[Theforum] funding options

[Lachlan Cannon]

isaac said:
> And some sample figures. Say we have even 200 members who think that
> Ron's offer of hosting at $7.50 a year is good. And they have an
> average of 5 small clients who could benefit from that. 200 members x 5
> clients x $7.50/m x 10% commission = USD$750/month.

did you mean 7.50 per month, not per year?

> So, what would we have to look out for? Ensuring the quality of every
> host; speaking to the affiliates personally if we receive any
> service-related complaints from members, etc.

Well, I don't know whether it would be appropriate for us to carry
complaints on behalf of people, but making sure the affiliates are good to
start off with is definitely necessary. You wouldn't care about evolt
getting 10% if your site was down every day...

>
> Thoughts?

Sounds good... the only thing I can think of is that maybe if clients got
their own hosting control back then they'd probably pull it. Of course the
smaller clients probably wouldn't have the time for doing that.

Lach
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