Ways that We're Alive can make money.

[Kc]

(1) A Cafe Press merchandise store. Everything from T-shirts to coffee cups & mouse pads, customized with WA logos & artwork.

We had one on Zazzle, and it was a horrible experience. The % of profit made on every purchase is VERY low and the cost of the items is VERY high. We've seen a huge increase in orders manufacturing and shipping our own shirts and merchandise. We're working on new items too, phone cases etc...

(2) Forum & site ads. Project Wonderful is one of the better systems. Pays decently and gives the site admin control over what ads get displayed.

Nice! Something we can look into.

(3) Forum subscriptions/donations. Allows members to show their support and gets a few perks like larger inbox, turns ads off, and a fancy "subscriber" or "team member" badge.

Hadn't even thought of that!

(4) A tie-in book store to Amazon, using coded referrer links that credit the referring site with a percentage. In this case it could be links to members' favorite zombie/survival/whatever books/movies/dvd with members here supplying reviews and lists.

The other ideas are also great. I will forward them along. Part of the problem is we don't have a full time merchandising and marketing person. We spend most of our time producing Thanks for your input!

[Kc]

I think all the people behind We're Alive should just start whoring themselves out, big bucks there

I made We're Alive so I don't have to keep doing that any more!

[Wicked Sid]

And now I have an idea for a short story, "Kc Wayland's Hard and Rough times on the Hard streets of L.A."

AAANNNDD, Scene.

[StepLaugh]

I'm pretty sure Grayson could use more work XD

[StepLaugh]

Get ready guys, we are going to have custom titles, and custom tags to hand out for people who donate. Just to show off that you support WA. We should hopefully have it ready in a few days.

[nikvoodoo]

Mission Donation=Complete! Hope it helps!

[lectio]

Get ready guys, we are going to have custom titles, and custom tags to hand out for people who donate. Just to show off that you support WA. We should hopefully have it ready in a few days.

w00t!

I would love to see an ebay auction to 'tuckerize' a character - I'd bid on that.

[Teethingbiscuit]

Can it be set up so that the monies at the end of an ITunes card that will wind up at some random number under $.99 can be donated by any listener? It would allow nearly every listener to put forth pennies (hopefully again and again)

Knowing the rep of Apple this is probably not an easy task to pull off. That darn unusable end of the card!
Teeth's conspiracy

[SleepyGlenn]

Get ready guys, we are going to have custom titles, and custom tags to hand out for people who donate. Just to show off that you support WA. We should hopefully have it ready in a few days.

Ah Boo! I donated a fair amount a while back :-p I will have to donate again. As long as KC doesn't think I'm being a cheapskate this time if I donate just enough to get forum tags.

[Kc]

Ah Boo! I donated a fair amount a while back :-p I will have to donate again. As long as KC doesn't think I'm being a cheapskate this time if I donate just enough to get forum tags.

We'll be fair. I think Steph will be running the donations.