speedfinancial.online
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Investing
  • E-Commerce
  • Freelancing
  • Social Media
speedfinancial.online
No Result
View All Result
Go beyond Patreon and make money on social media with Koji posts

Go beyond Patreon and make money on social media with Koji posts

admin by admin
December 27, 2020
in social media
0
0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

People with established social media followings can easily make money by getting people to support them on sites such as Patreon. 

But what if someone wanted to sell a song, photo, e-book or whatever directly onto the News Feed of Facebook or Instagram or your Twitter timeline? 

That’s the problem Dmitry Shapiro and partner Sean Thielen looked to solve with their Koji website, to create a vehicle for the “99%” of social media who don’t have the big audiences “influencers” get. They, too, should be able to “monetize their fandom” no matter how small a group it is, Shapiro says.

Koji has been in beta test mode for the last year but just opened up to the public in October. 

“People are making in the hundreds of dollars,” Shapiro says. “Sometimes they get $20, something they see thousands. No one has made millions. Yet.” 

More:Did you unbox a new iPhone 12? Here are the first 5 things to try.

More:Are Facebook and Alexa really listening? 6 common tech myths debunked

Koji users include a podcaster who has created a course on how to do podcasts, which she sells chapter by chapter, and a fitness trainer from Venice Beach, California, who takes fitness questions from fans. 

The beauty of the Koji format, Shapiro says, is that people don’t have to leave social media to support you, as they do if they go to Patreon or Cameo. 

“Most of our stuff happens with one on one or group messages,” Shapiro says. And people are selling things they wouldn’t normally see on other sites. One man offers push-ups for charity.  

“Most people on social media don’t have a large following, so they can’t get sponsorships,” he says. “But if you have anybody who likes you, here’s a way they can support you.”

Before Koji, Shapiro worked at Google, where he was a product manager on the now defunct Google + social network, and a top exec at MySpace.

His biggest idea was one that became widely successful, but without him. In 2005, he thought there should be a great video network online, a place where people could share their videos. He called it Veoh, and he began pitching it four months before YouTube launched. 

Veoh lasted until 2010. Considering that Google paid $160 billion to buy YouTube in 2006, once it became a smash success, Shapiro isn’t bitter about what came of the video revolution and his potential participation. 

“I’m weird,” he says. “I’ve always celebrated YouTube, I love it. I see it as my dream fulfilled. I wasn’t the one who succeeded in it, but the dream is success, and extremely powerful.”

Meanwhile, what’s a Koji anyway? It’s a Japanese word for a substance used to make miso soup. Shapiro and Thielen loved the sound of it, even it did prevent them for being able to buy the koji.com web address. That’s owned by a sushi restaurant in Portland, Oregon. 

So instead, Shapiro sends people to http://www.koji.to or http://www.withkoji.com

Follow USA TODAY’s Jefferson Graham (@jeffersongraham) on Twitter

Tags: KojimediamoneyPatreonpostssocial

Related Posts

Parler’s CEO:Its Service May Never Be Back Online
social media

Parler’s CEO:Its Service May Never Be Back Online

January 19, 2021
Twitter Announces Permanent Removal of Trump Account
social media

Twitter Announces Permanent Removal of Trump Account

January 16, 2021
2020 wrap: Biggest celeb sensations on social media
social media

Kirti Kulhari and Armaan Malik take a break from social media

December 28, 2020
Farah Khan, Vikrant Massey’s social media accounts hacked
social media

Farah Khan, Vikrant Massey’s social media accounts hacked

December 28, 2020
Kirti Kulhari takes break from social media
social media

Kirti Kulhari takes break from social media

December 28, 2020
Dumped ‘rubbish’ at Vinnies leaves charity store an eyesore
social media

Dumped ‘rubbish’ at Vinnies leaves charity store an eyesore

December 28, 2020
Next Post
Jamie Carragher Makes Urgent Calls For Transfer Investment After West Brom Result

Jamie Carragher Makes Urgent Calls For Transfer Investment After West Brom Result

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Subscribe to us and we will never spam you

 

Loading

Recent Posts

  • China Replaces US As the Country with World’s Largest FDI Inflows January 28, 2021
  • Will Working From Home Become Mainstream? The Office May Be the Real Refuge of Life January 28, 2021
  • European E-commerce Is Speeding Up January 20, 2021
  • Parler’s CEO:Its Service May Never Be Back Online January 19, 2021
  • Twitter Announces Permanent Removal of Trump Account January 16, 2021

Categories

  • eCommerce
  • freelancing
  • Investing
  • social media

Recent News

  • China Replaces US As the Country with World’s Largest FDI Inflows
  • Will Working From Home Become Mainstream? The Office May Be the Real Refuge of Life
  • European E-commerce Is Speeding Up
  • About
  • Advertiser Disclosure
  • Anti-Spam Policy
  • Contact US
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms Of Use

© 2019 SpeedFinancial All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • About
  • Advertiser Disclosure
  • Anti-Spam Policy
  • Contact US
  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms Of Use

© 2019 SpeedFinancial All Rights Reserved.