Comments on: Sacrificing the user experience for income http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/10/15/sacrificing-the-user-experience-for-income/ Thoughts, opinions and fascinating discoveries by Elliot, a student at USC Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:05:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jermaine’s Nitty Gritty Marketing Course Goes Live at Elliot Lee http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/10/15/sacrificing-the-user-experience-for-income/#comment-327235 Jermaine’s Nitty Gritty Marketing Course Goes Live at Elliot Lee Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:00:31 +0000 http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/10/15/sacrificing-the-user-experience-for-income/#comment-327235 [...] BigSeminar, which I’ve written about briefly before, Jermaine released his coaching program. It was only for people in that room, and [...] [...] BigSeminar, which I’ve written about briefly before, Jermaine released his coaching program. It was only for people in that room, and [...]

]]> By: Michael http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/10/15/sacrificing-the-user-experience-for-income/#comment-324507 Michael Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:34:10 +0000 http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/10/15/sacrificing-the-user-experience-for-income/#comment-324507 You mean Invisionplus makes half as much money as it should based on traffic. It's the service vs cost dilemma. Without funds to cover costs and profit to provide incentive for putting in more effort, your service level will drop. To improve or even just to maintain the service level, you need income from ads or have fee-for-service, otherwise you can't continue operations. Most people realize someone has to pay for the service. All "free" service models eventually find someway to make a profit if they are to survive and grow. You mean Invisionplus makes half as much money as it should based on traffic. It’s the service vs cost dilemma. Without funds to cover costs and profit to provide incentive for putting in more effort, your service level will drop. To improve or even just to maintain the service level, you need income from ads or have fee-for-service, otherwise you can’t continue operations.

Most people realize someone has to pay for the service. All “free” service models eventually find someway to make a profit if they are to survive and grow.

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