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How to monetize your user base – part 2: business models for social networks
This post emerged as the second part of the answer to the initial question of a fellow business developer at a large non-US social network: “how can we better monetize our social network“. As I’ve mentioned in the first part, there are several important questions to be asked before focusing on finding answers to the [...]
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How to monetize your user base – part 1: fundamental and strategic monetization
I have been approached by a fellow business developer, who works at a larger social network. He asked me if I could share my thoughts to the question: how can we (better) monetize our social network. His network has around 1 million registered users and its primary market is a non-US market. I enjoyed compiling [...]
by the bites no.1 – closing down shop and opening up a new one
After some blogging adventures in 2007 and 2008 I’m starting again. I used to be on Drupal, now on WordPress and for a moment thought about importing my old posts… But it’s just a pain and I will take some time to do a migration later on maybe. For now, I have compiled some outtakes [...]



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