[theforum] google AdSense makes dollars (as well as sense)
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Fri Jun 11 18:40:44 CDT 2004
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On 11 Jun 2004, at 23:54, Paul Waring wrote:
> Elfur Logadóttir wrote:
>> Evolt.org is not and if i have anything to say, will never be
>> exploiting the
>> core competence, the website and the lists it's all about.
>
> We're not considering exploiting it per se, more making it sustain
> itself financially. Without revenue (whether that be from ads,
> donations or whatever), evolt will eventually die because let's face
> it, the people who donate server resources are not likely to keep
> doing so forever. In the early days you expect popular sites to live
> off generosity, donations of money/bandwidth/servers etc., but once
> you've been around you really should be standing on your own two feet.
Actually, that's a bit simplistic.
Any organisation like evolt will and should live off a number of
different sources of revenue, not entirely depending on a single one.
We always assumed that adsense would not pay for all of evolt, and
neither would donations. That way, if either suffers a catastrophic
failure (say, google change the rules so that we only make $5/month),
we wouldn't have to start from scratch on another income source.
Multiple income sources = reduced risk.
Besides as I keep pointing out, we have nearly 2 years' worth of
$99/month already in the bank.
Assuming $45/month from adsense, that means we're secure for not 2
years, but over 3. This is more security of hosting than we've ever
had. I'm just failing to see the problem that putting ads anywhere else
would solve.
Cheers
Martin
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