10 EXCELLENT
EXAMPLES TO
MONETIZE YOUR
COMMUNITY
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- Want to set up your own community?
- Does advertising reduce perceived quality?
- Want find new ways to monetize?
Have a look at 10 outstanding examples to
monetize online communities
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10. Fon
www.fon.com
- Resell wifi access
- Great way to pay Internet bill
- 350K members
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9. Fundable
www.fundable.com
- Fund your project
- Charged only if successful
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8. Yonkly
yonkly.com
- Create your twitter
- Free basic access
- Use your own ads
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7. Blubrry
www.blubrry.com
- Podcasting community
- Hosting
- Promotion of content
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6. Infectious
www.infectious.com
- Sell your art-mods
- You hack with our art
- Trendy
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5. Zlio
www.zlio.com
- Create you online store
- Easy and immediate
- Grasp the best of ebay
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4. Xing
www.xing.com
- More quality than rivals
- Premium access
- Superb search capabilities
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3. OpenAd
www.openad.net
- Crowdsourced Digital Agency
- 11,500 creatives
- Impressive clients
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2. Meetup
www.meetup.com
- Small fee, Large results
- Targeted and enabling
- Impressive movement
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1. Get Satisfaction
getsatisfaction.com
- Power to the people
- Companies pay
- Horizontal, subversive, amazing
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to sum it up:
Enable users
Guide users - Shift the paradigm
Work out sound pricing - Give basic access for
free - Capitalize where others are stuck
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What’s your trick to monetize?
Comment below
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