Mike,

>>Meaning: How is Public Web services going to contribute to my sales bottom line?
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>You write and host a service, people subscribe to it, and you make money?

How many decision makers are there that will be able to take the time and hook up to what you provide?

The very first questions they will ask will be to see your account balances, cash flow projections pro formas and the most recent copy of your business plan.

Unless they aren't doing their due diligence in a business sense.

Or they are techical types who are just diddling around.

I think web services will absolutely grow in the private areas and perhaps at some point there will be enough market position in a private form where it can expose itself publicy and maybe charge.

I have one idea that might work but I'm not ready to discuss it here and it's entirely dependent upon a lot of work yet to be done.