17 Ways to Make Money on a Website | Part 8 - Friends' Club
Are you worried that paid content may not work? Create a community around the brand.
How to create community?
Start with newsletter subscriptions, provide extra benefits, e.g. cinema or theatre tickets, and then ask for support. Let it take the form of monthly payments.
TIP: You can do it using a subscription system on your site or through services such as https://www.patreon.com/.
Former Polish Radio Three journalists used similar platform in Poland to gather money to found Radio “Nowy Świat”.
At the time of writing this article, it is 110.000USD per month.
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Piotr Marek, CEO 4media
For almost 10 years I have been creating news websites. I am also the owner and editor of Expresselblag.pl. For roughly 5 years I have been networking local media within the Tipmedia/4media.com Group.