More Bandwidth and Revenue Needed

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:13 pm

I have mixed feelings on Phade's idea. (I started typing my last post before I saw it.) It seems to be a combination of several other ideas. It is certainly the easiest and most low impact way of generating revenue. That is it will have no real affect on the org culture. It also gets contributions from the people causing the problem, lechers.

My reservationshave to do with making the org seem more commercial (please limit the ads to just that page) and with the possibility of increased legal attention.

The idea certainly bears consideration and some reaserch into the logistics.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:15 pm

Zero wrote: BasharOfTheAges: Phade never said using Google ads. Besides, they're too much of a target for fraud.

Woops. I should have mentioned I was replying to the post above mine by SpringBoy

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:39 pm

derobert wrote:
Zarxrax wrote:Dero, I think the difference here would be that Kazaa was set up as a commercial company with a profit motive. The org is structured as a non-profit organization.
Unfortunately, that's not true, as is fairly easily found on the <a href="http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corpor ... 211">North Carolina Secretary of State website</a>. If Org were actually a non-profit, yeah, it'd be much clearer.

Phade: I think at one point you said you were thinking of doing the additional paperwork... any progress on that? It'd also let us keep money from year to year w/o paying obscene taxes, right?

Oh, so we aren't actually registered as a non-profit? I didn't know that. I do see that we have 100,000 shares of common stock though. How about selling some of that for money :p

lordroba · Post by **lordroba** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:45 pm

How about some adds? I'm sure they wouldn't mess up the layout of the site too much. And why not, if every little bit helps? To encourage donations, you could also have 2 seperate layouts. One with ads, one without. The one with ads being for people who haven't donated. This site has done a good job with theire ads and it looks like that's the only thing that keeps theire picture downloading service free. I'm sure people wouldn't mind them if it meant keeping the site up, and having fast download speeds.

Kathreen · Post by **Kathreen** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:55 pm

I REALLY want to donate coz' I LOVE this site, but how? coz' I can't use credit cards or checks becoz' of a very good and long reason

How can I send cash and how much do I have to send?

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:06 pm

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/pledges/

-Zero

shishlik · Post by **shishlik** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:26 pm

so the only reommended way is through paypal(since i don't live on the u.s and sending it via mail is not recommended)?

Kathreen · Post by **Kathreen** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:56 pm

Oh Yeah! thanx Zero, you're the best!

and now I shall wait for my parents to give me money

, not that I don't have money but it's better if my parents give me some

just another question do I have to remember to donate every month? or can I just donate money whenever I want?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:59 pm

Kathreen wrote:Oh Yeah! thanx Zero, you're the best!
and now I shall wait for my parents to give me money , not that I don't have money but it's better if my parents give me some

just another question do I have to remember to donate every month? or can I just donate money whenever I want?

You can choose to make a monthly pledge if you want, or you can do a one time donation (whenever you want)

Kathreen · Post by **Kathreen** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:05 pm

Oh! so for example if I donated money whenever,
I don't have to worry about donating every month if I don't make a pledge?