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How to start earning money on your NING network

For a long time, you’ve been building your network and interacting with your members, sharing knowledge and advice with them. Now it’s time to get something in return. That is why we want to share with you some tips on how to achieve really great results.

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Community Story with Badan Barman, LIS Links

We continue to share stories about our creators and their communities. Today, we want to tell you about Badan Barman and LIS Links.

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Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson

How to Raise Money for Your Nonprofit Organization

If you’re in a nonprofit organization, you know that fundraising is vital for its survival. Luckily, in the age of the internet and technology, raising money can be a little bit easier than it used to. Just imagine, $370 billion was spent as charitable giving in the USA in 2015! And the figure is continuing to grow every year. This means that nonprofit organizations now have more tools at their disposal to collect money for charity and other endeavors. And correspondingly, people around the world have more ways to make donations and help nonprofits achieve their goals more efficiently.

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Community Story with Anton Noë, Nederlanders.fr

Every day new network creators come to our platform and start their own social website. There are so many of us today that we decided to tell more about our members. Today we want to share with you another story with Anton Noë, Nederlanders.fr

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Gregory Mount
Gregory Mount

How to Make Money on Instagram

Do you reckon yourself among avid Instagrammers? Do you frequently share your photos with the global community? If you do, then you have probably considered an idea of making money on it. Let’s face it, the possibility of earning thousands of dollars just for posting pictures is incredibly tempting! The truth is, in the age of social media we live in, it is not just a fantasy – it’s a prospective business that is opening new opportunities for socially active and enterprising individuals all the time.

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Ashley Kingsey
Ashley Kingsey

NING IN EDUCATION: SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY

Eventually, social media communities will transform the educational system forever. There is no doubt that online communities are our future. And talking about social media, we mean not only the biggest networks like Facebook and Twitter. There are actually many ways to use social networking in education.

Ning is the perfect social media builder for universities, colleges and other educational institutions to establish quality community that will completely change and enrich communication with the students.

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Crazy Crowdfunding: The New Way of Doing Business

The internet has changed the ways people communicate and look for information, as well as the way they do business. The time when starting a business was a matter of money has long passed. Now, it’s a matter of ingenuity.

Crowdfunding is the key

Nowadays, one of the most effective and widely used methods of raising funds for business is crowdfunding. According to Statista, the total crowdfunding volume worldwide from 2012 to 2015 has skyrocketed from 2.7 to inconceivable 34.4 billion US dollars.

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Community Story with Mohammad Tariq Malik, VUStudents.ning.com

Every day new network creators come to our platform and start their own social website. There are so many of us today that we decided to tell more about our members. And today we are starting our new topic – Community Story. Our first author is Mohammad Tariq Malik, the founder of VUStudents.ning.com

Tell us a little about yourself

My name is Mohammad Tariq Malik and I am based in Pakistan.

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Christmas miracles in action: Beard Baubles fundraiser goes viral

Do you believe in Christmas miracles? A creative agency from UK called Grey London definitely does. Their remarkable story tells how a seemingly crazy idea can literally save human lives, proving that funny festive trinkets can have much more power and meaning to them than it might seem from the first glance.

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Natalie Lesyk
Natalie Lesyk

How to monetize a website: 32 expert tips proved by time and sweat

“Monetize website” – by this query Google shows About 1,700,000 results. And the trend is constantly growing:

(data via Google Trends)

For sure, users want to monetize their endeavors as managing a website…is a complicated task indeed. We listen to our community and always keep a finger on the pulse, that’s why the following decision came really naturally for us.
That’s why NING is launching e-commerce platform which will allow network creators to set up paid access to the published content and raise funds via the ‘Donate’ button.

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Vivian Michaels
Vivian Michaels

The Future Of Influencer Marketing Is Already Here: Five Tactics you can implement Now

Influencer marketing is getting more and more buzz every single day. Just recently, Kylie Jenner, a popular influencer, made a whopping $420 million in 18 months with the cosmetic company. There is other similar news like this of how companies are significantly boosting their revenue with influencer marketing campaigns.

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Gregory Mount
Gregory Mount

How to earn money from your NING network?

Eventually, most of Ning Creators face this question. However, it isn’t easy to give a definitive answer because every network is unique and every community sets different goals. Nevertheless, we can certainly point you in the right direction. All you need to do is just figure out which statements below are true in regard to your network.

Collecting Donations is your best option if…

 

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