Time is money, and apparently, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s time is worth a lot of money.
Facebook recently put out a message to some users that requests $100 if you want to send him an email. And there’s no guarantee Zuck will even read it.
Zuckerberg isn’t out for petty cash, though. No, Facebook is experimenting with a new service for marketers — the system would require users to pay a fee to send a message to someone not on their friends list.
So far, the likely price point appears to be $1 per message. But Facebook is taking the scientific approach and exploring other prices.
Investors should look at this as promising for Facebook, in that it should better monetize the company’s massive user base — after all, a dollar or two per message and a billion people to work with can definitely add up.
Tom Taulli runs the InvestorPlace blog IPO Playbook, a site dedicated to the hottest news and rumors about initial public offerings. He is also the author of “How to Create the Next Facebook” and “High-Profit IPO Strategies: Finding Breakout IPOs for Investors and Traders.” Follow him on Twitter at @ttaulli. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
A long-time follower of the IPO scene, back in 1999 Tom started one of the first sites in the space called WebIPO. It was a place where investors got research as well as access to deals for the dot-com boom. Tom also wrote the top-selling book, Investing in IPOs. In it, he covers all the aspects of analyzing an IPO, such as reading the prospectus, detecting the risk factors and understanding some of the arcane regulations. But don’t worry — if that process is too intimidating for you, thankfully Tom will do the legwork for you right here in the IPO Playbook blog.
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