PayCheckr: Bringing Money Into Blogging?

Allan showed up in the comments section of my blog post New York Times, Don't Die, Live. I replied. Then we switched to email. Now we are scheduled for a three way chat session tomorrow morning, him, me and someone from his team.

http://www.PayCheckr.com

Right now I don't have a solid grasp as to the vision of this particular team, or how well they are going to execute, but the idea itself is a trailblazer. It is about time something like this got done.

Some questions that have popped up in my mind:

1. Who turns a blog into a password protected blog? Would that be a separate service?
2. Who will go seek the advertisers? If readers opt to pay for 99 cents or less through viewing ads, who makes sure to get those advertisers?
   
3. Can you get all the credit card options and still get paid only through PayPal as a blogger?
4. What would be PayCheckr's cut? A percentage? What percentage?
   

Just like Disqus takes care of everything to do with your blog's comments sections and Zemanta takes care of all your links, tags and images, PayCheckr should attempt to take care of all details to do with monetizing your no-longer-free blog. It could grow fast.

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Sparq And Tweet Ads

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I was just making my rounds on Twitter and chanced by Fred Wilson's Twitter page and there was this tweet screaming at me from the top of his page. Before long the same tweet was screaming from my Twitter page.

But in between something happened. I got reminded of a blog post of mine from a few weeks ago: Monetizing Twitter: A Few Ideas.

If outside players are going to be the ones to monetize Twitter, then how will Twitter ever make any money? It does not have to make any money right away, or even in the short term, but it does not have the option to never make any money.

It is so obvious to me the killer ads on Twitter are going to be in the form of tweeets. And Sparq looks to me like is in good shape. They sound promising.

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