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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Ep.003 from Laurel Papworth on Vimeo. Ebay API. Amazon API. Etsy API.

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233: Tools We’re Using to Get More Subscribers and Customers in 2018

ProBlogger

Speaking of clever, the next one is Clever Widgets. This is something I remember I’m sure I’ve asked Mario before, I’m just like, “Mario, I wanna put this widget in this area but I only want it to show when people are looking at this category. What I’m really asking for is conditional widgets. Obviously, they integrate perfectly with Thrive Architect, Thrive Leads, and all of the other widgets in Thrive as well to just make it really a smart website.

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Ep.004 from Laurel Papworth on Vimeo. API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast (11). We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it? And what is free stuff anyway – marketing? advertising? A mugs game?