If you raise $300 in donations by next month, you’ll record yourself running around naked in a shopping centre…

These sort of techniques are great as they reward users with pure entertainment and novelty factor whilst catering to your financial needs.

The trick is to think outside the box and come up with something that will get people talking. The ‘Save Toby’ appeal worked a charm – where donations had to be made or Toby got killed (Toby being a cute fluffy rabbit!).

Then we had the guy who’s girlfriend promised him a threesome if his site got 1m hits. There’s also the guy who put his phone number on the web and tried to get as many calls as possible… All of these guys may not have made much cash directly from these ventures, but they are catapulted to e-celebrity status overnight and they can then go on and set up other sites with a huge following and major respect.

It’s important though to not actually kill a rabbit or chop your right arm off if you don’t receive what you’re looking for! If you do, you’re taking this making money thing a *little* too seriously.

Fortunately, you can now earn money from your videos. Metacafe and Revver are two well respected video hosts which will pay you if your video is popular.

Youtube have recently introduced their partner program for video uploaders in the US, Canada and the UK.

Some people are making thousands of dollars per month from this, and unless you are some sort of Steven Spielberg in disguise, it’s difficult to get 1 million views on your homemade video of you eating your dinner…. But if you have a funny or interesting video, it will spread virally on the net and you can always turn to digg or stumbleupon for a little boost up the ladder

Youtube as I’ve pointed out above will be introducing this sort of ‘paid for views’ system internationally, but for now, Metacafe and Revver are your best bet as they’re tried and tested.