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BYOAC's Costs
planetjay:
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--- Quote from: anthony691 on May 29, 2003, 08:43:55 pm ---I wouldn't ever want to see BYOAC in $$$$ trouble...
Why don't you add affailiate adds to the message board? You have this power with YaBB, right... you can add more pics to the top? If they are for MAME related products I don't think they would even be annoying (example: MAMEWorld).
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I don't think saint wants ads. Anyway all the vendors are freaking out right now.
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Hmmm... why does Saint not want adds? They would solve his financial woes.
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OH I forgot in my last post. WHAT WOES?
rampy:
Anthony, you might not realize it... but it's tough to make ends meet on affiliate or even PPC advertisement... (if affiliation's with act labs doesn't pay for your site, i doubt they'd pay for this one)
*Shrug*
There's an arcade related site youcan go to if you like banner and pop up blindness... =P
Wait, i'm being negative again... ok.. count to 10...
woooooosh exhale...
It's all about the big picture Anthony
Rampy
IF I can project a bit... the real costs of BYOAC aren't monetary. IT's time, patience, dealing with the downside of the online human persona/condition. Those things erode at the spirit,, not the billfold, however... *shrug* hopefully the good will and love the community can balance that out.
anthony691:
--- Quote from: planetjay on May 29, 2003, 11:39:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: anthony691 on May 29, 2003, 11:09:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: planetjay on May 29, 2003, 11:06:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: anthony691 on May 29, 2003, 08:43:55 pm ---I wouldn't ever want to see BYOAC in $$$$ trouble...
Why don't you add affailiate adds to the message board? You have this power with YaBB, right... you can add more pics to the top? If they are for MAME related products I don't think they would even be annoying (example: MAMEWorld).
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I don't think saint wants ads. Anyway all the vendors are freaking out right now.
--- End quote ---
Hmmm... why does Saint not want adds? They would solve his financial woes.
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OH I forgot in my last post. WHAT WOES?
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That is what the donation site said, and I don't like to hear complaining of that nature... "When money talks I hate to listen, but lately it's been screaming in my ear"
BTW rampy, I bet (KNOW) that adds through afail programs and the like would pay the bills! BYOAC's traffic is > 1000x greater than little Lightgun.tk! Even so one day I made 12$ off of my adds! I was just mentioning... it is just an idea... an I don't really care... it really is "none of my bidness"!
rampy:
--- Quote from: anthony691 on May 30, 2003, 07:37:36 am ---
That is what the donation site said, and I don't like to hear complaining of that nature... "When money talks I hate to listen, but lately it's been screaming in my ear"
BTW rampy, I bet (KNOW) that adds through afail programs and the like would pay the bills! BYOAC's traffic is > 1000x greater than little Lightgun.tk! Even so one day I made 12$ off of my adds! I was just mentioning... it is just an idea... an I don't really care... it really is "none of my bidness"!
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Well, perhaps a natural fit like happs, would make sense (if they were more intersted in home sellers and would give 5% - there'd be a good synergy there). But you aren't going to sell (even at byoac) $24000 worth of light guns or books through amazon.
People around here would, no doubt, make the purchases they are going to make anyways, and would be more than happy to use a byoac ad as a gateway, "to give back a little"
But you also don't want to tacky up the place, or make it look like you are going for ever GD dime on the plate. You then go perception wise from worthy site needing donations to huckster. (basically you have to keep losing money for us to like you =P)
*shrug*
rampy
planetjay:
Ok. Let me try again.
THERE ARE NO BYOAC FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.
saint (I'm speaking for saint now, this can't be good) would however like to the site pay (atleast 1/2) for itself. Depending on whether the bills have just been paid or if they are coming due, the site at that point could be negative (no money in the bank) or positive (money in the bank) respectively. Overall the site probably needs about $1000 per year AS OF TODAY to pay for 1/2 of the outgoing expenses. This is due to a planned server upgrade at somepoint in this year.
Also note that saint's status report on the site as seen on the donations page was LAST YEAR. As of today I see 30gigs of transfer for the .com site, and only about 8 gigs per month on the .org site (due to heavy compression and minor page rewriting). HOWEVER the graphs show a trend line rising to the right at about 45
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