In the past, I haven’t been a big fan of the notion of paid membership sites. I have friends who run these membership sites and it seems like a boatload of work, plus they’re always scrambling for new members, since…
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Paid Membership Sites: Comments On Jimmy Brown’s Membernaire Course On Paid Membership Sites
Background: Understanding PayPal’s Source Mix
If you follow PayPal closely from a financial perspective, you realize that the key to model in PayPal is the ’source mix’.
**UPDATE on the post below***
Usher who works in eBay’s PR department posted a comment that I wanted to surface here on the main post:
Scot - on the 63/30 question:
63% of ALL PowerSellers got *at least* a 5% discount.
eBay’s Q1 results were out this evening and the company hosted a conference call with analysts to answer their questions.
Note that the PayPal and Skype businesses are doing very well, the focus on this post is the marketplace business.
The most interesting part of the day was the verbal comments of the call.
