Archive for January, 2010
Money From Dating & Fish… Marcus Frind Interview
Posted by Monetization in Monetization Classics on January 30th, 2010
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This is one in a series of Monetization Classics ™ – featuring information that should stand the test of time as examples of useful strategies, techniques and knowledge related to producing income. |
The dating site PlentyOfFish.com (blog, Wikipedia page) has been widely noted as a site that shows how a single entrepreneur can find success in a competitive market. It was started by Marcus Frind as a way to build a site while improving his programming skills, and timing was great as the Adsense text-ads monetization system was launched around the same time.
The founder wound up with a site earning millions per year in text ad revenue (later expanded to other monetization methods), and has inspired others to work to implement successful sites as solo or small business entrepreneurs.
The website video below is an interview from 2007 with Marcus Frind, done by a media show based in Tampa, Florida (USA).
(The video is almost 10 minutes long)
A year before the interview taped above, this blog post highlighted the blueprint/business model for the PlentyOfFish site. And while the interview above is years old, there are those as of now who believe the site is a web property that will continue to be successful.
Update – Content Monetization, Click to Call, iPad Apps
Posted by Monetization in Monetization News, Uncategorized on January 30th, 2010
Content With Money: There is a wealth (literally?) of information in this Neilson survey results post, which includes conclusions that selling musicand games is potentially more lucrative than selling access to text or user-generated content.
For those running text ads on websites, there is the promise of using click to call as an additional revenue source (and the flip side is businesses can get people searching via mobile phones to call just at the moment they want to speak with someone).
Monetization of the Big(ger) Screen? And with the announcement of the iPad, monetizing it (along with iPhones and iPod Touches) may be easier for bloggers with services such as iSites combined with Admob. A future post will give a list of services such as iSites that allow for easy mobile app creation.
Media : Monetizing new media continues to grow as old media struggles to monetize.
Online video monetization may be helping filmmakers who need to monetize their audiences, and sites such as Hulu are trying the pay option.