A quick list of ways to monetize websites
Looking for a way to monetize your website? Maybe one of these will work:
- CPM ads ("cost per thousand views"; banner ads online and regular ads in print, TV and radio)
- CPC ads ("cost per click"; think Google ads)
- CPT or CPA ads ("cost per transaction"; advertiser pays only if the visitor brought from the media site becomes a customer. Think affiliate revenues, like Amazon Associates
- Lead generation (advertiser pays for qualified names of potential customers)
- Subscription revenues / rental of subscriber lists
- Sale of user data (selling data about users--aggregate/statistical or individual--to third parties)
- Licensing of brand (people pay to use a media brand as implied endorsement)
- "Souvenirs"/"Merchandise"
- Licensing of content (syndication)
- Upgraded service/content (ed: aka "freemium")
- Alternate output (pdf; print/print-on-demand; customized Shared Book style; etc.)
- Custom services/feeds
- Live events
- Co-branded spinoff
- Cost Per Install (popular with top Facebook apps who can help others get installs)
- E-commerce (selling stuff directly on your website)
- Sponsorships (ads of some sort that are sold based on time, not on the number of impressions)
- Listings (paying a time based amount to list something like a job or real estate on your website) / Paid Inclusion (a form of CPC advertising where an advertiser pays to be included in a search result)
- API Fees (charging third parties to access your API)
Forwarded to me by my brother - Unfortunately I don't know the original source -