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A story in a magazine for dead-tree newspaper editors notes that many of the internet operations established in conjunction with newspapers are actually making money. Interesting stuff. Note that they're not making money from banner ads, but from classified ads.
Yeah dudes, I got this killer email today telling me how I can set up my own internet marketing company and make some phat cash. All I gotta do is send a dollar to the 5 people on the list, move my name up on to the list, and then send it 2 five new people to keep the chain going.
"Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire" --Robert Frost
Am I supposed to register for the NYTimes or not?
1) Porn (yeah, not pr0n, I actually typed "it".)
2) Classified.
Put the two together and you have a cash cow. Idiotic sarcasim aside (which is hard for me to do) has this been done? Do any legal brothels (Nevada?) have web pages that take some form of e-commerce? What mixes are there of pr0n and classifieds... I bet they all make money.
Actually, that could make some money. I can see them now...
On a TV show called 'Life Support' we have here in Australia, they put forward a really good way to make money off the internet.
Basically, what you do is set up a website with some pictures of yourself as a 6 year old. All the pedaphiles will begin to email you and want to meet you.
Once you've reeled in a pedaphile, write back saying "My parents don't love me. They won't by me a Playstation 2. How will I know you love me?".
At this point, Mr. Pedaphile will send you a playstation 2 so that you'll meet him. You then sell the new playstation2 on Ebay.
Another up-side is that the pedaphiles usually send you a CD full of hard core porn. You'll be the envy of all your sick-friends with the collection you'll make.
This almost seems to suggest that there's more money in extending current business models than there is in inventing brand-new, unproven, arrogrant business models based on the sheer genius of second-year-in-the-real-world-MBA's.
Who would have thought? First people bring porn online and make good money, now people bring classifieds online and make money. Next thing you know, there'll be online auction sites! Wow, there's lots of money to be made by charging for valuable content! Who would've thought?
Why is it so surprising that "Give us $15 and we'll run your classified ad online" makes money, while "Give us nothing while we establish market share by giving away our content, or, if we start to lose money, give us nothing while we download weird spyware that crashes your machine, or, failing that, give us nothing but please look at our flash 12.0 ads that only require a 4MB download, or maybe give us nothing while we figure out what new direction to take our business in" companies are failing left and right. Is it really that hard to figure out?
Perceived value = real value. Simple as that.
Cheers
-b
Note that they're not making money from banner ads, but from classified ads.
I'm sorry, I'm not at liberty to divulge the actual nature of the ads themselves, since they're classifi*WHACK*
Ow! That really hurt! I mean, no, really, who throws a shoe?!