Online Business Models

Switchads is an automatic auction ad platform that allows you to have multiple ad networks compete for your the minimum CPM price that you set.

For example if you are running Google ads on your site you can activate SwitchAds easily and your Google ads will be replaced with alternative and higher paying ones, only if there are advertisers meeting your minimum set CPM.

In their words: "Using SwitchAds unique technology, we provide your website with access to increased advertiser budgets by getting them to bid on your inventory in an auction. This increases the competition and price for the advertising on your website."

In this way your risk is zero and you can only possibly gain some extra revenues.

Switchads makes money by adding his small commission on top of your minimum set CPM revenue. 

You can check stats and revenues in real time.

N.B.: I am currently testing Switchads on the top banner space of MasterNewMedia but I have too little data to yet express an evaluation. 

The only drawback I encountered has been setting my minimum CPM in British pounds.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://switchads.com/ 

How it works: http://switchads.com/index.html#how-it-works 

FAQ: http://news.switchads.com/frequently-asked-questions 

Abizmo is a free Business Model Canvas generator. Easy and intuitive to use, it auto-saves your work and works great on the iPad.

To use it, you leave your name and your email and then you get two links: one to a private editable version of your BMC and the other to the public version.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://abizmo.com/ 

Tapfiliate is a new commercial web app which allows small publishers and online businesses to easily set-up and manage their own affiliate program.

The service integrates the ability to have new publishers sign-up as affiliates, to determine commissions (fixed or %), to provide the promotional materials and and affiliate links to use, and to set for how long tracking cookies will work.

Prices stat at $19/mo for up to 300,000 tracking events and with unlimited affiliates. 

I have set up an account and an affiliate program, and found everything easy and straightforward to set up. I'd recommend Tapfiliate for small businesses looking for an easy, reliable and simple to manage solution.

Pricing: https://tapfiliate.com/#pricing 

Try it out now: https://tapfiliate.com 

Peakium is a commercial web servive which makes it easy to customze and manage recurring subscription payments while allowing online sellers to offer multiple alternative payment solutions.