44 posts tagged revenue model

A few days ago, I read an interesting post from Andrew Parker on why freemium business models (users can pay a monthly fee to remove ads from a service) are bad for advertisiers. Here is the money quote: Advertisers pay a premium in order to reach people in their specific demographic with disposable income.

Once launched, how much might a niche social networking site earn from advertisers? The purpose of this post is to give those developing financial forecasts and business plans for niche social networks some basis for projecting revenues.

According to the XBIZ News Report(contains ads NSFW): “Playboy plans to initially offer Time Warner Cable subscribers 20 hours of gay male programming. The service is slated to begin operating next month.

Ten Crucial Questions for Your Business Future by Paul Lemberg in: Finance As a business coach I specialize in asking questions. The right question asked at the right time can effect your business future more than you can imagine.

Branding of the Bands We previously posted a topic on why bands should consider music licensing as an alternative revenue model - here’s taking it a step further. Brands are starting to open up their doors to independent acts.

Domaining is the art and science of buying and selling domain names as virtual real estate investments. The Domaining revenue model consists of three principal components: Revenue from domain names; Revenue from “domain flipping”; Revenue from domain development; Revenue from Domain Names – individual

“Okay so let me get this straight, when we first spoke it was $13k to own it, and now its free? Are you sure about this?” a dear friend and repeat client who runs an agency just asked me. I get that you want to provide for your family, sooo what are you thinking? Are we going to offer a “freemeium” model where you get crippleware for free and the useful parts in expensive add-ons? Nope.

William Patry points us to an interesting draft of an article by Prof. Shyamkrishna Balganesh (of University of Chicago Law School) for the Harvard Law Review concerning how the courts rarely take into account the real purpose of copyrights in deciding what copyrights allow people to do.

KUMARHATTI: In a significant development the ‘’Bhaagidari Project” the first concrete step towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity has been launched by CII Himachal Pradesh State Council at Jharmajri, near Baddi today.

As my inaugural post, I am providing my detailed model of LVLT revenues, costs, earnings, and cashflow. It is a multi-page spreadsheet, and is more comprehensive than anything I find in analyst reports etc. I don’t claim perfection, if you find an error or have a suggestion for improvement please let me know.