Just a guess on the # of Ning Networks and the % that are paid access

I'm looking for a guess (or a non-guess) on how many Ning Networks there are and what % are paid access.

Just curious ...

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NC for HirePermalink Reply by SweetPotato on August 11, 2012 at 5:05pm

My gut feeling is that Ning paid access has not worked out as Ning expected it to. This is not Ning's fault. It is extremely hard to monetize a website. It's even harder to monetize a website by offering something that people will pay for, i.e. exclusive content. This is why we are seeing Glam trying to monetize through advertising. I've struggled to get people to pay through my pay wall, mainly because it's clunky, restricted to pay pal and in US dollars (not my currency). People simply ask for an invoice in pound sterling.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Chappelle on August 12, 2012 at 9:18am

Ditto.

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Permalink Reply by David Carr on August 12, 2012 at 11:38am

How many members were on your site when you decided to go paid access SP?

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NC for HirePermalink Reply by SweetPotato on August 12, 2012 at 12:00pm

I have one group that is behind a pay wall. It contains about 30 articles. I have 45 people who subscribe to the service but only 18 of them did so online, ie paid using paid access to access the group. The rest insisted on an invoice and bank transfer for payment. Then, of course, the problem is that I couldn't comp them into the group so had to send them the articles as a PDF. Basically, it was all offline.