Nelsok.com began with no users and 1 test video. We have now grown to over 2,500 users and over 5,300 videos uploaded by users. The site is now averaging about 100 new video uploads per day and 25 new users.
With the viral nature of the internet and video content we only expect these numbers to increase. The increase in videos results in an increase of viewers. The increase in viewers is great for our users who take part in our revenue sharing programs.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
How to Earn Money from Your Videos
We have been hard at work developing more tools and features for our users but we would like to take a minute to help everyone make some money from their videos.
First - You need to sign up for an adsense publisher account. You can start the process here: http://www.nelsok.com/earn
Second - Create an account on nelsok.com and associate your adsense publisher ID with your nelsok.com account
Third - Upload a video under your nelsok.com account
Fourth - Promote your video
The fourth step is probably one of the most important steps. Without visitors to watch your video, you wont make any money. There are several ways to get visitors to watch your video.
- Post a link on your blog using the link code on your video page.
- Use the social bookmark links to post your video on your favorite social bookmarking and news sites.
- Post your video on your myspace, hi5 or facebook profile
- Email your video URL to friends, you can do this either using the "email to friend link" or by copying the Link URL into and email.
Once your video promotion is complete you can just sit back and watch your earnings grow.
First - You need to sign up for an adsense publisher account. You can start the process here: http://www.nelsok.com/earn
Second - Create an account on nelsok.com and associate your adsense publisher ID with your nelsok.com account
Third - Upload a video under your nelsok.com account
Fourth - Promote your video
The fourth step is probably one of the most important steps. Without visitors to watch your video, you wont make any money. There are several ways to get visitors to watch your video.
- Post a link on your blog using the link code on your video page.
- Use the social bookmark links to post your video on your favorite social bookmarking and news sites.
- Post your video on your myspace, hi5 or facebook profile
- Email your video URL to friends, you can do this either using the "email to friend link" or by copying the Link URL into and email.
Once your video promotion is complete you can just sit back and watch your earnings grow.
Friday, September 28, 2007
New Storage Hardware
We have upgraded our hardware again. Both our storage systems and servers have been upgraded. The end user will see increased speeds realized through upload, download and database read and write.
The storage hardware upgrade is where users will see the most impact. We have moved from an ATA NAS solution to a Fiber Channel (FC) SAN. Video upload and video download speeds will be greatly increased. We have also increased the storage capacity to 1.8 Tera bytes.
All the servers are now running 15k SCSI drives. 4 GB of RAM, and Dual Xeon Processors.
The architecture of the system has also changed to a distributed system.
The storage hardware upgrade is where users will see the most impact. We have moved from an ATA NAS solution to a Fiber Channel (FC) SAN. Video upload and video download speeds will be greatly increased. We have also increased the storage capacity to 1.8 Tera bytes.
All the servers are now running 15k SCSI drives. 4 GB of RAM, and Dual Xeon Processors.
The architecture of the system has also changed to a distributed system.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Video Conversion
In the past our video conversion software has been spotty on what videos it will let pass through its conversion process and which ones it will not. This is no longer the case. We have upgraded our video converter and now nearly 95% of all videos being uploaded are passed through our system without errors. The majority of the previous errors were resulting from videos in the .wmv and .mov formats. Now that these files are being passes through the system error free users will begin to see an increase in the number of files they have uploaded. Although there are still a few codecs that our decoded/encoder can not handle, we believe that delivering on 95% of users videos is a great accomplishment. We have also minimized the time between upload/conversion and approval. Overall our users are seeing anywhere from a 50% to 60% decrease in wait time, for their videos to go live.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Guest Blogger - How I Make Money with Videos
This week Troy Wood will be blogging about how he earns enough from revenue sharing programs including nelsok.com to pay his BMW Lease payment.
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I first started using the revenue sharing model on nelsok.com about 4 months ago. I had never really heard about nelsok.com but found them through a search engine. Once I read their about page and understood that they used a 3rd party to let me advertise and make money on their site I wanted to try it.
I started with one video and shared it with my friends and family via email. This did not result in much revenue for me. So I decided to post a link on my myspace page and on digg.com. After doing this I began to see an increase in the number of views my video was getting. Adding to the number of views were visitors coming directly to my video from within nelsok.com, these were visitors I didnt have to try to get.
I now started to see a little revenue and uploaded more videos and promoted each in the same way as the first. After just a few weeks I was seeing my daily earnings in the $10 range... and 30 days in a month multiplied by $10 per day is about $300 per month which I was very happy about because I didn't have to do anything to get the money.
Needless to say I have kept uploading and promoting videos and my earnings have continued to rise. I would suggest that anyone who wants to make some easy money try to make it the way I did.
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I first started using the revenue sharing model on nelsok.com about 4 months ago. I had never really heard about nelsok.com but found them through a search engine. Once I read their about page and understood that they used a 3rd party to let me advertise and make money on their site I wanted to try it.
I started with one video and shared it with my friends and family via email. This did not result in much revenue for me. So I decided to post a link on my myspace page and on digg.com. After doing this I began to see an increase in the number of views my video was getting. Adding to the number of views were visitors coming directly to my video from within nelsok.com, these were visitors I didnt have to try to get.
I now started to see a little revenue and uploaded more videos and promoted each in the same way as the first. After just a few weeks I was seeing my daily earnings in the $10 range... and 30 days in a month multiplied by $10 per day is about $300 per month which I was very happy about because I didn't have to do anything to get the money.
Needless to say I have kept uploading and promoting videos and my earnings have continued to rise. I would suggest that anyone who wants to make some easy money try to make it the way I did.
Some Information
Three topics...
1) Our software/script
2) Our earnings
3) Our Competition
1) We are constantly receiving requests asking for our "script". To clear things up about this issue, I would like to say that at this time we are not interested in selling our "script". Even if nelsok.com did decide that selling our script was the best way for us to pursue new business, the site does not use a script in the traditional sense of the word. We use multiple scripting engines, and multiple languages across multiple servers. The majority of users looking to purchase our script would have a near impossible time implementing the software onto their hosting account and a very difficult time implementing the script on their own server(s).
2) We are also contacted and asked how much money we make on the site and how much money our users make. Because our main source of revenue is adsense and our customers source of revenue is adsense we are unable to share this information per the adsense TOS. Our users who opt in to the advertising revenues also put a great deal of trust into nelsok.com and we are not going to take advantage of that trust by disclosing their earnings. However I will generalize and say that we have some users who earn 5 cents per day and some users who earn upwards of $100 per day.
3) Because nelsok.com has some unique features that other video hosting websites do not offer we are contacted and/or probed by our competition for our source or methodology of some of these features. To be clear we are not interesting in selling in part or in whole our source code. Some of our competition has also requested to partner with us in our efforts, we are happy to listen to offers but currently we are yet to hear anything that makes sense for nelsok.com to engage in a partnership.
1) Our software/script
2) Our earnings
3) Our Competition
1) We are constantly receiving requests asking for our "script". To clear things up about this issue, I would like to say that at this time we are not interested in selling our "script". Even if nelsok.com did decide that selling our script was the best way for us to pursue new business, the site does not use a script in the traditional sense of the word. We use multiple scripting engines, and multiple languages across multiple servers. The majority of users looking to purchase our script would have a near impossible time implementing the software onto their hosting account and a very difficult time implementing the script on their own server(s).
2) We are also contacted and asked how much money we make on the site and how much money our users make. Because our main source of revenue is adsense and our customers source of revenue is adsense we are unable to share this information per the adsense TOS. Our users who opt in to the advertising revenues also put a great deal of trust into nelsok.com and we are not going to take advantage of that trust by disclosing their earnings. However I will generalize and say that we have some users who earn 5 cents per day and some users who earn upwards of $100 per day.
3) Because nelsok.com has some unique features that other video hosting websites do not offer we are contacted and/or probed by our competition for our source or methodology of some of these features. To be clear we are not interesting in selling in part or in whole our source code. Some of our competition has also requested to partner with us in our efforts, we are happy to listen to offers but currently we are yet to hear anything that makes sense for nelsok.com to engage in a partnership.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Embed Videos From Other Video Sites
We have released a new feature on nelsok.com - The ability to embed videos from other video sharing sites. This allows our users two advantages over our traditional upload option.
First their is the time savings aspect which consists of few parts; the time needed to upload the video is no longer an issue. The long wait times that users have to endure to upload videos due to low bandwidth upload connections that broadband companies provide. Also if the video that is being embedded is from a site on our approved list their is no wait time for the video to go live on the site.
The second major advantage is gained as a result of the time savings. Because all of the other site features are still available with an embedded video, you can still make money from your videos even if they are embedded from a third party website such as YouTube, metacafe, daily motion, or revver, etc... This means that users can still make money from embedding videos onto nelsok.com from other sites.
In short, we have reduced the amount of time users need to invest to put content onto our site. It is still recomended that users write good titles, descriptions and tags. With the reduction in the content creation process it is our hope that users will begin earning more per hr of time invested.
Please visit our embedding page to test the new feature. Or if you have questions comments or concerns you may contact the site staff here.
First their is the time savings aspect which consists of few parts; the time needed to upload the video is no longer an issue. The long wait times that users have to endure to upload videos due to low bandwidth upload connections that broadband companies provide. Also if the video that is being embedded is from a site on our approved list their is no wait time for the video to go live on the site.
The second major advantage is gained as a result of the time savings. Because all of the other site features are still available with an embedded video, you can still make money from your videos even if they are embedded from a third party website such as YouTube, metacafe, daily motion, or revver, etc... This means that users can still make money from embedding videos onto nelsok.com from other sites.
In short, we have reduced the amount of time users need to invest to put content onto our site. It is still recomended that users write good titles, descriptions and tags. With the reduction in the content creation process it is our hope that users will begin earning more per hr of time invested.
Please visit our embedding page to test the new feature. Or if you have questions comments or concerns you may contact the site staff here.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Start of the blog
We have decided to create a blog for our users to find out about the internal workings of our site. We will be updating this blog regularly with information that is relevant to our site and gives our users tips on how to improve their video representation and money earning potential on the web. With our tips to our users we hope to enable everyone who is attempting to generate money from uploading and distributing media content online to be able to do so through our website. For those of you who have found this blog before finding our site we suggest that you visit http://www.nelsok.com and browse the site. Once you have discovered your potential using our site you will need to follow these steps to begin making money:
- Sign up for adsense (if you already have an adsense account skip this step)
- Register an account on nelsok.com
- Upload video
- promote your videos
- Make money
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