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I actually have the feeling I can make some money because a) people already donate (the donation ratio is around 10%) and b) adsense already generates revenu
by herval 18y ago
I actually have the feeling I can make some money because
a) people already donate (the donation ratio is around 10%)
and
b) adsense already generates revenue enough to, at least, pay the service costs and buy beer :-)
The service actually already allows you to embed the map on any site (in an iframe model or just putting a banner with a popup) - the average user of the service has usually not a lot of experience with html, so I provide the snippets on the site itself to make it easier for them.
- visdo 18y agoHow do you calculate your donation ratio? 10% seems like a very very good conversion rate.
- herval 18y agothe number of maps that donated divided by the number of free users. It's not linear, though: there are months when I get a lot of donations (on various sizes). The smallest one being two cents (that was just once, though) and the biggest one having reached 120 usd (yay!!!). The donations are also higher during specific periods of year (like christmas)
- pmjordan 18y agoIf you do go down the freemium route, don't forget to give the people who've already donated free access to the premium features in excess of the amount they donated. Keeping these users happy strikes me as the key to expanding the user base via word of mouth.