If it does, how does the company get profit?
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Some are really free for personal use. The company makes profit by providing paid support to large companies nd hence can afford to give the product free to single users eg.Red Hat Linux. \nSome free software is made by companies which have other sources of income. eg. Microsoft gives away IE,Windows defender,Viewers free of cost\nOthers are truly free and are developed by individual programmers who believe in free software. \nOthers are called free but are supported by ads. \nSome other "free" software comes loaded with spyware/adware etc.
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of course they do.  they depend on alcohol and people buying it to stay in business
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Well, the old addage is true...it takes money to make money.  The more you have to invest, the more you can make.  I've made $30K in one day based on one buy of $100K worth of the stock.\n\nOne word:  RESEARCH\n\nRemember, the more you invest, the more you can LOSE too!!!
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If a business has a large amount of receivables this would show profit on the Income Statement but not affect cash. \nAlso, if the company took on new debt, it hasn't affected cash or profit, but will affect it when it comes due.\n\nIt isn't important that a business have a profit every month. What is important is that the business is growing and has potential to be profitable. If the company is a start-up, it may show a loss. This is far better than company that used to be profitable and has a shrinking profit margin, possibly with a small profit. Especially if the small profit is from capital gains and not operating gains.\n\nI think that one measure of a company's size is ownership. A company could have a relatively large amount of revenues and still be considered small because it is closly held. As far as a revenue amount, I don't know where the line is generally drawn. I think its a relative thing. A business is compared to others within the industry.
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Revenue passed through the chain.\nProducts moved through the chain.
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well, put it this way then. \nThis answer site of yahoo has lots and lots of questions from many people about thousands of different topics. May be you think they don't profit anything from us because we use this site for free, they don't get any money from us, but just think about it. Yahoo is a big company which has millions of users all over the world. A company like this will really need to know the personalities and the characteristics of their customers and through these questions and answers, they can easily work out our own characteristics based on the types of questions people ask, the topics each person focuses on, how many times a day/week/month a person logs onto yahoo, how many questions they ask or answer etc... Then based on these databases, they can either develop new programs, products, services or improve the existing products, services for their customers to make existing customers happy and to attract new customers. The more customers yahoo has, the happier are the customers, the better their worldwide reputation is. They can therefore grow even bigger and better, earn more profit. Moreover, other companies in the world might want databases related to topics that are available in "yahoo answers", and because these questions and answers belong to Yahoo, other companies then have to pay a great deal of money to buy it off Yahoo. And if the answers that are bought by that company help the company out in a way, the reputation of yahoo then will become even better. Hence, many other companies will come to Yahoo for business solutions when they need to. That's another huge profit, isn't it ? \nWell, that's what I think. What about you :)
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It can but if you talk with them to set up some type of payment plan, that would help out.
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The more you buy,the cheaper you can sell.The cheaper you sell,it helps those whom can not afford all.Profit will come with honesty.You need to research wholesale wharehouses out of N.Y.
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Good question. My guess is inventory. You have to spend money to obtain it (cost of goods), and you "sell" it for a profit (fees).
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When you find one tell me. They are sure to get your money but I am not sure how you do. Might just end up poorer.
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Could be. Seriously now. I consult to start up companies. No charge. Just a pay back for the people that helped me. They taught me the ropes and my company is very profitable. So, if you need any advice., let me know.
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Most of my team simply tracks ROI. We really work towards an average cost to acquire a customer. Then we look at overall customer profitability: average annual profit per customer - acquisition cost. We have unqiue telephone numbers set up for each advertising campaign we run offline and we have web beacons on our website so we can tie all revenues and profit online to where the advertising dollars were spent.
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you take things to be sold. they take a percent of what they get out of it & you get the balance.
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Profits. It,s more lucrative selling the plan than following it.
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It really depend on the product you are selling.\n\nLC
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Advertising. You sign up for Google Adsense and you get paid when folks click on the advertising links. The company providing the ad pays a few pennies per view. It's not a lot but it can add up if, like myspace or youtube, you get millions of views.\n\nOf course you also have to pay for the server capacity and bandwidth so that cuts into profits. I doubt it's a whole lot after expenses, however you could be purchased for millions or billions if one of the big guys sees it.\n\nThat's when you really make money.
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LOL!  That depends on what their selling and how much they can mark it up.  DUH