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Woo hoo!! And we're now over 55%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless. |
Posted on 04/19/2012 1:22:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I've checked with an ad agency. We can probably raise the funds we need to operate FR at our current level and at the current market price for online advertising if we run a banner ad at the top of every page and at least one rectangular ad in the above the fold body of the page and a couple rectangular ads in the sidebar. If that doesn't generate enough revenue, we can also run pop ups or pop unders and we can even run audio and video ads if need be. But of course, if we go full bore commercial, we'd have to insure strict copyright compliance with very brief excerpting of all articles to avoid lawsuits. And the agency would require that we install a filter to censor out any bad or unacceptable words in our posts.
Or, of course, there's always the membership model. We could setup a members only system where paying members get full access and non-paying members get throttled back, etc.
I don't like either of the above models and think we'd soon lose a lot of our readers and participants. Of course that may happen anyway if we can't fund it and if we cannot get our equipment problem under control, or if my refusal to vote for or support an abortionist/homosexualist/statist who has plans to install ObamaCare, er, I mean RomneyCare into all 50 states runs everyone off.
The donation model has served us very well since 1997 when we first started using it. It's very clean, uncomplicated and we attract participants who perhaps can't afford membership dues but do want to join the discussion and join our rallies, protests, prayer sessions, etc. And the advertising model would probably bring in the revenue, but it comes with strings attached.
I'm sure there are other ways and ways to combine features of various models, sell books, cds, gear, etc, offer no ads for paid subscribers, etc, even ISP services, but all of these also complicate matters.
I'm an old dog and I like to avoid new tricks, new complications, additional overhead, additional accounting, additional rules and regulations, etc, wherever possible. I like to stick to simplicity and with what works.
Thank you all very much for your continuing participation and support.
I had ancestors in the Revolution too. Their hardships were much worse than ours. The Republic is slipping away and we have to stand firm.
Amen! Likewise!
Nonsense. I hold you in the highest esteem and you should know that by now!
I'd rather go down fighting with my honor intact, than submit to tyranny bearing false colors.
Yes, we must stand firm, even if we're the smallest number. Our forefathers (and mothers) in the Revolution were outnumbered by pathetic Loyalists and traitors, but they won the day because they stood firm in their convictions and principles.
We must not dishonor them by doing any less.
Absolutely agree!
Thank you, Jim. I knew you'd read that as if you wrote it yourself.
I do, and I'm blushing... :-)
LOL. Well, good! Healthy for ya!
So you never said this...where is my math wrong?
/i/ To: NittanyLion; DJ MacWoW; Jim Robinson
*shrug* Think whatever you want, but it isn’t the economy that’s extending what used to be a 10 day process to ~80 days. There’s a much more fundamental issue than that, and it’s the one I’ve described.
Our longest FReepathon is 55 days, thankyouverymuch, and as a matter of fact, in the old days, our financial goals were $40K, then $60K and now we’re at $94K which includes the cost of new servers to handle our heavy traffic!
FWIW, we have almost $40K in Monthly donations, so you have NO idea what you’re spewing!
238 posted on Thursday, April 19, 2012 7:00:30 PM by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin’s Ping List, let me know.)
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I suggest that you direct your inquiries to Jim.
Ha,Ha,why? Your behaving like a concerned troll right now. Let Onxy answer her post for pete’s sake!
QUARTERLY when the Monthlies are rolled during our FReepathons.
Take a look for yourself at the link. The Monthlies are currently in excess of $11,000 a month without counting the New Monthly Donors, of which we now have 35 or thereabout.
In those days, when our FReepathon goals were $40K & $60K, our Monthly Donors now would almost cover those FReepathons and that was my point.
All right. Thanks very much and good night, ladyvet.
Our monthlies vary between 11-12k + per month, or as much as 36k per quarter or more. It may be that someone misspoke or rounded that up in a conversation to 40, but that would be 40 per quarter not 40 per month.
Thank you all very much!!
FReepers are the greatest!!
Each FReepathon is for the current Quarter’s expenses.
Monthly donations: $11,609.50 X 3 months will be rolled into this Quarter’s FReepathon,
giving this Quarter’s FReepathon for current expenses (April, May, June) credit for those donations of almost $35K.
Were we still at those goals, our FReepathons would be over in a matter of hours, not days and that was my point.
You're right. FReepers are the absolute best. FReepers always support Free Republic.
That is why I drew the analogy to the former Constitution. We have seen how easily it was corrupted over a period of 108 years to the point that it is now brazenly ignored by our ruling elite. That includes multiple Congresses, courts, and administrations.
Neither party's candidate for 2012 gives a damn about restoring the Republic and adherence to the Constitution...even in its current bastardized form . The clueless GOP candidate could be the subject of one of Don Henley's songs. Something like: "All he wants to do is dance, dance, dance...."
Hmmm...Seems I got off subject here...
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