surveys

This section is related to surveys done for studying purposes. Here you can find some results which came up after the investigation of sites or blogs with relative content with ours.

	MTV Survey Form
BUSINESS MODELS	Free Model , Advertising model, Affiliate Model, Freemium Model, Online Direct Marketing, Value Chain Service Providers, Virtual Communities
BUSINESS MODEL ENTITIES	MTV, Users, Artists, Companies, Record Labels, Complementary Companies
KEY ACTIVITIES	Music and video distribution, online shopping, music news
DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS	Internet and Complementary Companies
REVENUES	Subscriptions, advertisements, product selling, partnerships
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP	Service support, community feedback, consumer privacy and private information protection
TRANSACTION TYPES	B2B, B2C, C2C, G2C, G2B
MARKETPLACES	Involved to an e-mall (Amazon), which serves as a General store mall, through its affiliate Model, for MTV.
FUTURE PLANS	Participate to a market place which serves as a portal for music and videos
BENEFITS OF BLOGS	Big popularity due to high rankings to the google search engine. High reputation, with a low cost. Blogs enhance the communication and trust with the users. By using blogs, MTV promotes its services and products. Show expertise to the related to the blog areas. The nature of blogs keeps MTV away from the competition.
LIMITATIONS OF BLOGS	Publishments that are considered to be defamatory or under copyright. Inappropriate publishments, which is not very good for the site. Possibility for the blog to be filled with many comments and trackback spam. The use of potential filtering in order to avoid spam, makes it for the blogs very hard to be maintained. Danger that the opinion and comments of some people might distract the meaning of a post, by conveying wrong meaning and affect other people’s opinion.