I just purchased a Sony GC1 NET-Sharing CAM to start recording videos for my gardening site, my fly fishing New Brunswick site and my Adventure Travel site. I love the camera but I think that I could have used some help getting started.

That’s where Jim Kukral comes in. Jim has a great site started at Online Video Toolkit and well worth visiting. Checkout the videos Jim has created to help you get started with your own videos.

I picked a camera similar to Jim’s flip camera but with a bit more memory so that I can store up to nine hours of video or a ton of images for my blogs.

I am just moving from Jim’s Choosing a Camera video to Video #2, Buying Lights. Lighting has been my biggest problem so far, well that and the fact I have a hard time not being scared to death of talking or being on video. I’ll get over myself eventually.

I am watching the videos in order but I can hardly wait until I get to the videos that show me how to handle natural light and also filming outside. This is vital to my success as my blogs are hobby blogs and my hobbies all take me outside.

I am going to continue through the videos Jim has provided at Online Video Toolkit and see what else I can learn that will make my videos the best they can be at an affordable price.

Image via WikipediaI have been online for almost ten years and have made money online from the start, just not a lot from any one place. I even tried a few get rich quick schemes that came back and bit me right on the ass but I have never found a truly legal system where you can make money online with no money invested and no work either.

If you are willing to work and to even invest a bit of your hard earned money you can make a great living online. The biggest part is the learning curve and that is where I like to use other people’s knowledge as it makes my learning curve much smaller, meaning I can be in the money quicker.

Here is a video by Chris Pirillo @ chris.pirillo.com on how to make money online.

I like the first two suggestions Chris has.

1. You need to be willing to work for it.

2. Blogging is a great place to start. Personally I was stuck on static page sites that I almost missed the blogging boat.

The key to blogging, if your goal is to make money online, is to be unique. Write what people want to read. No one is going to read something they don’t want to read about unless they are still in school writing exams.

Be sure to take notes while you are viewing this video and like Chris says: GET STARTED

• Happy Mothers day to all you hard working mothers. I hope you get waited on hand and foot today. #
• I grew up in foster homes and have had many mothers. So happy Many Mother’s Day #

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Image via WikipediaI have been using Wordpress for blogging now for a couple of years and much prefer it to blogger.com. It took me a while but I eventually moved all my blogs from blogger to my own domains.

I feel I have so much more control and I don’t have that nagging feel that my blogs could be shut down if they are hosted by anyone other than myself.

I thought it appropriate to show a WordPress Tutorial as my first Step by Step Tips video. This video is just over 45 minutes so go get yourself a beverage and make sure you take notes.

• @cmiddlebrook I was raised on rabbit, deer and pheasant. Very tasty when cooked correctly. #
• @cmiddlebrook As a kid growing up on a farm I was forbidden to try and make friends with our food source. #
• Using ClickTale To Monitor Your Visitors Every Move. http://snurl.com/2874f #
• @copyblogger Excellent I just put a pot of coffee on. What do you take in it? #
• Garry Conn’s MoreNiche post today reminded me to check my stats there and I have been making sales without knowing. http://snurl.com/287el #

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Let me start by thanking Garry Conn for the reminder to checkout MoreNiche. I have been an affiliate of MicroNiche.com for sometime and haven’t even made a post about them, even though I have made sales through them.

I heard about MicroNiche through a friend. I setup my account but at the time they only had one affiliate program I was interested in. That program was ClickTale stats, if you want to see what your visitors every move is they are the program to join.

I set a MicroNiche campaign up in just a couple of minutes and was promoting ClickTale and then I promptly forgot about it. It wasn’t until this morning after reading Garry’s post that I even realized I was making sales. Pretty cool. I believe credit where credit is due. So thanks for the reminder Garry.

What is MoreNiche?

MicroNiche is an affiliate manager where you can promote great brands and affiliate programs to earn commission.

What To Do First.

Your first step is to signup with MoreNiche so you can get approved and start making more money. Once you have registered you will receive an approval email as well as a welcome to MoreNiche email. These emails will give you links to the webmaster area and to the MoreNiche forum.

Once you have been accepted you can follow the beginners guide to making more money with MicroNiche in the webmaster’s area.

• Gorgeous morning. Went for a 40 minute walk before the rain starts later. It’s 7:30am and sunny @ 8 degrees C. Time for another coffee. #
• @DebNg Still sunny, 8 degrees. The clouds are growing and getting darker.It’s not raining at this point but the forecast is wet all weekend. #
• Question: Why do I get differnet search results using google.com here in Canada than a client in the U.S. using google.com #

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