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Originally Posted by orb
I know $60 a year does not seem that much, but I honestly think it is the wrong way. If you asked say $20 one shot year feel it might work, and scale it out to many members.
Simply, $5 a month it will almost flat line the board, and key contributors will go, and eventually in 4 months you will make almost nothing. And at $5 monthly you did not get enough up front to carry you through the tough months, and in the end will rob you of a great platform that will assist your videos.
It is just the wrong people and mix for monthly payments. Not everyone in the world thinks monthly, and ironically for a board which wants people to think outside the box and not fit into a mold, you are doing just that.
But you won't listen anymore than a local bar owner the day he told me he was putting the $2 cover on his door on Friday's and Saturdays. He had the hottest bar Thursday - Friday, packed, liquor sales through the roof. But he wanted to maximize his profits and try to cover the band instead of say increase the liquor at 25 cents. The restaurant never recovered to this day 8 years later. They shut the bar part down and just serve food. He spends money every day in advertising trying to get people in the door. In 8 years he spent more in advertising then he every could have recouped.
And with these things, you do not get do overs. Once you break the traffic flow, people are gone. You are making a major mistake here, and you will reflect someday on this letter. You are killing your traffic engine, and the internet is about traffic. Example embedding google links in your template will earn you more than you will ever make at $5 a month. You are getting bad advice, and do not understand the flow through nature of the Internet.
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I respectively disagree. Bill and Kerry deserve some form of compensation for the work they do to bring interviews to Project Camelot and all of the traveling they do. They did not get into this to make money and unfortunately, traveling all over costs money and it's gotta come from somewhere.
If anything, the subscription plan will hopefully weed out people who weren't contributing much to begin with. I admit that I have spent a lot of posts arguing with people but I am getting better everyday at getting along with others.
In conclusion, those who choose to pay a bit for a subscription are likely those who feel that they have too much to lose and that it would just be wrong for them to up and leave on people who have taken the time to befriend them and offer advice, etc.