Sounds like a great idea. Not to be nosy, but what is the source of your revenue? I do not see ads on here, but I do use ad blocking software.
Capn, It is your site too so, we are not going to look at it as you being nosy. Never in my life have I had an issue with lifting the kimona for any of my customers.
For the last two years, Aaron has supported this site out of his own pocket. Truly astounding when you have a wife and three kids. Two months ago Aaron & Mike reached out to me to gardener my interest on building this site. Their timing was perfect. I was looking to do something on my own. In the last two months we have had several members reach out to us an offer to sponsor us. That is now paying the bills. However, we had to upgrade the server too so, that made Aarons cost even higher. The good news is, the sponsors we have, have gotten business from this site already. That is one thing we are going to encourage, is that you shop in your own community.
In Feb we plan on taking this site behind the curtain. We believe this community provides us all value. With that said, we also understand that a lot of our members are on a fixed income so, you will not see anything like a $10.00 a month charge from us. We are looking to cut that by 50%. We are thinking along the lines of $5.00 a month. How would you all feel about that?
Keep in mind, the best is yet to come. We are developing a recruiting, baseball, volleyball and basketball forums that will be second to none. It just takes time and resources to get there. We have no aspirations of becoming Orange Bloods. On the contrary,this is going to be a tight knit community first and we will not sell out and let this site become a free for all.
I have read that a lot of people come here for the inside information. I would not
encourage you to join this site for that reason. You should join a site because you enjoy and appreciate the quality of the members that participate. I see where we have approximately 3800 members now. If only 1,500 signed up in February my feelings will not be hurt, because I will know we have the right 1,500 members building this foundation.
Darrell
