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Commercial entities like Whole Foods, Starbucks, Mission Pie, 52 Teas, JetBlue, even the Korean taco truck guy are all on Twitter—users and businesses alike are finding value.

Our question is, how can we help? What can Twitter offer for a fee that will improve the experience? Will it be account verification? Will it be lightweight analytics? Will there be opportunities for introducing customers to businesses on Twitter.

[Source:  Biz Stone, Founder of Twitter via e-mail to businessinsider.com]

To put it short: we have to think about how to make money with aka-aki. So, let’s talk about it!

For us it’s important, that aka-aki can be used for free in the future, too. But that means, there will (have to) be a form of advertising. Which form is not decided yet. That’s why we want to get you involved in a discussion about it. What could you imagine? Which forms of advertising in aka-aki would be acceptable for you? And where on the mobile screens and on the website? Which kind of advertising would be totally unacceptable for you? Or is there maybe advertising, that would even be interesting for you? Please, give us input!

[Source: Aka Aki - Even a moose somehow has to pay the rent...]

Why do I blog this?

Isn’t it strange? Companies asking how they can monetize their services is not a good sign. Either their is only a visionary business plan without any facts & figures about revenue streams or you recognize that there is/was a hype hiding some existing problems with good revenue models for sites relying on huge user bases where millions of page views needs to be monetized. I like Twitter, as well as aka-aki and their cost structures are not as bad as Facebook’s, which seems to face some trouble nowadays.