Can you make money from a software in another way than just selling it?

I have developed a training diary for motocross racers. I sell the software on my website.

Do you have any idea of how i can make money from this software in another way than just selling it?

Can i make money from my demo in some way?

 

Maybe you can partner or sponsor with some of your clients maybe sponsor an event and share the revenue or similar

Or create a badge/logo/button/banner that folks will put up on their site who follow your sport then that will bring in traffic to your site

Create a brand with your software, once the brand is a known name, the business will follow

 

Advertisements within the software.

 

Provide support service, or selling advertisement.
More and more software pop up ads now.

 

Your users will need to store their data somewhere, right?
Why don't you offer some "offsite" application data hosting: your users may benefit having an up-to-data backup, and they can format their PC without losing data; even more: if they buy a new PC, they *should* be able to download their data from the internet and be up&running in a few minutes.

For a small fee, you'll also get a source of income: backup subscriptions... even you can end up giving away the software.

 

Nice idea, i have not thougt about that. I must check this out

 

http://www.xdrive.com/
http://www.argati.com/
http://www.livevault.com/
http://www.ahsay.com/en/home/index.html

Plus many many more. Also, I dont think motocross diary users are going to want to to do offsite backup.