Artificial wombs: The coming era of motherless births?
BY: David Warmflash.
Scientifically, it’s called ectogenesis, a term coined by J.B.S. Haldane in 1924. A hugely influential science popularizer, Haldane did for his generation what Carl Sagan did later in the century. He got people thinking and talking about the implications of science and technology on our civilization, and did not shy away from inventing new words in order to do so. Describing ectogenesis as pregnancy occurring in an artificial environment, from fertilization to birth, Haldane predicted that by 2074 this would account for more than 70 percent of human births.
yet be on target.
In discussing the idea in his work Daedalus–a reference to the inventor in Greek mythology who, through his inventions, strived to bring humans to the level of the gods–Haldane was diving into issues of his time, namely eugenics and the first widespread debates over contraception and population control.
Whether Haldane’s view will prove correct about the specific timing of when ectogenesis might become popular, or the numbers of children born that way, it’s certain that he was correct that tAt the same time, he was right that the societal implications are sure to be significant as the age of motherless birth approaches. They will not be the same societal implications that were highlighted in Daedalus, however.
Technology developing in increments
Where are we on the road to ectogenesis right now? To begin, progress has definitely been rapid over the last 20-30 years. In the mid 1990s, Japanese investigators succeeded in maintaining goat fetuses for weeks in a machine containing artificial amniotic fluid. At the same time, the recent decades have seen rapid advancement in neonatal intensive care that is pushing back the minimum gestational age from which human fetuses can be kept alive. Today, it is possible for a preterm fetus to survive when removed from the mother at a gestational age of slightly less than 22 weeks. That’s only a little more than halfway through the pregnancy (normally 40 weeks). And while rescuing an infant delivered at such an early point requires sophisticated, expensive equipment and care, the capability continues to increase.
A comprehensive review published by the New York Academy of Sciences three years ago highlights a series of achievements by various research groups using ex vivo (out of the body) uterus environments to support mammalian fetuses early in pregnancy. Essentially, two areas of biotechnology are developing rapidly that potentially can enable ectogenesis in humans, and, along the way, what the authors of the Academy review call partial ectogenesis.
Because a fetus develops substantially with respect to external form and internal organs during the second half of pregnancy, our current capability to deliver and maintain preterm infants actually is a kind of partial ectogenesis. Supported by all of the equipment in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a premature infant continues its development as a normal fetus of the same gestational age would do inside the mother’s uterus, but with one important exception. Inside the womb, oxygenated, nourished blood comes in, and blood carrying waste goes out, through the placenta and umbilical cord. Once delivered, however, a preemie must breathe through its lungs, cleanse the blood with its liver and kidneys, and get nutrition through its gastrointestinal tract.
But because these organ systems, especially the lungs, are not really ready to do their job so early, there is a limit to how early a developing fetus can be transferred from womb to NICU. Known as viability, the limit definitely has been pushed back with special treatments given to the mother prior to delivery and, just after birth, directly into the preemie’s lungs, and with intensive support. But the 22 week gestational age may be around the absolute limit for survival for a fetus that will have to depend on lung-breathing, not to mention other organs, rather than its mother’s nourished blood.
Still, the capability to push back the limit is around the corner. One of the two developing key technologies is the artificial amniotic fluid filled environment that has continued to develop with laboratory animal models since the work with goats in the 1990s. The other area is embryo transfer. Not only can a developing mammal be transferred from the uterus of its own mother to that of a surrogate, but gradually investigators are reproducing the endometrium–the cell layer of the uterus that contains and nourishes the pregnancy–as a cell culture, or an in vitro model. The convergence of these technologies will make it possible to transfer a developing human into a system that includes the placenta and umbilical cord and supplies all consumables (oxygen and food), and removes all waste, directly through the blood.
Thus, survival and continuing development would not depend on the lungs and other organs being ready yet to do their job. Applying such a system to fetus delivered in the middle of pregnancy would constitute real partial ectogenesis. Furthermore, since bypassing the developing, not fully functional organs, stands to improve survival substantially, and might even decrease the costs of extreme premature birth, the movement of the technology from research to clinic is inevitable.
Once that happens, there will be no obstacle against pushing the limit further, toward full ectogenesis. But there will be no obstacle to pushing the limit akin to how lung viability has placed an obstacle to conventional pre-term care. At some point, an in vitro fertilized egg could be planted directly into the artificial womb, with no need for a natural uterus even for the early stages.
Societal implications
An artificial womb may sound futuristic, and in Haldane’s time this may have supported a perception that realizing the technology would go together with controlling the birth rate and eugenics controlling which humans come to life, and thus which genetic traits get passed down to future populations. But today, we could do these things without ectogenesis. We have plenty of contraceptive methods and can sterilize people, or make them more fertile, while pregnancies can be induced with implanted embryos made with in vitro fertilization.
If anyone is working on a eugenics program at present, they can use surrogate mothers and don’t really require an artificial uterus–unless, we imagine a society that routinely, forcefully sterilizes all females, so that whoever has the artificial uterus has a monopoly on reproduction, ectogenesis does not relate particularly to those 1920s issues. Instead, the artificial uterus would simply move the pregnancy outside of the woman’s body. When considering societal consequences, that’s the main factor that we need to keep in mind, and doing so we see that it does relate to many currently controversial issues.
Considering abortion, for instance, while the proposition that a fetus, even an embryo, is a person with a “right to life” is a religious belief that cannot be imposed on everyone else, the main argument for the right to choose is a woman’s right to control her body. If a developing embryo or fetus is not viable and the mother wants it out of her uterus, that’s her right.
But what happens once we have the technology to remove it from her without killing it and let the pregnancy continue in an artificial womb? Already, with NICU technology pushing back the survival limit, the timing of viability affecting the legality of abortion, has been challenged by abortion foes. The prospect of ectogenesis stands to turn the viability issue on its face, and it will be interesting to see where that leads.
While social conservatives might be receptive about what an artificial uterus might do to the abortion paradigm, make no mistake they’d probably not be happy that the technology also stands to make it much easier for male gay couples to have babies. All they’d need is an egg donor; no more need for a surrogate mother to take the embryo into her uterus and carry it for 40 weeks. That’s easier for any gay couple in terms of practicality, waiting periods, and money. The same thing goes for a transgender person wishing to have a child.
Finally, because of the sheer numbers, the artificial uterus could have major implications for heterosexual women with fully functional uteri. Many who want children of their own might prefer to forego pregnancy yet would hesitate to hire a human surrogate. Not only is it expensive, but the surrogate could grow fond of the fetus she’s carrying, so why bother taking the risk?
On the other hand, the mind set could be quite different if the surrogate were a high tech jar. It’s your baby with no worries about competing mothers. I’m not suggesting that all potential mothers would opt for this, but Haldane’s guess might not be so unrealistic in that it might end up being a substantial fraction of the population.
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service developed by Google. Users can access Gmail on the web and through the mobile apps for Android and iOS, as well as through third-party programs that synchronize email content through POP or IMAP protocols. Gmail started as a limited beta release on April 1, 2004. It exited beta status on July 7, 2009.
Gmail at launch had an initial storage capacity offer of 1 gigabyte per user, a significantly higher number than the 2 megabytes of storage its competitors such as Hotmail offered at that time. Today, the service comes with 15 gigabytes of free storage. Users can receive emails up to 50 megabytes in size, including attachments, while they can send emails up to 25 megabytes. In order to send larger files, users can insert files from Google Drive into the message.
Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a “conversation view” similar to an Internet forum. Gmail is noted by web developers for its pioneering use of Ajax.
Google’s mail servers automatically scan emails for multiple purposes, including to add context-sensitive advertisements next to emails, and to filter spam and malware. Privacy advocates have raised concerns about this practice, with some of the concerns including that the automated background scanning of emails raises the risk that the expectation of privacy in email usage will be reduced or eroded; information collected from emails could be retained by Google for years after its current relevancy to build complete profiles on users; emails sent by users from other email providers get scanned despite never having agreed to Google’s privacy policy or terms of service; governments and organizations can potentially find it easier to legally monitor email communications; and at any time, Google can change its current company policies to allow combining information from emails with data gathered from use of its other services. Google has been the subject of lawsuits concerning the issues, both from Gmail users and from non-Gmail users.
Google has stated that “all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing […] Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’s assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their communications are processed by the recipient’s ECS [electronic communications service] provider in the course of delivery.” Google also claims that Gmail refrains from displaying ads next to potentially sensitive messages, such as those that mention race, religion, sexual orientation, health, or financial statements.
As of February 2016, Gmail has one billion active users worldwide, and was the first app on the Google Play Store to hit one billion installations on Android devices. According to a 2014 estimate, 60% of mid-sized US companies, and 92% of startups, were using Gmail.
Starting a Youtube channel is the simplest way of making money online and needs no investment.
YouTube gets almost 5 billion video views per day which proves its power on the internet.
Felix Kjellberg, the owner of PewDiePie (a YouTube account), has earned 12 million dollars in 2015 by running a single YouTube channel.
You too can see such success if you capitalize on the opportunity that YouTube provides us currently.
Suitable For –
People who love to create videos, like to talk in front of a camera, shoot documentaries or short films.
Skills Required –
Ability to create a video using software tools or record a video using your mobile phone or camcorder.
Time Required For Starting A YouTube Channel –
Virtually you can start within minutes. You’ll have to visit YouTube.com, create a channel and upload videos.
Tips –
1. Create a YouTube channel around a specific theme such as Humor, Tutorial, Recipe, etc. Don’t just go out create any random unrelated videos channel.
For e.g. If you love gadgets you can create a gadget reviews channel where you can post review videos of the latest gadgets and help people to decide whether it’s a right choice for them.
2. Select a theme in which you’re really interested. Analyze other videos related to your topic, see how many views those videos get.
It will help you to get an overview of how many people are interested in your theme.
3. Generally more the views more beneficial the theme is. As more people are searching for it.
4. Check out if there’s any missing concept in the currently existing videos related to your theme.
You can cover these concepts in your videos to fetch more views.
5. Give your best to engage with your audience. Study comments people leave on your videos, learn the hidden expectations that your audience has from you.
6. Try to find out what they like about your videos and what they don’t. Study which videos get the highest retention rate and find the reasons behind them.
7. Spy on your competitors and try to model the things that are working for them. But never try to copy them, always maintain your uniqueness.
8. Always try to improvise each new video from the last one.
So when you look at your first videos after few years, you should think aww how bad I was earlier.
That’s a good sign; it shows that you’ve improved.
9. Experiment, experiment and experiment. Never fear to try something new and see how it works.
Experiments are the only way where you can find new and exciting stuff which can catapult you way ahead of your competitors.
10. Finally, try to collaborate with other YouTuber’s who are doing similar work.
Learn their strategies and mindset. Working together can do wonders for your channel.
11. Have fun. Do the things that you love and enjoy your life.
How To Monetize –
The general rule for monetization in YouTube is very simple. More views your videos get, more money you’ll earn.
You’ll just have to enable the monetize option in your YouTube channel settings.
It’s very simple.
NO.2
START A BLOG
Being a blogger is one of the easiest ways to earn money from home.
Unlike any other job, if you are blogging from home. You don’t need to work 9-5.
You can work at any time of the day with ease.
But beware blogging takes time before it starts making money for you.
So I suggest you jump into this field slowly.
If you have a day job, don’t quit it. Start part-time with your blog.
Once it is on the stage where it is earning you more than your comfortable limits, then it’s the best time to turn into full-time blogging mode.
Suitable For –
People who love to write and would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the world.
Skills Required –
Ability to express knowledge in writing with simpler yet effective way.
Time Required For Starting A Blog –
The time required depends upon your level of expertise if you are an expert you can easily start a blog within few hours.
For a complete beginner, a day or two would be sufficient to be ready with the basic setup.
Tips –
1. Start a blog about something in which you are really good at.
For e.g. If you love traveling and you have traveled a lot of places then start a travel blog.
2. Always try to limit your blog to a particular domain. Don’t put content about multiple domains in one blog.
For e.g. Writing about recipe tips on a fashion blog.
Keep your blog specific to one domain only.
3. Using your experience and expertise, try to create a unique and phenomenal content.
4. Try to give a lot of value to your readers. Write about something that will make a difference in your reader’s’ life.
5. Listen to the readers of your blog. Try to solve the problems they are facing. Always reply to their comments. Make them feel better.
6. Be committed to your blog. A blog is like a relationship. Give it some love, and it will flourish. Ignore it, and it will die a death.
There’s no point in being half-hearted in your blogging efforts – if you don’t care about it, why should anyone else?
7. Think about content, style, tone of voice, audience, etc.
Look at the people who already do what you’re planning to do. Ask yourself the following questions:
How will I stand out from the crowd?
What can I say that hasn’t already been said?
What’s my unique selling point?
Why do I want to do this?
Be professional in the way you handle and grow your blog.
Don’t criticize other brands, bloggers or people. Remember what goes around comes around.
You don’t want something you’ve said to come back and bite you one day.
Be open minded and willing to collaborate with other creatives. You’ll meet some fantastic and awe-inspiring people.
How To Monetize –
You can monetize your blog by recommending products or services related to your blog’s topic either by writing an informative article or placing banner ads on your blog’s relevant pages.
You can earn handsome commissions when a person buys a product recommended by you.
Another way is you can place Google Adsense ads on your blog. More people click on your ads more money you will make.
No.3
DO AFFILIATE MARKETING
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards a certain percentage of commission for each product bought by the customers who are brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.
Suitable For –
People who love to talk, write, explain and have the ability to persuade.
Skills Required –
Ability to promote product online using social media, videos, ads, etc.
Time Required For Starting Affiliate Marketing –
Virtually within an hour. You just need to select an online product that pays you a commission when you promote and sell it using your affiliate link.
Tips –
1. Select an online product from the domain in which you are well conversant with. For example, if you are a dietician then select a product related to diet.
There are lots of products available in every domain you just need to find a domain which is suitable for you.
2. Places to find products: Clickbank.com, Shareasale.com, Jvzoo.com. These websites have thousands of products listed from multiple domains.
3. Choose a product that pays you at least 50% commission on each sale.
4. Most product websites handle affiliate link generation and payouts, so you don’t need to worry about how you’ll get your commissions.
Just get your custom affiliate link created by the vendor and start promoting it.
5. If you want to earn instant money from affiliate marketing, try to promote your affiliate link on social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit.
How To Monetize –
Monetization is simple, just make more people buy the product through your affiliate link.
Create a Facebook page or Banner ads with the aim of promoting the product.
Tell people how the product will help them to solve their problems.
Improve people’s knowledge about the domain and help them to solve other related problems.
NO.4
DO FACEBOOK MARKETING
What is Facebook Marketing?
Facebook Marketing is another form of affiliate marketing in which marketers promote products on Facebook.
Suitable For –
People who like to use Facebook.
Skills Required –
1. Ability to create appealing Facebook posts and images.
2. Ability to promote your page on Facebook.
3. Ability to persuade people with proper reasoning.
Time Required For Starting Facebook Marketing –
You can quickly start Facebook marketing by creating promotional posts and create a Facebook page promoting a product. It can be done within minutes.
How To Monetize –
1. Get more people to visit on your Facebook page.
3. Start promoting any affiliate product relevant to the Facebook page’s topic.
3. If possible, use Facebook ads to promote your posts and pages in a wider range of audience.
3. More people buy products from through affiliate link more money you make.
NO.4
BECOME AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE
What is the Amazon Associates Program?
Amazon Associates is an affiliate marketing program that allows website owners and bloggers to create links and earns referral commissions when any of the website visitor clicks thru and buys products from Amazon.
Suitable For –
1. People who love to write, explain things in details and would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the world.
2. Best for people who already own a blog or website with some daily traffic.
Skills Required –
1. Ability to express knowledge in writing with simpler yet effective way.
2. Ability to persuade and convince people through valid argument and explanation.
Time Required For Becoming An Amazon Associate –
To become an Amazon Associate all you need to do is visit their website and sign up. You’ll need to provide your website’s name while signing up.
Amazon will analyze your website, and if they find it appropriate according to their standards, they will approve you as an official Amazon associate.
The approval process might take 2 to 5 days.
Once you’re approved, find out the relevant products you want to promote on your blog then grab their affiliate links and insert them into your website.
Tips –
1. Dig out relevant products – The first and most important thing is to find out the products that are relevant to your website’s or blog’s content and audience.
The more relevant the product, the better chance you’ll have of selling.
For e.g. Promoting wristwatches on a blog that teaches people to do Yoga exercises is highly unlikely to make you any sale.
But instead, if you try to promote Yoga mats, pants and books you’ll see great success.
2. Place affiliate links inside your content – Placing simple text links within the context of an article is the most effective way to get people click your affiliate links.
People trust the body of the content on a page more than any other area of the website.
Hence it is very likely that they will click on the link when it’s placed inside the content’s body.
For e.g. “Check out this cool [your aff link] smartwatch [/your aff link]. It has retained the position of No 1 bestseller since last two months.”
3. Link product images to Amazon – Images play a major role in grabbing visitor’s attention.
The another simple way to get people click on your affiliate links is to use lots of high-quality product images and make those images as clickable affiliate links.
One good thing about Amazon is that it allows you to freely use any product’s image on your website for promotional purposes.
4. Write a product review article – Doing a quality product review and writing a great article explaining all the facets of a product is another great way to generate high click thru rates and sales.
But while doing any review make sure it is of high quality and unbiased.
People shouldn’t think that you are badly trying to get them buy the product.
A high-quality review should answer all the answers and clear confusion or reservations any potential buyer might have.
Make sure your review does cover all the aspects mentioned above.
5. Just send people to Amazon – One of the great thing about Amazon is that it is excellent at converting visitors into buyers.
You don’t need to follow them nor target them with ads; Amazon will do the rest for you.
All you need to do is send them to Amazon.com through your affiliate link.
The great thing about this is when somebody visits Amazon.com through you link you get a percentage of anything they buy for the next 24 hours (30 days of they added any item to their cart).
For e.g. If one person clicks on your “Yoga Mat” affiliate link and visits Amazon.com and buys 2 wrist watches instead of a Yoga Mat within 24 hours, you’ll get commissions for the wrist watch sales even if you didn’t promote it directly.
6. Build loyalty and trust – One major factor that will boost your sales is your reader’s’ loyalty and trust towards you and your website.
Most of your sales will come people who are loyal and repeat readers.
Readers who connect with you on a regular basis, over the long period, begin to trust you and your website.
So when you make any recommendation or do a review, they are more likely to take that advice than someone who they don’t trust.
How To Monetize –
Monetization formula is almost similar to most of the other methods discussed in this app.
More people visit Amazon.com via your affiliate link and buy products, more money you make.
Amazon.com will handle all the payment and commission processing for you, so you don’t need to worry about it.
NO.5
BECOME A FREELANCER
Suitable For –
People who like to work from home or work at any place, any time they want.
Skills Required –
Any skills you are good at.
Time Required For Starting Freelancing –
Just sign up at the following top freelance websites and Fill your details.
Top freelance websites:
Upwork.comFreelancer.comPeopleperhour.com
How To Monetize –
1. Post your skills and give appropriate details of your abilities, any prior work experience, and the amount you are going charge for per hour of work.
2. People who have some task to be done in your domain will post the jobs or will directly contact you if they like your profile.
3. Just complete their task, and they will pay you the decided amount.
NO.6
MAKE MONEY FROM INSTAGRAM
InpA in the social media world.
With over 500 million monthly active users, Instagram has become a favorite social media channel for many brands.
These brands are now spending a substantial amount of their social media budget for gaining more customers and leads from Instagram.
So, this is the best time to cash in on the growing popularity of Instagram.
If you are ready to put in the time and efforts, you can definitely grow your Instagram account to a level which can fetch you serious money online.
Suitable For –
People who love to use Instagram and take photos.
Skills Required –
1. Ability to take good quality photographs.
2. Ability to edit photos professionally.
3. Ability to edit high-quality photos or wallpapers using tools such Canva, Befunky, etc.
4. Creativity and imagination.
How To Get Started –
To get started all you need is an Instagram account, a nice username, attractive profile picture and impressive bio.
If you are ready with these things, then you are ready to post and begin your marketing campaign.
Tips –
1. Select your niche: Before you can start marketing on Instagram, you need to pick a niche in which you’re going to operate.
The best way to find a suitable niche for yourselves is to look at the things which interest you the most or the things in which you are good at.
For example, if you are a fashionista and love to stay updated with the latest fashion trends then you can start an Instagram account on which you can regularly share fashion trends, styles, tips and tricks with your audience.
2. Fill out your bio correctly: Your bio is the first place where your potential followers get the information about you.
So you need to make sure it is creating the perfect first impression on them.
You can add one or two liner description, a link to your website, and emoticons for catching attention.
You can also add in few keywords and a couple of hashtags to ensure that you’re easily searchable by the right kind of followers.
3. Create posts for your ideal followers: Before you can start posting images on your account do some research and find out what people like the most in your niche?
Which images are going to appeal them? Which taglines will make the best impact on them? And so on.
Finding answers to questions mentioned above will help you to create targeted posts which will fetch in lots of true followers to your account.
4. Post regularly: To grow your followers at a faster rate, you must post several images per day.
But make sure you don’t post all of them at once, post them at a different time in a day.
Sometimes if you are too busy to post several images then try to post at least one picture every day.
5. Use only high-quality images: Your Instagram account should be a brand. So make sure you are posting only high-quality images with best effects.
There’s no point is posting low-quality images as they all decrease your account’s value.
High-quality images build a long lasting visual impression into the minds of your followers; they also help to catch the eyes of the many casual browsers who will just discover you only because your high-quality image grabbed their attention, eventually increasing your followers.
6. Use relevant hashtags: Hashtags is the most dominant feature of Instagram, if used cleverly they’ll help your posts to reach millions of people who might be interested in your profile.
Do some research and find the best hashtags within your niche and make sure you include them in every single post.
Visit the website Tagsforlikes.com for discovering most popular tags within your niche.
Also keep the hashtags relevant, and don’t try to fit in too many. Instagram allows you to post 30 hashtags per post.
6. Engage with your followers: You need to interact with your followers to build trust, get an insight into their problems, needs, and expectations so that you can use this data to bring in more relevant content for them.
A simple way to engage with your current followers or potential followers within your niche is by liking their images, providing valuable comments or even following them back.
You can even run daily contests which might seem relevant to your followers.
For example, a reputed watch brand runs a “Pic of the day” of the day contest in which they ask their customers to post images wearing the brand’s watch.
They then select the best image out of submitted ones and post it on their Instagram profile.
Followers like such contests because if selected they get the chance to become popular among the brand’s other followers.
How To Monetize –
Following are the best ways to make money on Instagram:
1. Affiliate Marketing
This is a good way to start making money especially when your Instagram account has gathered few thousand followers and is growing fast.
Affiliate marketing on Instagram is quite different than other traditional channels such as blogging and video marketing.
Here you’ll need to post beautiful images of the products you want to promote and drive sales by placing your affiliate URL into your bio or caption.
Following are the URLs of the few reputed companies where you can sign up as an affiliate and get started:
Shareasale.comStylinity.comLiketoknow.it
2. Create Sponsored Posts
If you have a high engagement with your followers, you can earn some handsome money by creating sponsored posts for brands.
A sponsored post is nothing but a regular post which contains a high-quality image or a video that highlights a product or a brand.
You get paid for every sponsored post. Payment varies based on your popularity, influence, engagement, follower demographics and so on.
The aim of any sponsored post is to create awareness about a product or a brand within your followers.
But while doing so make sure that you choose only a product or a brand that is relevant to your audience and is a good fit for your own personal image on Instagram.
Following are the names and URLs of companies where you can visit and register yourself as an influencer:
1. Tapinfluence
(Exact URL – https://influencers.tapinfluence.com/sign_up)
2. Influenz
(Exact URL – https://www.ifluenz.com)
3. Takumi
(Exact URL – http://takumi.com/app)
3. Sell your photos
If you are taking high-quality photographs and professionally editing for your Instagram posts then why not sell them to make some extra cash?
There are many individuals, bloggers, and businesses who are always looking for new and creative photographs.
Instagram can help you to find them and sell your snaps.
There’s a very simple way of doing this. Add a watermark to your images and list all the selling and contact details precisely within the caption.
People who are interested in purchasing them will contact, and you can sell your shots to them.
Following are the names of some trusted sites where you can put your Instagram photos for sale.
Twenty20.comFoap.com
4. Sell your own products
If you personally create any product or you are a retailer, you need to leverage the power of Instagram for getting more sales.
Product promotion works great on Instagram because you can post personalized photos of your products which cannot be found anywhere else.
You can use many promotional tactics such as creating beautiful infographics, asking existing customers to post the pictures of them using your product or even post pictures of the raw materials and actual product creation process.
5. Sell your Instagram account
If you already made it big on Instagram by gathering millions of followers.
You’ve achieved all your goals, or just you need to move on from Instagram to doing something else.
If you want to go away from Instagram, you’ll be happy to know that you can sell you Instagram account and earn some hefty amount of money.
The price of your Instagram account will depend on the niche, number of followers, engagement and so on.
Here’s the list of few legitimate websites where you can sell your Instagram account:
Fameswap.comViralaccounts.com
Extra Tip –
Above mentioned are the best ways to monetize your Instagram account once you get few thousand followers, but I’ll suggest you not to start any promotions until you get 10 thousand followers.
Some of you might think waiting to start making any money until account gets 10 thousand followers is really insane.
But believe me, it’s the right way.
You need to first build trust and confidence about you into the minds of your followers, and you can only do that by providing consistent value to them over a period of time.
NO.7
WRITE ARTICLES FOR WEBSITES
There are many authority websites who are always looking for fresh content and ideas to expand their user base and maximize profits.
For this reason, they need new people with new ideas who can do this job for them.
Although most of them have content research, curation and editorial teams, but no matter how experienced they are they cannot cover everything.
So, many such websites will pay you to write content for them. This helps them to capture new ideas and topics that otherwise would have never been discovered by their content teams.
It also provides a great opportunity to writers who want earn quick cash writing articles without getting into the hassle of creating and marketing their own blog.
Suitable For –
People who love to write and would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the world.
Skills Required –
Ability to express knowledge in writing with simpler yet effective way.
How To Get Started –
The best way to get started is to find the topics that interest you the most, do some research and compile an informative article.
Then find the authority websites in the niche related to your topic, contact them via email and forward your article to them.
Following is the Bonus List of 20 Amazing Authority Websites from diverse niches, most of which will pay you up to $100 per article, upon acceptance or publication.
Your aim should be to find a site that matches your interests and write as many informative articles for them.
Bonus List of 20 Amazing Authority Websites
1. Listverse.com
Topics Covered – General
Payment Method – Unspecified
Now, you have the list, go ahead and make some money writing articles.
Enjoy your life!
NO.8
START A DATA ENTRY WORK
Data entry is a very popular online job available today. I am sure you must have read about it before if you searched for money making opportunities online.
A typical data entry job involves reading data from one source and typing it into another.
For example, reading data from a PDF report and typing it into Excel sheet is a kind of data entry job.
Nowadays many businesses collect an enormous amount of data such as customer details, product details, research data and so on.
They collect these data via various mediums such as website, social media, forums, surveys and so on.
As this data is gathered from multiple sources, they need to aggregate all this data into one platform where they can study and perform analysis on it.
For this purpose, businesses need people who can do this data entry work for them.
Most of the businesses outsource data entry jobs to other companies who hire independent home-based contractors to do data entry jobs for them.
This provides you a great opportunity to earn money on the internet.
Suitable For –
Almost anyone.
Skills Required –
1. Fast and accurate typing skills.
2. Basic computing skills
3. Experience in working with word processing software such as MS Word.
4. A good working computer with high-speed internet connection.
How To Get Started –
Even though data entry jobs are very popular, finding legitimate data entry companies has become very difficult due to multiple data entry scams going around on the internet.
My advice to you is to remain extremely cautious before you sign up to any of so-called data entry program.
And remember that legitimate companies will never ask for any money to apply for data entry jobs offered by them.
To give you a head start you I am enlisting three legitimate websites/URLs where you can sign up as a data entry worker.
1. Tdec.com
(Exact URL – http://www.tdec.com/contact-us/job-opportunities)
2. Diondatasolutions.net
(Exact URL – http://www.diondatasolutions.net/opportunities.htm)
3. Axiondata.com
(Exact URL – http://axiondata.com/employment.htm)
Expected Earnings –
Traditionally data entry jobs from home won’t earn you much money as work availability is not very consistent.
Sometimes you’ll find work other time you won’t hence earnings are not that much consistent.
Data entry is not going to make you rich, but it’s a good way to utilize your free time and earn some money on the fly.
NO.9
DO SOCIAL MEDIA MODERATION
Many companies and brands have multiple social media accounts. They use these accounts to stay connected with their customers, receive feedback and resolve their problems.
As the company’s client base grows it becomes difficult for them to keep up with all the customer-generated content such as questions, comments and so on.
That’s where social media moderators come in.
Social media moderators are paid to monitor various social media channels and ensure that user generated content are appropriate.
Suitable For –
Anyone who loves social media and is active on it daily.
Skills Required –
1. Ability to follow instructions, review and accurately classify the nature of user generated content.
2. Review moderated content and provide sentiment insight.
3. Work independently and meet time conditions of the project.
How To Get Started –
The best option to get started is to apply for the post of a Social Media Moderator on Crispthinking.com
Submit your Crispthinking application at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Modapplication
With Crispthinking you can work 24/7, there’s no work time window, but you’ll need to work at least 15 hours per week. They’ll pay you between $10 to $15 per hour depending on your expertise.
Alternative Websites –
Following is the list of other reputed websites where you can apply for social media moderation jobs to increase your earnings.
LiveWorld.comModSquad.com
NO.10
JOIN SURVEY PANELS
What is a Survey Panel?
Survey panels are run by survey companies most of them are market research companies whose main aim is to collect data from the users and use it for research, product development or marketing purposes.
In order to earn some money from this survey panels, you need to sign up with them.
Once you’ve signed up the panel will send you survey requests via email.
Your job is to complete those surveys within the given time frame.
Surveys will mostly cover questions related to products and services.
Sometimes they will even ask you questions related to your lifestyle, such as the city in which you live, how many times you watch movies in a month, how many times you eat at a restaurant in a month and so on.
The completion time of each survey may last from 1 minute to 30 minutes.
Suitable For –
People who love to give opinions.
Skills Required –
Ability to provide honest opinions.
Time Required For Starting Paid Survey –
Almost instantly. Just sign up the following leading paid surveys panels.
OpinionOutpostSpringboardAmericaVivaticE-pollYouGovPaidViewpointiPollMySurvey
How To Monetize –
1. Most of the survey panels will pay you from $1 to $10 per survey taken or pay in the form of Amazon gift cards, free mobile recharges, food coupons, movie tickets and so on..
2. More surveys you complete more money you earn.
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NO.1
START A YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Starting a Youtube channel is the simplest way of making money online and needs no investment.
YouTube gets almost 5 billion video views per day which proves its power on the internet.
Felix Kjellberg, the owner of PewDiePie (a YouTube account), has earned 12 million dollars in 2015 by running a single YouTube channel.
You too can see such success if you capitalize on the opportunity that YouTube provides us currently.
Suitable For –
People who love to create videos, like to talk in front of a camera, shoot documentaries or short films.
Skills Required –
Ability to create a video using software tools or record a video using your mobile phone or camcorder.
Time Required For Starting A YouTube Channel –
Virtually you can start within minutes. You’ll have to visit YouTube.com, create a channel and upload videos.
Tips –
1. Create a YouTube channel around a specific theme such as Humor, Tutorial, Recipe, etc. Don’t just go out create any random unrelated videos channel.
For e.g. If you love gadgets you can create a gadget reviews channel where you can post review videos of the latest gadgets and help people to decide whether it’s a right choice for them.
2. Select a theme in which you’re really interested. Analyze other videos related to your topic, see how many views those videos get.
It will help you to get an overview of
I’m sure you’ve seen this before. It’s worth reminding ourselves of the changes around us that we can’t stop. It may not happen that way but it’ll be close in many respects:
In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt.
Interestingly the inventor of digital photography in 1975 Steven Sasson worked for Kodak but Kodak ignored the new technology and in the process ignored their future!!
What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years – and most people don’t see it coming.
Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again? Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore’s law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time, before it became way superior and got mainstream in only a few short years.
It will now happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.
Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Welcome to the Exponential Age.
Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.
Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world.
Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties.
Artificial Intelligence : Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.
In the US, young lawyers already don’t get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.
Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 times more accurate than human nurses.
Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans.
By 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.Autonomous Cars:
In 2018 the first self-driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don’t want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving.
Our kids will never get a driver’s license and will never own a car. It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars for that. We can transform former parking space into parks. 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide.
We now have one accident every 100,000 km, with autonomous driving that will^ drop to one accident in 10 million km. That will save a million lives each year.
Most car companies may become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels. I spoke to a lot of engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; they are completely terrified of Tesla.
Insurance Companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.
Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood. Electric cars won’t become mainstream until 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electric.
Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only now see the impact. Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2025.With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water.
Desalination now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter. We don’t have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.
Health: There will be companies that will build a medical device (called the “Tricorder” from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breathe into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free.
3D printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100 times faster.
All major shoe companies started 3D printing shoes.
Spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports.
The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large number of spare parts they used to have in the past.
At the end of this year, new smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home.
In China, they already 3D printed a complete 6-storey office building. By 2027, 10% of everything that’s being^ produced will be 3D printed.
Business Opportunities: If you think of a niche^ you want to go in, ask yourself: “in the future, do you think we will have that?” and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner? If it doesn’t work with your phone, forget the idea.
And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed in to failure in the 21st century.
Work: 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time.
Agriculture: There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all days on their fields. Agroponics will need much less water.
The first Petri dish produced veal is now available and will be cheaper than cow-produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine if we don’t need that space anymore.
There are several startups that will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It contains more protein than meat. It will be labeled as “alternative protein source”
(because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).
There is an app call “moodies” which can already tell in which mood you are.
Until 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it’s being displayed when they are telling the truth and when not.
Bitcoin will become mainstream this year and might even become the default reserve currency.
Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it’s^ 80 years. The increase itself is increasing and by 2030, there will be more than one year increase per year. So we all might live for a long long time, probably way more than 100. By that time the elites will have a secondary Brain embedded close to both sides of their fronto-temporal scalp it stores information about their experiences books they read what they heard etc through a High Def Camera just below their eyelids. For those who can afford it forgetfulness will be a forgotten phenomenon.
Advanced stem cell technology will allow you to ” make ” your own organs or replace defective ones early. Life expectancy will be around 115 to 125 yrs in most of developed world and around 100 years in the rest of the world.
Education: The cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. Until 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smart phone. That means, everyone has the same access to world class education.
