Originally Posted by johnny_d

If you have time, start by reading books from Amazon.com (not necessarily from there, but it is the best source). Learn:

linux / server administration / hosting
mysql / php
html, css, some javascript
seo / social media marketing (the biggest social sites)

Be able to set up and manage your own hosting, with this knowledge you can run good websites for cheap. If you want to do tube, get Mech Bunny (unlimited domain license, which is a plus), or KVS. Host your own videos, dont do embeds.

After you have the tube, you can embed this videos on Wordpress blogs, Smart Cj websites, things like that. You can create unique titles for video embeds on newer sites. If you dont host your videos, they can be deleted at any time, and work that you put into unique titles would be lost (unique titles are good for seo).

In general, set up a Wordpress blog, everybody starts with that. Pinterest clone websites are good too, Pintastic is the only good script for this, dont use anything else.

Learn Google Analytics too, this is imporant. There is at least 4 good books about it on Amazon.com. This is not easy, after you know and have all this you may not be making too much money anyway. Only a small percentage of people in this business, makes really good $$$, 95 or 98 percent dont.