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Post by JMMREVIEW on Apr 10, 2014 2:41:11 GMT -5
Just a quick heads up everyone, I am looking into implementing some google adverts throughout the website in places which hopefully wont get in the way too much. This is really a test at this stage to see how it goes and if there is money to be made! Any and all money will go back into the website. This could mean paying people (you guys) to write articles for the homepage or even to buy games as giveaways. Or it could amount to nothing or get in the way, in which case I will remove them!
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Post by Xargen on Apr 10, 2014 7:33:50 GMT -5
That sounds pretty awesome... I would love some free games =p Could always use the money for humble bundles (At least the good ones =p)
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Post by JMMREVIEW on Apr 10, 2014 8:11:28 GMT -5
Let's not put the horse before the cart I don't even know if it will make money yet However this could be good for us all.
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Post by Blade Runner 07 on Apr 10, 2014 11:24:49 GMT -5
The giveaway games is a great idea IMO.
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Post by Xargen on Apr 11, 2014 6:48:08 GMT -5
We'll have to have some sort of raffle thing on the forums I guess... Though I suppose we could just assign interested people a number then pick from a random number generator
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Post by Blade Runner 07 on Apr 11, 2014 10:09:23 GMT -5
Yeah I think it makes the most sense to rally interested people. So many members rarely if ever check the site. They really should.
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Post by JMMREVIEW on Apr 11, 2014 10:11:09 GMT -5
Again I don't want anyone to get carried away it could be months before anything happens. As far as I can tell so far we have earned £0.02 so unless game price drop we will be doing well just to cover the cost of running the site.lol
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Post by Blade Runner 07 on Apr 11, 2014 11:19:20 GMT -5
That is $0.03 Okay I'll take the money and go buy three of these... Be right back..... ... Um not gonna happen guys. They want $0.02 each for those little things these days. What happened to this world???
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Post by Xargen on Apr 11, 2014 17:51:26 GMT -5
Dude, you can get a humble bundle game for $0.01 if you want... If you donate $0.01 to the weekly humble sale you normally get at least one game... Steam games are $1 though, and normally $6 for all of the ones on for that week
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Post by Blade Runner 07 on Apr 11, 2014 21:01:46 GMT -5
But we also want quality. I've gotten lots of free games that I play once and never pick up again when I realize why they were free. We would rather give away 2 ten dollar games of quality than 10 games nobody will play because they are crap. Not stepping on the humble bundles. Some times they have great games but usually they are meh.
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Post by Xargen on Apr 12, 2014 5:09:12 GMT -5
It's a shame we didn't do this earlier and have $15 for this weeks humble bundle... $0.01 -> $5.99 gets you Surgeon Simulator, Guacamelee! Gold Edition both either for Steam or DRM free and QWOP for android, $6.00 -> $9.99 gets you Garrys Mod and an early access game called SpeedRunners, both for Steam, $10.00 -> $14.99 gets you Probably Archery (Which is hard as balls) both DRM free or on Steam and $15 and up gets you State of Decay
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Post by JMMREVIEW on Apr 12, 2014 5:35:56 GMT -5
Another thing to think about is not everyone has steam or plays pc games.
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Post by Xargen on Apr 12, 2014 5:49:13 GMT -5
Aye, that's why we only enter interested people =p
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Post by JMMREVIEW on Apr 12, 2014 6:48:27 GMT -5
I am going to leave it for a month or post an update at the end of this month with the results for what we earned. something to keep in mind is there are already costs associated with running the website which have to be reached before profit is made.
There may even be a catch 22 thing going on. at minute it costs $21.00 to have 200,000 ad free page views a month which is the number of page views we had last month. So we have to earn at least $21.00 a month which might me hard to do.
It might even be a redundant system.... paying to display our own ads then being paid to display those ads.lol
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Post by JMMREVIEW on May 12, 2014 6:44:06 GMT -5
Ok just to update everyone on this...
In the last 28 days the advertising has made a grand total of... drum roll please £0.59 To place the ads on our forum it cost me around £40 (I say round £40 because I am afraid to add it up properly in case it is more!)
In short website revenue attempt = failure
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