ezinearticle.com, etc. You can also blog about your book. All these can become your selling point at the end of the day because you are saying to them that you are worth your onions.

3. PHOTOGRAPHY

If you know about photography, then you can make money online through a digital camera even if you are just a beginner. In addition, if you are a professional, you partake of the “online stock photography”. Here you provide services to writers and graphic designers who need your pictures to use in illustrating his or her story. Sometimes, they want to design book or magazine covers and they need your collection of photos to use on their work. This is where you come in as service provider. Let me borrow an illustration from my friend Caleb B. Adewole of the Hidden Treasure Golden Profile Ltd. He said, “For instance, it is very rare to see the fighting of two cock or two rams etc. If you have a digital camera of not less that 6.0-mega pixels you can capture rare scene like these. Your shots remain your intellectual properties and if any one downloads it anywhere/anytime, you are paid. You can make money from film footage recordings of interesting scenario that is not more than 60 seconds.”

You can register at http://makenomistake.webs.com

Please understand that the company pays you $0.25 for every one of your photos downloaded from the site. The sky is your limit on how much you can earn.

4. TRANSLATION JOBS EARNS YOU DOLLARS ONLINE VERY EASILY.
THAT IS, IF YOU CAN USE AND WRITE YOUR MOTHER TONGUE VERY WELL.

According to recent findings by UNESCO, our local languages are dying out. These have presented you with a great opportunity to earn dollars online. If you can speak your local language and can translate it to and from English language, you can make money online in dollars. There are many well-known blue-chip companies interested in localizing their products in Nigerian languages, for example, Telecom and IT companies. However, you need to be versatile in the use of computer especially MS word, and MS excel.

The opportunities in this area of languages and localization are just too many to mention here. If you are interested in language translation opportunities, go to www.proz.com and www.translatorscafe.com, and register.

5. ARE YOU A RESEARCHER? CAN YOU RENDER YOUR SERVICE IN
EXCHANGE FOR MONEY

• In the developed countries of the world, we have many lazy students of higher institutions who cannot write their term papers, projects and dissertations, etc. What they do therefore is that they outsource the jobs to expert who can offer the service to them for a fee that is usually on the high side. We even have some clients hiring “Ghost Writers” to ghostwrite their book, a biography at very high fee.

• You will also find people that want you to write contents that SEO oriented for their blog or websites.

• Now, if you are a bachelor degree, a Masters degree or PHD holder in any discipline and you love doing research or academic work, you can visit any of the following sites and signup with them:

@ www.odesk.com
@ www.elance.com
@ www.freelancer.com
@ www.highaghostwriter.com
@ www.ifreelancer.com

However, for you to start making money at this site you will need to have a domiciliary account denominated in US dollars, that is linked with your current account. For instance, Odesk.com and freelancer.com allows you to receive money directly into your domiciliary account anywhere in the world.

6. ARE YOU AN EXPERT OR A PROFESSIONAL IN A CERTAIN FIELD? THEN YOU
CAN MAKE MONEY ($) ONLINE.

Do you know that some people make money online chatting? Why then do have to waste precious time online chatting for nothing. You can actually make dollars charting online. How can you do this? Simple, if you are professional or an expert in any fields then you take your expertise to the internet. You can actually offer consultancy service. This is because every minute you spend when people consult you; you will make not less than $0.50 us cents while you talk to your clients online. You can decide to charge as much as $20 US dollars per minute depending on what you know you can offer.

A certified professional in any field like you are a medical doctor, a graphic designer, drug expert, a surveyor, an architect, a business coach, a motivational speaker, a computer professional, pastoral and Christian counseling expert, a financial planner/accountant, engineer, an expert in relationship, a psychologist, a medical/physical or life science expert etc. with proven years of practicing experience you can join us at the community of experts online by visiting www.liveperson.com


Let me say here to register here is not a problem, but must have a constant access to the internet because clients may need your attention anytime. The people you are dealing with have problem and are looking for solutions. They are willing to pay you not minding where you are, provided you can deliver the goods.

Let me say here that the internet can transform your life if you can take your time to explore the positive opportunities available online.