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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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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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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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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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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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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 can I monetize a job board website?
I have a job board website listing local jobs in my country. There are two kind of customers: the job seekers and the employer.
I have some ideas but I want your advice about monetizing the website ...
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When is it a bad idea to bootstrap?
There are two types of startups - those who try to get big quickly and then figure out a way to become profitable, and those who are profitable from the beginning, but grow much slower. The first type ...
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Are there any good monetization strategies for webservice/API providers?
I often have ideas for a webservice ... as in a live internet programming API (Application Programmable Interface) for other websites. Ideally, I'd like to allow access to the API for free in order to ...
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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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what are the various methods to make money of your startup
i know some some of them please add/edit
1: selling products to customers
2: profits from adsense/clicks/ads
3: selling services
4: donations
5:subscriptions
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How can you (best) monetize a beta?
Suppose that your product is going into beta, with potential for 1,000s of beta testers.
But being a small company, you would like to try to get a little money now to ease development costs for the ...
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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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How to monetize my Tumblr blog
I'm new on Tumblr, and I have over 180 followers. With all these eyes on my blog, how do I monetize it?
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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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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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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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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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How to turn a WordPress plugin into a business?
Over the past two years, I've developed a relatively successful WordPress plugin. It started out as a hobby project, but now I'd like to try and turn it into a business.
About the plugin
Checks the ...
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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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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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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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Social-Networking Business Models
What business models exist for social-network type startups?
I'm looking for revenue streams other than the standard advertising model. What types of perks/features are members willing to pay a ...
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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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What costs are involved in operating a Web subscription service?
I am in the process of determining the pricing details for a subscription service (I have the standard, premium and plus accounts) and I'd like to create a spreadsheet of what expenses are involved in ...
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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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What to do with a semi successful side-project?
Beside my two startups I invest 99% of my time in, I have several side projects I started just for fun. Trying out new programming languages, those kind of things.
One of these side projects is 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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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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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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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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“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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I spent thousands of dollars creating a website. Now what?
What do I do next with a website I developed?
A little background. A few years back, I discovered there is no web directory of free email newsletters. However, virtually every organization of any ...
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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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Framework for Freemium model in ASP.NET
I have a website that I would like to add registration and plans (ex: premium membership, free membership) and charge the customers on a monthly subscription basis. The existing website is written in ...
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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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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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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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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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Adsense or Adbrite?
I am considering choosing between these two. Does anyone have any experience with Adbrite?. What are the pros and cons?
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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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How to create a great niche content site?
I think I've recently discovered a niche with several high-traffic keywords, that doesn't have a good source of content ranking for it. I intend to create a content site for this niche, and I'm ...
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Generating income from websites
We have a website that lets companies advertise their courses and lessons for free. We currently have adsense on the site to generate income, but this income will not cover the cost of the next ...
