Jun Loayza
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

Mashable, The Social Media Guide

During the first Internet boom, the most common business model was probably, “get a ton of traffic, then figure out how to make money” – which savvy readers will note isn’t a very good business model. Often, the way those businesses attempted to make money on that traffic was to use display or text advertising. Making money from advertising is still possible, but it’s no longer as easy as building a site and putting some ads on it. Fortunately, there are a number of business models to choose from.

Today’s social media startups are finding unique ways of generating revenue from the very beginning. Here are a few of the revenue models that they’re using and how you can apply them to your company.

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