While throwing together PaZZo.TV tonite and thinking about the streamed conference last nite and some of the subjects hashed out, I thought of a short term, (6-8 month), cash out possibility for some of our domains.
See if this passes the smell test for some of you into .TV .
You either use the ME.TV platform or your own scripting to aggregate demographically niched memberships for the next few months to your one word dot TV platform.. You invite user created content , maybe see some revenues from any advertising share offered by DemandMedia or Google, etc. You have a nice niche subject, sex, cars, consumers, music, sports, etc. . In six months say, you have done your job and you have aggregated say only 10,000 live members.
What would that generic site, with original content be worth along with a nice one word dot TV to a company in said marketing niche? And how many of them could you efficiently produce at the same time?
If you use a me-tv template, then there doesn't appear to be any way to modify it....say to ask for membership dues if you wanted a continuous pay stream. You can't add your own addsense, or banner ads....but the setup is amazingly simple. Also, if you sell your site, say your me-tv site....then all that content would I believe be lost, unless it went in the transfer. Which I didn't see a way to do inside me-tv.
I really would like to know more about how potential future transfer would work if your site was ALL me-tv generated vs a hosted site.
most companies won't take a look unless you have at least a million (larger companies) and 100K (for a niche site).
Our wedding site has 100K registered active users, top SEO, and I can't get a national advertiser. Only 2.5 million people get married each year, so I need to continue to eat into WeddingChannel's market share.
My former company had 20 million and until we got to a million we had little or no value to most large, nationwide advertisers (unless you run a pay per lead model).
And BTW you 10K members are also DM members and when DM aggregates all the smaller sites, they will have the M&A value, unless you can take your members with you.
Last edited by localexperts : 05-02-2007 at 09:51 PM.
At the same time, consider that they are providing these tools at no additional cost. Obviously, if you want to develop a site that has tens of thousands of members, you will need to take a few more steps than simply relying upon free tools.
What these tools give you, IMO, is a chance to develop an idea, and show potential domain buyers how this could be a profitable site. Without these free tools, I would just leave www.valleygirl.tv as a parked page. With free tools, at least some semblance of an idea can be put forward.
They want to provide revenue share options, which I think is fair - why shouldn't they get something out of it as well. If you don't want to share, then you don't use their tools, and spend a few hundred bucks externally on developing your site.
What these tools allow you to do is demonstrate the potential of the domain, without spending days or weeks worth of your time..
Very well said, I think you completely nailed it here.
Furthermore, these tools are just in the first stage from what I understand, they will get modified and improved. If that is the case, and users that sign up can upload content, then this could be a lot of fun and could be quite profitable - I think.
Also, I think that this is a great way to showcase the potential of the domain. WAY better than any parked page IMO, its real.
__________________ GoHD.TV! - iGolfer.TV Both Now LIVE!
There are times, that my post will make no sense whatsoever, so just move along please.
