Monthly/Yearly Donor Program
Other sites have taken to having 500 sponsors and becoming income sources for the site owners. FBody.com (me) gets plenty
of emails from such potential sponsors looking to place an ad on the site. Generally this would be great,
however, having a shop as a sponsor seems to be a real liability as we've all come
across a horror story, or many, from every shop. Every shop pisses someone off at
some point and since internet based drop shipping parts companies are a dime a dozen
and come and go and change names to hide, etc, I've decided its best to just disassociate from
any of them, for good. In other words, FBody.com will no longer show a banner
or advertisement for any company. We have a shop ratings system that allows you
the members to rate and comment on shops and you are free to discuss the good and
bad about any shop on the forums, we're just not going to force a company onto
your monitor.
That all said, this leads to a real dilema. How does FBody.com raise money to pay the server bills? Hopefully through you the members. We have, at the
time I wrote this, about 80,000 members registered. We have about 12,000 members that login in
a month. we have about 5,000 members that post a message/review/timeslip (do something active) in a month. If just 100 of those
member's donated $1.00/month through PayPal, I would end up with about $67/month after paypal fees. That would
cover about 70% of the bill. If 100 people donated $2/month, I would end up with
about $164/month which would pay the current bill and I'd even make a few dollars that I could
put towards new/faster hardware and/or a faster connection.
If you have $1/month to spare, or $12 a year (paypal takes less if you send $12 once) please
consider setting up a PayPal subscription to donate to this site. As of right now, you
get nothing special back, maybe if someone can suggest something they'd like to see
such donors get, I could implement a donor benefit program, but for now, nothing special.
Sign up for $1.00/month:
Sign up for $12.00/year
|
|
