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Author seems to have equivocated "online business" with "displays ads for a living". Which seems like the least creative, suboptimal way to go about things. Th
by potatolicious 14y ago
Author seems to have equivocated "online business" with "displays ads for a living".
Which seems like the least creative, suboptimal way to go about things. The most profitable of tech businesses invariably have little to do with displaying ads. See examples Google (ad brokering), Amazon (selling shit to people), eBay (selling shit to people), LinkedIn (selling subscriptions to people), Apple (selling shit to people), AirBnb (selling rooms to people), DropBox (selling storage to people).
Holy shit, I'm starting to see a pattern here. It seems the most stable, profitable tech businesses all involve /whisper/ selling things to people.
sigh
And people say there's no bubble...
- thenomad 14y agoOn the smaller end of things, I literally know no pro-level ad-supported website owners (generally in the 200k - 2m uniques a month range) who prefer ads as a model any more. Since I run a website in that range (ad-supported - for now) I know quite a lot of those guys. Everyone's trying to move as far away from ads and toward, once again, selling shit to people, as fast as possible.
- wpietri 14y agoCan you say more about why? I think I know what you're getting at, but since you've talked with a lot of people I'd love to hear your broader take. (If you can't talk here, please do email me.)