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muphasta 
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Registration Date: 29-06-2004
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How about fund raising.....
- selling cookies from door to door.
- a big huge tombola.
- Bingo - night
- Or ... just concretize the idea of "the big DnB.be-party"
with the proper people with the proper connections , a few euro's could be gained too.
just some toughts, but i'll contribute too.
cheers
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muphasta none dnb
www.myspace.com/muphsugar
reggeadubwise.com
Roots-reggea-project: muphsteppa
muphsteppa@reggeadubwise
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12-02-2006 12:42 |
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chomp
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12-02-2006 12:44 |
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Friscko
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12-02-2006 12:47 |
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chomp
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12-02-2006 13:30 |
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chomp
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if not will I have a bank account number, that be enough to make an international transfer????
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12-02-2006 13:31 |
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can you not try and sell some advertising space to people? yes its shit browsing sites full of adverts but if thats what it takes to keep it running then fair enough......have you not tried selling space to some of the labels or other dnb websites? can you not sell it on the basis of the traffic you get? how about selling space to promotors wanting to advertise their nights?........ i could try and send some business your way if that was the case but as for me donating it aint gonna happen cause i can barely pay my rent. you could also look for a sponsor, any dnb.be members have any relations that might consider sponsoring the site for promotoional purposes???......and if you can get some financial backing then the merchandising and cds could perhaps follow, maybe a business plan and a meeting with a bank manager is not a bad idea. think big.............maybe im being naive. hope it gets sorted.
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12-02-2006 14:15 |
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Friscko
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12-02-2006 15:21 |
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thechronic
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Registration Date: 01-11-2002
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Yes well we tried all that haven't we?
- all t-shirt designs were crap + it is too expensive to mail them outside belgium. I also don't have the cash to get a design made and have them printed.
- the party thing was too complex to get organized, several attempts have been made but they never went through.
- i have the google ads as an income, but most site visitors ignore the ads completely. I got a click rate average of 0.5%. Other ad networks give you extremely annoying moving ads or popups and pay even less than google.
- sponsors? I got 0 response from 50+ mails sent. Then I tried the personal approach and spent several hours phoning and driving around to find a sponsor. I tried software houses (sequencers, plugins, ...), hardware manufacturers (yamaha etc), DJ shops, even energy drinks vendors etc. Nobody is interested. They don't see the point in spending 50 euro on advertising on a site which is completely targeted at their niche market, they rather spend thousands of euros on leaflets, magazine ads and trade shows. I gave up, public relation managers are complete idiots.
I'm willing to give the sponsor thing another shot, I mean we now have 5000+ members and 1500+ tracks on the site, they might be interested now. But I really need the new server up and running before I can do that, if they would notice that the site is down several times a week they will never be interested in sponsoring.
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If you find spam on the site, please hit the  button and select my name. I'll personally kick it to the murky depths of hell where it belongs!
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12-02-2006 17:18 |
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thechronic
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| quote: |
Originally posted by muphasta
How about fund raising.....
- selling cookies from door to door.
- a big huge tombola.
- Bingo - night |
The trouble is that all these activities require funds to start out with and a considerable amount of time, but thanks for the suggestions
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If you find spam on the site, please hit the button and select my name. I'll personally kick it to the murky depths of hell where it belongs!
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12-02-2006 17:22 |
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baz
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Originally posted by thechronic
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Originally posted by muphasta
How about fund raising.....
- selling cookies from door to door.
- a big huge tombola.
- Bingo - night |
The trouble is that all these activities require funds to start out with and a considerable amount of time, but thanks for the suggestions
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an what bout the party-thingy? 
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"shotgun ; slammin in yo chestpiece ; blaw"
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12-02-2006 17:37 |
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broadside
mentalist
Registration Date: 17-01-2005
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I should be able to donate a few quid, though nothing major cause Im just a student.
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12-02-2006 18:38 |
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@1$-)
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Originally posted by thechronic
Yes well we tried all that haven't we?
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er....i dunno, i dont pay that much attention. the party ideas a bit daft anyway because your always likely to lose money for a while before things get going.
dont you have any useful contacts fom your studio work? they might not directly have any use for the site but theres always someone who knows someone. have you thought about advertising for sponsors or adverts on other dance music forums? i know its kinda frowned upon but most of them have a spam section or something similar.
if you want any help in terms of contacting people or promotion online because you dont have the time let me know what you want done and ill do it, and im sure im not the only one willing to help. how many hits a month do you get?
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12-02-2006 18:41 |
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Surora23
Agressive Melodic Disorder
Registration Date: 05-07-2004
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damn this sucks...if i get some extra cash...id be glad to donate... the site has done many things for me...
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Rinse it OUT!!!! 
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13-02-2006 02:40 |
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DjSlut
Cool Producer
Registration Date: 27-08-2003
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Ouch.
I'll donate some money as soon as i can. Hopefully next week.
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VAS
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13-02-2006 03:54 |
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jemone
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Registration Date: 01-02-2006
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hi there,
the great thing about this site that i have noticed since been on here is the community feel, like a family, and in my opinion if we all get on top of this we can move mountains.
ive sent you a bit of money mate through paypal, aint alot times are tough belive me, but this site is definatly one of the things that gets me through.
all the best kid.
peace jemone,
pps the sooner we get a decent server the sooner i can make your ears bleed with my debut tune,lol
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14-02-2006 09:30 |
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Surya
The Robot
Registration Date: 04-11-2002
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Originally posted by Hypoxic
Quick everyone go and click on some google adds!!! |
Google puniches site owners if the visitors click the ads too much, so don't go clicking them like a madman!
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"In dnb you should make people jump not swim"
- Pieter Frenssen 2004
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14-02-2006 10:37 |
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Soi
Super Moderator
Registration Date: 29-01-2003
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i'm in, i'll see what i can miss, but i'm in 200%.
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a myspace
my tunes
"I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am.
It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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14-02-2006 11:56 |
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Yawn
Sponsor
Registration Date: 25-01-2005
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Ill send you over a donation later today. It wont be much coz im pretty skint at the mo but i'll do what I can to keep this site going.
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14-02-2006 12:41 |
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zzero
Tourist
Registration Date: 26-05-2003
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I honestly dont understand how u calculated the amount of money u need but isnt 1800 euro a bit much and maybe misscalculated? 
why do u wanna buy the server yourself and even buy licences for the hosting software ??
Renting a dedicated server is much cheaper and usualy backups are included in the service package or cost a few euro's more
eg: http://www.hetzner.de/rootserver.html
regarding the hosting software , there are even free opensource alternatives that are decent enough to use
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14-02-2006 13:26 |
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Bad NEWS.
