Web Strategy Micksup

Mick Liubinskas on technology, community and business models.

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Credits As Business Model

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Credits as business modelOriginally uploaded by bigmick
I remember lots of startups in web 1.0 that tried making web credits a business. I saw today that it’s Jib Jab’s way. They give you 50 credits, charge 30 credits per send, so the next one you want to send, you have to fork out [...]

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Tags: Business Models · Startups

To Charge, or Not To Charge, That Is The Question

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

So I’m exactly double what Google promised me early on with Gmail. 1,000 MB offer and I’ve shot past. But they haven’t even bugged me for money. In fact, they have said that I can triple from now and still be ok. And by then it might be 10 gig.
Nuts?
I’m sure the business guys out [...]

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Fake Social Ads and The Businss Model Balance

February 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Fake Social AdsOriginally uploaded by bigmick
Direct-Advertising, where a web page is built just so it gets search click throughs and then has more ads on it, was a highly profitable abomination. It dilutes the value of the Internet and that’s where I work and play so I don’t like it.
Fake social ads are [...]

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Tags: Apps · Business Models · Customers