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View Poll Results: How much would you be willing to pay for the app?
$0.99 one-off download 1 2.78%
$1.99 one-off download 10 27.78%
$4.99 one-off download 11 30.56%
$0.99 initial download ($2 monthly subscription for additional features) 0 0%
$1.99 initial download ($2 monthly subscription for additional downloads) 4 11.11%
$4.99 initial download ($2 monthly subscription for additional features) 0 0%
Free 10 27.78%
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Old 10-23-2012, 06:32 PM
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Business based on web traffic needs users to come to the website... do RSS feeds drive traffic to websites?
Depends on how the users use them. Some of the RSS feeds I subscribe to send snippets to my Google Reader account and if it's interesting I go to the full post on that particular website. Then you have some feeds that send out the entire posts.

And no, business based on web traffic doesn't need users to come to the website. That ended years ago. I know Google has been running adsense in RSS feeds for years.

RSS is just more convenient. Why should you go out hunting for your daily dose of information when you can have it delivered to you to browse at your convenience? Sometimes I might not check it for two or three days depending on how big my workload is and then I come home to about 700 new unread items. A few minutes later scanning through the headlines/post titles I might read 20 of them and I'm up to speed again.

We're talking news, random blog entries, posts on http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/ or whatever. You tailor it to be whatever updates you want. If I come across a site on the internet and it doesn't offer RSS feed I don't bother with the site because it's stuck in the stone-age.
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Old 10-23-2012, 08:00 PM
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why dont you just create an app for the main page? to be honest i don't really like the mobile version of this site. just create an app that has a few buttons that can take you to the ramblings, forums etc. ramblings wont be too hard, you can just link it to the content. integrating the forum might be a little harder.

i was thinking of doing an iOS version for the ramblings, since that's what the majority of people use, and make it 100% free.

you know what's even better? include the app in the cost of the fantasy package. not every person who buys the package needs the app, so this way you get more profit. at the same time, you can also charge less because you have more of a demand since everyone who is buying the guide will be paying for the app, instead of the select few who actually want the app.

just charge dobber a $0.25 or something like that from every guide. that makes it a yearly subscription, it costs dobber virtually nothing and he gets way more exposure, etc.
Praba - I'm mobilizing the sites and hopefully all will be set by March or April (need cash). This will be up to snuff though
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Dobber - have you ever considered distributing your ramblings in a daily mailing list?

I've read maybe half a dozen ramblings in my life, and that's because I usually go straight to the forum page, or I just forget they exist (or for years I had no idea where to find them). If it were an automated daily email that I could read on my blackberry while I'm commuting, at work, taking a dump, etc. then I'm sure I would find the time.

I think it would contribute to a more dedicated and loyal customer-base, and once you have that then it's easier to start charging for things.
Mailing lists - newsletter feature is another thing I need to have installed, and is high on the priority list. Another small cost. But should be in place by spring.
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Well, mailing lists are veeeery 90s

You should look into how RSS works. I hardly ever surf randomly anymore. I just get all news posts sent to me through my RSS subscription feed.
I have all the sites on RSS feeds
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Old 10-24-2012, 11:16 AM
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I have all the sites on RSS feeds
I know, I just think more people should use that
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C: Kopitar Backstrom Stepan Cammalleri Little Bolland Laich Johnson
LW: Parise Lupul Erat McDonald Martin Silfverberg Nyquist Schwartz Morin Nieto Conacher
RW: PKane Doan Pominville Nash Clowe Lupul Rinaldo Stafford Rattie Stone Chiasson Ritchie
D: Green Suter Seabrook Dillon Beauchemin Schenn Letang Schultz Hamilton McNabb Rielly Harrison
G: Bryzgalov Pavelec Holtby Neuvirth Nihlstorp Lack CalPickard Andersen Stalock Sateri Eriksson
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