[Theforum] 3 Alternative Funding Ideas

John Corry john at neoncowboy.com
Mon Apr 29 22:19:10 CDT 2002


> Expanding on idea #3 a bit more, what about a page that says "Here's
> some web design/usability books (or ASP books, CF books, JS books) that
> the members of evolt.org recommend:" and having each link be for a
> referral account?
>
> It'd be nice to see recommendations for certain types of books (without
> posting to thelist), and it'd be even better if a portion of my purchase
> went back to evolt.org.

+1

Somehow I dont' think that the referral paybacks would amount to a whole
lot, but library.evolt.org would be an *awesome* resource...

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A weekly "recap" sent out to thelist. This would be "opt-in" with the
user's choice of HTML or plain text versions. This recap would almost be
of a more newsletter type nature. It could feature anything really, but
here's some suggestions:
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This is a pretty good idea...

I would be especially happy to see a very *few*, albeit high-powered
'corporate underwriters' (Oracle? Red Hat? Zend? IBM? Sun?) instead of a
whole bunch of 'consumer products' type ads.

I dunno...

I also like the 'subscription membership' model and would love to subscribe
to Evolt and even see m.e.o go to a pay for service model.

john




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