Marketing & Sales Strategy
ThePatriotConnection will make money in several different ways:
- Paid memberships / PPV for Premium Content – HistoryHeist will offer premium content that can be accessed by paying for a premium subscription. Patrio.tv will also have content creators that offer premium content that can be paid for also. The content creators premium price can vary from $1 to $25 per month or the video can be set so any user can pay-per-view. HistoryHeist will offer an affiliate program to drive traffic and reward content creators who bring their followers along with them and who sign up for a subscription.Most content will be free, but if visitors want to have access to premium content and other premium features, then they will need to subscribe. After payout to affiliates, premium subscription fees should yeild 25% profit.
- Advertising – Ads will be integrated into all sites of The Patriot Connection. The activity stream of every Patriup user; every history post and Wickedpedia page (less often for members) of HistoryHeist and Wickedpedia; . Affiliate ads will also be strategically placed throughout the site via share-a-sale, Amazon Affiliates (books for related content for posts & pages), and other affiliate programs. Ads can bring in approximately $0.007 plus per view. Ads can also be boosted by the content creators for a premium monthly fee.
- Store – The ThePatriotConnection store will offer organic health & nutrition products, emergency essential and survival products, privacy and wifi safety products, etc. that are made by ethical manufacturers. A post will be beautifully streamed on the users wall for others to see and hopefully react with a like purchase.
- Paid Adverts (Classified Ads) – The social media platform software comes with integration for WPAdverts which will create a link in each users profile for their own products they want to advertise. For instance, an author might offer several books; a vlogger might offer T-shirts, mugs or other merchandise with his logo, etc.
- Crowdfunding Platform – The premium crowdfunding platform will allow users to submit requests for funding like any traditional crowdfunding platform. ThePatriotConnection will keep a small fee of 3-5% above exchange fees.
- Paid Courses (via LMS software) – For each paid course offered by one of Patr-X’s editors or users, ThePatriotConnection will also make a percentage (3-10%) of the total profits.
ThePatriotConnection will drive traffic and subscribers to the site by offering a lucrative affiliate program for creators. 50% lifetime commissions per referral. Of the remaining 50%, 25% will be allocated for Patriot Points, the exclusive ThePatriotConnection rewards program to allow users and subscribers to reward their favorite content creators, and 25% will be profit for ThePatriotConnection.