Time to get rid of the FReepathons!

FR | 10-16-03 | Bob J

[Bob J]

The latest quarterly FReepathon was a success and is over now. However, these events are a pain in the butt for those that run and operate them and for two to three weeks they dominate the sidebar and each thread. It is time we work to eliminate them once and for all.

Monthly Donations!

Many FReepers of good will are signed up for a monthly donation to FR as opposed to making a quarterly contribution. There are advantages to this system for both the site and the donor. FR can operate on a sounder fiscal basis by having money coming in monthly and as a donor you can spread your contributions out in smaller increments over an entire year.

Currently FR gets about 7k in monthly revenue. If we could get this up to 25k, there would be no need for the FReepathons. You can sign up for a painless $5-$10 a month (more if you are inclined, several people are at $50-$100!), which would be processed through a secure server by Jim and his family. Plus, running bulk CC donations on a monthly basis is less expensive than using PayPal. Even if you can only afford $2-$3, it would be a tremendous help!

It's time we help put FR onto a more secure and professional revenue plan! Please, bump this thread and use your ping lists to encourage your friends and family to GO MONTHLY!

We need to get 1800 FReepers who would be willing to donate an average of $10 once a month!

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A MONTHLY DONATION!

[EdReform]

"Come on Freepers........empty those coin boxes! You probably have at least $5.00 a month in your car ashtray!!!"

Join Exit148's Loose Change Club!

I still haven't totaled up my loose change yet, but I will this weekend!

[Brad’s Gramma]

FREE REPUBLIC ROCKS!

Duh! (hehe)

[Grampa Dave]

Bob, I'm a long time monthly donor and a $/day donor. I use Check Free to send Jim a monthly check automatically each month. Just another way to make it easy for all of us.

Most of the world runs on a monthly basis. Our utilities, rents, mortgages, utilities and many payrolls happen each month.

If Free Republic had a higher number of monthly donors donating $5 or more per month, Jim Rob could relax re Free Republic's cash flow. Then he could use that time to make Free Republic more reliable and effective.

If Jim and John can make Free Republic more reliable and easier to use. That makes it more effective to destroy the lies of the left wingers and their buddies the Islamonazis, who would kill all of us.

17 cents a month or $5/month donated to Free Republic is cheap insurance to keep the Clintoons out of the White House. The nation and we can't afford any more Clintoons in the White House.

[EdReform]

"I think they should have Jim's photo on them."

Good idea!

Do you think there'd be enough room on the mug for a picture of the goat?!

[blam]

"On the top left of our front page there is a link to edit your account profile. Follow that link and you should find a link to edit your account and that includes editing your email address, password and "vanity email address." This is automatically available to all credit card donors who donated via our new pledge system within the last few months. Also is automatically available to any who donated by check, if they supplied their pledge number so the program could tie it back."

As a valued supporter of Free Republic, we have reserved XXXX for your use. E-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to your Contact E-mail address. Current Value: Forwarding Enabled

Thanks, I just figured out how to 'enable' this feature. What should I expect to happen now? (Do I need to give this address out to friends?)

[EdReform]

You mean DUh?! ;o)

[EdReform]

BUMP!

[glock rocks]

Well put, Dave.

I became a $/day donor the week I quit smoking. I figured I could afford a fourth of what I was spending on smokes to support a site I visit every morning to catch up on the world. This isn't just news... no... we've got freepers on the ground in just about every locale on the planet!

I spend so much on satelite tv, phone, gas, water, electric... it's a regular and manageable cost of living the lifestyle we've become accustomed to. I got rid of the fishwrap major newsrag, and still support my small community paper.

All in all, for the price of one Domino's per month, those who benefit from FR could support her with no degridation of cash or comfort. It's a great deal! What would you do without FR? ... watch Dan, Peter and Tom ... and read Newsweek?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hey! Mo! Lookie Here!!!

Whoops. Kinda small. BRB

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hey! Mo! Lookie Here!!!

Whoo HOO!!!!!

[Jim Robinson]

You may give it out to anyone you choose, or even have Free Republic "business cards" printed including your screen name and Free Republic email address.

But if you do use this feature there is a danger of inadvertantly sending out your real email address unless you change your email address parameter in your browser or email program's properties or preferences list to reflect your freerepublic.com address.

Thanks,

Jim

[Grampa Dave]

A monthly pledge becomes very easy once we decide to do it.

I suggest to people to start out with an amount that they can afford like $5, $10 or $15 per month. There are many ways to find that money with the loose change, the 17 cents per day or cancelling your local daily fish wrap, to the suggestions you made.

Once the monthly pledge to FR becomes a regular habit, it becomes part of our monthly routine until we decide to increase it.

I never watch ABCNNBCBS phoney news and Newsweak, Slime and any other phoney weekly news doesn't darken our door.

So my $/day buys me a lot of news, insight and great freeper opinions.

A monthly pledge is a do able when Freepers decide to do it.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Okay.....$20/month it is. I will be mailing it in. Where are my mugs? (That's what did it, you know.)

[Jen]

What email program do you use? I have Outlook and I have several email addresses (work, personal, FR) and have configured each separate account to deliver and send email from my main inbox. Is that what you are trying to do?

[blam]

"Okay.....$20/month it is. I will be mailing it in. Where are my mugs? (That's what did it, you know.)

Really? Send me $20 a month and I'll send you a cup every month. Hmmmm

[Dog Gone]

That's what I'm trying to do, although I have Outlook Express.

It already receives email from two different addresses (not counting the FR address), but I only have one return address, which always shows when I reply to any email. I'm not sure whether I can segregate them to reply separately.

[John Lenin]

Can I just buy a Freeper Java mug without the monthly ? I'm a caffeine junkie in case you didn't know ...

[glock rocks]

you have freepmail.

[Jim Robinson]

Latest incoming:

$10 from North Carolina
$10 monthly from Florida
$5 monthly from Florida

Thank you North Carolina and Florida!!

We also have several mail-in pledges. We post the mail-in pledges when we receive the checks. Be sure to write your pledge number (or screen name/email address) on your check.

Thank you all very much!!

[Jen]

There must be a way to do what you're trying to do, but I don't know about OE. Try changing the reply to email address in the properties for your FR account and test it.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Thanks, but no thanks.........I like your dogs though. I can tell by the picture that you really care for them. I have two, a beautiful, sweet Siberian Husky and a really obnoxious Weimaraner. Maybe I should put their pictures on my profile page, if I ever get around to doing one. We, too, have tons of wildlife that roam our property (but gave up hunting years ago)....lots of white tail and mule deer, black bear, coyotes, wolves, and wild turkeys. I have nothing against hunting for sport or food.....but at our age we enjoy watching them more than shooting them.

All this off topic and pointless chit-chat is just my way of bumping this topic back to the top.

C'mon, guys, we need more monthly donors. I get far more news for far less money on Free Republic than any newspaper, news magazine, or news channel.

I eagerly await my mugs.

[Mo1]

WAY COOL!!!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Since "joe" is another name for java or coffee, maybe we could put a lable on the side of the mug that reads "GoodJoe"?

And does the mug lean to the right?

[Howlin]

And does the mug lean to the right?

Neither. But if you turn your back on it, it will try to overthrow you.

[Billthedrill]

OMG - the vanity FReepmail is insanely cool. Just enabled it. I'm gonna give the addy to a couple liberal friends - it'll drive 'em nuts! "FreeRepublic.com" appearing in their address books? Woohoo!!

BTT

[Howlin]

If you are using Outlook Express, when you open a new email or when you hit REPLY, look in the FROM box; there is an arrow there where you can pick which email address you want to use.

[glock rocks]

Neither. But if you turn your back on it, it will try to overthrow you.

ooooh hoooo. that's cruel. hehehehe.

[Howlin]

But true........very, very true. :-)

[CIB-173RDABN]

I have an automatic payment set up. So I don't need a email reminder. I get a post card thanking me for the donation. I appreciate the thought, but I would think the postage, the card, and time (it is handwritten, could all be better used for something else.

[Bob J]

We will begin designing and producing them in time to be sent out for XMAS. People have until 12-1 to sign up!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Maybe someone has brought this up already, but some people might be wondering what happens if they are banned. How difficult would it be to stop your card from being charged if you decided to stop supporting the site financially in that circumstance?

[Bob J]

Mugs might be available at some point but it won't be a commemorative special edition collectors mug!

[Bob J]

Good one! However, since I worked with Badjoe for several years and he remains a close friend of mine, I wouldn't do anything to mock him. I am sick to my stomach over the dust up with Jim, but it wasn't the first and may not be the last.

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$10 monthly from Ohio
$5 monthly from Georgia

Thank you Ohio and Georgia!!

[blam]

"but at our age we enjoy watching them more than shooting them."

Good for you, ditto.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

LOL you guys...

[Jim Robinson]

...and it's probably gonna happen again.


Tracy Byrd Lyrics

The Truth About Men
Written By: Rory Lee, Tim Johnson, and Paul Overstreet

We don't like to go out shoppin', don't care what's on sale
Just wanna sit with a bag full of chips watchin' the NFL
When you come over at half time, you say does this dress fit too tight
We just look you in the eye with a big fat lie and say
“Uh-Hu, looks just right”

Well that's the truth about men, that's the truth about us
We like to hunt and golf on our days off, scratch and spit and cuss
And no matter what line we hand you when we come draggin' in
We ain't wrong, we ain't sorry, and it's probably gonna happen again

We hate watchin' Steel Magnolias, we like Rambo and Die Hard IV
Jump up and down like fools when we see the new tools
At the Home Depot Store
We don't really wanna take you to dinner at some fancy restaurant
The only reason we do is ‘cause we know it leads to
The one thing that we all want

Well, that's the truth about men, that's the truth about guys
We'd rather pick guitars and work on cars
Than work on the problems in our lives
And though we might say it to you now and then
We ain't wrong, we ain't sorry, and it's probably gonna happen again

Well, if you wanna know what we're all thinkin', it's nothing too complex
It's just somethin' cold for drinkin' and a whole lotta “S” E” … Yes.

That's the truth about men, that's the truth about us
We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost
And scratch and spit and a whole lotta other disgusting stuff
And no matter what line we give you when we come crawlin' in
We ain't wrong, we ain't sorry and it's probably gonna happen again

We ain't wrong, We ain't sorry, and it's probably gonna happen
Sure it's gonna happen, you know it's gonna happen again
And that's the truth about men

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$5 monthly from Oklahoma
$5 monthly from Arizona

Thank you Oklahoma and Arizona!!

[Bob J]

Jim, we had no idea you were so musical!

[I'm ALL Right!]

New MONTHLY DONOR BUMP! Wish it were a larger donation, but every bit helps, I guess!

[RottiBiz]

They would simply cancel their account when the next e-mail notice came from Free Republic.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Cool - sounds easy enough.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Just in:

$5 monthly from Oklahoma
$5 monthly from Arizona

Thank you Oklahoma and Arizona!!

[ladyinred]

Signed up! Get my cup ready Bob J!

[Bob J]

Every bit does more than help, it's one step closer to a FReepathon free website...heheh.

[Bob J]

Mugs will be ready to ship around the beginning of Dec! Wake up Xmas morning to a hot steamy cup of Joe in your LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS FR COFFEE RECEIVER!

[ladyinred]

Hey! That's Sheila's favorite song!

[Jim Robinson]

That's cause I sing it to her every day. LOL

Thank you ladyinred!!

Just in:

$10 monthly from California

Thank you California!!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, I'm ALL Right!!

[hoosiermama]

How are you going to get the mugs to us? Planning a cross country trip? I'll put the coffee pot on!