maybe? it’s impossible to predict what effects that would have resulted in but what we ended up with now isn’t exactly great.
your options now are either full subscription only, with little audience and a huge barrier to get users as you have tonconvince them it’s worth a full size payment.
or convince someone else to pay you, e.g referral links and sponsored posts. this leads to low quality ‘reviews’ where the best affiliate program wins.
or put advertisers content in your site…and deal with people blocking it, and all the seo spam to get viewers onto those ads…
or…monetize your service by harvesting data on your users to then sell to whoever is willing to pay you for that data…also not good.
maybe if we figured out micropayments early we could have avoided some of that. or maybe we’d just have all of that on top of micropayments. or something even worse to maximize micropayments.
maybe? it’s impossible to predict what effects that would have resulted in but what we ended up with now isn’t exactly great.
your options now are either full subscription only, with little audience and a huge barrier to get users as you have tonconvince them it’s worth a full size payment.
or convince someone else to pay you, e.g referral links and sponsored posts. this leads to low quality ‘reviews’ where the best affiliate program wins.
or put advertisers content in your site…and deal with people blocking it, and all the seo spam to get viewers onto those ads…
or…monetize your service by harvesting data on your users to then sell to whoever is willing to pay you for that data…also not good.
maybe if we figured out micropayments early we could have avoided some of that. or maybe we’d just have all of that on top of micropayments. or something even worse to maximize micropayments.