Do you fancy having a free Creative Vado? Vado is a budget camcorder from Creative, hopefully with these affordable camcorders around, our lives can be enriched by more interesting, spontaneous and perhaps candid videos.

Well now you have a chance to be a proud owner of the Creative Vado, it will be given away as a prize for a contest sponsored by Derek Salyers of Click Consultants and Jason Pereira of The University Kid.

More information on how to participate in this contest is available on Click Consultants’ contest post as well as The University Kid’s contest post.

If you plan to join in the fun, you will have to hurry up. The contest is actually ending tonight, 28th June 2008!

How would I use the Creative Vado to help me make money online?

I think I could use Creative Vado to help me make money online by:

1. Doing video marketing through various websites like YouTube. Having a mini camcorder that fits in my pocket will help me to capture videos whenever and wherever there is an interesting event. This will give me an edge over the other bloggers. It will be a great source of traffic for my blogs and websites and traffic usually equals to money.
2. Doing vlog or video blog posts. The MMO niche may be quite saturated at this moment, but I think there is still market to be explored, I am referring to the Asian market. Doing vlog will help establish myself in the MMO niche and create a rapport with my readers, just imagine a blogger of Asian descent speaking in imperfect English, trying to dominate the Asian MMO market!
3. Selling video services on forums. This service is not limited to capturing myself reading some scripts or presenting some copy, I could possibly capture any scenarios instantly, as described by my clients. Who knows, I could even turn out to be a pseudo director one day, I just have to maintain the quality of my videos and with appropriate budgets, I could even hire some makeshift actors and actresses to do a mini commercial or something. This will certainly be a good source of online income which is not really well explored by anyone yet.
4. Enabling me to explore wider niches. With a mini camcorder, I could be a more convincing blogger in certain niches like self-help, health, social, education and so on. Unlike video tutorials regarding computer programs, I could do video tutorials on how to train pets, how to build your own wardrobe and other useful DIY projects. How does a private video only online newspaper sounds?
5. Creating a product to be sold on the internet. This is a rather far-fetched ambition, but there’s just so many things I could do with a Creative Vado. I could create MRR or PLR products, the camcorder can be used to record a motivation talk, a bootcamp, or simple interviews with distinguished successful individuals, then repackaged and sold. A good affiliate program would also help in the sales of these products.
6. Earning money from pay-per-view offers from video sharing sites such as MetaCafe. This is probably the least ambitious items of all, I am pushing other people’s projects instead of my own. However I would be content to earn some decent money from this method, at least until my own products gain their big breaks.

That’s about all I could think off to make money online using the Creative Vado. If I were to win, I would also like to use the mini camcorder to capture the happy and sad moments together with my friends and family, yes that would be great! Good luck to all the contestants, and thank you to Derek Salyers and Jason Pereira for their genorosity