I never received an

JeevesBond — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:45:17 +0000

I never received an end-of-campaign email like I have in the past. I just noticed that my ad stopped appearing one day.

Nice catch. I've been receiving notifications whenever someone's campaign ends, so assumed the campaign owners would too. Looking into it, seems that an upgrade of the Ad software introduced some fields to fill-out, otherwise it won't send e-mails to campaign owners.

In fact, now that I think of it, I don't receive PM notifications in my inbox anymore

Another good catch, thanks.

Seems there was a problem with the Cron job, I've fixed it.

An idea ... display

decibel.places — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:04:31 +0000

An idea ...

display "sponsor" ads in interstitial pages which would be eliminated for authenticated members...

I like the member ads

ms2134 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:52:48 +0000

I like the member ads idea.

When i get some money and finances back on track i shall donate. Just place a donate button somewhere.

We love the site and all is good.

~ Mike

pr0gr4mm3r wrote: I would

Megan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:26:22 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r wrote:

I would go for option 2, but how would that fund the site?

It wouldn't, basically. We're not necessarily looking at replacing them with an alternate revenue source. For right now, it's a decision as to whether to keep them, ditch them, or do member ads instead.

We would prefer not to put in a lot of small, low revenue things like paid market place posting and things like that. Then it gets to be little bits of advertising all over the place which we don't want. We want this place to be as ad-free as possible.

teammatt3 wrote: But why

decibel.places — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:10:17 +0000

teammatt3 wrote:

But why just those two choices? Can't you get a little more creative with advertising?

JeevesBond wrote:

We (Megan and I) are sure that we'd like to dump the ads, and just ask for donations to help keep the site running (we won't get as much money, but that's another discussion).

Great, put up a donate button... I got $5 donated towards the $200+ I've spent promoting a YouTube video...

What about AdSense or similar programs? (watch-em pennies pile up!)

Are there any syndication possibilities?

Let members bypass the

pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:05:15 +0000

Let members bypass the required reviews in the website critique area, for a fee.

That is included in the ad campaign perks currently. I'm not sure if it stated that in the advertising page, but it says that on my account when I visit the critique section because I have that "Sponsor" tag.

The economic crisis has meant we're getting no new advertisers.

I never received an end-of-campaign email like I have in the past. I just noticed that my ad stopped appearing one day. In fact, now that I think of it, I don't receive PM notifications in my inbox anymore even though my account is configured to send them out. Is the mail system on TWF's new hosting server working correctly? Many sponsors don't visit this site regularly, and if no notifications were sent out, nobody will know to renew.

I would go for option 2, but how would that fund the site?

Well of course I'm going to

teammatt3 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:29:00 +0000

Well of course I'm going to choose member ads. I'd rather see my butt ugly site being advertised than some get rich quick scheme. But why just those two choices? Can't you get a little more creative with advertising?

Start Selling forum stickies in the marketplace, or do an in depth review of someone's new application, for a fee. Let members bypass the required reviews in the website critique area, for a fee. Create a list of known "quality" web hosts, and charge a fee to be on that list (after a review of the company).