And here is the where-to-start chart.

And AdoramaTV is a photography & video tutorial site.

And here is Mark Wallace's blog.

In most cases, the fastest way to make $100,000 a year legally is to offer a product or service to people who have money and want to spend it on that product.

To do that, you'll need a product or service, a way to accept payment (credit cards), a way for customers to order the product, and a marketing campaign to let people know the product is available.

This can be as simple as showing up at a flea market with the right product selling for $10, selling 500 of them, and doing that twenty times a year.

Or it can be as involved as spending months creating a product, then creating a web site, then getting a merchant account, then setting up a shopping cart and affiliate program, then signing up affiliates, then rolling out a marketing campaign, and then sticking with it long enough to see if it is going to produce the results you want.

You asked about what is the most promising way - the answer depends on your skill set, the tools available to you, the time you can spend, and your ability to understand what people want and how to package it so they are happy to pay for it.

In our current economy, one of the quickest ways to make $100,000 a year is with monetized YouTube videos.

To do this, you'll need a Google Adsense account, a YouTube account, a video camera, and the time to go out and shoot interesting or funny videos or videos of celebrities doing funny or stupid things.

You'll also need to post lots of videos and monetize them all.

Once you discover the kinds of videos people want to watch, concentrate on those and you'll see your YouTube earnings grow.

Clearly, not everyone will make a $100,000 a year with YouTube videos. But if a few of your videos get a million views or more, you'll reach that goal.

DROPVIEWER

As you know, Amazon Local Register is a credit card processing service that makes it relatively easy for anyone to accept credit card payments. The service includes a card reader that connects to your phone so you can swipe credit cards to receive payment.

Like most 3rd party credit card processors, there is a delay from the time the payment is processed and it ends up in your banking account.

Details about amazon's service can be found at http://localregister.amazon.com/

Square offers a similar service - https://squareup.com/reader
As does PayPal - https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader

If you look in the Google Play store, you'll find more than 30 other services offering the same thing.

But you'll want to be careful - as you will be sharing credit card details with the service you choose, and you'll want one that is trustworthy and unlikely to go out of business without paying you.

For that reason, I would stick with Amazon or PayPal's service.

I've been using Square for the last year and have been happy with them. My money is in my bank account generally the very next day.

I just thought I'd give Amazon a try because they have a smaller fee.

I have used Square, PayPal and Amazon to take payments at live events. All three are fine.

Amazon had my money in my bank account on the next business day (just like Square). PayPal makes the money available in your PayPal account immediately, and you then have to transfer it to your bank account if you don't want to leave it at PayPal.

At this point, I like Amazon Register best. The reader is a bit larger, and easier to scan with. I can set up standard products on my phone, so I don't have to enter amounts and descriptions. The reports are very good. And the fees are the lowest.

I'm not sure where all the bad reviews came from, especially since there were a ton of them the day the darn thing became available. No one had even used it yet, and they were leaving one-star reviews. Makes me think it may be an organized campaign by the haters.

I like having more than one reader available, so I will hold on to my Square and PayPal readers. However, Amazon will be my choice for the foreseeable future.

DIGITAL JUICE

from Bill Myers . . . .

They probably used a template - either after effects or one of the Ready to Go templates from Digital Juice.

These templates have the effects built in, and you replace the video placeholder with your own clip.

You can see an assortment of these kinds of templates at http://www.digitaljuice.com/products/product_lines.asp?plid=323

The templates are opened in your video editing program (Vegas Pro, Adobe Premiere, Apple Motion, After Effects).

Then you import your video clip, and replace the template video placeholder with it.

You then render the clip to a completed video file.

If you want an easier way, you can pay $5 and have someone at Fiverr.com do the work for you. Examples at https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_in=everywhere&query=video+intro&category=20&sub_category=104&page=1&layout=auto