5 Ways You Can Get Paid For Being Funny Online
Besides using the Internet to grow your fanbase and promote your projects, you can also use it to directly make money from your comedic talent. There’s a lot of different ways that you can monetize your ability to be funny online, but relatively few comedians actually take advantage of these opportunities.
Here’s a breakdown of five things you can do to start making money online from your comedy…
A 1982 NY Times Article Predicts How Technology Will Transform Society
This 1982 NY Times article details how scientists predicted computer technology would change our lives in the years ahead. They made some pretty good predictions including:
Widespread penetration of the technology, it said, would mean, among other things, these developments:
- The home will double as a place of employment, with men and women conducting much of their work at the computer terminal. This will affect both the architecture and location of the home. It will also blur the distinction between places of residence and places of business, with uncertain effects on zoning, travel patterns and neighborhoods.
- Home-based shopping will permit consumers to control manufacturing directly, ordering exactly what they need for ”production on demand.”
- There will be a shift away from conventional workplace and school socialization. Friends, peer groups and alliances will be determined electronically, creating classes of people based on interests and skills rather than age and social class.
- A new profession of information ”brokers” and ”managers” will emerge, serving as ”gatekeepers,” monitoring politicians and corporations and selectively releasing information to interested parties.
- The ”extended family” might be recreated if the elderly can support themselves through electronic homework, making them more desirable to have around.
YouTube’s Greatest Hits (to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody)
Your brand isn’t what you say it is, it’s what Google says it is. It’s also what Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn say it is.
Here’s some good tips for those of you trying to figure out how to get the most out of your website…
The Comedy Business Digest: A Must-Read For Comedians
This is a new service I’m launching, I hope you’ll check it out and help spread the word…
The Comedy Business Digest features everything you need to know about what’s happening in the comedy business each week, compiled into one simple weekly email.
Lots of good advice in this Gary Vaynerchuk interview, including Gary’s three most powerful strategies to build an audience:
1. “Know what the fuck you’re talking about. You gotta be good.”
2. “Care about your community.”
3. “Innovate.”
How A Funny Kids Book Became A Bestseller Before It Was Even Released
Something remarkable happened today. A children’s book hit the No. 1 spot on Amazon.com’s best-seller list. And it did so a month before the book is even slated for release.
You may have heard of the book—it’s a best-seller after all. Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, began its life as a joke Facebook post in June. It was a particularly trying instance of bedtime with his 2-year-old daughter, and Mansbach let off some steam in the form of a humorous status update to his friends: “Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, ‘Go the — to Sleep.’ “
The response from his friends was so fierce that Mansbach decided to make his joke book a real one. Go the Fuck to Sleep, which he bills as a “children’s book for adults,” will hit stores on June 14, published by the Brooklyn press Akashic. If it’s not even due for a month, though, how did a little 32-page book already snag a film option deal with Fox 2000 and, today, reach the pinnacle of online publishing commerce world?
