Nov 2010 presentation to iGAP

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I led the Monetization and Revenue Models seminar of Enterprise Ireland's iGap startup bootcamp in November in Dublin. It makes me think I should develop a standardized speech called Revenue in Context. You can't understand your own funnel if you don't understand your customer's funnel.

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Monetisation Strategies and Revenue Models

Scott Rafer@rafer || rafer@rafer.net

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Interrupt me!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Monetisation Strategies and Revenue Models

Scott Rafer@rafer || rafer@rafer.net

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Ours is not to reason why, Just to sell ‘em

what they wanna buy.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Biases and bio

• 18+ years of startups

• Thousands of errors

• Selling prevented thousands more

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Before we even start

• Why make money now?

• Where can you get when you sell, and where can’t you get?

• How many models can I pick?

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Timing is everything too early and 9/11

Sunday, November 21, 2010

What Model Picks You?Session One

Sunday, November 21, 2010

No Revenue Exists in a Vacuum

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Your Revenue has a Context

• Increase a Business’s Sales Directly

• Increase a Business’s Potential Sales

• Reduce a Business’s Churn

• Reduce a Business’s or Consumer’s Cost

• Make a Consumer Happy, Safe, Healthy ...

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Each others’ Sales Funnels

B2C B2B

Unique

Standard

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Strengths required for each task

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Revenue SWOT (exercise)

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Taking Attention and Money from Customers

Session 2

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Quickie Case Studies

Sunday, November 21, 2010

On time, but ...Sunday, November 21, 2010

Customers too strongSunday, November 21, 2010

No longer earlySunday, November 21, 2010

What evidence do you have of being on time/early?

Mini-exercise

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Decomposing the Funnels

Sunday, November 21, 2010

What part of the overall funnel are you suited for?

Sunday, November 21, 2010

• Sales leads are normally the problem

• Selling it once

• Selling subscriptions

• Being a middleman

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Pricing the stuff

• A great reason to sell immediately

• ROI Value vs. Cost-plus

• How many prices is too many?

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Taking Data from One Place and Money from Another*

Session 3

*Plus a Big Money Bonus

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Not Just Advertising

Sunday, November 21, 2010

More Quickie Case Studies

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Perfectly timing Bitly Sunday, November 21, 2010

Just-right two stepSunday, November 21, 2010

Traffic, stuck & luckySunday, November 21, 2010

Fatally earlySunday, November 21, 2010

Too early to tell:Klout & PercentMobile

Mini-exercise

Sunday, November 21, 2010

This is just a start

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Advertising

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Performance and shifting risk Cost per Thousand, per Click,

per Lead, per Action ....

Sunday, November 21, 2010

What scale is meaningful?

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Targeting dataNo magic bullet, need to sell first

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Funnel similarities

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Ad unitsCustom vs. Standard

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Where do you fit? In which funnel and how directly do you

touch the end user?Exercise

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Bonus! Network Effect

• Sell to create a unique network of customers

• Link those customers in a way incumbents don’t have permission to

Sunday, November 21, 2010