Monetizing the New Web 3.0

Why Public Contribution Matters Online.

I really love my Android device. Yesterday, when I was looking at the feed of Google now, Google Maps started to ask me a few questions about places I have visited (restaurants, bars etc). These were very short and simple questions like : is the place open late at night?, is the place student friendly…

This new feature in beta stage is called contribute. Asking people to give opinion about a place is not something really new. What is new in this application is the way it is organized: very professional, smart questions and maybe the most important, you will be retributed.

Your Opinion is Worth Something

Of course, it is Google. They will not reward you with a nice pile of cash, but rather with points. Each time you answer a set of questions or post a photo of the place, you are credited. Then, past a certain level, you become a local guide of the google maps.

This behavior, rewarding user opinion, has been a strong tendency on the internet since a while now. What has changed is the way this rewarding process goes and the nature of the reward. The whole process is more and more professional, clear and in the spotlight. In the case of many web applications, paid contributions are now part of the game. And this is certainly the very beginning: users are, on one side, looking for sources of extra revenues (unfortunately more and more frequently revenues at all) and web applications on the other side want to grow the user community.

Community as a Source of Revenues

Matchpool business model is right into this new tendency and allows every one to create revenues when having fun.

When you belong to the Matchpool community, you can easily create a pool. A pool is simply a group of people sharing some basic characteristics like geographic, music tastes etc. When you create a pool and become a pool founder, you will earned part of the monthly fees paid by every pool member. In case of a successful pool, your monthly income will certainly be substantial. Managing a pool is a work and you will need to spend time in entertaining or taking care of your pool member. But when this task is remunerated, things are different and you will quickly find interest in your new community manager position.

Aside the pool founder role, another source of income comes from matchmaking. A matchmaker is a person which will help others in finding deep relationships with others. As our CEO Yonatan points in its article, “there is no system that reward people to help others in forming those relationships”. With Matchpool, this is no longer the case. As a matchpool community member, you can be rewarded each time you help two peoples to engage in a deep relationship. Your help will make people happy and grateful, which is always rewarding, but the plus is that you will receive money for your act.

As we can see, being a pool founder or a matchmaker will make you earn not only sympathy and rewarding from the community, but will give you money, revenue. By a time when our economy are in a poor shape, job market difficult and family revenues shrinking, rewards in real money are with no doubts something people will be interested in.

Make your Revenues Grow with Web 3.0

At Matchpool, we strongly believe time are drastically changing.

Our perception of what a job is and where from our revenues will come is being obsolete. Since long now we have been rewarded by our web communities with all kinds of smileys, up thumb or what ever. These sweet rewards were welcomed but much often below what could have been expected in regards of the help.

With the ability to easily deploy micro payments for an affordable price and very low transaction fees, it is possible now to reward someone from your community with real money. Pictures and sweet words are always nice but won’t help you pay your bills at the end of the month. Now the time and energy you spent helping others is remunerated like any other classic job. This business model starts to be frequent, and with the rapid improvements of the decentralized web and data, this kind of revenues will become widespread.

Community managing, matchmaking, advising and any kind of interaction between you and a community will slowly start to become a real and serious source of money. Furthermore, you will be able to choose your communities, how much time you want to spend in your community duties and how you want to help. In short, you will tailor these positions to fit your needs as much as possible.

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Arno Gaboury, Matchpool

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