Economic Woes: Impact On Your Board

[Princeton]

I think internet traffic will increase for some during these hard times.

I also think many companies will decrease advertising budgets.
To increase ROI, they will turn their focus on advertising on a few sites only. With Adsense, they could do this via Placements. (Or, like some, they will do direct advertising.)

Are you ready to take advantage of these changes?

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by Chris-777

My member base is a bunch of bloodthirsty, satan worshipping headbangers so they're mostly broke anyway.

lol same goes for me also

[popowich]

Originally Posted by Princeton

What's your perception on the impact that the current economic woes will have on YOUR board?

It gives members one more thing to post about.

-Raymond

[iogames]

here some numbers

Google shrugged off the global economy's current spasms, as its third quarter revenues rose over 30 percent year-over-year. Revenues may be tailing off, as this represented only a four percent quarterly growth, but the company has managed to keep its costs stable, and its executives are voicing a bit of cautious optimism that economic hard times may make many of its services more appealing. The market seems to agree, as the stock picked up $30 a share (nearly 8 percent) in after-hours trading.

Full Story:

[Gio~Logist]

Yep, I think the Internet is one of industries benefiting from the current situation if anything, in some ways of course.

[iogames]

CNN Today:

A choppy session on Wall Street -- appropriately ending a turbulent week -- ended with stocks declining today, as ongoing recession fears vied with Google's higher-than-expected earnings and bullish comments from Warren Buffett. Stocks managed to end with gains for the five-session period,

[merk_aus]

My board is suffering - not due to loss of advertising, donations, merchandise - the fact that I live in Australia and websites do not offer an Australian Dollar price its all US Dollar some of the pro addons etc that I wanted/needed for my website have now become unaffordable as
the US Dollar is kinda like 62c, so for every dollar I pay I am losing out on 40c doesnt sound like much but when things are $180 or so your looking at nearly $240AUD.

It have almost brought a stop to the development of my website as affording to buy pro addons is almost unastainable, or even paying for custom work to be done gets too far out of hand - so one thing I am trying to organise is getting custom work done (just basic stuff) and in return putting an advert on my website to the coders website and paying off amounts owing at like $20 - $50 at a time type thing just to cut down on costs with the current market.

As long as we keep our jobs, we could survive the situation.

[Zachariah]

I pay for hosting every 2 years, let you know after our 3% sales tax raise here in CA kicks in.
- 10.25% Ya !