The more I've played with various ways to share revenue with or create economic opportunity for users, the more I've realized that people just don't care about the money. There are of course some notable exceptions to this (Uber, eBay etc), but generally users have jobs and a few extra dollars just isn't enough to motivate them to change a single behavior.
Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
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Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
#32not going to work, checkout Marc Andreessen's take on his own version of the same concept: Ning. Edit: typo Xing Ning
I think you meant Ning [1].
Xing [2] is the German LinkedIn.
Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
#33will see how this one will play out. if you have a spare minute, make me rich maybe :) http://www.tsu.co/gondo
Heh, back at you :-)
Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
#34Why can't I just give you money for a service.
I don't want ads.
I don't want you to give me ad revenue.
Just take my money and respect my privacy. Is that really so much to ask.
I will happily pay someone a yearly subscription for a simple social network that respects users privacy.
Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
#35Paid 2 Surf 2.0? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_to_surf
Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why won't it work?
One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue). One way to solve it could be to pool the revenue and to position Tsu like this: "90% of revenue goes to a good cause of your choice (climate, humanitarian, etc.), not to 1 huge corporation" Edit: Every profile would then get a "I Donated $x today" badge (v…
I don't care about $5 / month, but a lot of users would.
But think about content creators (musicians, artists, athletes, etc.) even with a small fan base, they get rewarded few hundred dolla per month. If they stick to the concept, then the regular poor users will follow them.
Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
#37Why can't I just give you money for a service. I don't want ads. I don't want you to give me ad revenue. Just take my money and respect my privacy. Is that really so much to ask. I will happily pay someone a yearly subscription for a simple social network that respects users privacy.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what a pyramid scheme is: * User 1 pays $20 to join the program with the promise of getting money back for their 'investment' * User 0 gets paid $20 * User 1 refers user 2 to the program * User 2 pays $20 to join the program with the promise of getting money back for their 'investment' * User 1 gets paid $15 and user 0 gets $5 * User 2 refers user 3 to the program * User 3 pays $20 to join the program with th…
Am I correct in saying that the only difference from this and a referral program is that there is another product, such as hosting.
That's a pretty big difference. Using referral fees to bring in new business for a product with a different revenue stream is sustainable, provided the core product is a sustainable business. There is no way for a pyramid scheme to not collapse.
Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
#39Pro tip: Apparently tsu.co has dofollow links, so you can generate quality content _and_ get quality links. Try it out: http://www.tsu.co/seotips
Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
#40Yet another centralized initiative?
Every new initiative is good if it brings new ideas.
But sadly, most new social networks we see try to convince people that Facebook is bad (ads, privacy concerns, etc) instead of convincing them that the new thing is good. IMO, this is backwards. I have never heard someone tell me "Facebook should share revenue with us". I mean come on: Facebook hosts servers, creates tons of jobs and they should now start paying users?