Comments on: GMG CEO: Paywall Would Suffocate Us, But Niche Content Could Sell

By: CarolynMorgan

CarolynMorgan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:22:30 +0000

I’m also interested in Mark’s four new revenue streams! I’m speaking at Publishing Expo later this month on specialist paid content options. My personal view is that it’s much easier for niche publishers to make money from online content than mass-market publishers. In this article I list 5 business models for b2b publishers: http://www.penmaen-media.co.uk/index.php/2010/01/paid-content-options-for-b2b-publishers/. I also recall Ashley Friedlein of Econsultancy saying he had 7 revenue streams (or was it 8?) Carolyn

By: Robert Andrews

Robert Andrews — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:03:42 +0000

Mark – care to share any more info about what you’re up to? Thx

By: markgarner

markgarner — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:57:48 +0000

Here at http://www.ManchesterConfidential.com we thought it about time to stop debating and start doing, driven by the knowledge that if we ‘don’t get summat done’ as my Grandmother would say many years ago, we would have to start eating our legs. Like that feller Henig Brand in the 17th century who started boiling down urine trying to find gold, but came across phospherous and started the match industry instead, we have actually found four new revenue streams that we weren’t expecting. The answer is… Well, Mrs Mccall needs to grow a set of balls and do some experiments herself oherwise she will be famous for presiding over the destruction in a decade of what we Mancunians built up over a century.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:37:45 +0000

This is wrong.

All that it takes to succeed on the internet is to build a customer base, like any other product/business. Just because print media hasn't had to do this in a few decades doesn't change it as fundamental reality of doing business. Second, it's very obvious how people are going to consume news in the future if you understand what the internet is.