The Poultry Keeper

Sparklepeeps · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1955 Location: Cheshire

Nanny P... great idea! heres NannyP's link

Chicken Palace... Well I never, I've not heard of that phrase before!)

NannyP · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject:

Ooh, nice link Wink

stephen · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

(Both threads merged to avoid confusion)

Sparklepeeps · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1955 Location: Cheshire

OOOh, that was a shock! giggle

Knobby · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject:

Just out of curiosity..................

How much would it cost to keep the site running everymonth ?

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2588 Location: South Cumbria

I am a member on a forum initially set up to support our troops in the Gulf war we decided to keep it going and now all pay to keep it going only a few pounds each but only a handful who pay !

Sparklepeeps · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1955 Location: Cheshire

NannyP · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

Why, your newly aquired tecnical linkage of course Laughing

Clucky · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2187 Location: Shropshire

I think its a great idea

I belong to a rescue site for a breed of dog and they do this and they also raise funds for good causes by having photo comps and auctions on the forum too, items donated by members....its a great way to raise funds Very Happy

Sparklepeeps · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1955 Location: Cheshire

Loudmouth Schnook · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject:

like cool chicken stuff! Smile

mojo · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject:

i think its cart before horse....lets ask Stephen and Nigel if they willaccept donations? if they say yes then we can do whatever we or our conceince dictates....if they so no thats the end of the matter...................so come on you two special folks .post your answer NOW

stephen · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:22 am Post subject: Response from Nigel and Stephen

This is a joint response from myself and Nigel:

First, we'd like to say that unless the wolf is really at the door (not very likely!) this will never become a subscription only site.

For the last two years we have just about broken even using Google and Amazon income only, and in our first year the surplus was donated to charity. Since last October ad revenues have dropped significantly. The amount we used to receive from Google alone was enough to pay for all the hosting costs. The Amazon income basically allowed us to advertise the website to bring in new members, as we appreciated that any forum needs new members!

From some of the posts in this thread we appreciate that some people are not in a position to use Amazon, etc and would instead prefer to make a small donation.

For anyone wishing to make a donation there will be a small discrete Paypal logo on the front page of the website. We will also re-introduce the "traffic lights" that we had in the early days of the forums to give an indication of how we're doing.

It was never our intention to take anything off our members, and certainly when I added the extra advertising I didn't think it would really get any attention, but we are greatly touched that there is concern about the websites.

George · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 5661 Location: London

Steph & Nigel

2 points,

on the paypal page it asks you to put in your "Poultry keepeper" name

When you are redirected it says you need to log in to view that page ?

stephen · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:36 am Post subject:

Ok, that name should now be fixed.

The second, I can't easily fix without breaking our farm shop. Sad