Tutorial: How to make Money with your Dolphin site
Andrew Boon
posted 22nd of December 2010
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Once again a tutorial from mrpowless, and it's talking about an uber-important topic - money making! There are many ways to monetize your Dolphin-based community site, but not all of them are immediately obvious. So, mrpowless walks us through his ideas and you're welcome to contribute yours to be added to the tutorial. This one should definitely become a work in progress!
How to make Money with your Dolphin site
Due tips will be sent to the author in short order - just give your feedback and suggestions on what should be added.
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The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
There are too many gurus selling fancy sales pages with fancy garbage ebooks.
...And you won't get rich on ebay any more - it just doesn't work for the average person.
Useful information for those starting out in online marketing and want some basic tips.
Who cares? 100% of the email marketing I receive goes directly to the trash bin.... that must include the 10% that "know what they're doing". That 10% must come from extraordinarily gullible people.... the same ones that lose money on the Nigerian millionaire emails. Email marketing campaigns are all the same.... send out mass emails in hopes some of them find their way to gullible idiots that will buy your see more
I get a ton of spam emails that I delete just like joustonlively does.
But I also have membership in forums that I pay $60/month to stay a member. When they send me email I open it. I get email from them every week.
I also get email from a few marketing gurus that I open almost everytime.
Have I brought any product suggested through email?
Yes several.
Have they been useful?
Some...extremely.
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Hope this would help to earn money. But it should be easy to use for users.
And a company promoting link where company owner creates a company page just like in twitter or facebook. (with two options one is free and one for paid)
http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/E_mail_marketing_
Nikolaj
This is called the investment stage. If you don't have the cash to make the investment and take the risk then you need to find it or find another game. This is where you make nothing for a long time until you have enough members see more
Always remember the Golden Rule..! You must give in order to receive. Do not focus on today's dollar but instead focus on longterm. Boonex totally gets this and why they give see more
The problem with email marketing now is the list, and you can't build a list when every single person you are trying to market to can get it almost free or for free from the same source you are marketing from.
Too many know the ropes now, and even the gurus are losing the battle big time - you see them every day trying to sell garbage stuff out of jello trees with fancy sales pages and a seven dollar sign instead see more
If you build a niche community, would be nice if members could sell and trade stuff to each other (and to the casual visitor) directly from their profile.
The site owner could then get a small fee on every sale.
A proper integration with a an existing e-commerce platform could work as well.
The market is there and a module like that could be huge.