eCommerce

An analysis of revenue models in social networking sites

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Table of Contents

Introduction .3

Revenue models .3

Twitter .3

Functionalities .3

Revenue model .4

YouTube .4

Functionalities .4

Revenue model .4

Yahoo Group .5

Functionalities .5

Revenue model .5

Facebook .5

Functionalities .5

Revenue model .6

MySpace .6

Functionalities .6

Revenue model .6

MSN .7

Functionalities .7

Revenue

model .7

Facebook : SWOT analysis .8

Future Prospects .9

Medium-term prospects .9

Long-term prospects .9

Customer Centric Design .10

Google .com .10

eBay .com .10

Golden Cockerel Chicken .11

E-commerce Websites making mistakes .12

News Subscriptions .12

Conclusion .13

Bibliography .14

Introduction

Social networking sites have gained considerable momentum with public but have yet to develop a sustainable and reliable revenue source . Most consumers of social networking sites are not portraying business attitude-they appear to just pass time through playing games , browsing watching videos , and looking at pictures . These are some of the social issues that draw public online , but have been hard to convert into cash

Attempts to analyze revenue models in social networking can be tracked back to a form of internet skeleton-most markedly known in the implementation of traditional subscription and advertising revenue replicas . More adaptive skeletons have also come up for example Freemium-formerly initiated by Wilson Fred in late 2005 . Due to lack of significant financial outcomes from well known social networking sites like Facebook , MySpace , Twitter , yahoo , MSN , and You Tube , this report will depend on the overwhelming agreement...