I like a lot of things about Path, but they need to learn how to monetize better, because I just have no interest in buying camera filters and chat stickers, I find both annoying. I would probably support the company in some way if they provided something more for my money, but there's no way they can keep going on these micro-payments.
The advantage of both stickers and subscriptions over advertising is that you don't need a sales team or the tech for serving ads and providing analytics.
The WhatsApp system of $0.99 for each year after the first would be one option.
One thing I'd really like is the ability to buy photo books, journal, those sorts of things, made from the photos I take, and information I provide in checkins and updates throughout a journey, holiday, etc. It would be great to get home from a trip having checked in to everywhere, taken photos, posted thoughts and feelings, etc, and get the whole thing in a nice big physical book similar to the ones iPhoto in iLife can produce.
If only this company would actually let me delete my account (not merely disactivate). After multiple ignored requests via their 'delete account' option on the app's support page I've given up.
Clearly, then, we're looking at inner-inner circles. Vs outer-inner circles.
And the great thing is that now people know when they're in your inner-inner circle - which also means that they know when they're in your outer-inner circle. Which is better than being a mere facebook friend, I suppose.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 50.7 ms ] threadAnd people will know they aren't in your "inner circle" too then. Something I really like about g+ is my groupings are private.
Isn't the whole point that it doesn't have ads?
That being said, stickers seem to work. Line makes 30% of it's revenue ($17M in Q1 2013) from stickers. More here: http://start.toshiba.com/news/read/category/Business/article...
The advantage of both stickers and subscriptions over advertising is that you don't need a sales team or the tech for serving ads and providing analytics.
One thing I'd really like is the ability to buy photo books, journal, those sorts of things, made from the photos I take, and information I provide in checkins and updates throughout a journey, holiday, etc. It would be great to get home from a trip having checked in to everywhere, taken photos, posted thoughts and feelings, etc, and get the whole thing in a nice big physical book similar to the ones iPhoto in iLife can produce.
And the great thing is that now people know when they're in your inner-inner circle - which also means that they know when they're in your outer-inner circle. Which is better than being a mere facebook friend, I suppose.