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Old 03-07-2014, 11:10 AM   #12
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Default Re: Good News, Bad News

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Originally Posted by randall klein View Post
in thinking over the comments about a membership support of your costs, i mulled over what ceiling i would be comfortable with....$500 made me wince a little, but in order to throw a figure "out there", for entertainment values alone i am in the $200/yr range

now what number of subscribers needed at what fee is for someone else to figure
A *lot*. And I suspect that $200/year would price out most people. You might be able to sell it at "$10/month" (of course then you have even more costs involved with establishing and maintaining a payment/subscriber system), at which point you need thousands of subscribers.

If it goes to a subscriber-only model, the value to sponsors drops dramatically along with the traffic to the site. On the flip side, if non-subscribers can get everything for free that subscribers pay for, then you will have significantly less subscribers.
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