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What is the typical revenue stream expected from Android advertising?
I know this is a broad question (and a sensitive one) but would be interested to know some stats.
If using Google's AdMob service for your android app, can you provide an indication of realised ...
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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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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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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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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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How does a business owner take money out of their business
Let's say I own a business selling widgets on the web. I'm incorporated, most likely an LLC. The business is doing really well and there is a lot of cash flow. Since I'm separated from the business by ...
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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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When, and how should I think about getting money out of a free site/service?
How to (slightly) monetize a tiny niche website... when it's free to use?
I'm developing a small niche website to help an airline worker I know solve a problem she faces fairly regularly. It seems ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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API and business models
What is your take on content-provider web-service startups (e.g. Yelp) exposing an API to their content? How does it affect the business model of the service and how can you monetize it? What ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Should I charge for my service or not?
I have a product in beta (which is a minimum viable product) and am working on the release version.
I had my early adopters take a survey and although a majority of them had great things to say about ...
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How to monetize user-submitted links
I have a forum page where users interact and discuss different topics. Lets say one user submits a link to a sales item hosted by an online retailer (ex. macy's sweater on sale on macys.com). How ...
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Smart ways to optimize ad revenues
Over the time I've realized that mostly 50% of my traffic (from USA/UK/CAN/AUS) makes up 90% of my ad revenues. The other 50% of my traffic (mostly from IND/CN) only contributes like 10% or so. Of ...
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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 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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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 ...
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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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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 much can you trust website worth value calculators?
While bulding my Business Plan for my future Website, I am trying to collect some relationships between traffic and online advertising monetization.
I know that we cannot really trust numbers given ...
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Business Plan with No Immediate Revenue Opportunity
I am wondering if I should pursue a new business idea that has no immediate revenue opportunity. I would like to develop a web portal (I cannot divulge the exact business idea) and it will require ...
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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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Should “fun” projects be monetized?
For my own education and just for fun, I occasionally write small software applications.
Lately I've been considering taking the next step and polishing one or more into something that could be ...
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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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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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Revenue Model for Facebook Application
We want to design/develop a Facebook business application. But we are not sure how to get revenue out of it. Is there any FB application where people willing to pay. As this is a business application, ...
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Monetizing a Twitter app
Again!
Is there a model to monetizing a custom Twitter app?
whats the advantage of reusing twitter compared to building an independent twitter style app that does the job?
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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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Lead generation
We are building a web app where lead gen will be a major component. I would like to get more information about implementing it
What are the best ways to incorporate lead gen in 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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How much money can you make per click and how many people click?
For non-search web businesses, using a turnkey advertising solution, like Google Adsense, how much do websites really make each time someone clicks, and what percentage of visitors click?
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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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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 ...
