Craig Burton

Making money using the Web–are you?: "

Other than our passion for web, this is probaly the most important discussion to have –even if you’re a hippie. Tara Hunt asks some logical questions, what is your business model? Something many Web 2.0 companies need to answer –unless they want to do Dotbomb 2.0. (I was Web 1.0 and DotBomb2.0 at Exodus) So I really know what that’s like. Life sucks when you’ve no more customers.

Brian Oberkirch responds with some key checkpoints for different ways to monetize your web programs.

1) Advertising

2) Make Users Pay

3) Other Services, Publishing

I would also add that some companies gather contact info and resell it to other companies, also don’t forget other types of partnerships to resyndicate or resell content,

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Tough questions. I am faced with the dillema too.