If you’ve ever been building a bot, you must have thought about ways to generate revenue from it. Here is a great article from Amir Shevat @ Slack about different revenue models for chatbots.

Actually, there are a lot of them:

1. Subscription model (Statsbot)
2. Ad serving (works not for all platforms, Slack doesn’t allow)
3. In-content ads (instant articles from Facebook)
4. Data analytics and market research (Swelly has a loooot of data about user choices)
5. Selling goods and services (Amazon Alexa to order products for kitchen by “Alexa, add to shopping list”)
6. Referral fees (different shopping assistants)
7. Brand promotion (H&M, Zara, BMW)
8. In-bot virtual goods (virtual coins in games)

And many more in the article below.

I hope it will help you choose the monetization model.

https://goo.gl/GDvKWl