With the recent change in our broadcast and all of the issues with being a legal internet broadcast I have decided to rethink these enhanced member accounts.
Live365 has something called a preferred membership and it does provide us with a small kicked back if you sign up for a preferred membership through the links on our mainpage. If you listen to Highlander Radio we even get a share of the monthly revenue from preferred membership (although it is like no more that a few cents a month per account). These can be saved and applied to our 2005 bill for next year.
It would not make sense and be very unfair to have to pay for an enhanced account, plus we were not going to charge that much for enhanced celticradio.net accounts, so the decision has been made that once we come out with enhanced accounts, anyone that has purchased a preferred membership account through live365 will be eligible for an enhanced member account.
You don't have to sign up for a preferred account! Live365 has free accounts that you can listen to Highlander Radio.
I just think if someone signs up for a live365 preferred account for $3.95 it will be kinda silly to have to pay for another account on CelticRadio.net. So we will just include it for anyone that signs up for a preferrred account.
I'd definately go for an enhanced account. Currently, I'm in a bit of a financial meat grinder but I'd find a way to scrape the money I'd need to jump in and if it goes to support the hands-down, all-time, best site on the net then it'd be well worth it!
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The price will be very inexpensive. I can't imagine it being more than $2.99 a month. It could be less if we get more members to sign up. Maybe as low as $1.50 a month. I'll be honest with you. My intention is not to profit from the enhanced member accounts. My goal would be to generate between $300-$500 a month to pay for a dedicated server and to pay for the bandwidth needed to stream.
Maybe someday I will open up a CD store or sell T-shirts, but my short term goals are to find a way to make this site pay for itself. Plus if we were on a dedicated server the pages and graphics would load super fast!!
It will take months to get everything together, but knowing which domain people want will help me decide how to configure it all.
The price sounds quite resonable for the fun we can have here.........a back rub would help, tho.
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I wholeheartedly support any enhancements to the site inclusive of an additional charges.....
We all come here for awesome conversation, great music, and fellowship....It distresses me when I hear folks "kvetching" about an extra few bucks to use a valuable and wonderful service that many people work extremely hard on each and every day.....We are talking about giving up a pack of smokes, a few slices of pizza, a beer, or maybe a caffe latté from "Starschmucks".......
What ever direction you deside to take this site, I believe that majority of the poeple that come here will follow, myself included.
I would be more than happy to scrape the money to help support this site. And as far as e-mail goes, true, e-mails are pennies a dozen, but I would prefer to support a place I fell passionate about. Changing person e-mail is easy enough to do (plus, you clean out junk and spam for a while ). I mean who am I to the likes of Hotmail, AOL, Lyco, or Yahoo. Yeah, thier free, but here we're family. Plus the bonus of sending e-mails to freinds and family, you show your support for this site.
Set up the e-mail, I will bring my piggy bank!
And I don't care if you charge mouthly or not. For thoses concerned about when they pay, just pay for all 12 months at one time, or 4, or 6, or 1.
Backrubs?? I'm next! I think that if it is that inexpensive then the majority of people would do it.
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What if part of the enhanced accounts you get more requests? I know, I request too much and too often, but I have no self control when it comes to listening to music. I would definitly sign up for an enhanced account for more requests!
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