Bollocks to $50 when you're running a business - you WANT the people to stay on your site so give them a reason ....
Rick does that by being so useful and coming across as a real friendly guy that knows what he's doing...
An opinion is an opinion... I just took down my Google ads which also resulted in an extra $50 bux a month... That was on my blog section of my site..
I do want people to stay on my site... and they do... They even fill my little form down there which allows me to get their business.. and I do.. I have to turn down some for dates which I am already booked... Dec 31st I turned down 5 events, 2 of which would have paid my new year's fee... March 20th, and 27th I've turned down 10 events combined... I am just putting some facts which contradict your opinions...
on putting ads on a site..
Like I said it's an opinion and an assumption that you are more than welcomed to share... It's a wrong assumption to say that people do not stay on your site for running ads on your site... LOL that's pretty stupid, that's my opinion on that...
Let me put it to you this way... Montly Hosting = approx 10 dollars a month... yearly Website renewals.. = 320 a year.. 320 + 120 = 440... all automatically drafted from my paypal account.. Text Link Ads = $600 a year... all automatically deposited to the same paypal account... All that paypal account does is receive money from advertising and automatically draft payments for hosting and domain names... Who does not like being paid to have a site and being paid to host a website...
Besides...
What part of running a business says.. You cannot make money from advertising on your stie??? That's one thing I've never understood... I am comfortable with my ads on my site... the ONLY people who look down at them are the people who are not even my customers... EG other DJ's, other wedding vendros, etc... Does not bother me at all nor does it affect my bottom line..
would you tell ODJT.. yer running a forum... bullocks with thos ads??? I don't care why they advertise, i get value out of this site and if they want to advertise, so be it, to each his own...
I agree Rick is a stand up guy who comes off as useful and knows what he's doing, I've never contended that... and I've even asked him for help on a software related thread on here...
The PR comment about buying from a PR4 over a PR0 was not directed towards rick if that's what you took it as, and I can understand why you would take it like that so I do want to clear that up...
I was thinking more along the lines of, I recently bought a Nikon DSLR online and I researched and researched and 2 sites had the camera for approximately the same price.. one was a PR4 site, the other a PR0 site... so now you know which one I bought from...
