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Let's find out what the costs actually are. Web
hosting isn't an arm and a leg, but how much?
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: support donations (was Re: future of Looper's Delight
(long)
Michael that's excellent thoughts re trying to attract
Korg/Boss/Line6/EHX/others as underwriters. I was thinking more benevolent
but in the end getting that support would be a way. Of course getting
commercial backing might mean some tayloring to the supporter's whims so might
be some trade-offs.
Jim
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de>
wrote:
> So it is VERY important right now that if anyone wants to
donate to help
pay cost of the server/hosting
one-time
donations are necessary in the beginning but the site needs a
regular
income.
Maybe more money could be earned by making the site attractive
enough for
hardware manufacturers (Korg etc) to place more expensive
advertisements -
by redesigning and relaunching the site to make it look
like sites in 2010
do (I gather that is on the way already although it
might take some time),
and maybe by using the site's information in a
better way - e.g. content
like the "tools of the trade" page could be
complemented by excerpts of
mailing list discussions about these tools
(similar to the gear test pages
on Harmony Central). There is lots of
valuable information hidden in the
mailing list archives that hasn't been
tapped yet.
Also, I'm sure placing Google Analytics tags on each page
(there aren't any
yet) could lead to more insight about what people
actually look for, which
could lead to a better site structure.
But
of course, all of this will take time and energy. We are all glad the
site
will continue ... take your time Violet ...
-Michael
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