Comments on: 10 Ways Digg Could Stay Profitable and Independent http://www.businesspundit.com/10-ways-digg-could-stay-profitable-and-independent/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Alex Drewniak http://www.businesspundit.com/10-ways-digg-could-stay-profitable-and-independent/comment-page-1/#comment-10998 Alex Drewniak Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:43:18 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com/?p=6694#comment-10998 1. Partner with newspapers and traditional media. Sell back-end software that enables users to digg or bury content, adding to the dynamic quality of newspaper and magazine homepages. Print is dying. Traditional media needs to innovate. A Digg partnership would provide them with the tools to do so. LOVE IT! Why not white label the shit out of their back-end system? 1. Partner with newspapers and traditional media. Sell back-end software that enables users to digg or bury content, adding to the dynamic quality of newspaper and magazine homepages. Print is dying. Traditional media needs to innovate. A Digg partnership would provide them with the tools to do so.

LOVE IT!

Why not white label the shit out of their back-end system?

]]> By: Beu http://www.businesspundit.com/10-ways-digg-could-stay-profitable-and-independent/comment-page-1/#comment-10962 Beu Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:10:42 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com/?p=6694#comment-10962 Digg has enough competitors that if Digg started to charge to submit stories, its users would leave. Mixx and reddit would definitely benefit from that kind of policy. I just don't think that many are conscious of ads on websites to begin with. Most people I've talked to just completely ignore them. If Digg users knew that Digg might fail due to lack of ad revenue then they'd click a few ads. I'm in the practice of clicking on an ad anytime a website offers me something of value. Digg has enough competitors that if Digg started to charge to submit stories, its users would leave. Mixx and reddit would definitely benefit from that kind of policy.

I just don’t think that many are conscious of ads on websites to begin with. Most people I’ve talked to just completely ignore them. If Digg users knew that Digg might fail due to lack of ad revenue then they’d click a few ads. I’m in the practice of clicking on an ad anytime a website offers me something of value.

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