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Tourmeister · #**114** 02-16-2007, 05:42 AM

It has been very interesting to see everyone's responses.

My site: www.twtex.com
Pushing 4000 members
A little over 200K posts
No clue on the uniques per day

I am donation supported only with no ads and bring in a few hundred $ a month. After my wife and I were in a motorcycle accident, the donations spiked to $3500 within a few weeks. I don't recommend this form of attracting donations...

I have been recently thinking about bring ads into the mix. They would be very targeted though and regional. I am not real interested in the adsense stuff yet. The big focus on my site is community. My users repeatedly tell me that it is the sense of community that keeps them coming back. I am wary of messing that up with ads.

I plan to do some merchandising. I think I can really make more money this way than by doing the ads.

I have never been in the hole with the site once I got up around 500 users.

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