Funny how you think the record labels won't go as low as.60 cent. The whole point is that a yahoo and google won't have a huge markup on the actual cost. The market determines the cost and that could be illegal downlads,.99 itunes, or $10 cd's. The plan is to reach the illegal download market and one way of doing that is putting the cheaper cost in their face over and over and over again through ads. So you might not think that those companies will go that far down in price. However, you have no idea what the demand curve looks like at.50 cent for a song. Profit could triple at that cost making it a great move, Itune has settle on the users it can get at a buck a song. No one cares about the people that have itune accounts. This battle is over the illegal download users. So just sit back and witness what happens. I won't tell you why i feel this way but I have a huge interest in offering legal downloads in the next two month.
Adsense is really the key, you can have all the crazy ideas in the world and blog til you are blue in the face. Still you have to have a way to bring in revenue which is what adsense does. At my site Zoomshare we offer free blogs and we are able to keep it free because of adsense ads. If your revenue is huge on adsense that is probably a precursor to google have an interest buying you. Why should google pay a company millions when they can buy you and put you in their network and have to pay you nothing. I know I say google and not AOL...Because its only a matter of time before Google has 50% stock in AOL.
I stated before in a discussion about lawsuits that one company will force the record labels to lower there cost. That company will be either google, Microsoft or Yahoo. It won't be Apple, Steve jobs did a great job of starting the trend. However, Google and Yahoo can reach more people with their website - advertise online at their sites for free, and target users based on different areas they visit (i.e most people that visit Google blog search my like a certain music so you promote that genre of music on that site). The price of a song is worth less then a dollar. We have to pay for the marketing-producing-potential profits of the album thats why a cd is 10 bucks. Ahh but once the system is in the hands of a Super power like Google the ITune model will explode and revenues will be up as downloads will increase 3 fold.
DO I have proof no! But the download trend is keeping the record labels alive. Now they are looking at greed to get back to the old days of multi-million dollar album sales.
I use P2P, but I don't cheat at school just on my girlfriend. Thanks to this article I now know why I do. Thanks Napster, Kazaa, WinMX for making me a cheater!!
Well if I can purchase a song on Itunes for.99 cent that would mean that the actual of cost of the song is below that. You have to factor in the cost of mark-up so.60 would be the actual price. Also a CD of 12-18 songs can range from 10-12 dollars. So.60-85 cent is the actual cost of the song, I will never purchase a cd again because I want the ability to customize a cd of all the songs I like. So the itune model is scarying the record label because they have marginalize the cost of a song to.99 cent. So the thought is not out of my arse! It's actually looking beyond the sticker price and understanding how low the labels will go. If they went as low as.99 for Steve Jobs then they will go even lower for Google or Yahoo.
every week there is another case and its a shame. I think the internet giants like Microsoft, Google and Yahoo should buy the copyrights to these songs and sell them at the actual value of the song =.60 cent each. It takes a real man to stand up to the Labels, i.e Steve Jobs, until someone relieves the record industry of their sagging sales you can expect a lawsuit a week. But the itune model is being thought about by tons of business. Someone will make a play at the market to bring by consumer confidence in record sales.
Well this will stop dead people from voting, but without the need to show ID before voting who knows who will vote i.e terrorist, criminals, teens..hahaha.what a thought teens voting..wheww
When I was a kid the best thing to happen to me was a Desktop. I still sit back and think about the AOL usage, the Chatrooms and having to turn off the screen when my mom walked into the room. Now in the 21st century I am all for the expansion of laptops and wireless connection. On the go and working whereever you want is what computing have transformed into. If i had a laptop in the 90's I would've done most of my "work" in the bathroom.
I use google adword a ton for www.zoomshare.com, and think it is probably the best PPC service on the planet given that we are a free service and the ROI is ZERO!!. Now that I said that I would love to see what Microsoft could do with a PPC service because Overture is mainly for Yahoo. If AOL is brought by Microsoft as some reports have it then this could be a huge step for MS. Where does all of this leave overture(Yahoo)?
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Funny how you think the record labels won't go as low as .60 cent. The whole point is that a yahoo and google won't have a huge markup on the actual cost. The market determines the cost and that could be illegal downlads, .99 itunes, or $10 cd's. The plan is to reach the illegal download market and one way of doing that is putting the cheaper cost in their face over and over and over again through ads. So you might not think that those companies will go that far down in price. However, you have no idea what the demand curve looks like at .50 cent for a song. Profit could triple at that cost making it a great move, Itune has settle on the users it can get at a buck a song. No one cares about the people that have itune accounts. This battle is over the illegal download users. So just sit back and witness what happens. I won't tell you why i feel this way but I have a huge interest in offering legal downloads in the next two month.
Adsense is really the key, you can have all the crazy ideas in the world and blog til you are blue in the face. Still you have to have a way to bring in revenue which is what adsense does. At my site Zoomshare we offer free blogs and we are able to keep it free because of adsense ads. If your revenue is huge on adsense that is probably a precursor to google have an interest buying you. Why should google pay a company millions when they can buy you and put you in their network and have to pay you nothing. I know I say google and not AOL...Because its only a matter of time before Google has 50% stock in AOL.
I stated before in a discussion about lawsuits that one company will force the record labels to lower there cost. That company will be either google, Microsoft or Yahoo. It won't be Apple, Steve jobs did a great job of starting the trend. However, Google and Yahoo can reach more people with their website - advertise online at their sites for free, and target users based on different areas they visit (i.e most people that visit Google blog search my like a certain music so you promote that genre of music on that site). The price of a song is worth less then a dollar. We have to pay for the marketing-producing-potential profits of the album thats why a cd is 10 bucks. Ahh but once the system is in the hands of a Super power like Google the ITune model will explode and revenues will be up as downloads will increase 3 fold. DO I have proof no! But the download trend is keeping the record labels alive. Now they are looking at greed to get back to the old days of multi-million dollar album sales.
I use P2P, but I don't cheat at school just on my girlfriend. Thanks to this article I now know why I do. Thanks Napster, Kazaa, WinMX for making me a cheater!!
Well if I can purchase a song on Itunes for .99 cent that would mean that the actual of cost of the song is below that. You have to factor in the cost of mark-up so .60 would be the actual price. Also a CD of 12-18 songs can range from 10-12 dollars. So .60-85 cent is the actual cost of the song, I will never purchase a cd again because I want the ability to customize a cd of all the songs I like. So the itune model is scarying the record label because they have marginalize the cost of a song to .99 cent. So the thought is not out of my arse! It's actually looking beyond the sticker price and understanding how low the labels will go. If they went as low as .99 for Steve Jobs then they will go even lower for Google or Yahoo.
every week there is another case and its a shame. I think the internet giants like Microsoft, Google and Yahoo should buy the copyrights to these songs and sell them at the actual value of the song = .60 cent each. It takes a real man to stand up to the Labels, i.e Steve Jobs, until someone relieves the record industry of their sagging sales you can expect a lawsuit a week. But the itune model is being thought about by tons of business. Someone will make a play at the market to bring by consumer confidence in record sales.
Well this will stop dead people from voting, but without the need to show ID before voting who knows who will vote i.e terrorist, criminals, teens..hahaha.what a thought teens voting ..wheww
When I was a kid the best thing to happen to me was a Desktop. I still sit back and think about the AOL usage, the Chatrooms and having to turn off the screen when my mom walked into the room. Now in the 21st century I am all for the expansion of laptops and wireless connection. On the go and working whereever you want is what computing have transformed into. If i had a laptop in the 90's I would've done most of my "work" in the bathroom.
I use google adword a ton for www.zoomshare.com, and think it is probably the best PPC service on the planet given that we are a free service and the ROI is ZERO!!. Now that I said that I would love to see what Microsoft could do with a PPC service because Overture is mainly for Yahoo. If AOL is brought by Microsoft as some reports have it then this could be a huge step for MS. Where does all of this leave overture(Yahoo)?