Poll: Best Revenue Model Focus For Our Startup

Re:Poll: Best Revenue Model Focus For Our Startup by russell on Monday February 02, 2009 @05:13PM (#462994)

I've been collecting a number of blogs about website monetization and the consensus seems to be advertising for social networking sites, but can work very well for information destination sites. Socialites care only about their friends and ignore advertising. Information gatherers are open to anything that helps them in their search. If they are buying, they will go to sellers.

Advertising is probably worth while as a supplementary income stream, but I wouldn't make it the primary focus, if you have a good freemium model. Just get your feet wet and let advertising prove itself. (I voted for freemium.)

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Re:Poll: Best Revenue Model Focus For Our Startup by jasonlbaptiste on Monday February 02, 2009 @05:23PM (#463015)

theres tons of info out there. Andrew Chen has a lot of great articles. You should post your compilation when you're ready here.

We can throw ads on there just to see, but im a believer in if you do something do it right. Advertising to us is more than just embed adsense.

I think our reason for leaning towards freemium boils down to our focus on being a utility more than a novelty.

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