Free plan for anybody looking for something to do: start an open-culture content farm. Demand Media's major strength is a way to match underserved searches with cheaply written content.
They (and other content farms) could be crushed by a Wikipedia-like project that fills the same user needs. It's hard to compete with free labor, especially when that free labor uses the lack of time constraint to produce high-quality content.
The main trick is to figure out how they're finding underserved searches, so you can establish a good feedback loop between readers and contributors.
They (and other content farms) could be crushed by a Wikipedia-like project that fills the same user needs. It's hard to compete with free labor, especially when that free labor uses the lack of time constraint to produce high-quality content.
The main trick is to figure out how they're finding underserved searches, so you can establish a good feedback loop between readers and contributors.