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What's your idea on monetizing these websites?

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ghostdiver 13y ago
I'm sure there is some good idea, just like becoming a prostitute is not the only way of making a living. Perhaps it does not make much sense to make such websites if "advertising" is the only viable option?
RyanZAG 13y ago
Pintrest is mostly made up of (1) images/photos and (2) real world merchandise of some kind. They could create a platform for selling printed copies of images/photos on pintrest and they could take a cut of the revenues, and maybe even go into easy distribution and scale of physical products shown on pintrest with a cut of revenues as well. Probably other services they could combine with the content as well in other ways with some creativity.
- jcampbell1 13y ago
  How big is the market for printed photos? How is taking a revenue cut from products really that different from advertising? It is non transparent affiliate marketing which is worse than transparent advertising.
ameoba 13y ago
Unless you can convince people to pay for your service, you can either openly use them as advertising platforms or you can be sneaky and sell your data to advertisers behind the scenes.
- JimmaDaRustla 13y ago
  Haha, read my mind! Even if you sell behind the scenes, a profit focused company can't really say no to advertising.
  - thecosas 13y ago
    "profit focused company" lol nice.
- schuylerlarson 13y ago
  > sell your data to advertisers behind the scenes. Doing this is way too risky. It puts your company at risk to secretly sell this data. Imagine if word slipped about this. It could easily landslide into losing half your user-base and eventually the rest of them.
JimmaDaRustla 13y ago
I cannot imply that advertising should be removed, unless the customer financially pays for the service - any company (especially public) will use advertising in some form, or else it is just lost revenue. I guess the only other option would be to build paid services, like app.net, but that is a completely different revenue model.

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I'm sure there is some good idea, just like becoming a prostitute is not the only way of making a living. Perhaps it does not make much sense to make such websites if "advertising" is the only viable option?

RyanZAG 13y ago

Pintrest is mostly made up of (1) images/photos and (2) real world merchandise of some kind. They could create a platform for selling printed copies of images/photos on pintrest and they could take a cut of the revenues, and maybe even go into easy distribution and scale of physical products shown on pintrest with a cut of revenues as well. Probably other services they could combine with the content as well in other ways with some creativity.

jcampbell1 13y ago
How big is the market for printed photos? How is taking a revenue cut from products really that different from advertising? It is non transparent affiliate marketing which is worse than transparent advertising.

ameoba 13y ago

Unless you can convince people to pay for your service, you can either openly use them as advertising platforms or you can be sneaky and sell your data to advertisers behind the scenes.

JimmaDaRustla 13y ago
Haha, read my mind! Even if you sell behind the scenes, a profit focused company can't really say no to advertising.
- thecosas 13y ago
  "profit focused company" lol nice.
schuylerlarson 13y ago
> sell your data to advertisers behind the scenes. Doing this is way too risky. It puts your company at risk to secretly sell this data. Imagine if word slipped about this. It could easily landslide into losing half your user-base and eventually the rest of them.

JimmaDaRustla 13y ago

I cannot imply that advertising should be removed, unless the customer financially pays for the service - any company (especially public) will use advertising in some form, or else it is just lost revenue. I guess the only other option would be to build paid services, like app.net, but that is a completely different revenue model.