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Make Money Fast Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the black-and-white-and-oh-you've-heard-this-one dept.

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.

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  1. I'm confused by Inexile2002 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I supposed to register for the NYTimes or not?

  2. Wow! That makes two! by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 4, Funny
    So now there are two ways to make money on the web.

    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.

  3. Whoa! by brooks_talley · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  4. Spook by alexburke · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?!