2011: Ads or fundraiser?

Could us users purchase ad space?

 

Ads for visitors who are not logged in, and fundraiser for the rest =)

Shiggsy

 

This could be cool :nod:

Totally agree :thumbsup:

 

fund raiser. I hate adds. Mst of them are for crap anyway. I hardly ever click them.

 

IMO go with both and if you make more one year put it towards next year's fund... but if they were going to be pop up or pop under forget it. I could live with a banner though.

 

This one seems to do the job:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=131150

Of course as Legit says, no pop-ups would be the best thing, just non-agressive banners, and the idea Cooleo proposed sounds interesting, providing users the ability to buy ad space, and all of this encapsulated in what Shiggsy said, ads for non-registered or non-logged in visitors, and no ads for logged in users.

What's also cool about this plugin is that it has AJAX implemented on it so banners can change without the need of the user loading a new page.

 

I guess both. But the fundraiser would still be very important, and then the ads would add a little extra.

 

its 2200 for the year?

i say go with a fun raiser

and maybe at the top below the notices section have a please help keep assemblergames around even 1 dollar helps


although i like the user purchased ads idea

$20 buys you a 30 second spot in a rolling banner below notices

hell if you still have some of those katana branded gen zero dreamcasts
that are really japan region dreamcasts with a USA bios in them

i think you said there was something special about the gen 1/zero dreamcasts that make backups or something easy

hardware almost always brings in donations

your $5 dreamcast sale went really well a similar sale
wuth maybe a slightly higher price of different hardware or even dev kits
would do great for raising the funds

or maybe even cleaning out the odds and ends closet might do well

EDIT: if you could get kritz to make a regular supply of ASSEMblergames EVERdrive's
with 5% maybe more being donated to the site would be a huge donation boon

 

I think PPC (Pay Per Click) or PPI (Pay Per Impression) would be more effective than a rolling banner.

 

I agree with the idea of doing both, unfortunately I never donated during the fundraiser last year, but I will do my best to chip in if one takes place again.;-)

Also, if you make ads only visible for non-users, I have a feeling a lot more of the lurkers will finally sign up.

 

I thought you were trying to save/raise money!

The site seems to have survived so far using fund raisers (or has it?) why the change?

Besides, does anyone ever really make any money from web advertising anymore?

If it's an absolute must then I like the idea of ads for site guests only.

I really should give some money to the site sometime, it's like my second home.

 

Actually a mandatory $1 subscription per year would probably be best, though of course in conjunction with banner ads too. After the Paypal fascist movement has taken it's fees there should still be enough left over to pay the bills, assuming the other thousands of members didnt suddenly leave. To put it one way the content is more interesting yet cheaper than IGN so who knows...

 

I think a fundraiser would be a better solution than a fee.
It probably will raise more money and quicker, and even when we have more than 8000 members, I really doubt that more than 1000 are actually active.

The other problem is the forum would lose new members, few people would take the bother of paying (even something as low as $1) to register on a forum they still barely know. This forum has always been a friendly place for newcomers, and a subscription fee isn't the best way to keep it in that way.

 

Wow, is it that time of year already? Hrm... I would agree with donations. Just let people donate and put a little "Site Donor 2011" logo or icon on peoples profile when 2012 rolls around for those who did.

It would probably bring in more money that way, and during the 2012 year when people are considering donating for costs, they'll see all the people who paid for the previous year. So if they find the site useful they'll want to be an active community memember and chip in. You could also start the trend and put up a logo/icon for the 2010 year right now for the duration of 2011 to promote the fundraser and remind people to give when you receive so much for free.

 

I'd say just stick with the fundraiser.

To reference Futurama:

Didn't you have ads in the 21st Century?

Well sure, but not on ASSEMbler. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not on ASSEMbler, no siree.

 

Yes, it would be time for the 2010 fundraiser icon to kick in, I made one for that reason during last year, dunno if you guys liked it or not (don't remember actually) so here it is again:

 

I like it! I don't remember if I donated last year or not.

 

Go with ads. The banners really aren't that bad and Im sure everybody will be able to put up with them. Just make sure they aren't pop ups/unders.