I just realized that I wasn’t to active in this section of my blog. While thinking about Internet business models I tried to generalize the ideas behind some products and companies I know of. This results in my rather uncomplete list of Internet Business Models that I know of. This list will be extended every time I discover a new business model. I will also try to write articles about each of these business models in future including their monetarization models.
- Data Trading
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- Problem Solving
- Metaweb
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- The open source model
- loads of Software companies
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- Content creation
- Newspaper
- Mags
- Blogs
- message boards
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- E Commerce
- C2C Ebay
- B2C
- Amazon
- smaller stores
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- Premium / freemium Content / Services
- music
- Porn
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- Communication Services
- Skype
- Social Networking
- Chat
- …
- Filesharing Services
- Youtube
- Flickr
- 1click hosting
- p2p networks
- Dropbox
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- Collaboration Services
- dropbox
- Google Docs
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- Technical Infrastructure Software
- Webserver
- Database
- Webbrowser
- CMS
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- Technical Infrastructure Hardware
- Hosting
- Cloud computing
- Internet Service Provider
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- Knowledge distribution
- Wikipedia
- e learning
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- Advertising
- Affiliate
- Lead generation
- per Click
- per Impression
- retargeting
- Web design
- Usability
- Software engeneering
- Graphic Designer
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- Information distribution
- wikipedia
- googlemaps
- directories
- google scholar
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- Web search
- universal search
- specialized search
- semantic search
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- (Micro) payment
- paypall
- google checkout
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- Consulting
- Online Marketing
- Web Design
- Technical
Maybe it would be better to create a matrix with ways to monetarize these models as a dimension and business sectors and product ideas on the other dimension.
If you have any suggestions or know of ideas missing I am happy if you post about those in the comments!