Can you make money getting famous online?

People often ask me how I actually make a living because they assume I couldn’t actually be making any money by putting up videos on YouTube and writing a blog where I give away free content. Well, the truth is that you actually can make a good amount of money by doing those two things. For now it’s just side income for me and I make most of my living running a video production company, but believe it or not it soon will be my main income and make more more than the video production company ever did.

How is that possible? Well, the inspiration to start this blog in the first place came from a well known blogger named John Chow. I first read about him in Entrepreneur magazine and two things struck me about him: first was just that he also lived in Vancouver and yet was being featured in an Amercian magazine, and then secondly was the fact that at the time he was making an unbelievable $25,000 a month from his blog (yes, you read that right – a 5 figure income per month from a blog).  And get this – he’s now making almost double that amount!

After spending quite a bit of time looking into it further I realized that I needed to change my regular “I’m an actor, here’s my headshot and resume” static website into a more interactive and content driven blog that people would want to visit because it actually provided them with content they’d want to read on a regular basis.

And that’s what I’ve been doing for about a year now with JoshRimer.com. I really felt that my talent was in creating a presence for myself using online video and because it was actually something I was passionate about and always kept up on through other blogs, forums, and websites, it was an easy choice for me as the topic for my blog. I was always trying different things to get attention for myself online and get more views on my videos, so I had a lot of info to share and knew I continually would be able to come up with more.  It also worked perfectly with the fact that I want more viewers and subscribers on YouTube, where I had recently become a Partner and was starting to make revenue from my videos.  The two cross promote each other really well.

How this all makes me money is actually more difficult to explain. But luckily I don’t have to because John Chow himself has written an ebook called “The Ultimate Blog Profit Model” where he shows you step by step how to do it.  And here’s the crazy part – he’s giving it away for free!  But that’s actually one of the secrets to how he makes money… (you’ll see why when you read it).

So can you or I make as much money at this as John does?  Well, I suppose that really depends on how much time and effort you’re willing to put into what you’re doing online.  I’m continually spending more and more time on my end, writing more blog posts, making more videos, and now I’m even writing my own ebook that will be free for all of my email newsletter subscribers!

Here’s today’s vlog about whether or not you can make a living getting famous online:

What do you think? Have you made money from your blog or something else you’re doing online?  Do you think it’s possible for most of us to come anywhere close to what John makes?  What did you think of his ebook?

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ShadowThePixie has made a comment on Father Lover:

this made me smile and lmao thnk you so much I am going to send a link to my dad, he will love it.