I have a fan page on Facebook for my business, and I’m doing a random drawing in December for the fans. I’ve always heard other contests say that they’re only open to US residents. I will be offering gift vouchers to randomly drawn fans. Legally, do I have to limit this to US residents?
Some people hide their location on Facebook so you can only see it if you’re their friend. This would be a bit of a pain trying to get everyone to respond to me with their location. I could run the drawing with only the people I’m sure about, but that would limit the eligible people a lot.
About two years ago, I made a simple video tutorial explaining how to remove the background of a photo in Paint.NET. I submitted it to Digg, and some of the other usual social bookmarking sites, and saw the views climbing nicely. Yesterday, YouTube contacted me and said that they were giving me an opportunity to make some revenue from ads placed beside my video since it “has become popular on YouTube”.
They are giving me 55% of the ad revenue, which is a nice surprise. I didn’t realize this was a possibility when I uploaded the video. I’ve been thinking about making some more tutorials, and seeing that I have this opportunity, I think it would be a good idea. Not only does it get exposure for my website, but also I can make a bit of money on the side.
If you haven’t been to our site in awhile, I encourage you to check it out. We have added several great new products, and we have also given the site a new look.
I’m very happy with the new look, although it took a bit of hacking into the PHP template files to get things working. Let me know what you think!
