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Originally Posted by AsylumN
Don't kid yourself, Lens makes more than enough through advertisers, he doesnt need to charge $5 a month. Also, keep in mind that the reason GFY is a phenominon (sp) is because it has so many eyeballs. If he starts charging, there will be less users, and therefore, less advertising money.
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kid myself? LOL. the $5 is not to make Lens money... he can donate it to charity or use it for contests, perks, etc... the membership fee is to QUALIFY people to see if they are serious about this biz or not.
re: ad revenue
If someone is willing to pay $5 per month to be here and post, search, network, etc... then there's a high probability that person is serious... and a serious webmaster is WORTH 10X-100X more to advertisers then surfers, freeloaders or fly-by-night webmasters.
Even if Lens kept GFY the way it is and added a private VIP section for paid members to network, then he could charge advertisers a premium rate for that section and they'd pay it... for qualified targeted traffic.
If LENS ever wanted a popular adult surfer board he could create it in 1 day with his traffic/content... if he doesn't already have one. if he wants to maximize the "new" surfer traffic coming to GFY, then instead of re-routing GFY surfers directly to porn or shutting them out, find out how many want to learn more about getting into this business and allow those people to join a newbie board where he nurtures them and trains them only to promote his own affiliate programs in the beginning. There's going to be a small percentage of surfers that are entrepreneurs.
time will tell.