Pet site owners/Future Owners?

[TheTeen]

Would you ever have your site sponsered if it got big enough with hopes of it getting bigger?

[Kamalli]

I will probably never own one just because I can't afford it. But I wouldn't have it sponsered, sites that aren't do perfectly well if not better than those who are.

[cpvr]

Sponsored by who exactly? By big companies and the like? Depends on their price and what they're talking about.

[dashundpuppy3]

same here

[Unlimited Lumpia]

Eh. If I one day make a virtual pet site, it'd be for fun not profit.. If you run a pet site with the sole purpose of making money, it isn't worth starting one in the first place.

The worst I'd do is probably throw in a Google ad down on the bottom of the page. Besides, if a pet site were to get so popular that big companies became started taking notice, the site may well generate enough income from ads to keep itself afloat without the need to sell out.

[Viral]

Define sponsorship.

If you mean a major corporate takeover, I highly doubt it. The Lodithia site will be very close to the Regnum Resurrection series. If you mean they give us money in exchange for some flash games made about their corporation, banner ads, etc, then I suppose it would be based on examination of the company (is it legit? a respectful product?).

[TheTeen]

Like being sponsered like neo did.:P

[Lunarflight]

Like Neopets? I highly doubt I ever would unless I really needed the money. Pretty badly. And if I were doing well enough that some large company was interested, I doubt I'd need money that desperately.

But then, I don't think the point of a pet site is the owners making money off of it. The biggest problem I see with Neo is that it's just geared towards making money. Money first, people's happiness second, because unhappy people don't pay. But that's just how big businesses function, which is why I don't think I could sell my petsite to that kind of sponsorship.

[FuRom]

Well, I don't intend to sell my pet site once I complete it. It'll be too innovative. It'll take 500 million dollars (USD) to make me sell my creations + another 300 million dollars (USD) on top of that to be split between everyone else that helped create it xD Which, quite frankly, I don't see happening ever. I intend to only do advertisements and premium memberships to make money off the site. The users will come before the advertisers as well! I refuse to let 3rd parties slap harmful or annoying javascript advertisements on my baby!

[cpvr]

Like being sponsered like neo did.:P
...You mean selling out? :)

[OwlManAtt]

...You mean selling out? :)Would you have preferred them to simply close down?

I don't quite understand why everyone thinks what they did was so terrible. Yeah, they have a lot of ads. It's annoying. But I presume that they're paying for a rack or three from Level 3 (or someone similar), all kinds of bandwidth, support fees to Oracle (it's not cheap...), and salary/benefits for a few sysadmins, programmers, artists, moderators, lawyers, and bean counters.

How, precisely, do you propose on paying all of those bills with one Google AdSense box...?

[Ole]

They make money off merchandising too; Ps2 games, movies, mcdonalds, game sponsers etc.

I'd defo allow a sponser to sponser my site.

[Patrick]

Well, I don't intend to sell my pet site once I complete it. It'll be too innovative. It'll take 500 million dollars (USD) to make me sell my creations + another 300 million dollars (USD) on top of that to be split between everyone else that helped create it xD Which, quite frankly, I don't see happening ever. I intend to only do advertisements and premium memberships to make money off the site. The users will come before the advertisers as well!
You can honestly say that if you were offered a million for your site as soon as you opened it you wouldn't take that? Even 100,000.

[cpvr]

Would you have preferred them to simply close down?

I don't quite understand why everyone thinks what they did was so terrible. Yeah, they have a lot of ads. It's annoying. But I presume that they're paying for a rack or three from Level 3 (or someone similar), all kinds of bandwidth, support fees to Oracle (it's not cheap...), and salary/benefits for a few sysadmins, programmers, artists, moderators, lawyers, and bean counters.

How, precisely, do you propose on paying all of those bills with one Google AdSense box...?
I never said it was a paid thing. I know how much websites cost once they get large. They still sold out (you have to admit that).

[stuffradio]

Well, if I ever owned one... and I or the site was suffering from each other, and this other big company came and offered large sum of money... and I knew it'd make the site better... I'd probably sell it

[TheTeen]

...You mean selling out? :)


lol...cpvr. Well could it possibly be done where it isn't quite a sell out?

[FuRom]

You can honestly say that if you were offered a million for your site as soon as you opened it you wouldn't take that? Even 100,000.

Actually, I can say that. I really don't need money to be happy, and therefore it'll take an outrageous amount to take away what I want along with extra on top of that outrageous amount for the people that helped/help me make what I want. If I just wanted a quick 100k, I'd sell some antiques that my mom left behind. What I'm working on will be worth way more than 100k because it's gunna be very good and I'm sure lots of people will like it. In general, I refuse to sell out. I don't take well to having obligations to media and marketing industries.

[cpvr]

lol...cpvr. Well could it possibly be done where it isn't quite a sell out?Yes - just selling direct advertising and not giving up ownership to the sponsors = selling your percentage of your own website to the sponsor.