Price/offer model for syndicated Web content

sheineck@interactivefeatures.com ((sheineck@interactivefeatures.com))
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:18:23 -0800


I am about to launch three new interactive cartoon features into
syndication on the Web. The cartoons are supported with software that
allows them to personalize in the names of each browser visiting a
subscribing site, but only after they've each signed into a guest register,
making the features both online content and database collection points.
They can also be sent as e-mail postcards, printed out by browsers to keep
as weekly souvenirs of their visits to a site, and ordered personalized in
any name(s) on t-shirts, mouse pads, etc., resulting in a shared revenue
stream back to the site owner.

My concern is this: I'm already committed to a price/offer structure of
$1,000/mo., with limited enrollment of no more than 200-400 sites per feature.
But my marketing consultant feels the cartoons should instead be "given
away" to as many sites as possible and concentrate solely on the back-end
merchandise
as the main revenue source. His suggestion does have some merit -- when we
tested a one-time offer of a personalized cartoon print to approx. 300M
Harvard Business Review subscribers a few years ago, we split $75,000 in
print sales. And, he points out, "no one has made any money selling
content on the Web." But is this true?

I feel enhanced marketing functionality, coupled with an on-going
supply of compelling interactive content to constantly draw browsers into
repeat visits and limited availability are the most important factors in
the price/offer model (that is, other than what the market will bear, of
course).

Any feedback/advice?

-Stu Heinecke
President
Interactive Features Syndicate
206-286-8668 Fax 206-286-8886
sheineck@halcyon.com
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