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What kinds of websites do you have? I think monetization for different verticals is likely to diverge radically in the next few years.
by nugget 11y ago
What kinds of websites do you have? I think monetization for different verticals is likely to diverge radically in the next few years.
- tobltobs 11y agoSmall online tools. No content pages, just some convert x to y or stuff like that. The problems you can solve with those pages are too small to ask for user registration or a fee.
- briholt 11y agoCould you share what they are?
- minhyeok 11y agosmallpdf.com
- cJ0th 11y agoI would imagine that your service can be turned into a SaaS. For example: a free service that allows x pages per ip address a day and a premium service with an "unlimited" amount of conversions.
- tobltobs 11y agoBecause the concurrence would happily take your users if you start asking for money.
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoAre you kidding? Donation? This is worth real money: sell it.
- briholt 11y agoThat's a pretty sweet site. I'd vote a freemium option. You could do things like: X conversions free per IP per month, upgrade for more X Mb files are free, upgrade for bigger files Do you have some stats on visitor loyalty? You probably get a lot of passer-bys, but the 1% that uses you weekly should be paying. It's not too much work to set up a Stripe or Paypal subscription service and put up a little paywall. It reminds me of https://www.url2png.com/ https://www.url2png.com/ which I subscribed to for a while.
- ryanSrich 11y agoughh....why not turn that into a business. Seems super legit.
- patio11 11y agoI paid $50 for downloadable software once which did one of these things that I needed done for one single document, once. [+] You can certainly charge for these. (n.b. I got my start in business with software which turned a random number generator into PDFs. My sense of it is the market for your product is orders of magnitude greater than the market for mine.) [ + ] There was a document holding up an insurance application holding up a $X0,000 consulting engagement. That's not the typical case in business, but businesses broadly speaking do have more money than you can possibly imagine to throw at solving real problems.
- tobltobs 11y agoThis is NOT one of my projects, but it is a good example anyway. Making a Saas or whatever out of this will not work, as there is too much concurrence.
- hluska 11y agoYou mentioned in another post that you have a donate page in your navigation. Have you A/B tested showing a call to donate along with the result?
- petercooper 11y agoRun of the mill banner ads are probably the worst way to monetize things like that. From my POV there are two main options: 1) Build it up enough to have a premium tier with something people would be willing to pay for. This essentially makes you SaaS, however, with all that's involved with running a SaaS business. 2) Lead gen type sponsorships on the backend. Let's say your page is a * to PDF converter (as someone linked below), there are commercial PDF services, software vendors, etc, who would be keen to reach an audience requiring those services. Alternatively (again, depending on the service) there might be companies who have content that would appeal to such users and would pay a monthly fee to have a link to their content included on your finish/thank you page (this is common in the email newsletter signup world, related vendors like to be on those thank you pages as a next destination). For my own part, depending on the tools in question, I might even be keen on sponsoring some, and I was recently speaking with a director of marketing at an incubator who advised me the companies they represent get a lot of value out of sponsoring tools in this way.
- eli 11y agoArguably, it's always been different. I can tell you first hand that there is a robust ad market for content that reaches executives and decision makers in various industries.