How much can you earn with an internet buzz ?

Viral marketing, internet buzz, buzz marketing. All these words are covering the same broad subject for an internet web site : how to generate lots of traffic very quickly ?

This is replacing slowly the "old good spam" in your email box. Indeed, information coming from one of your friend is more likely to be read than the famous "enlarge your penis" spam from an indian guy called "Nuvatu Gardesh".

Well the question is, can you make a lot of money with an internet buzz ?

First, I would like to make the distinction between a real company, selling real products or services and that would like to make people know about itself, and internet web sites designed only to generate a maximum of traffic and therefore maximise google adsense revenues.

My goal is to focus on the second one. Yesterday, I received an email from one of my friend with this link, that probably most of you know : www.humanforsale.com

The idea is funny, people like it because it is talking about them, they will come only once but we don't care, it did not take too much time to create it. So everything is gathered to make a good internet buzz.

Let's take a look at the figures. Today, there has been 15.3 millions human sold :

- Pessimistic case :

- The number of visitors is equal to the number of human sold (minimum number of visitors) that is to say 15.3 millions.

- The CTR (click transformation rate) is equal to 0.5%

- Google adsense pays 20 cents per click.

15 300 000 * 0.005 * 0.20 = $ 15 300

- More optimistic case :

- The number of visitors is equal to 1.5 times the number of human sold (1/3 of the visitors has not been through the selling process)

- The CTR is equal to 1.5%

- Google adsense pays 50 cents per click

15 300 000 * 1.5 * 0.015 * 0.5 = $ 172 125.


So. For a good webmaster, this internet site is to my mind just a matter of 2 days development. In 2 days and some more time dedicated to ad for this site, the webmaster has earned between $ 15 300 and $ 172 125, and I am pretty sure a bit more.

There are realy great deals to make quickly on the internet. The good idea, at the right time can make you rich !

Develop your own Xbox game and earn money

Microsoft has recently announced that it could sell Xbox games developped by the players through XNA framework and share up to 70% of its revenues with the creators. These games will be available on the Xbox Live service.

After Wiiware, the equivalent service launched by Nitendo in 2007, that is another great example of the collaborative work that is used by more and more firms to develop their business. By exploiting everyone's creativity and innovation, companies minimise their risks since there is no initial investment (except maybe the development and support of the Dev framework), and are multiplying their chances of earning money with a great game concept coming from one of their fan.

As web bloggers becoming real entrepreneurs and earning money with their own creation, we will be able to be game creators and why not become famous with one of the Xbox success ?

I think that the IT world is only at dawn of this new collaborative era and that more and more is going to come !

Want to become an Xbox creator ?

http://www.xna.com/
http://creators.xna.com/