OH Great! I got Jeff in one ear.. 'Don't take those TX's apart' and JPEE in the other 'HEY LOOK IT! BACKLIT TX'S!'... Thanks a lot, you two!
*Sigh*... I am tempted to try it again, though... But oh those ribbon cables are such a pain... Must leave it alone for now. I will try again when I find a used broken DX-7 on the buy/sell/trades.
Well Jeff, as far as the google ads and what not... It was never my intent to have any click-through links or advertisements on the site. The primary reason being is that it annoys me when I see it on a site, so I don't want to do that to mine. The money I put into the equipment, both video hardware and software, as well as the r/c equipment will never be recouped... but that's okay, I do it to keep me busy when work doesn't, and maybe it will help someone. (and by comments and emails, it has, which is *really* nice to hear)
So, I'm one of those long time web developers that is still bitter about the first days of banner ads, and how everybody wanted them on their site, it was the next big thing. It got under my skin big time.
The only two options I've even considered for developing any type of recouping funds (let's not even say the word profit
) is to do two things:
Perhaps have some sort of affiliate link related to a specific product I'm reviewing, fixing, whatever and the site(s) that sell the product. It's not a banner ad, it's more of a kickback thing from the link on my site to go to their site. But I'm not really considering it at the moment because it's such a small site, and with 100 hits a day it's not going to drive it.
The other option which I may look at doing at some point is to take the articles/videos and put them on DVD and/or Blu-Ray and sell them as a package. That way they're free on the website/youtube/video, but if you want to put a few bucks down to get a disc of higher quality versions, there ya go.
That's really about it... Haven't given a lot of thought to how I can recoup any funds or make money with it. It's still so young and I have so much content to produce or recapitulate!