Things I Saw While IM Blog Hopping
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By Allison Reynolds in Internet Marketing - Totally OT Published: Monday, 24 September 07 - 11:29 AM (GMT) Last Updated: Monday, 24 September 07 - 12:01 PM (GMT) |
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Exhibit #1 PaidWiki
Paidwiki is a commercial Wiki where the individual wiki pages are bought and then populated by those that own them.
In its infancy, only a few pages have been purchased and of those a couple of BIG names like World Of Warcraft and iPhone are there but everything else seems to be up for grabs.
At $49US a page the pages are half as cheap as its other commerical wiki rival Million Dollar Wiki.
Paidwiki has a two tiered affiliate system where each page sold from an affiliate link pays the owner $23, so three sales and you have made more than your initial purchase back. Add your affiliate sales to the future value of your page and you could be sitting on a nice little nest egg.
I predict that the early adopters will snap up the most desirable names, but the late comers will need to see that average niche product phrases get a nice boost on search engines or they just won't bother forking out the cash.
If the project does not get some "buzz" in the IM world then this may just fizzle.
I think that Dealdotcom can be a goer if it maintains high quality IM merchandise that the IM community will be willing to pay for.
In its infancy, only a few pages have been purchased and of those a couple of BIG names like World Of Warcraft and iPhone are there but everything else seems to be up for grabs.
At $49US a page the pages are half as cheap as its other commerical wiki rival Million Dollar Wiki.
Paidwiki has a two tiered affiliate system where each page sold from an affiliate link pays the owner $23, so three sales and you have made more than your initial purchase back. Add your affiliate sales to the future value of your page and you could be sitting on a nice little nest egg.
I predict that the early adopters will snap up the most desirable names, but the late comers will need to see that average niche product phrases get a nice boost on search engines or they just won't bother forking out the cash.
If the project does not get some "buzz" in the IM world then this may just fizzle.
Exhibit #2 DealDotCom
Another start-up DealDotCom act as an IM product affiliate site that allows people to become affiliates of the site and share in the sales by referring them there through links like the above.
Dealdotcom emulates some of the deal-a-day type sites and utilizes the cool-hip-trendy type writing some sites do really well, and some sites do badly. They do insist in their blurb that they will only sell stuff that is a good value deal so keep your eyes on their pages to see what they have up for sale
Dealdotcom emulates some of the deal-a-day type sites and utilizes the cool-hip-trendy type writing some sites do really well, and some sites do badly. They do insist in their blurb that they will only sell stuff that is a good value deal so keep your eyes on their pages to see what they have up for sale
I think that Dealdotcom can be a goer if it maintains high quality IM merchandise that the IM community will be willing to pay for.
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| Old | Zelune | 09/24/07 |
| Hi Zelune Yes there are a few of these i (...) | Allison | 09/25/07 |
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Top | Reply to this Title: Old Author: Zelune (http://www.zelune.net) Date Posted: 24 Sep 2007 07:18 PM (GMT) http://www.wordhugger.com - released awhile before, it is the same thing as paidwiki (but better?). |
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Top | Reply to this Author: Allison Date Posted: 25 Sep 2007 01:26 AM (GMT) Hi Zelune
Yes there are a few of these ideas popping up. The winner will be the one that create the most amount of interest and can demonstrate the most amount of usefulness. Something needs to go viral or nothing will happen. |
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