MAKING MONEY WTH YOUR OWN DVD

 Do you have any thinking about Making and marketing your own DVD. Does that sound like a viable business? Well, let us see... You shoot some video tape and have it transferred to a blank DVD. Just a few bucks spent for a one time expense. From there you can have the DVD duplicated with four-color printing on it and have it in four-color printed packaging which makes it look very professional for just a couple dollars each, but that's just if you want to be fancy about it by using photographs. Otherwise, two-color printing will work just fine.

Now your DVDs are ready to sell. From just over a dollar's worth cost for production when you use two-color printing, you can mark up your product as you see fit. Charge $97.00 or $149.00 a copy, over and over again. Or produce a set of DVD's and charge $495.00! Does not take much math skills to figure why people are becoming rich doing this!

The way to make a valuable DVD is to have it show and tell how to do something people want to do, or how to have something people want to have. You can come up with some ideas if you reach into your experience of things you have learned or discovered how to do.

This is the information age and if you put out the information, people are going to buy it up because they are hungry to know everything. Truth is that if you are currently selling printed how-to material, you can command a much higher price to provide that information in DVD format. Sell them your knowledge on a DVD.

Of course you will need some equipment to make your DVD. You can be up and running without a big budget. A tripod holding a digital camcorder than can connect directly to your computer so that you can use video editing software and a good microphone so you can be heard clearly is what it comes down to.

Having a remote control on your camcorder could even make video editing unnecessary, since what really counts in DVDs is the information contained in the DVD and not how pretty the presentation is. What really makes winners is down and dirty content.

A good place to get content from which to produce a DVD that you can call your own is InfoGround. In fact there is so much there covering the most popular niche markets that you can give yourself the reputation of being an expert! InfoGoRound has hundreds of top quality, private label articles for the taking!

Converting some of the many information products found at InfoGoRound to DVD is the fast track to being a 'how-to' author able to effortlessly bring in the easy money. You will have so much content to work with that you should even use some of the video you make to put up on a website. Showing free video samples on your website is sure to drive traffic and skyrocket DVD sales.

Are you ready to do this and join the ranks of the Millionaire Internet Marketers? There are a couple of those marketers who amazingly enough have separate website videos in the same spacious white room with huge decorative windows. Assuming they don't live in the same mansion, you might think they are filming in the same studio. If you think that then you would be wrong.

You can make your video look like it was done at a beautiful gorgeous place no matter what the surroundings you currently have. To set up your own amazing studio, get some florescent lights as they provide lighting without much extra heat or shadows, and set up a screen for your background. Put a light on each side of the camera pointing toward the screen. You will want to experiment in order to get the lights placed just right.

Now you have a clutter free background by using a screen, which could just be a sheet or curtain placed up. The secret to having any type of background you want however, is to invest in a chroma key green or blue screen. Also get and learn how to use video editing software that has chroma key effect. What chroma key effect does is replace the colored background with any type of background you want... even an image of the inside of a mansion! It is definitely the way to make a great impression.

Information DVDs are perfect products to develop. You can build your whole business around them. They are inexpensive to make, yet have a high-perceived value. They are heavily in demand, and staggeringly easy to sell for big fat wallet-filling profits. Film yourself on DVDs sharing what you know or make a presentation from the treasure-trove of information found at InfoGoRound. The money you can generate from doing this is outrageous!

HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON REITS WHILE THE REAL ESTATE MARKET IS LOW

Go to your bank nowadays and ask them about a savings account or a money market account. What type of interest rate do you think you’re going to hear? Most of the big time banks on local state and regional levels are offering anywhere from 0.1% to 0.5%, and at the smallest of banks, you might be able to find a full 1.0% on your money. Or, better yet, try opening up a CD, a certificate of deposit. You’ll get the same answer of somewhere between 1.0% and 2.0% in all likelihood, and in most cases, you’ll have to keep your money tied up for long periods of time in that CD when interest rates might return.
However, not all is lost! There are definitely ways to invest your money and get a significantly better return on your investment than these ridiculously miniscule amounts of cash that the bank is giving you.
When people hear about the stock market and investing their money in it, they tend to get scared. They don’t really see what the use is in investing in something that is as volatile as the DOW Jones, NASDAQ, or the S&P, but there are definitely some great opportunities that they are missing out on as a result.
We’ll start with REITs. A REIT is a Real Estate Investment Trust, and there are dozens of them out there for you to invest in on the public market. Though man REITs are kept as private funds, many are public and can be traded. A REIT stock or fund is invested purely in real estate which, as we know, hasn’t exactly been a stellar sector of the economy over these last several years.
However, the benefit that you find often times with REITs is that they have ridiculously high dividend yields! A dividend is the cash that you get paid, either in the form of a check or in the form of capitalized stock, and it basically acts just like interest does in your bank. You can either get a check sent to you for the interest that your money is making, or you can reinvest that money and make interest on your interest.
We’ll take Main Street Capital Corp for example (NYSE Symbol: MAIN). This is a REIT based in Houston, TX, and it is one of the unique dividend paying stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Main St. pays a monthly dividend as opposed to the normal quarterly or annual dividend of other stocks. Right now, the dividend yield is 8.72% for a dividend payable in August.
At its height, MAIN stock was at $19.98 per share. Imagine buying 100 shares of this stock and owning $2,000 in it at its highest point. At last check on Thursday, MAIN stock was selling for $17.90 per share, meaning your principal would have dipped down to $1,790. This covers a six month period. Over these six months, MAIN has paid out between 8% and 9% APY on a monthly basis, meaning you’d already have collected roughly $70 worth of dividends in this stock. Sure, when the stock is down, this isn’t such a great deal. However, over the past three years when the economy and the real estate world were at their worst, MAIN stock went from $15/share up to $19.98/share, and it never dipped lower than $9/share.
If you had invested $1,000 in MAIN stock in 2008, with the dividends and the increase in stock price, you’d be up to $1,600. If you invested that same $1,000 in the bank, you’d have roughly $1,030. In order to make that $600 worth of profit over a three year period, you would have needed to have a whopping $20,000 worth of an investment, not $1,000.
Now we’ll take another high dividend yield REIT, New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. (NASDAQ Symbol: NYMT). This stock was once upon a time way up to over $110/share in 2005 and has dipped all the way down into the $7/share range. Obviously, if you’ve been investing in real estate over the past several years, you know just how painful this has been. However, NYMT is still offering a 12% APY for dividends. And, just like Main St., New York Mortgage Trust has basically held its own over the last three years, fluctuating anywhere from $5/share to $9/share with that huge dividend yield.
The real catch here with REITs is that we know that real estate values will come back eventually. When the market was booming in 2005, New York Mortgage Trust was making money hand over fist. Imagine if you had the time to wait this out, collected your dividends, and ultimately ended up with thousands of shares of NYMT stock at over $100/share!
This certainly isn’t a “Get Rich Quick Scheme,” but it is definitely a powerful way to put some extra money in your investment portfolio in a hurry. We don’t suggest playing with the stock market if you’re short on money, but if you’ve got the investments to play with, investing in MAIN, NYMT, or some of the other REITs out there on the market with high dividend yields is a great way to bolster your portfolio!