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KingdomBook.com – Like Facebook, Except it’s Not Free…

Posted by John Saddington on Jul 24, 2009

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KingdomBook.com just passed my inbox and I thought I’d take a look, except I quickly found out via their front page that it’s not free, and even though they offer a 2 week trial period I think the video (embedded below) showed me enough of what I’d experience.

It’s an interesting play with the addition of “learning” and education and it appears that they have an additional monetization strategy with their product placements on the sidebars (and this is in addition to their pay per use model).

Too bad. I think they could have made this free and still made some cash.

Video after the jump:

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch. He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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6 Responses to “KingdomBook.com – Like Facebook, Except it’s Not Free…”

  1. hsojeel
    Friday, July 24, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    seriously? seriously?
    Why not tie into facebook and engage culture instead of drumming up another way to take money from people for their supposed "meet other christians".

    Wrong platform imo.

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  2. Vince
    Friday, July 24, 2009 at 10:11 pm

    wow.

    the name alone makes it tough to give it an objective looks

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  3. stephenbateman
    Friday, July 24, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    I have to agree with hsojeel, and the "prayer network" initially sonds incredibly ineffective.

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  4. Jim
    Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 11:17 pm

    how would you make it profitable without charging up front?

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  5. Jeff
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    How are they going to expand their user base to any profitable level if they are charging up front? I just don't see this business model succeeding.

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    • human3rror
      Monday, July 27, 2009 at 2:43 pm

      yeah, very questionable.

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