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Re: How do they make money?

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Post by giorgiofontana » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 9:23 AM UTC

zinkem wrote: post #3

Seems to be some bugs... for example when I filter by 'selling data,' the only company that pops up is LinkedIn, but when I click on Google Docs, it says they make money in part by selling data. Cool concept though!

true, there are some annoying bugs (I didn't notice the filtering thing). I emailed the company to point that out. anyway, I liked very much the idea!

Re: How do they make money?

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Post by zhoutong » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 9:34 AM UTC

What's the difference between "Subscribers" and "Freemium" here? It seems to me that the freemium models requires paid subscribers.

Re: How do they make money?

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Post by mcrider » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 9:52 AM UTC

zhoutong wrote: post #12

What's the difference between "Subscribers" and "Freemium" here? It seems to me that the freemium models requires paid subscribers.

At least with Netflix, there is no free option. I think in this case, 'Subscribers' means that the service requires a subscription to use it at all (whereas freemium has tiered service levels).

Re: How do they make money?

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Post by mmahemoff » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 10:02 AM UTC

zhoutong wrote: post #12

What's the difference between "Subscribers" and "Freemium" here? It seems to me that the freemium models requires paid subscribers.

Freemium simply means there's a free component to a premium service. The premium part could be subscribers, but it could also be a one-time app payment (with a free app equivalent) or even custom services.

Freemium's the odd one out here - it's really a separate dimension - do you have a free offering or not? So any company listed here as freemium should also be accompanied by at least one other (actual) revenue model.

Re: How do they make money?

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Post by gere » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 10:05 AM UTC

The link to the Amazon Prime source is wrong. Now it goes to: http://googleadsenserevenue.org/google-adsense-revenue/how-d...

Re: How do they make money?

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Post by mmahemoff » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 10:12 AM UTC

Suggestion: Unique URLs for each filter (via HTML5 history/pushState).

Re: How do they make money?

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Post by bruceboughton » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 10:28 AM UTC

Apple makes most of their (enormous piles of) money from hardware, yet the only options on here are Apple (apps) and Apple (iTunes). Bizarre.

Re: How do they make money?

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Post by elbeanio » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 10:46 AM UTC

So only LinkedIn sells data? I find that a bit surprising.

Re: How do they make money?

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Post by sfall » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 10:52 AM UTC

elbeanio wrote: post #18

So only LinkedIn sells data? I find that a bit surprising.

yea you can also have premium accounts for job hunters or employer, they half assed it

Re: How do they make money?

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Post by sfall » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 10:54 AM UTC

gere wrote: post #15

The link to the Amazon Prime source is wrong. Now it goes to: http://googleadsenserevenue.org/google-adsense-revenue/how-d...

the problem with amazon is that even though it is not a profitable component, it costs more in shopping on average than what the program costs, but they have found that the prime users purchase more on the program