The World of Urusei Yatsura's Lum
Forum & Website => Suggestions => Topic started by: Urusei0Yatsura on October 04, 2009, 02:24:49 PM
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Have you been resisting advertising on this site as a way to fund the hosting and work that goes into it?
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What kinda question is that?!?
Yes, I really do wanna advertise, but I don't have any good ideas. I dont want to make it too corny. :D
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Well... that would be a good idea... but... besides google ads... what other company (or whatever) would be interested in paying to advertise in a website/forum about Lum? (and anime & manga related stuff)
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Well... that would be a good idea... but... besides google ads... what other company (or whatever) would be interested in paying to advertise in a website/forum about Lum? (and anime & manga related stuff)
Anime websites? I was only gonna advertise on YouTube, since I got a few subs there.
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Are we talking about the same thing? ;D
I'm presuming this post by Urusei0Yatsura was directed at Lum-cham... about getting "sponsors" for the website to pay some of the bills...
Well that's me... what about you? XD
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Are we talking about the same thing? ;D
I'm presuming this post by Urusei0Yatsura was directed at Lum-cham... about getting "sponsors" for the website to pay some of the bills...
Well that's me... what about you? XD
I was kinda responding to you more, because I didn't quite understand Urusei0Yatsura's question =P (Also guilty for not reading the first post before this post XD)
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You thought I was giving you tips about this...
Yes, I really do wanna advertise, but I don't have any good ideas. I dont want to make it too corny. :D
LoL
Don't worry...
Anyway my reaction to this topic was the same as you...
What kinda question is that?!?
Then I noticed this thing...
The World of Urusei Yatsura's Lum > Forum > Forum & Website > Suggestions > Question about advertising
and still took me 5 min... to understand what he was trying to ask or say... XD
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I think IGG would be interested since their games are Anime-based.
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Just be careful which companies you advertise,lumaholics,because several of them are full of bad stuff
If you do not believe me,just ask the guys of One Manga
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I already have thought of some kind of advertising but the main bad thing are those damned banners which would be all over the place slowing things down. Most of the time they use so-called Flashbanners, I hate those.
Nah, I stick to the donations portion and pay for the hosting myself...
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We gotta be honest, the donations aren't really working. :S
Hardly anyone donates...
How about we had some king of cross publicity?
We advertise another website and they advertise ours.
We could do this with some other anime forums dedicated to other animes, and this way we can find out about other specific-anime forum and they can become interested in ours.
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I wouldn't like advertising on this site, advertising makes any website look cheap.
I was wondering if it was a conscious decision to not have advertising or not.
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Advertising looks cheap?!?!?! What kind of websites are you visiting? Man, does Youtube look cheap?
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As long as the advertisements are anime/manga-related, they will surely blend in. ;)
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I was wondering if it was a conscious decision to not have advertising or not.
Yes, it was a conscious decision to not have any advertising at all. It kinda makes me feel connected to a 'sponsor' who eventually WILL decide what will going on on a website.
Since 1996 this website has been free of advertisements and as long as I maintain this great site it will be free of them.
I know the incoming donations aren't that much, but I really appreciate all donations which have been made in the past and in the future. As long as I ca afford it, it will stay online and I hope this will be forever or as long as there are Lum-a-holics visiting here ;)
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I feel the same way. "the Rumic World" (furinkan.com) has those ads that appear IN posts, and that's very very very VERY annoying.
"The Formula Vee interchange" (another bulletin board I'm on) has sponsors from within the Vee community which are banners at the top of the page. Not as bad, but ... there's another bbs nearby which is connected to a commercial enterprise (e-formula-car-news, affiliated with the now-defunct Formula Car magazine) which would LOVE to OWN us for PERSONAL PROFITEERING. The whole "Formula Car" bunch got into it to find a way to Make Money; not to serve the Formula Car Racing community but to LEECH from it. Despicable.
So saying, I'm very sensitive to the encroachment of commercial interests on something so pure as Our Love of UruseiYatsura.
Long Live Radio Free Lumchanistan!
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I was thinking... you could sell the email data bank... XD
It looks like a very profitable option... even if may not be legal... XD
Just don't sell mine. ;D