Additionally, there’s Maliah Michel, most known as a dancer who’s received a number of mentions from Hip Hop artist (Drake, Rae Sremmurd, 2 Chainz, The Game).
The curvy Hip Hop model has over 35 thousand likes from her Fans page (at the time of this writing). Compare that to Rissa2Cute, who, at the time of the writing, has 26 thousand likes.
Many social media models can monetize their influence online using selfies from a simple mobile device.
Of course, not all users offer risqué content. Different influencers represent other categories. For example, Jane Kim Fitness offers exclusive personal training tips.
Secondly, Kimberly Caines creates content on beauty, fashion, and fitness. She also generates a significant amount of following from her blog, BFF With Kimberly.
Conclusion
Finally, as indicated from a previous post, Best Affiliate Marketing Business Opportunities, videos are becoming an increasing part of our internet experience. With YouTube, Facebook Live, etc leading the charge, it appears the trend isn’t going anywhere soon, if at all.
And because of NSFW video and photo content, social media sites like OnlyFans have provided members what they want to premium subscribers.
Are you a fan of a particular online model or entertainer? Or maybe you’re the influencer? Consider signing up for an account.
In this day and age instant gratification is highly expected. The technological age allows us to not only keep up with our favorite celebrities, but it allows us to follow the lives of everyday people who we admire.
Social media is ever-changing and the drive behind instantaneous information is coming to the point where we can, literally, see what people are doing in their homes, jobs, schools, etc. right at this very moment.
This new innovation is called Periscope- an app that allows you to broadcast live videos about what you’re doing and/or what’s going on around you for the world to see.
What Attracts Followers
Periscope, unlike YouTube, Vine or Twitter, allows followers to see what you’re doing at that exact moment in time.
As mentioned before, people love that instant knowledge of what’s going on in their favorite person’s day, and to be able to see, hear and experience what someone you admire is doing is exciting.
Just imagine being able to watch Beyonce get ready for a concert, or Naptural85 and her family during one of their bonfires.
You’re able to comment, ask questions, talk with other followers and view their instant reactions to all the love they’re being shown right at that moment. Periscope also allows the broadcast to stay active for 24 hours, kind of like Snapchat, just in case followers missed the live streaming.
Periscope in the Natural Hair Community
If you’re someone who wants to contribute to the natural community but you just don’t have the time to edit, and upload videos, Periscope could be a great platform for you.
The main benefit from this is the fact that you can show how you go about your day without having to waste any of your time.
Doing get-ready-with-me broadcasts, hair tutorials before you go to bed, or just chatting about life and giving advice while you’re making dinner are a few of the many things you could do on Periscope.
You can basically broadcast about anything that you want to, but you should also try to do topics that will set your broadcasts apart from the rest.
Making topics like “The Traveling Natural,” or “Corporate-friendly hairstyles,” would be helpful when trying to establish a good following because people will associate you with that specific type of broadcast.
Another great thing about Periscope is the fact that you can get live feedback, and that is something that could potentially bring the natural community closer together.
For example, if you’re not sure about a certain style or look that you want to try, all you have to do is ask your followers on Periscope what they think and you’ll receive instant feedback.
Additionally, this method can also become useful for singers, musicians, bloggers and everyday people who have something to share in any particular online community.
Misconceptions and Things To Ponder…
While some are wondering what’s the best way to get paid using Periscope, others have simply used this app as a platform for information and ideas.
In this case, “Scoping” should not be viewed as an easy way to make money, but rather a means to offer the best asset for social networking: Yourself.
In real time, on any given day or night, what value could one give to the virtual world? About to upload a blog post?
Why not share half of the content live, encouraging the audience to visit the site for further information.
It should also be noted that Periscope offers a replay function to capture a residual crowd, and by adding relevant hashtags in the title section of each Scope one could potentially gain followers.
Some people think of Periscope as intrusive, but it honestly isn’t.
You only have to show your followers what you want them to see and if you don’t want anyone to watch you doing personal things like spending time with family, you don’t have to show it.
What you broadcast is totally up to you and entirely in your control which is one of the greatest things about it.
As you may know, I’m a strong advocated of blogging. It’s a powerful tool used to attracted large audiences of every niche. There’s also monetization benefits too!
I’m also a proponent of social media. Working towards growing a dedicated following on popular social platforms may prove to pay off.
For many new comers attempting to drive traffic to their websites, they may face the challenge of competing against more established sites with high Domain Authority.
With social media, this gives users a chance to build an audience.
She went with celebrity blogging in spite of the naysayers. Several opportunities for bloggers are becoming competitive. Find creative ways to stand out.
She valued her first 3,500 followers and engaged with them as a way to connect with them.
She leveraged her following base by selling advertising space on her website.
Her audience were more interested in what THEY wanted as opposed to her blogging opinions. Give the people what they want.
Diversify topics as the audience grows
Conclusion..
While I’m not a fan of gossip blogs, it’s always nice to hear of their success stories. The Shade Room offers another example of how the Internet is a benefit to hard work and a great idea.
The most popular YouTube videos in India get hundreds of thousands of views every week, attesting to the popularity of the video sharing service in India. Like in the Hollywood-dominated West the popular YouTube videos in India are the latest trailers of new Bollywood releases or the hottest songs from Indian rock stars or musicians.
Tamil actor/singer Dhanush’s “Why this Kolaveri” was perhaps one of the most popular YouTube videos in India and had an impact similar to the one created by the incredibly famous and record breaking YouTube sensation, Gangnam Style by South Korean pop start PSY.
Browsing through YouTube, along with Facebook, is what a majority of Indians do on their mobile phones. India is the fastest growing smartphone market in the world, and most Indian buyers use their ultra-cheap smartphones to watch videos on YouTube.
The Importance of Mobile
Indeed, mobile is the most important part of YouTube’s India strategy, as the company owned by Google focuses on non-PC devices in countries with relatively lower PC and internet penetration such as India. Worldwide, mobile accounts for 25% of YouTube’s daily views, 1 billion in all, and this percentage is much higher in lower income countries such as India, or for that matter, in Africa.
India is one of YouTube’s top five markets in the world and hence quite significant. YouTube’s primary focus is to keep growing alongside, as the penetration of smartphones, internet and “smart” DTH television grows in India. The primary focus, as discussed earlier, is on mobile penetration. YouTube plans to take advantage of the rising popularity of YouTube videos in India by integrating YouTube videos with direct-to-home (DTH) television subscriptions provided by Indian companies such as with Airtel, Tata Sky and Dish TV.
Not Just A Bollywood Thing
While the most popular YouTube videos in India have related to Bollywood, it is not necessarily the case that all top content providers in India for YouTube have links to movies to India’s “City of Dreams”.
There are a plenty of content providers for YouTube in the country who have done remarkably well with their educational videos – such as, “how to change your hard drive”, product review videos – “New Google Nexus 6 Review” or “iPhone 6 Review” or some thrilling videos such as the video of stuntmen in Mumbai performing dangerous acrobatics on a moving train, which became viral, and eventually created a huge political storm, leading to stricter monitoring of Indian trains.
Point is, there is a great hunger in India for new and original videos, interesting videos, and they may have nothing whatsoever to do with Bollywood.
Video Tutorial in Hindi:
YouTube Popularity For Politics
Even politicians in India have taken to YouTube in a big way for their campaigning, none more so than India’s popular prime minister, Narendra Modi. Mr. Modi made YouTube and other social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook the corner stones of his campaigning in the recently concluded election, which he won by a landslide victory. Mr. Modi has been a pioneer in Indian politics and very good with technology – which makes him very popular among India’s young voters. Any YouTube video of the new Indian prime minister’s speeches, was likely to get hundreds of thousands of views. Indeed, fans of the Indian prime minister have a dedicated YouTube channel where his speeches were broadcasted. Hence, it’s not outlandish to suggest that YouTube could claim a small but significant role in Mr. Modi being the prime minister of India today!
YouTube-India Partnerships
Some of the most popular YouTube videos in India have been partnerships. YouTube has had highly successful partnerships with content creators such as the India Comedy Week a few years back, during which over 400 hours of comedy content were hosted by YouTube that featured originals and some all-time favorite TV comedy shows such as Mamman Bhai, Dilli Ki Billi and Shit People Say.
YouTube’s Diverse Language Options
Another important thing done by YouTube is not to cater to India’s most popular languages – Hindi and English – alone. YouTube has made a concerted effort to target speakers of other major Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Bengali, Malyalam, Gujarati, Punjabi as well as various dialects of Hindi such as Bhojpuri and Rajasthani.
Moving Forward
While doing business in India, YouTube has been smarter than many other multinational companies. The big reason for YouTube’s great success in India is how well the US based company has “Indianized” itself and adapted to Indian tastes and sensibilities. And the best part is that, we have seen nothing yet – YouTube will only get stronger and more popular in India over the next few years.
So you’ve decided that you want to create an additional stream of income to fund that exotic trip on your bucket list, and you’re determined to use the internet to supplement your earnings. You will want to find an online niche that is unique, useful to potential users, and can generate enough revenue to help make that bucket list a bit shorter. Beyond fulfilling bucket list items, you dream of success so great that you can fire your boss and strike out on your own to make your fortune.
Then perhaps you’ve been looking for some ways to make money.
Before you give the boss his or her walking papers, consider that finding a money making online niche and turning it into reality requires a lot of time, hard work and research. Information gathering is crucial, and not just any information, but the right information. Unfortunately, there are far too many “get rich on autopilot” scams, with empty or ambiguous promises of “being up and running in a few weeks”. This information, in the form of a “system” (at a special price) may actually be:
⦁ The Wrong Information
⦁ Outdated Information
⦁ Information That One Realizes Could Have Been Obtained for Free
Buying one of these “get rich” systems is tempting for sure, but chances are very high that the only person making any money will be the one selling the system to you! Hard work, persistence and tons of free information available in cyberspace and elsewhere will help you achieve financial success and independence. And therefore, behold, the (free) suggested list for what’s creating an online revenue stream.
Top 15 Money Making List
1 – Author a Blog
Reading, contributing to, or commenting on blogs has become an everyday routine for many internet users. Expertise, commitment and business savvy are all important to success.
You can become an affiliate marketer (free!) through your website, blog, review site, e-mail list (see below), newsletter or other online presence. Links, or ads, placed on your site produce income when a visitor clicks on the link and makes a purchase at the advertiser’s site, rewarding you a commission. Clickbank, JVZoo, CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) and Amazon Affiliates are examples of companies that can assist you in becoming a successful affiliate marketer.
A word of caution: while there are many sites offering courses promising one to become a super affiliate, it’s recommended to take advantage of free resources to assist in proper guidance. The popular Warriors’ Forum has an enormous amount of recent and up to date discussion posts from seasoned Internet Marketers. Additionally, Affilorama offers both free and premium membership services.
3 – Wall Street Laptop – Online Investing & Trading
Your rent or mortgage payment is just out of reach, or that fabulous vacation you wanted to take isn’t going to be possible for another year. Why deny yourself what you want when you can use the internet to generate income? Consider trading in the financial markets as a way to make money that not many know about.
These aren’t “get rich quick schemes,” you need to study and work at it for it to work for you. Be assured, with knowledge and effort, you can take these strategies and make them into money-making opportunities.
They are as follows:
Day Trading By day trading, we are talking about buying and selling stocks quickly during the course of a day.Sometimes you will hang onto to a stock for just a few hours, sometimes minutes. When you want to make money as a day trader, you would scout companies with high betas. This means looking for businesses which are more volatile than the overall market.You’ll find the most volatile stocks in the market are often what’s called penny stocks. These stocks trade for $5 or less per share. For example, if a stock has a beta of 2.1, the stock could climb or drop 2.1 times as fast as the market, if the market’s value begins to climb or drop. Day traders look for these potentials because fast gains can be had as they ride each volatile stock for only a short while. See this post to read more details on Jason Bond and swing trading.
FOREX Trading In the forex market, you buy or sell currencies.To do this, you place a trade in the foreign exchange (FOREX) market. The mechanics of a trade are very much the same as you would find in the stock market. If you have any experience in trading, you should be able to to do this fairly easily.The object of forex trading is to exchange one currency for another in the expectation that the price will change, so that the currency you bought will increase in value compared to the one you sold. Potential investors can discover more by reading a previous post, social trading, as it relates to both forex and penny stocks.
Binary Options You can make money in binary option trading if you follow a system. The key is to control risk. A trader can never lose too much money on any particular trade.
A put option is an contract giving the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell an underlying security, like stocks or bonds, at a specific price within a preset time. This is the opposite of a call option, which gives the contract holder the right to buy shares.
A call option is an agreement that gives an investor the right to exercise the option to buy an underlying security at a specific price within a preset time period.
In theory, you have a 50% chance of being correct on any trade whether you buy a call or a put option. To make money, you only need to be correct on about 60% of the trades you take. When you are making money in binary options, the outcome of a trade can be influenced by the other people participating and the outside environment. The outcome of a binary options trade can be anticipated by the current environment when the trade is executed. You don’t have to be right by much to be on the money making side.
Contract for Difference Trading Making money from CFD trading (Contracts For Difference) involves taking advantage of rising prices (long positions), or dropping prices (short positions) on stocks or bonds. The CFD is a contract between two parties, a buyer and a seller, to exchange the difference between the opening price and the closing price of a contract. When this difference is a negative amount, then the buyer pays that amount to the seller.
To make money, you need to:
Understand past patterns, so you can better predict future movements
Forecast momentum, so you can “ride the wave”
Swing trading by looking for stocks currently trading either above or below their normal range
Taking out two positions in the same industry – one goes long while the other goes short
4 – Ad Networks
Selling advertising directly on your site can provide a steady cash flow. Using a tool such as Google AdSense can make the process easy and effective, providing access to a large existing pool of advertisers. Advertising networks love websites that attract a lot of traffic, so it’s important to work on generating unique and regular visitors each month, using this as leverage for placed ads to attract large audiences.
5 – Data Entry Online Jobs /UtilizeVirtual Assistant Services
Fiverr, UpWork, and Time-etc are all examples of companies that specialize in providing virtual assistance in all kinds of business endeavors. You can freelance through these companies to use your skills and talents to make money doing what you love to do, and in many cases at your own hours! These services may include, but not exclusive to: Billing Clerk, Ghost Blogger, Business Card Designer, eNewsletter Publisher, Security Monitoring or Online Course Developers and Language Programming. Imagine taking advantage of freelance data entry jobs for hire on vacation in Thailand, Brazil or Belize!
Amazon and eBay are two well-known ecommerce sites that you can use to make money. Both provide platforms that allow you to sell products in different ways to hundreds of millions of potential buyers. Alternatively, you can set up your own site with the help of specialists, or give it a go on your own. As the saying goes, “If you build it they will come”. As an example, you could create the next best virtual flea market to bring potential sellers together in exchange for a percentage of each sale with dropshipping. Or, perhaps you have an idea of a product of your own? Either way, with the right amount of research and effort, the possibilities are endless.
7 – Apps Development
Come up with an app that people decide they can’t live without, and watch the money roll in. Consider Chad Mureta of AppEmpire, now worth millions, who created his first app, a bestseller called Fingerprint Security Pro, with no prior experience. In-app purchasing can generate additional revenue, and in-app advertising is another potential money maker. Small business owners are realizing the impact that mobile apps can have on their bottom line, and the demand for those with the skills to create such apps is huge.
If writing is your thing, you can become a freelance writer for SEO content companies such as Fiverr, Writer Access, BKA Content, or freelance exclusively for a company or a select blog or blogs. As online and social media presence becomes more and more important for a company’s survival, a gifted writer can use their talents to create some respectable income.
9 – Domain & Website Flipping
Flippa.com, NameJet.com and other auction sites facilitate the buying and selling of domain names that have expired for a variety of reasons. With some skill and tenaciousness, flipping domains and websites can be one of the simplest methods to make money online, in many cases for a considerable profit. Website flipping involves the buying of a site, improving it, and then reselling it at a higher price. A low initial investment and the chance to make money off the site even while improvements are being made can make this process lucrative as well.
Combined with a blog site following or strong social media base, successful marketers know the power of generating huge prospects, which serves as a rewarding source of passive income. In exchange for submitting an e-mail via an opt-in form, subscribers receive updates, free ebooks or discount deals (to name a few). The next step comes from sending an “e-mail blast” (MailChimp, Constant Contact and SendGrid are just a few of the top electronic marketing services used to reach potential leads) with products or services, such as those from affiliate programs. Whether you choose to build an email list with or without a website, it’s important to note that numbers are everything, giving marketers enough opportunities to monetize their website traffic or Facebook fans.
11 – Write an E-book
With the advent of self-publishing, anyone can write and publish an e-book, with the potential to be read by millions all over the world. Whether it be fiction or non-fiction such as a how-to or a self-help book, the possibilities are limitless and the income potential great.
Brief demonstration from Stefan Pylarinos of K Money Mastery:
12 – Utilize YouTube
Creating original content on your own YouTube channel is a great way to generate revenue. The key is to create fun, engaging content that is not only appealing to many users, but to advertisers as well. Quality content submitted on a regular basis creates and nurtures advertising relationships that will last and create income over the long term. If interested, you may learn more here.
In Conclusion
Although there is no easy path to making lots of money online, there are so many opportunities available that there should be something for everyone. These 15 methods only scratch the surface of what is possible through hard work, determination, skill, lots of research, and a little luck. Choose something that appeals to you and go for it – you could be the next internet millionaire!
A lot of the previous blog posts have dealt with investing and how technology and the internet have made things easier for the common woman and man. So it’s no surprise to introduce another concept: The Social Trader.
Social trading is a practice online investors employ to make financial decisions, in which they utilize user-generated financial content from sites such as Profit.ly and Etoro.com. Sites like these help the social trader to analyze financial data by supplying a common ground for copying and comparing trades, strategies, and techniques. Before social trading was possible, copy traders and investors had to rely solely on technical analysis to make investment decisions. Today’s social trading investors are able to trade data-feeds of social indicators online with other traders.
Social or copy trading allows online trading with the assistance of others. Many social traders claim that this ability greatly shortens the time necessary to move from being a novice to becoming an experienced Forex (Foreign Exchange Market) trader. All foreign currencies are traded in this over-the-counter market, which is the most liquid and biggest world market today. Social traders can watch others take trades, interact with other traders, and then copy, or duplicate, the most successful trades, and in the process learn why top performers choose the trades they do. By using copy trades, a new trader can learn what strategies work or what strategies don’t work.
What are some of the key features of social trading?
Transparency – By using trading platforms like InvestFeed or eToro, a social trader can find out the performance statistics of other traders, past and present positions, plus current market sentiment, which allows members all the information they need in order to appraise the site contributor’s credibility
Monetization -The ability to convert an object or asset into legal tender or money. It is possible for copy traders to learn a great variety of data about other users which will benefit them in the long run.
Cooperative trading – Through these online sites newer traders have the chance to work cooperatively in trading teams, pool funds, share information, and divide research up collaboratively.
Information flow – Social traders can benefit greatly by studying information exchanges that flow freely between financial investors. Freely exchanged information is valuable to individual investors.
How does copy trading compare to social trading?
Copy trading capabilities are available with assorted financial trading operators as one part of a bigger social trading platform. Copy trading permits financial market traders to automatically copy any positions that are managed or opened by a particular investor inside the social trading network. A portion of the funds of a copy trader is linked to a copied investor’s account. This means that all trades initiated by the investor being copied, like opening or closing positions, or assigning Take Profit and Stop Loss orders, will then be executed in the account of the copying trader, depending upon the allotted trading funds of the copier and the proportion of the investor’s account that is being copied. Copy traders usually have the right to disconnect from any copied trades and begin to manage these trades themselves.
A study of copy trades in 2012 demonstrated that traders who did copy trades on eToro with a “suggested investor” were 6 to 10% more successful than manual traders, and four percent more successful than copy traders of random investors. Research is on-going to fine tune a trader’s capacity to benefit sustainably from copy trading.
Social trading has become increasingly popular. Here is a listing of the most popular social trading networks available today:
eToro – This site is a social trading network as well as a broker and focuses on novice investors. New investors like this site’s simple mobile friendly interface A review of eToro can be found toward the end of this article
ZuluTrade – This site currently has the greatest number of investors and traders online. They provide complete trade copying plus social interaction capabilities
Ayondo – This German based site was the first to offer auto trading to UK customers in order to “spreadbet” Forex accounts. They offer stocks, indices, fx, bonds, interest rates, and commodities
Copyop – This is the most advanced and leading trading network for social binary options
CM Trading CopyKat – On this site you can copy and follow traders through a special “CopyKat” SIRIX trading platform. Members can mirror trades from everybody on SIRIX
Profit.ly – This huge website deals specifically with instructing people on penny trading ins and outs. This site offers email stock-pick alerts, SMS, plus a private chat-room where users can find help. A review of this copy trading site can be found immediately below.
Because they’ve become slightly more popular compared to the rest, we shall examine Profit.ly and eToro further:
Social Trading With Profit.ly
Profit.ly was created to introduce accountability, data-driven optimization, transparency and measurement into the world of online trading. Copy trades exist in abundance. However, concerns about stock manipulation as well as industry regulations sometimes prevent affiliates and members from being able to share information openly all the time. For this reason Profit.ly allows investors and traders to make private profiles where they can enjoy total account privacy.
Check the interview below:
This online site has advanced analytic tools which allow social traders to measure their performance, and at the same time make a knowledgeable analysis of which trade setups work the best for them. Traders can choose from various different products that include the capability to track profits, verify trades, get on leaderboards, message and follow other traders, plus view the stats of other traders for $29.95 a month. $49.95 a month allows a copy trader to make a private profile (but you won’t have access to other traders’ stats). The Pro level costs $74.95 a month and includes a private profile, as well as access to the statistics of other traders.
Profit.ly founder Timothy Sykes has made a career of exposing misinformation and fraud in the online guru and penny stock industries. A new feature of Profit.ly is called the “Bernie Madoff“, which allows community members to weed out and expose those traders that are possible liars.
Click image to visit Profit.ly, the Social Trading Platform
Social Trading With eToro
Founded by Jonathan Assia, eToro.com, “the Facebook of trading”, is currently the leading social trade network in the world (excluding the US). More than 5 million investors are using this social investment network. Opening an account with eToro gives you immediate access to CopyTrader, which advertises that members can choose to copy from more than 3 million traders. Once you open an account you can utilize their OpenBook platform for searching top social investors. When a potential trader to be copied is spotted, a user can allocate a part of their funds and begin copy trading. Any information that the copy trader submits is immediately protected by state-of-the-art encryption technology to ensure that your information won’t be shared with any third parties. A new account can be funded with PayPal, Moneygram, or credit card.
Click image to visit eToro, the world’s leading social trading network
One interesting feature of eToro is that if “popular traders” are copied, they’ll be rewarded. Depending on how many copiers a Popular Trader has, they’ll receive monthly fixed commission payments. The topmost “Elite” traders will receive annually 2% of all funds that are under their management, as well as totally commission free trading. In July of 2016 eToro updated their “Popular Investor Dashboard” to include a CRM (Customer Relationship Management System) which enables more interactions between copiers and Popular Investors. There’s currently more than 5 million users on eToro, which appeals to professional traders that are interested in making some extra cash for their trading skills.
To discover more details on the popular Social Trading platform, consider reading the full blog post review on eToro.
Here, we’ll get into an eToro review of the largest social trading website in the world. But first, for the unaware, let’s start with the basics.
Social Trading Platform
Social trading is the process via which investors use online data and financial content sourced from a multitude of web applications as the main source to drive financial decisions. Etoro introduced a new way to trade on the internet. In 2010, the company launched OpenBook, which is a crowdsourced investment platform. Using this platform, it is possible for first-time or inexperienced traders to copy the transactions of top investors in the foreign exchange marketplace.
Comprehensive eToro Review Video
EToro Revolution
EToro is widely considered the first and most advanced social trading platform. Subscribers have an immediate in with a community of experienced traders, as well as a social network within the investment world. EToro provides all the tools needed to trade in the modern marketplace. The platform enables you to:
Perform retail trading on the open market
Observe the other traders and copy their transactions
Use Copy Trading feature on the platform to automatically duplicate all trades made by your selected traders you choose
How it Works
EToro compiles the activity of all users and shares it with the entire community. This works like a financial transaction social network. Users can even like, comment and share on a user-generated feed.
Every trader gets assigned a public profile, which is open for consultations. Your performance is public and everyone can follow everyone else and replicate them.
EToro’s Performance Data
Once you’ve found a Professional Investor you want to copy, just click on their name. This brings up their profile, portfolio, stats, open trades, even their history and investment friends. This screen displays live trading feed of the trader. You have access to each live trade and any comments from other social traders, some of whom openly discuss their own trades. This is a tremendous opportunity for newcomers to learn the lay of the land.
EToro is second to none when it comes to the ability to quickly share information. Every investor can follow selected traders without copying trades automatically.
Video Example of Copying Top Traders
Markets Section
EToro Markets displays all products, such as currency pairs and stocks, that can be traded via CFDs (contract for difference, a contract between a buyer and seller that pays the current value minus the value at contract time).
Copy Trading
Generally, CopyTrader is an eToro tool that allows subscribers to choose a trader to copy and select an amount to copy for investments. You can watch how your account performs using this strategy. Here is additional information to consider before trying out this feature:
Minimum investment is $100. Maximum investment is $500,000.
You can follow a maximum of 100 traders.
Minimum amount for copying is $1.
EToro Search Feature
This functionality lets you search for people or stock symbols and returns information on trades pertaining to the search criteria. The Top 100 traders, holding the most profits realized in the current week, are displayed. Here, you can review 10 instruments (indices, currency pairs and commodities) that they are trading at the moment.
EToro Advanced Search
Advanced Search filters on eToro help you figure out your favorite traders. The feature includes a risk level filter. You can search profiles by Average Position, Weekly Drawdown, Gain, Leverage, Winning Weeks, Win Ratio, Exposure and Min. # Trades.
Click image to browse eToro’s Social Trading Platform
Tips for Investing on eToro
Don’t always pick traders with the highest returns. Opt for frequent investors over “one hit wonders.”
Look for consistent, long-term returns, say 10-20% over the past six months.
To start, be conservative. Take advantage of the filtering tools to find traders with low-medium average risk
Diversify your investments over a bunch of traders; you can follow up to 100.
Etoro has real-time stock trading, and many investors who hedge and invest in forex and stocks simultaneously have more reliable long-term performance.
EToro Pros and Cons
Here are some great things about EToro:
Has tight fixed spreads
Guarantees stop losses and limit orders
Does not charge trade commissions
Available in four languages
Trade in Bitcoin currency
Price alerts
One click trades
Automated trading
Islamic and Arabic friendly
These are the cons:
Inactivity fee if not active in one year
Currently not available for United States citizens
No direct market access
No scalping
No VPS services
Charges fees to deposit and withdraw funds
Basically, eToro simplifies the amount of analysis that you have to do as an investor. This is a tool that lets you invest without siphoning through endless graphical performance data.
Some Attributes of Worthy Traders You Should Copy
Their profile feed includes posts that demonstrate market knowledge
Have lowdrawdowns (how much they’ve been down this week or month) under 10 percent.
Consistent investment won’t have ridiculous returns in a short period of time. Look for long-term consistency, because these are sustainable without being reckless.
Islamic Trading Account
Islamic law forbids usurious interest rates in lending or borrowing money. This includes stock exchanges. The requirements to prevent Riba(usurious lending) include:
Stocks must be bought and sold without delay
Monies for each trade must be paid for upon the time of the transaction
Currencies should be directly moved from the seller’s account to the buyer’s
There can be no interest on any trades.
If any indication of usurious interest is detected, the contract is void as forbidden (Haram).
Etoro – Available for opening an Islamic Forex Account. Click image to view site in Arabic
To resolve this issue, a trader can buy as much as his current balance allows or borrow from a broker, who cannot receive any usurious interest rates on the transaction. Also, no interest can be obtained from contracts ongoing for 24 hours or more, which means that the daily rollover of interest has to be zero on a consistent basis.
The eToro website is dynamic and easier to use. Looking back through old reviews, it is easy to see how much they evolved and are still evolving. As the first and still premium social trading platform, they have set the bar high and rising. With easy to understand interfaces and constantly advancing tools, this site is an easy “Yes, please.” Starting risks are very low; you can join for $100 and, as long as you make one investment a year, there are no transaction fees.
It is great that they have an Islamic account that respects the Islamic culture in a very straight-forward way. That kind of forethought attracts diversity, which can only improve the social investing gene pool, in my opinion.
One thing I did not see anywhere was the risk of heavy investors manipulating trade. It seems to me that it would be easy enough to band together a with few super investors and create some real chaos. It apparently hasn’t happened yet, so, for now, I am going to enjoy my relatively new eToro count and see how well my performance tracks against my advice.
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Food blogs have become hugely popular in recent times. But is it really possible to give up your usual 9-to-5 grind, start a food blog and make money from writing about your favorite dishes? Yes! As previously stated, there’s power in blogging for income. Read on to find out how to start a food blog and make money.
Step #1: Start The Blog.
It’s time to start the blog. Get a domain name (GoDaddy sells the cheapest domain names) and sign up for web hosting (HostGator is a good option). Once that’s done, you can go ahead and install WordPress for free. Now, look for premium WordPress themes for food blogs. You will find many at Theme Forest.
Start planning your content. You will have to do a fair bit of reading and do your research on healthy and sumptuous dishes that people love and want to know more about.
People generally want to have great food, but don’t want to spend too much time on its preparation and would like the ingredients to be reasonably priced and easily available. Those are the dishes you should cover with your blog.
You can have your own specialty or cover a range of cuisines, and create a special weekly recipe for the blog. You will need to learn to take great photographs of the dishes with your iPhone or with an advanced camera.
Step #3: Driving Traffic to Your Food Blog
Attract your audience with a Facebook page. Additionally, you should use a combination of social media advertising and Google AdWords to drive traffic to your blog. You should start by sharing photos of your dishes on photo sharing sites Instagram and Pinterest to drive traffic from them.
You should shoot videos of yourself cooking special dishes and share them on YouTube, with a detailed explanation of the whole process. Writing eBooks and selling them on Amazon is another great way to drive traffic to your site.
Step #4: Monetize The Food Blog
There are several different ways to monetize a food blog. You can try your hand at affiliate marketing, which means marketing products belonging to a different company on your blog, leading your visitors to the product page on the seller or manufacturer’s website where they can make the purchase, in return for a commission on every sale.
You can market the equipment or ingredients used to make your dishes for example. You can review various different types of blenders or write about the various health benefits of the ingredients. You could also review various cookbooks and diet books on ClickBank.
Don’t forget to lead your visitors to a link to an appropriate page on your affiliate network – which could be Amazon, ClickBank or something else. When they buy something, you make money. Your commission could be anything from 8% to 45% on each sale.
Other ways of making money from your food blog include selling advertising space on a pay-per-click network such as Google AdSense, or BuySellAds.
You can place ads from a local restaurant or food store on your blog for a fixed monthly fee. Another popular technique is to sell an eBook with dozens of recipes for $5 or more on your blog.
Final Thoughts – How Much Money Can You Make as a Food Blogger?
The possibilities for making money from your food blog are limitless. There are many food bloggers that make $10,000/month or more from their blogs, just by following their passion, using some of the advice given here and developing a dedicated readership. Are you up to the challenge? Start a food blog, give it your best shot, you never know what could happen.
Udemy is the most popular online learning platform in the world. It is without doubt a great avenue for making a decent online income. But it does have some disadvantages – there are so many courses available on Udemy that it is so easy to get lost in the crowd.
Also, there isn’t much of a quality control on Udemy. Almost anyone can post a course here, there are no restrictions. So, finding a great course is very difficult, almost like finding a needle in a haystack.
So you may want to look for an Udemy alternative.
Educator Salman Khan’s Khan Academy is perhaps the best alternative to Udemy. It offers small video lectures on various technical subjects and builds engagement with the audience through practical assignments. Khan Academy checks your program and evaluates your performance in the exercises, and offers personalized support depending on your skill level. Khan Academy is free to use and is available in over 20 languages.
Coursera is one of the most popular alternatives to Udemy. It has only a limited number of courses, most of which are syndicated from some of the top universities and educational institutions around the word. Many of the courses on Coursera are taught by university professors. You can take some of the courses for free. Other courses require a payment to be made. You will be given a certificate of achievement for getting through the courses, which can be regarded as a credit in academic programs.
Lynda.com is a popular educational site where you have to pay for the courses. Like Udemy, Lynda focuses on providing learners with important skills that makes them employable in the highly competitive digital working environment of today. You will learn office software proficiency, computer programming, graphic design, audio engineering, videography, and presentation skills. Most of the courses on Lynda are video based, but one of the big advantages is that it allows you to search for video transcripts. You can also add various videos and prepare your own custom playlist.
Udacity is a Udemy alternative that offers just 100 free courses and 9 paid courses called as Nanodegrees. What makes it unique is that its courses have been created in partnership with major technology companies such as Facebook, Google and SalesForce. These courses can be counted as academic credits. You can start with easy courses that require little knowledge or technical expertise and then gradually work your way to more complex technical courses.
Skillshare is another Udemy competitor that offers video courses in marketing, photography, design, fine art and music production. The courses are highly specialized and taught by experts in their respective fields. Some of the famous Skillshare are, social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk, real estate entrepreneur and Shark Tank host Barbara Corcoran and fashion designer Marc Ecko. There’s a mix of free courses and paid by subscription courses on Skillshare.
Internet And Politics: The Case For Freedom And Opportunity
Every presidential election campaign seems to have at least one candidate who decides to take on the traditional media. By and large, these politicians never do well, as a result. Most wind up dropping out in the primaries. Such was not the case in 2016 for Republican Donald J. Trump, a self-professed outsider, who decried both liberal and conservative journalists. Instead, Trump was able to obliterate both his in-party competition and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
So, how did this all happen? How could Trump challenge the establishment press, yet still come out on top. He did so largely by having a strong social media presence. Trump ran a high-tech campaign that others will surely use as a roadmap for political success.
Following are the key components of this 21st century political campaign strategy and some predictions for the future of American politics.
Live Video Events
Trump realized that live video was the way to go. Yet, rather than relying on television to broadcast him, Trump used Facebook and other social media outlets. He could get his message to both followers and those sitting on the fence free of charge. No need to pay for commercial advertising. No need to wait for the networks to put him on the air.
On September 3, 2016, Donald Trump addressed potential black voters in a live streamed event in Detroit, bypassing the media.
In October 2016, Trump, the overall winner, had over thirty-three live Facebook events, compared with only eleven for Clinton.
Images Sent to Followers
Trump also garnered more social media followers than others. For example, he had five million more Facebook fans than Clinton. These people received a daily onslaught of images and posts to compliment live events.
It is important to remember that all of this social media publicity came largely free of charge.
First, no serious political candidate can ignore or fail to appreciate social media. Trump demonstrated that a candidate can openly express disdain for the press, yet still win.
The old belief that the press is the “fourth branch” of the government is no longer applicable; instead, the internet just might deserve that moniker from now on.
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Second, the public of the 21st century is on the go. Most people have mobile devices and want their news instantaneously. They want a notification that their candidate is giving a live speech and the ability to click an icon to watch the event immediately. Forgot about racing home to catch a debate. In 2016, Trump was better able to embrace this new political reality than others.
Third, the costs of running a political campaign may go down. If 2016 is any indicator, candidates can be successful without having to spend exorbitant amounts on traditional television and radio commercial slots.
Fourth, and perhaps most significant, social media could democratize politics. Think about it. The mainstream media, consisting of journalists, who quite often think alike, will no longer be the dominant force in how the public perceives a candidate. The politicians of today can now get their messages to voters unfiltered. Moreover, as stated above, they can do so without having to pay for it. Candidates only need set up a few social media accounts. In effect, some of the traditional barriers to political entry have fallen.
For these reasons, and more, the internet and social media will be keys to political success for a long time to come.
A New Era
The 2016 election victory of Donald Trump reminds us of the 1960 Presidential debate, the first carried live on television. Those who watched the event knew Kennedy won; meanwhile, listeners had a likewise certainty that Nixon came out on top. Well, the difference was the medium.
Television changed politics because people could see candidates rather merely hear them. Kennedy appeared polished. Nixon seemed sweaty and nervous. Of course, JFK won the election.
Social media is having a similar effect on politics. Just as television pushed radio to the side, the internet will do the same to traditional media.
Democratization by way of Technology and the Information Age
