On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:12 AM, A. Johnson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Problem: DW needs to make money to run! And we want to have more
> than just paid accounts to make people want to give us money. Small
> impulse purchases are especially awesome, but small money amounts are
> disproportionately eaten by fees. So, for instance, if we sell $1 v-
> gifts? We only get 67 cents if someone buys just one, because there
> is a 2.7% + 30 cent fee for the transaction. That is sad and a waste.
>
> Possible solution: We implement a (nonrefundable) points system. It's
> a lot more flexible than the gift certificate system.
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This gives me an idea for a possible monetary scheme for the site as a
whole.
One of the big things with companies is getting data on users, taking
consumer surveys and that kinda stuff.
So here's a thought, suppose a company that does paid surveys pays DW for
the right to put up a fancy poll on a public community page, which the users
fill in and in exchange get paid for their time and effort in points [or
drops or whatevers] Of course the data would be anonymous we'd track who'd
done the poll, but the answers wouldn't be linked to user names. The
consumer survey company would get a simple framework to 'mine' data
within... and without the cost of creating their own infrastructure. So we
could sell the idea to things like charties or NGO's etc...
The poll is unobtrusive, the users have to go to it, to fill it in, so it's
not like LJ Ad's.
It stimulates the internal economy of the points system, and generates a
source of money to support the site.
.Good idea, bad idea? thoughts?
Silicon.shaman
Subversives 'R' Us
Cogito ergo periculosus,
[ I think, therefore I'm dangerous ].
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