Donations:
I do not know if donations can be regarded as a business but if it can be a way to earn some income for our work on the network. Donations online became popular about the same time as the Paypal payment system and for a time we saw had websites asking their users for donations to continue offering the service. My impression is that the world of free software is a model that has worked but I have many information. If I know the experience of a project like eyeOS but what I have is that it was very profitable. This line would also donationware and donations that Wikipedia calls itself every so often to keep operating.
Selling virtual products:
This virtual money and virtual products is something I have always known a lot of attention. In virtual worlds and online games is very common to use virtual money to buy certain objects or properties within the game and there are companies and people who have seen this as a business opportunity. For the first is that a business is for companies that develop this kind of video games and virtual worlds that encourage consumption and real money to buy things in the game. A well-known case of this is the online game Habbo where in order to access certain sites or to decorate your room as the user must buy Habbo Credits.
Contests:
In the network is very common organization of all types of contests and delivering all kinds of prizes to users. Organize and provide something of great value to loyal users and is often a good way to get presence in the media, especially if it is something original and appealing. Therefore for websites can be very interesting to organize competitions are sponsored by companies that are part of income support in management costs. Bitacoras.com The awards are a good example of that, having secured major sponsors for some of their categories.
Events:
It’s good business to organize an event of internet? the truth is that there are many but so few of them will become profitable in economic terms. Most of these events arise as a need of the industry and its organizers are a great way to make themselves known and gain influence. Therefore we can not regard the event as a business model but maybe as a supplement or as a way to attract interest in our other projects.
Work, work, work:
Makes 20 the number of business models in the network. No work, no reward and all the big Internet businesses have something in common, a lot of work by its creators. And I do not mean you have to kill to work with intelligence and effectiveness may not be necessary to work from sun to sun, but nobody thinks to create a successful product in the network do not have to work hard.