Well, how many web sites do you visit everyday that provide nothing for free? Mostly you visit web sites daily that do provide something or the other for free, isnt it?
While Simply providing free services may be more likely to fail, some free services are necessary for any web site to bring visitors and then some good program is required to convert those visitors to sale. Ashish Raj ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kaufman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bizops-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:11 PM Subject: Re: Info needed > Csongor Fagyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > > Friends, > > > > Our company is looking for information about how profitable it is to > > operate (free) sites which target the US audience. > > i'd estimate that, as the economic trends of last year or two of NASDAQ > stock prices may illustrate, free sites are startlingly unprofitable. > > this correlation between revenue and profit may or may not apply to the > socioeconomic dynamics of other countries, but i think it can be said now > with some confidence that corporate success in a capitalitic systems is, in > some obscure way, actually dependent on the presence of a revenue model. go > figure. > > hth, > > -dave >
