Connect With Fans (CwF) + Reason To Buy (RtB) = The Business Model ($$$$)

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Trent Reznor (the leader of Nine Inch Nails) offers his music for free on the Internet. He manages to make money selling concerts and merchandising products thanks to the community of fans he has empowered on his website. He does this using all the Web 2.0 tools you can think of. Wired has an extensive reporting on it, which you should bookmark and read it in whole when you have 5 minutes, later today or later this week. Even though most of you, my readers, don&#8217-t work in the music industry, the marketing concepts and actions exposed in this article are relevant to your business &#8212-they are relevant to any business (including the prediction market industry).

Previously: MO

External: Mike Masnik + CC + YouTube

Wrong Tomorrow Here today

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I have posted this just to show that it is possible to beat Mr Masse at his own game- namely uncovering prediction market related websites.

Wrong Tomorrow is a site hosted by the one and only Maciej Ceglowski – whoever the hell he may be. The site is riddled with flaws, but perhaps the good prediction market people could assist said gent by pointing them out.  And, accordingly, I have no doubt that the aforementioned Mr Masse will activate the following link forthwith.

http://wrongtomorrow.com/

Paul Hewitt on enterprise prediction markets

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– Here, in response to Jed Christiansen. (Scroll down.)

– Here, on his own blog.

Interesting. (Paul should learn to pepper his posts with external links, though. Otherwise, a web visitor out of the loop can&#8217-t get the background of an issue that is discussed. The foundation of the Web is hyper-linking, Paul.)