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mwb498 
Forum Newbie 
Joined: April 23 2005 Status: Offline Points: 26 |
 Topic: how does prog archives pay the bills?Posted: May 03 2005 at 23:30 |
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I have been on this site for a fair while now and i have not noticed any advertising. However, i know that there are several administrators/collaborators, etc. who are probably recieving some kind of compensation for their services. Any ideas?
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the moment of defecation is worth a thousand flatulations
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Bryan
Special Collaborator 
Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 01 2004 Status: Offline Points: 3013 |
Posted: May 03 2005 at 23:44 |
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The collaborators recieve no compensation for our services whatsoever. And you evidently haven't been looking hard enough, because the site pays for its hosting costs through ads.
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Peter
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
Posted: May 04 2005 at 01:39 |
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Extortion, money-laundering, heroin, and Max@ runs a line of poutine takeouts in North Korea.
Or so Maani tells me.... |
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Velvetclown
Forum Senior Member 
Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 8548 |
Posted: May 04 2005 at 02:49 |
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And not forgetting Prostitution
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator
Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20436 |
Posted: May 04 2005 at 02:49 |
That poutine thing should stuff those North Koreans famined bellies all right!
Actually there is plenty of advertising around with all the links at the top of the pages , the buying links , This Muse records and the Roger Dean associations! They might have also have members who are sugar daddies! But this is a very good point/topic, that I meant to discuss once (probably I would have opened that thread in the Collaborator's zone , though ) They probably also get some help from records label, since this site helps out discovery of new groups and boosts sales and they are fully aware of this! It would be great if M@X could enlighten us! |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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maani
Special Collaborator
Founding Moderator Joined: January 30 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2632 |
Posted: May 04 2005 at 10:18 |
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Peter: You forgot our biggest source of revenue - selling all of the members' names to any and all interested parties, including pharmaceutical companies (all that viagra spam you get), insurance companies, and the U.S. and other governments... Actually, mwb, as Useful Idiot and others point out, revenue is generated primarily by advertising. However, no one - not even Rony, Max or myself - earns anything from the site; we all have "real" jobs that pay our rents, etc. And although the site may generate a tiny little bit of profit (which is actually unlikely), it is really just self-sustaining - and a true labor of love. Peace. |
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator
Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20436 |
Posted: May 04 2005 at 11:36 |
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Another thing I believe true for all sites is that, the more a site is frequented, the more traffic and bytes of data flow in and out of the site, the more a site "earns" and the more advertisers will have to pay to have their links on the site! BTW, I never once thought that the three of you were getting rich of this except in fulfilling your passions! Well I'm off fulfilling my passions in the Ardennes with a trunkful of wine bottles and prog CDs and some of the most babelicious women I know.
Read you on May 17! |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Jared
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Online Points: 20414 |
Posted: May 08 2005 at 14:36 |
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This page is a bit of an eye opener. I know I'm new here, and am probably doing the rose tinted thing at the moment, but I have to say, this is a fabulous facility, extremely professionally put together, and tonnes of thanks should be winging its way to Maani, Max, Rony and the other organisers for the time they put into this labour of love. Well done guys; you have my vote!!
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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illustrated
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 19 2004 Status: Offline Points: 352 |
Posted: May 09 2005 at 03:06 |
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Agreed. This is easily my favorite website on the net, and my homepage, and I don't see it changing anytime soon. |
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Prog_Bassist
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 29 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 830 |
Posted: May 09 2005 at 10:56 |
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I see ads on here sometimes, but at least the ads aren't aggressive.
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Peter
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
Posted: May 10 2005 at 20:46 |
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No, they're PROgressive.
BTW, did I mention the gun-running? No? How about the nudie (Garten is ghastly in garters!
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: May 12 2005 at 08:22 |
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My life has changed completetly since becoming a 'collaborator' I'm on a salary of $500,000 a year and have a yacht and holiday home in Miami. Every weekend I'm allowed unfettered access to Rick Wakemens glittery robe collection, and usually after Sunday lunch Phil Collins lets me punch him in the face twice. Thankyou progarchives..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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how does prog archives pay the bills?
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Peter wrote:
) prog cult (featuring the Max@ and Ron Dream Retirement Savings Plan) hidden deep beneath the New Mexico sands in an abandoned, supposedly deactivated missile silo?
(It seems that el Certo
is working on removing prong mental from the face of the planet!) 
Sh!t, sorry Maani, was my 'special arrangement' supposed to be a secret?? ...