Money For Reviews

Before I begin I'd like to ask you a few questions, just answer them in your head. First of all, how many movies do you think you have watched in your life time? Second, how many hours did you waste on boring, uninteresting, unoriginal, poorly thought, just downright BAD movies? Well it makes sense there are so many movie reviewers, since there is such a high demand for quality movie reviews, because of the never ending supply of poorly written, directed, etc. movies. I've been getting paid to write movie reviews since I was 16, and honestly I got paid pennies writing for newspapers and magazines than I'm getting now. How? Publishing the reviews my self, on the internet.

Everyone knows where the moneys at: the internet. What everyone doesn't know, is how do you take advantage of this? How do you make a dime on the net, there are so many frauds and scams, you can't find any legitimate way to earn online. How can you get paid to review movies?

The Big Picture: Every time I surf over to websites that allow users to post there own personal movie reviews, and I see hundreds (sometime thousands) of reviews posted for any given movie, I get a good belly laugh. A lot of these articles are high quality, insightful, well written reviews. With a descent understanding of article marketing, these reviewers could be making a KILLING off this talent. But because no one has told them about it, and they haven't bothered to run a quick Google search, they are getting ziltch for something that could literally be there primary source of income.

Getting paid good money for your movie reviews isn't about the way you write them or on what movies you write about. It's about where you post them, it's about applying article marketing principles. Article marketing is a mixture of SEO (Search Enginge Optimization), simple internet marketing, and just plain resourcefulness. The idea is, your reviews will get indexed on Google for terms like "[Insert Movie Here] Review." So for example you write a review for Hellboy 2, and you apply the article marketing techniques, and you see some descent results. Your article "Hellboy 2 Review" gets indexed on the third spot, so when someone searches for "Hellboy 2 review" your article is right in front of there eyes.

This article in this scenario, will probably earn about 250$/month until Hellboy 2 is no longer in theatres, once it hits DVD the article will make roughly 100$/month, and after that it will make about 40-50$/month.

As you can see, you could make hundreds, sometimes thousands of a single well written review.

The Facts

Who's paying me?

The owners of these movies! After every review you leave an affiliate link, this is simply a URL that has your user name embedded. If someone purchases some movie tickets for that movie, you get a commission. If you rated the movie poorly, simply leave a second link for a movie that you would recommend instead.

Is this going to cost me anything?

Nope, your reviews are submitted to article banks and blogging sites such as ezinearticles or Squidoo.

Do I need my own website?

No. Again, you will be submitting these to blogging services and article submission websites.

How much can I expect to earn?

Well that all depends on you, and how much time your willing to invest, and how seriously you wish to take it. Even a poorly written review will make at least 20 - 30$ per month. Pump out 10 reviews in a day, and at the minimum you added 300$ to your monthly income.

Article marketing is your key to success in the field of paid movie reviews. It's literally the only way to go, unless you get a job working for a national newspaper, this is the highest paying way to get paid for movie reviews.

Easy Money For Teens

You're probably already familiar with the hard way for teens to make money. It goes something like this... You turn 16, and get a job at a local fast food joint. It's your first job and you're glad to get it. A snazzy uniform, a little training and you're all set.

That's all fine and good. It will give you some work experience, and start you on the road to being an independent adult.

But it's a lousy way to make money.

To start with, it only pays minimum wage or maybe a little more. With the price of gas (and everything else) being what it is, that's just not much money. And there's only so many hours you can work with school, sports, and everything else you have going.

Even if you could work all you wanted, management would probably limit your hours. They don't want you getting 40 because it puts you in a full-time category where they might have to pay more benefits. And they sure don't want you working over 40, as they would have to pay you time and a half for overtime.

So your income is pretty limited... And it sure isn't easy money. Whether you're mopping floors, running a cash register or cooking up greasy French Fries, work goes pretty slow when you're paid by the hour. But there is an easy way for teens to make more money... a lot more money. We're talking enough money to buy a car, travel, pay for college... anything. You could even make more money than your teachers and parents! Wouldn't that be a trip!

And we're not talking about making easy money by selling drugs. This is both legal and moral.

It's called "Affiliate Marketing" and involves selling all kinds of stuff online in exchange for a commission. The beautiful thing is that once you have your marketing campaigns set up right, they run 24/7... pretty much on auto-pilot. You can make easy money while you're at school, hanging out with your friends or even in your sleep! Keep in mind the easy money comes only after your campaigns are set up right. This can be challenging, but you have some natural advantages during your teen years.

For one thing, you probably grew up with computers at home and school. That's a huge plus when the main tools you need for Affiliate Marketing are a computer and an internet connection. Another thing: You know what's hot and what's not for your generation. The music, the clothes, the cell phones. You don't have much research to do... You live it!

And third, your mind is currently "programmed" for education. Learning what you need to know to make this work should come natural to you... And it's a lot easier than trig or chemistry!

Money Facts

If someone were to ask me what is my passion? My answer would be Money Facts, ok so I use my own wording to describe what is known as finances. With out a doubt it is a subject that may terrify many of us but I feel is essential to our societies strength.

Finance is a passion I discovered while working in the financial industry. I was able to learn from a lot of savvy people in this industry. As well as experience first hand through customer interactions how much we lack vital information on this subject. Through the knowledge I have obtained I now look forward to helping others in learning how important this knowledge is for our society & how much it is being neglected.

Why Is Financial Literacy Important?

My take on finances is the system that includes the circulation of money, the granting of credit, the making of investments, and the provision of banking facilities or the management of funds. It's what makes this world go round yet for some strange reason we aren't taught lessons on this subject while in school. We are left to fend for ourselves & what's worse is we don't like talking about it. I don't mean that in a general way but in the way of households. In a study done by Charles Schwab it was determined that most parents feel more comfortable talking about the "birds & the bees" than on investing. Let's face it the majority of us were never even aware of how much our parents knew about finances until we got older. From experience I can tell you that only a handful of the customers I've met were being helped through the banking process by their parents.

Let's Talk Numbers

Foreclosures are up 57 percent over last year, consumer credit card debt is increasing at an annual rate of 6 percent. Americans' savings will replace less than 60 percent of their income on average after retirement. Research shows that about 3 in 4 workers don't know how much money they need to save for a comfortable retirement. The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy tests 12th graders every two years by asking them practical money questions. The students consistently record an average score of 50 to 55 percent, generally considered to be a failing grade. This results in college students, whom have the ability to get a hold of new credit cards with great ease, ending up in major debt. The average debt owed on credit cards in America is $8000, & the average American has 9 credit cards. Here is a big number America spends more than $4 billion dollars in excess a DAY! Inflation is still rising & our dollar is loosing its value faster than ever. Not only is personal finance at an all time low but our own country is headed in the same direction.

The truth is that basic finances skills are very easy. But in my humble opinion it should start at home. We need to recondition our thinking as well as continue our own personal education. Nowadays you are able to find information on financial literacy a lot easier than say 5yrs ago. I feel very strongly towards this subject & I feel all Americans should be concerned with this crisis. We need to understand that the economic status our country is in is just as important as being environmentally safe. Not only should we put more emphasis on this subject but we should also be seeking out the knowledge ourselves.

In Summary

Our economy is on very shaky ground which we all play a crucial role in. We must empower both ourselves & our children on what I like to call Money Facts. The average consumer needs to the proper information about every aspect of their finances. Weather it be credit or personal money management. Not to mention retirement, investments & of course banking. I encourage you to take the necessary steps to ensure you continue you financial education as well as passing that knowledge along to your family. Keep in mind that this is a crisis that is affecting all Americans & that needs to be addressed.

Three Money Making Ideas For Kids

Here are three money making ideas for kids. All of these possible businesses can be started with just a little bit of money. Of course, if the profits are reinvested they can become much bigger enterprises.

Fishing Worm Business

This might be one of the easiest of these money making ideas for kids to try. Of course, it helps if you are near an area where people fish. First, you should visit a bait shop or other place where they sell worms and nightcrawlers to see how much they sell for. Then locate the best lakes or streams where the fishermen are going regularly (make a note of the best times).

Where do you get the worms? Check the lawn after a rain, for starters. Also, in some areas there are hundreds of night crawlers all over the sidewalks after a summer shower. Dig under wet piles of leaves to find them too. You can start without any money if you save plastic butter tubs and coffee cans to sell the worms in, and later you can use your profits to buy nice Styrofoam containers with lids.

If you want to make more money, invest your profits into a good book on how to breed night crawlers, plus the equipment to start a little worm farm. Produce a steady supply and you might be able to sell them to a bait shop. Though they will pay less than the fishermen, you may make more because you can sell so many at once and spend more time "farming" worms than trying to sell them.

Sell Hand-Painted Rocks

Where we live here in Colorado, many people have painted rocks they use for decorative doorstops or paperweights. If you live in an area where you can get nice smooth rocks, you can make them yourself and sell them. Paint them with flowers, or with people's names, or look around at what others have done. Your parents can help you buy the right paints, and set the prices for the finished rocks.

If you want a bigger business, you'll have to delegate some of the work. Pay other kids for each good rock they bring to you, and find an artistic friend you can pay to paint them. That way you can get busy selling more. You might even get a gift store to sell the rocks for you if you give them a good percentage of the money from each rock.

Fix And Sell Bicycles

Older kids who like to fix things can get books that show how to repair bicycles.You can start by learning how to repair your own. See what people are paying for used bicycles, by going to yard sales and looking at advertisements in the classified section of the newspaper, and take notes. When you know what the bikes should sell for, you can start buying broken ones to fix.

Buy them cheap, and let everyone know what you are doing. People may give you old bicycles that they were going to throw away. Also, during spring clean-ups in some towns people throw away bikes, and you can take these from the junk at the curb, if that's okay with your parents. I once met a man who collected sixty bikes in one day in this way.

Of course you'll need to have a little money to buy parts and old bikes when you start, unless you have an old bicycle or two in the garage. Once you make your first sale, use the money to buy more bikes and any parts you'll need. Sell the bicycles in front of your home with a simple sign, or you get your parents to help you place an ad in the paper if you have some expensive or popular bikes.

The Shocking Truth About Money and Banks!

If I were to lend you 100 pounds, I would take the physical money out of my pocket, or the bank. I might even write you a cheque. The key point though, is that I would have had 100 pounds, then, when I lent it to you, I wouldn't have it any more. If I lend you a hammer, I would first have to have a hammer, then I could give it to you and you could use it.

So, it would make sense then that when a bank lends you some money that it takes money that it has in it's vaults (or at least on it's books as most money doesn't now actually exist in physical form, It is just numbers in a computer.) and hands it over to you. To compare it to the example of me lending you 100 pounds, the bank would first have had 100 pounds with which it could do as it liked. Then, it would give that money to you and so, wouldn't have it any more. The bank would be 'missing' that 100 pounds until you paid it back.

Obviously, that is the only way it could work and it is the way that it must work. WRONG! That is the only fair way that the system could work. If someone is going to lend you something, they must have that thing first. The Government creates money, the banks have large supplies of it because people deposit their money with them and the bank then loans it to you in order to charge interest. This is the way that most of us have assumed that it works and we have never been taught otherwise.

When a bank lends you money, it creates that money out of thin air! Yes, you read that correctly. Before you ask to borrow some money, that money doesn't exist. When the bank agrees to your loan, it simply conjures it into existence and gives it to you. The bank hasn't built, grown or created anything of value but it still gets to charge you interest on that money that it simply created.

This system is almost exactly the opposite of how you would think it should work. When the money is loaned out, it is created and when it is paid back, it ceases to exist as it is written off the bank's balance sheet. The bank gets to keep the interest on the money that it made up though! This poses a big problem for everyone because if all the money is created like this (which it is) then where does the money to pay the interest come from. Have you ever wondered why we have inflation?