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I have never planned anything like a "reselling program" simply because Wikidot is free now. And basic hosting will always (hopefully) be free. At some point users will be able to buy upgrades for certain new features (like SSL encryption, larger file storage), but I do not think reselling would be a way to go…
Or I have just misunderstood you.
I'm a big fan of "free", but I'm just thinking if there is a way to make money in wikis, I'm all for that. I love wikis, but I run around promoting wikidot.com and pbwiki.com all the time, I might as well get a little somethin' out of it! Reselling, affliate, I'm not sure what you call it, but I know lots of folk (Amazon, PayPal) utilize it.
There will be a way to monetize individual sites if you really want to know ;-)
Some of the ways are text-link-ads.com, adsense, intellitxt etc. This would allow users to make some money from their sites.
Link me? those sites won't fool with a site like say resell.wikidot.com. Unless you have like a million visitors a day, you get no money. I have heard there may be "subscription based" wikis, but I don't know of many (I think radioreference.org is one).
I was thinking of offering wiki consulting services, where I charge to show people how to use wikis as intranets, etc. As I'll be setting up, hopefully, lots of wikis,then if I get a kickback from the wiki provider, say wikidot.com, it would be a cool add on.
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If I can take a minute to spam, my other wikis are (at last count!), family http://mayhew.pbwiki.com, wikis http://nola.pbwiki.com
Ok, so this is what you were thinking. Indeed AdSense could give you only "pocket money" if you have very litle traffic. http://text-link-ads.com is a bit better but it is still pocket money.
But of course if you want to offer consulting for Wikidot this might be a very good option when Wikidot goes open-source. You can easily provide support for companies to install and customize their Wikidot solutions.
Hopefully Wikidot will follow the model Wordpress. com/org is going.
michal
Here's the deal: 100 people per day set up wikis at wikidot.com? If we could offer those folk somethin' that cost even $1, US!, that's $100 per day. If we are revenue sharing, that would be $50 you, $50 me.
Deal, or no deal?! Speaking of models, look at pbwik.com. They charge you to have an adfree site.
Or, Michal, we can charge resellers to have their own page here? Or, we charge for your kick-ass subdomains? (not me, of course, I just got http://learn.wikidot.com, to go with my resell.wikidot.com. Go get the good names!
At the end of the day, I guess the question is: how can you run a site with 100 wikis being registered every day for months, with no income? That is 5,000 or so sites by now, the hosting and all, must cost somethin'?! (No "exit strategy"?)
The other question of course is, "why", why would you want to do that (run a site requires labor, expenses, etc., and you gotta pay to do that?!)
At the end of the day, ctd., a little shameless self promotion won't hurt?:
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