Community funding via Adsense

I was just doing some research on alternative ways to make money for operational expenses for my next venture. I have some great ideas which I’ll share at a later time. Whenever you bootstrap a company you have to get revenue as quickly as possible. After your money runs out…you got to get a job or get an angel. Hopefully when I get my “new deal” off the ground in the next few months I’ll be able to generate enough revenue immediately to sustain. Yeah right!

Anyway, I was reading Kevin Burton’s blog (Feed Blog) and he had a great idea. By the way Kevin runs a great company called Tailrank. His idea was to get sites to donate traffic to Tailrank via Adsense in order for him to get a little extra money to keep improving Tailrank. I think it’s a great idea. It’s the same concept that the big ad networks use. Except, in this case you’re not sharing the revenue but instead are donating to a cool company. This could be something like “Pay It Forward”; you know the dumb movie with Helen Hunt. I would like to see this work out for Kevin and TailRank. By the way I’ve placed Kevin’s Adsense code at the top of every page on this site. Maybe someone can organize a network of 100 sites or more that can do this for several companies, including mine one day. To read all of the details CLICK HERE.

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