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FriendsWin Makes their money in a very similar way to MySpace, Yuwie and hundreds of thousands of other websites. They advertise other companies products. How? Through ad programs such as Google Adsense along with many other advertising companies. Every time you click on an advertisement on a website, the website owner makes a little extra $$. We're talking pennies on the dollar, but those pennies add up. FAST! I know because I host several websites with advertisements. I once read a blog where a guy describes his transition from an ad-less blog, to a blog full of ads and he said that he did not see any type of decrease in traffic to his site. He if anything, he generated traffic because people would post comments on how 'badly placed' the ads were.

Now, FriendsWin is going to take a bit of a different approach compared to what Yuwie has taken. The site is still going to be free to sign up and use for blogging, messaging, pictures and all of the regular stuff that you can do on MySpace, but they are going to offer two separate types of 'pay' service for certain features of the site. First off, they are going to offer a video conferencing service to seamlessly integrate the ability to use your webcam and 'chat' with other people on the site. Second, they are going to offer a 'video dating' service through the site. Third, they are going to offer a video Resume where you can basically post your resume as a personal video, instead of the typical impersonal digital or paper format. These three caveats can be purchased in two separate ways. The first way is to remain as a 'non-paying' member and use the services on a 'pay per hour' basis. Kind of like the old long distance was for telephones. The second way is to pay a monthly subscription fee of $9.97 / month which gives you unlimited access to all of the video features. There are two reasons for the paid subscriptions. Video takes bandwidth (a LOT of bandwidth) and bandwidth costs money. Or, you can sign up as what they refer to as an IMR, and either pay the $9.97 / month or an annual $49.95 which gives you the ability to grow FriendsWin as a referral based business. Anyone who directly signs up for FriendsWin as an IMR through you, will have the potential of making you money. Similar to a referral program or multi-level marketing company. If you aren't into MLM's, don't worry, you can still use the limited version of FriendsWin for free! For those of you who are great at marketing or networking of people, FriendsWin is for you!

Regardless of the pay aspect of FriendsWin, the video features will be an excellent driving force behind FriendsWin.com since no none else has these features.

As of right now, no one really knows the potential of friendswin for the simple fact that they haven't gone live yet. Check out the FriendsWin Update Status Page for any news events or status updates to the site.