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How a free (no ads) site get maintain itself? [closed]
The past few years a trend has grown concerning a startup creating a webapp, paying a staff and priced hosting and yet offering a service for free and with no ads. Sites like droptask, Geeklist, ...
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How do sites like ifttt earn money? [closed]
I don't see advertisments, Freemium model, limited promotion model that they use. They just provide their service free without any monetization. How are they being able to earn money? Are they earning ...
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startup: work on something i personally like or work on something that would sell?
I am going to start working on a project, but divided between two project ideas.
The first one is interesting to me personally, and I have been toying with it for some time as an evening hobby, but I ...
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Setting up a US business to monetize a website, and doing so from abroad. Is it possible? [duplicate]
I should state at the outset that I am a US Citizen, but simply living abroad in a country where starting a business is much more complicated.
I have recently created a website that I would like to ...
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Are there real life apps that use a swear jar monetization model? [closed]
I was watching a television show where a character created an app called "Forbid," with an interesting monetization model. The idea was that you put the phone number of someone you shouldn't call ...
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What are strategies for monetizing training videos?
I created some very useful training videos in Spanish (latam), and I want to monetize them. They are focused on students and professionals. How can I monetize them? Some ideas I've come up with are:
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Conversion rate for support contracts
We have a B2B Saas offering which is currently free - we are exploring monetisation options and rather than going the route of charging for a premium option we are considering keeping it free and ...
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Online Advertising for Startup Website
I am looking to monetize my start-up website by adding advertisements to it.
After doing some research it seems I should look at Pay per Click (PPC) rather than Cost per Thousand (CPM) or some ...
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How to monetize high volume downloaded Mobile App without Ad?
yes it is a generic question, because it meant to be generic.
I know it depends of the business of the App proposal but, in a macro vision way, what should be the common steps to monetize one ...
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Third party social network client monetization
Let's say I have discovered that on an "about-to-go-booming" platform there isn't a social network client (A Facebook client for example). I can create one and submit to the platforms application ...
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Better revenue model for local online business directory
I am starting a new startup that operates a local online business directory where you can find businesses (much like YP.com or superpages.com.) I am divided between the two revenue models:
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Help with mobile app monetization
I have a free iOS app that's popular in a modest sense. Daily active user count has been growning steadily: it's approximately doubled over the last 6 months. At the moment it's around 2100 daily ...
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How to determine the monetization sources of a startup web service
I am "Russian" by nature, and maybe due to that I am finding it hard to see what may seem obvious to a western person. I read a lot of investment stories on techcrunch.com about "what it seems ...
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How is Wattpad.com monetized?
This is a link to the press release that Wattpad has received and additional 17+ million from come venture capital groups. Wattpad press release Those venture capital groups must see some way to make ...
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Monetizing a webapp
I am building a website that solves word games (scrabble, wordfeud, angry words etc.). It does it better than any websites I have seen.
I am thinking about how to make money on it (I have three ...
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How should I monetize a game development network app?
I am building an web app for game developers to exchange artwork, code, music, etc., however I cannot decide how to effectively monetize this network.
The most obvious way would be to advertise. I ...
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Security as a monetization option [closed]
Given a "Could file sharing" service, is it feasible to provide non-secure (http) service for free, whereas if you need to store and transfer important data, you pay for secure service (https) a ...
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International house ads publisher. Why not?
This is not really a question but a muse about what I'm thinking of a better way to monetize mobile traffic via house ads. Yes, I seek your opinions.
If I were to have a "worldwide" popular app at ...
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Premium features VS Donation gifts
We are developing a freemium business model and have planned some Premium features that users can buy. What are the main differences between these two types of monetization:
Premium model: Buy a Foo ...
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Which strategy will you use for launching a dating community website?
Imagine a dating community like meetic, where you can register for free, but you must pay every 6 months for using all the functionalities. Which will be your strategy for your launch, taking into ...
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Monetization of a big open-source software frameworks
Let's consider jQuery is an example project for my question.
jQuery is the most renown java script open source software framework nowadays. It was created when working with JavaScript was a real ...
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is this ad revenue model accurate?
I'm setting up an ad-supported website and trying to work through the numbers. I came across this article that gives a model. Being a newb at advertising, I've got quite a few questions:
For CPM and ...
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Monetizing a site that could be seen as doing charity work/sensitive niche?
I'm building a site and community around a particular disability which I have. I have a number of ideas that I'm sure will make the site a success in terms of getting visitors, but I'd also like to ...
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Monetising an e-Learning solution
I am currently researching e-Learning, and I'm hoping to launch a service similar to Khan Academy in the next year. It would offer learning tools for students all over the world. How should such a ...
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Generating ad revenue from Facebook fan page/application
We are planning to create a facebook fan page/application which has the potential of driving in a daily traffic of 100,000.However,we are not clear about the revenue generating model.Is there any ad ...
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Would anyone be willing to advertise audio books?
I am panning to release an audio book listening application to one of the new mobile platforms. It has a special features that makes the experience of listening books very pleasant and effective.
I ...
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Alternative ways of website monetization
I'm developing a web application that will provide several services and the only ways for monetization I can think of are ads and donations. Are there any other mechanisms for monetizing a webpage? I ...
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Monetizing sites similar to deviantART
How does a website like deviantART make money? They allow users to create free accounts and upload data for free. I heard some venture capitalists invest in such websites but how can one capitalize ...
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Monetization options - other than ads - for consumer SaaS
I started a consumer SaaS almost 2 months ago. It's a calories counter system. You log in, register your meals and the system tells you how many calories you ate and the type of those calories. You ...
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What monetization ways I have?
I plan to start business like DropBox. It's not exactly like DropBox but something similar. DropBox is charging monthly fees for their subscription but my service is total free of cost. It's cloud ...
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How do sites like Stack Overflow and Quora make money?
Stack Overflow and all its sites are great, but how do they make money? There is just one ad on a page in the best case on Stack Overflow, and none on Quora or OnStartups.com. Am I missing something, ...
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Monetizing your website: how do you setup an affiliated vendor?
I have two websites that have to do with health. I originally made them just to practice SEO, and since now I am an SEO guru, they get lots of traffic.
The problem is that those sites only get ...
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Placing ads in or otherwise monetizing email messages
I'm working on a voting website that allows people to run elections using ranked-choice voting. Everything is currently free and without advertising, and I'm considering the best ways to monetize it.
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What's the best way that my SaaS site can benefit from my related content site?
I will open up shop selling an idea management SaaS product on my website (lets call it BigIdea.com) in August. In order to build links, get some traffic and make a site that I think will be useful ...
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Which options do I have to monetize desktop application like TweetDeck
I build desktop application that is integration between Twitter / facebook/ picasa / (can be others ) on speed (build with c++ not AIR).
It is build first for my use . but then people liked it and ...
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Is it legal to monetize your browser add-on by changing others advertisements?
I'm about to develop an interesting, from a functional perpective, extension for Chrome but got a lot doubts in terms of how to monetize it.
I was wondering if it's ok from a legal perspective to ...
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What are the revenue streams of social gaming?
I'm thinking to build some social games that can be played via website, social networks (Facebook, etc) and mobile apps.
So, what are the successful revenue streams of social gaming companies?
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Advantage (if any) to starting a business/app/idea with no immediate plans for monetization
Reading about companies like Burbn who made Instagram, they have 4 employees and 5 million users. With no immediate plans to make money off the back of it.
What kind of person starts a business with ...
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“Online-game” monetization models besides ads & appStore?
Can you please include links to some of the various "online-game" monetization examples besides placing ads & publishing on an appStore. (if possible please include short comment as to why it's ...
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Security-as-a-Service API business model
We're a small startup company in the web security space. In a nutshell, we have developed a unique approach to scan and detect web threats. After much consideration, we have decided to welcome the ...
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How to monetize a mobile app that assist you paying parking
I am wondering how to monetize a mobile app that will assists you paying parking by sending SMS to the operator, and assisting with other aspects in parking.
The usage will be in this step:
End-user ...
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How do websites that don't charge anything make money?
The obvious answer is "advertising" but I've heard of a lot of decently popular sites that don't make much on advertising. How else do you make money? are they just hoping to get bought out?
And for ...
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How much is this site worth?
I own a site that on which I "practiced" SEO. It isn't a real business. I only make money from it by putting Google AdSense and right now it makes just under $100 per month and growing, although I ...
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What are the most startup-friendly options for mobile payments? (UK)
A young team in the UK has come up with a neat way of creating a social application to help people keep their promises - for instance, keeping up-to-date with their coursework.
Without getting into ...
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Facebooks percentage take on advertising on my app
I was going to develop an app for facebook and was wondering what is Facebook's take on your advertising money that you earn. Is it like Apple's 70/30 or is it different.
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How to monetize established educational site with high volume traffic, good organic content, and high rankings
I have a website over 10 years old with over 300 pp of good organic content (all written by me), and have never advertised before. It's been up as an educational site, but I would now like to monetize ...
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How to monetize a free web app?
I need some help on the monetizing model for my free web app.
It's a garage sale site and I thought of monetizing it by means of sponsorships [at the footer of the app] and a splash screen banner ad ...
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Monetize website without spending money
I have made a website http://www.humanisms.co.uk, it is similar in concept to other very popular websites that are user-content orientated, ie. FML, TFLN, Sickipedia, TrueLad...etc.
Now, all its cost ...
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What is the Average Monthly Income per User for Facebook Games?
What is the average, or an expected, monthly income per user (daily or monthly) that you can expect from a facebook game? How does that change based on different monetization strategies, like highly ...
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How do people monetize Facebook app?
This might be very simple question but how do people monetize Facebook app? Do they just display ad within their apps using Google Adsense or similar services? Does Facebook have a service to monetize ...
