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You should look at selling local advertising (and get creative at incorporating those businesses into the prompts for in-chat placements). $1500/mo to a local business to get 5,000 local eyeballs per day should be a no-brainer - and that's for a takeover-style ad that gives 100% of impressions to a single advertiser.

The smarter way would be to open up sponsor opportunities for certain categories, for example: restaurants, retail (tire shops, hardware stores, clothing stores), common service industries (plumbers, electricians, landscaping, website design, general contractors, computer/cellphone repair)- then sell those placements for $200-500/mo to whoever wants to have the placement for that.

Replicate this for other cities and you have a healthy business - you can hire people to sell these ad spots in their respective regions and you can actually scale it up. Billboards work in the same way. Those billboard companies might even be interested in selling their placements to your viewers.