I once proposed a portion of this simply eliminating the lifetime, defined-benefit pension, monetizing the savings, and then paying it to teachers in their early years in a conversation with union officials.
Like Snapchat, Facebook began by attracting vast amounts of users before monetizing this resource by selling them ads, and - more controversially - mining their personal information in order to sell them better ads.
Facilitated by financial innovation, consumers responded to crimped wages by monetizing their assets in forms of debt such as home-equity loans.
Although Apple recently announced that it now serves over a billion podcast subscriptions, successfully monetizing a show, many of which offer episodes for free on iTunes, presents significant challenges.
The Olympics are a proven mechanism for monetizing obscure gifts.
This was not simply a means of burnishing his public appeal by proximity to beauty but also a brilliant means of monetizing male insecurity in a way that has long been painfully apparent within hip-hop culture.
What I worry about is that I don't know how interested Facebook ultimately is in monetizing those customers, and I don't whether, if it decides to start monetizing them aggressively, Facebook's members will rebel.
Before starting the company, he had briefly been the C.E.O. of uTorrent, which made money in part by monetizing pirated music and movies on BitTorrent, a major file-sharing protocol.
Mora is monetizing his notoriety, though: he was on his way to a night club in Verona, where he was to meet Ruby Rubacuori; each would be paid five thousand euros for enlivening the atmosphere.
But Schmidt was convinced that YouTube could be profitable, and last year he dispatched Google executives to YouTube's headquarters and directed them, in his words, to "start working on monetizing it".
The cost of the team's travel, including the plane, the hotel, food, and busing, amounted to forty-five thousand dollars, and was covered by a forty-seven-year-old man from Columbus, Ohio, named Ken Halloy, a longtime college-football enthusiast and fan-magazine publisher whose new career, as the president of Halloy Boy Sports Marketing, is monetizing a high-school pastime.
