> Been join this group awhile and really enjoy various interesting > topics. I am currently consider doing videoblogging full-time but not > sure if this can make enough for a living. > > What would be the best way to make a decent living as videoblogging? > Get couple of major sponsors? doing freelance videographer on the > side?... > > Any suggestions would really appreciated...(so I can make up my mind.)
This is greatly over simplified but here goes: **Grow Your Own Organically** Do whatever you're currently doing for income and work on building up a catalog of consistent, high quality video blog posts. Without great content you'll have an incredibly hard time getting anyone to associate their brand with you. Build an audience and build a relationship with that audience. After you've got a track record, put together a portfolio and start approaching companies you think would be compatible with your audience about sponsorship. **Videoblogger for Hire** If you're willing to do video for someone else, you might have a slightly faster path (with many variables that could get in your way). A huge number of currently popular online text publications want to get into video. The people writing articles often have too much to do or don't really want to do video and everything else on their plate. If you produce high quality video, you can pitch doing a video blog for a popular site in your topic niche. This potentially has the benefit of leaving someone else in charge of finding the sponsors leaving you more time to focus on making video - it also gives you a built-in audience for the videos. **Alternative Revenue Streams** You don't necessarily need a sponsor embedded directly in your videos, there are other paths to generating advertising revenue from the pages on your site, like contextual and display advertising. The tricky part about that is getting people to your site to see your videos (as well as the ads). There's an excellent chance that all the various places you post your videos (YouTube, Metacafe, Revver, Blip, etc, etc) will get more video views than your actual site, which means no one is seeing the ads. This is by no means an all inclusive way to get paid for video blogging, but my suggestions are based on personal experience making a living blogging for the past 6 years. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
