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(...) Banner ads are fine with me. I've been meaning to buy some over on Brickshelf for my store, but haven't gotten around to making an actual banner yet! If you go this route, I'd suggest doing it yourself or getting someone a little less (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Banners I could live with, but pop-ups are very bad. BANG. (...) BANG. Bad idea IMO. While clearing out a lot of the noise (good thing), this will in effect make 99% post less, so LUGNET will seem dead most times. Again, IMO. BANG. (for good (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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I checked with a former associate doing business law and she agreed that US regulations on non-profit organizations linked with or being users' groups of a commercial product or service is very tricky. Tax advisors would actually tell you to be (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) ... I imagine that the lurk factor is much higher. For comparison, BrickLink has over 7,700 registered members. The LUGNET Admin probably has a pretty good idea of the numbers though, based on server bandwidth and number of unique IPs. Cary (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Interesting numbers. But I don't think the membership base will increase as fast with higher associated costs (think of a simple supply/demand graph). Remember, there is a risk that LUGNET would price itself out of business. Especially if (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Honestly I think $250/year is quite high. I like to consider myself generous, but I still don't think I'd shell out $250/year. I could see plausibly $120/year, based on $10/month or so, but even that's pretty high. I might pay that. Maybe. I'd (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Wow, what a novel and out of the box idea! As a seller, I'd do this in a minute (some of you who use BrickShelf may have noticed banner ads I bought for Milton Train Works(tm)...(1) but those run a far second in funding efficiency to the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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In lugnet.admin.finance, Rob Limbaugh writes: ... (...) ... I think this is a great idea, but why limit it to participation from LEGO? Wouldn't it be great if every BrickLink vendor, every eBay LEGO seller, every GoB member could include a GIF on (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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I am putting together some basic guesstimate numbers for the sake of discussing the LUGNET financing topic. Please do comment. Membership Numbers: Current membership: 1,500 Membership growth per year: 500 Lurking potential members: 4,000? Income (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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In lugnet.admin.finance, Todd Lehman & Suzanne Rich writes: . A new newsgroup lugnet.admin.finance has been created for the discussion (...) I'm no professor myself, nor am I a millionaire. But if it's encouragement and ideas you want... here's some (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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