Have audience, will capitalize?

[littleman]

I have a site with a somewhat built-in audience and I'm trying to figure out ways to capitalize on them without being overly aggressive.

I already do:
run advertising
ask for $ donations
sell a handful related products

I've been thinking about offering branded services (like for instance hosting/domain registration/other?) to earn passive income via subscription services.

Another thing I've considered is partnering with retailers in related space to do a dropship setup where I host their products and they do the shipping.  It might be tough to set this up with a partner I trust, but the upside is that it should be easy once its done.

Any ideas, or comments on the ideas above?

[JasonD]

Any clues as to the industry?

I ask as unless somewhat tech related I doubt hosting, domain reg etc would deliver any/much income for most B2C businesses

[rcjordan]

Assume it's tech, very tech.  Something similar to a jailbreak site in demographics, I'd guess.

I think the partnership with retailers is the way to go, LM.

[JasonD]

If there is a tangible product in the area and the cash margins are worth while then a hard ware device that brings the community together, is surely the way to go.

If we take the Jailbreak community as an example, I'd push the X Sim as a way to unlock the baseband - the one area that isn't simple to do at present (was but not now) without hardware assistance.