RE: ADMIN: A Round Tuit

Hi Paul

It was me who asked.
When you talk about the costs of "this site" do you mean the yahoogroups site or the pipingdesign website?
What is the $100/mth for. Who bills you and on what basis (e.g. charge per unit time, charge per hit)?
If it is not a sensitive issue, on what basis do your sponsors pay? How much time do you spend on site maintenance?

Your comments indicate that you only receive revenue from sponsors; if you get enough sponsors a surplus may result. Is this correct? Is the only benefit to sponsors the "advertising" of their names at your site?

Do Yahoo have any policy on having advertising in discussion groups; do they want a slice?

How is construction progress on your holiday home in the Bahamas, and the one in Monaco?

Cheers

Steve McKenzie

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From: Paul Bowers [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:26 PM To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [PipingDesign] ADMIN: A Round Tuit

Someone (I think it was Geoff) asked about how this site is maintained, I've finally gotten a round tuit.

The cost of making the site available is about $100 per month. This does not include my time, which I estimate to be rated at $200/hour (yeah, like, right). If you think that I am making a living doing this, you are mistaken.

The pipingdesign.com/.org/.ca domains are reserved for quite some time, and they won't go away.

I started the site out of pure interest and now it has grown. I would like to build it into a profitable business, and sponsors like LMNO Engineering and Texas Flange have started to make this possible.

Paul

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