Heroes Wiki talk:Advertising

Excess Revenue Suggestions

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Future hardware upgrades

• My opinion is that a good portion of the money should be kept in an interest bearing account for investment into the hardware that runs the site. I don't know how much it's costing you, but your stat said 2GB of data in a single day... Also keep in mind that there are tax implications if the income grows to a significant level, you may want to LLC and run the site as a business, so hardware becomes a business expense and portions can be written off on your taxes. --Orne 12:07, 6 December 2006 (EST)
  • The site is technically being run by the web hosting company I own which is an LLC already, so we're ok here. If we continue to grow beyond the free capacity we currently have then I'd have to dedicate some of the money (once again, assuming net profit) towards expansion... but we're ok for now.

Donation to a Charity

• I believe that Greg Grunberg of Heroes has some affiliations to a charity due to his daughter's illness, perhaps that would be a good source of excess collections? --Orne 12:07, 6 December 2006 (EST)
  • I think that's a great idea. It would be great if ad revenue would give us enough to handle growth expenses as well as be able to donate some money to the cause! (Admin 12:15, 6 December 2006 (EST))
  • I like this idea, too.--Hardvice (talk) 12:44, 6 December 2006 (EST)
  • Agreed. - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 12:49, 6 December 2006 (EST)
  • I, too, am seeing this as the best option so far. Perhaps there's a charity devoted to inheritable ilnesses? Might as well be a little thematic. --Ted C 12:51, 6 December 2006 (EST)

Prizes

• Maybe a random drawing to draw in viewship at some point? --Orne 12:07, 6 December 2006 (EST)

Participant Kickbacks

• Personally, I'm not too keen on this. My financial situation is ok, but I have no problem if some of the other folks would want this. --Orne 12:07, 6 December 2006 (EST)
  • I agree. Plus, more contributions does not necessarily mean better contributions. I'd much rather see the excess donated to a Heroes-related charity—which also might help our reputation, if any, with the creators and NBC when we make it on to their radar.--Hardvice (talk) 12:46, 6 December 2006 (EST)
    • Ok, cool. Yeah, my original idea wasn't to base it on quantity but on more subjective criteria to determine who had made the most useful contributions. The more I thought about it the less of a good idea it sounded, though. I still wanted to toss it out there plus I wanted to emphasize that I don't want to keep any proceeds myself. I really like the charity idea. (Admin 12:50, 6 December 2006 (EST))
  • I'm a big believer that this needs to be primarily volunteer, for a number of reasons I won't go into. I just think contributions can be spent better. - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 12:51, 6 December 2006 (EST)

The advertising itself

• So based on the conversation so far I get the impression that people don't have a problem with the idea of adding advertising to the site in of itself. Is this correct? (Admin 12:54, 6 December 2006 (EST))
  • As long as they're not flashy and annoying, I have no problem. ---- 12:56, 6 December 2006 (EST)
  • Yes, correct assumption. A little advertising is, of course, necessary. I would suggest keeping it to a necessary minimum - the pages should still look clean and neat. I love Lostpedia, but one of my criticisms is all the blinking and flashing and extra junk that takes away from the site. - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 12:56, 6 December 2006 (EST)
  • You should also beware that many kinds of advertising currently used can execute spyware (among other nasty things) - one of the biggest reasons why I no longer goto any sites connected to Yahoo.com. - Yoshie 12:59, 6 December 2006 (EST)
  • As long as it isn't intrusive, no problem. --Ted C 13:12, 6 December 2006 (EST)
• They will only be Google ads which are generally low-key and don't really provide any method for automatically installing spyware on those using, shall we say, less secure web browsers. ;) (Admin 13:04, 6 December 2006 (EST))
  • Fantastic...Bring it! - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 13:50, 6 December 2006 (EST)
    • I'm using IE6 here, and the bottom banner ad is being centered on the page, not in the article space... --Orne 16:45, 6 December 2006 (EST)

      

      • I'll grab a Windows XP machine and check it out. Anyone else seeing the same thing? (Admin 16:54, 6 December 2006 (EST))
        • I see it, too. --Ted C 17:08, 6 December 2006 (EST)
        • Yeah, I can see it using IE, too. I'll fix it. Thanks. (Admin 17:09, 6 December 2006 (EST))
        • Ok, should be fixed now. You may need to Ctrl-Refresh or Shift-Refresh or whichever one forces a refresh in IE in order to get the change. I tested it out in IE and Firefox and so far it looks good. (Admin 17:29, 6 December 2006 (EST))
    • Also, is there a way you can get Comic Books added to the advertising spin? I have a good feeling there would be good cross-polination there. --Orne 16:45, 6 December 2006 (EST)
      • I dont have too much control over the content, but because of the close relation between Heroes and comic books I think we'll naturally end up with some comic ads here. (Admin 16:54, 6 December 2006 (EST))