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Posted on 07/13/2017 8:56:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Woo hoo!! Please keep those donations coming in, folks. Let's keep this FReepathon moving.
Drain the swamp and Make America Great Again!!
Prayers up for continuing progress and success.
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Make it a Monthly if you can. We have some very generous FReeper sponsors kicking in an extra ten bucks for every New Monthly signed up. And we have 5 new monthly donors signed up so far this quarter!!
Or send in a hundred dollars or more per quarter and join I_be_tc's growing list of 300 Club patriots. I_be_tc sends in $100 per quarter and challenges 300 others to do the same. If we could get 300 FReepers to send in $100 per quarter, these FReepathons would complete much faster. And we have received 30 donations of $100 or more so far this quarter!!
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We have about 7-9 weeks during the entire year when the Freepathon goes dormant.
I don't know how many FReepers that we have but I've seen the number of several hundred thousand and if true, $10 per year would raise over a million, way more than $90K /qtr.
Unless the Freeper numbers are so over hyped that there are just a few thousand Freepers and this is the only way to fund it???
Thank you very much, deoetdoctrinae!!
Thank you very much, USS Alaska!!
Support Free Republic, Folks! -- Let’s Git ‘Er Done!
MAGA!
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Thank you very much, jazusamo!!
Woo hoo!!
And this just in:
$20.00 from Texas
$10.00 from California
$50.00 from Montana
$10.00 from South Carolina
Thank you all very much!!
FReepers are the absolute greatest!!
God bless.
We currently have a little over 400,000 registered users. The account number started at 1 and is bumped by 1 each time we get a new registered user. Our newest registrant as of this morning has account number 419313.
And, according to google analytics, we’re currently getting something less than 70,000 active users per day. That number is significantly down from our highs of twice that amount. And we’re now delivering less than 800,000 page views per day which is also down significantly. These numbers peak much higher on big news days or during election cycles.
We currently have a little less than 700 monthlies at an average of $18 per month each. If my math is correct, if we could get 1600 monthly donors at that same average, we wouldn’t need to do fundraisers at all. And we do have that many donors, but, obviously, they’re not all signed up as monthlies.
In other words, if only 3% of our active users would donate on a regular monthly basis, we’d be in fat city.
But I can understand our users not wanting us to get fat.
Here's what I said last night in response to Boomer:
Boomer: Not sure what happened but the forum is back up to speed even with my settings at 50/50 threads/per page.
One must wonder if someone isn’t messing with it. If so; I sure hope there’s a way to identify whom but the hackers today can make it look like the Russians did it but it was someone in N. Korea or downtown Toledo, OH.
Same here. I doubt very much that the system came back up to speed on its own. Either someone tweeked it (John?) or the problem was not with us but a broader issue clogging the net in the vicinity of San Jose. It would be nice (and encouraging) to have an answer and not just speculation that it was hackers at work.
BTW, I reset my thread counts to 50/50 and FR is responding very quickly. Too many questions as to what went on, but the main one is you need to hear from John.
Thank you very much, CedarDave!!
Woo hoo!!
And another $100.00 just in from Pennsylvania!!
Thank you very much, Pennsylvania FReeper!!
FReepers are the absolute greatest!!
God bless.
(And now I’ve got to go to a PT session. Should be back in a couple hours.)
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Get a load of this! LOLOL.
LOL!
Just for the sake of argument let's say it's way less, say...40,000 active users. Then, let's say that a measly 5 percent (2000) of them were willing to be regular monthly donors. Keeping this hypothetical scenario going, assume that each of them could only donate $15/month (50¢/day). That would still bring in $90,000 per quarter, and there would be no need for FReepathons.
That wouldn't make us fat, but it sure would relieve the pressure. Praying that more FReepers will join in.
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