How Tumblr should monetize their service
- Bellabetina: if tumblr doesn't have ads
- Bellabetina: why would investors want to put money in it?
- Bjornstar: they're working on a paid Pro version
- Bellabetina: oh
- Bjornstar: I will probably start looking for a Tumblr replacement when they add a paid version
- Bellabetina: hm
- Bellabetina: tough
- Bjornstar: adding paid features to a free product is not a way to get my money
- Bjornstar: maybe other people will pay
- Bjornstar: but it turns me off
- Bellabetina: yeah
- Bellabetina: i know
- Bellabetina: how can they earn money then?
- Bjornstar: by helping other people make money
- Bjornstar: help me monetize my website
- Bjornstar: And they can take some of that revenue
- Bjornstar: they have a huge userbase
- Bjornstar: they have a huge audience
- Bjornstar: and it's a lot of people who are spending a lot of money
- Bjornstar: so put together an advertising network for only tumblr users
- Bjornstar: let them put nice looking ads on their own site
- Bellabetina: sort of like google ads?
- Bjornstar: right
- Bjornstar: put advertising blocks in the default themes
- Bellabetina: 嗯
- Bjornstar: let the users and the advertisers work out a deal
- Bjornstar: then tumblr pockets 20% of all advertising revenue
- Bjornstar: the users get paid
- Bjornstar: for their content
- Bjornstar: and tumblr gets paid for their service
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- Great idea. Share the wealth and treat users as partners.
