BS: Mudcat - Profit (or Loss)?

Subject: BS: Mudcat - Profit (or Loss)?
From: voyager
Date: 19 May 06 - 05:59 PM

After watching the thread -

   Max's State of the Union

grow to over 500 responses (that BIG in Mudcat terms)
I found myself asking the simple question -

What's our Financial Model
   Non-Profit
   Not For Profit
   Profit (or Loss)?
   Generous Tax-Deductible Unregistered Charity
   Personal Entrepreneurial Model
   Other

Simply put -
   Let's add a Subscription Service/Charge Card/PayPal-like
   Credit Card front end to this CYBER MUSIC FORUM and make
   it a pay-as-you-like enterprise. Do any of us KNOW (or CARE)
   about the FINANCES behind running this Forum?

Don't know how many MudCatters ever encounter
    THE HUMAN JUKEBOX
    GRIMES POTZNIKOFF
    GHIRADELLI SQUARE
    SF, CA.

The man just to play on demand (a Trumpet Melody line) from
inside a CardBoard Refrigerator carton. 25 cents got you a tune.

So let's GROW UP (Financially Speaking) and MOVE BEYOND the
hapless SPARE CHANGE FUND DRIVE SOLICITATION model.

This FORUM deserves better than that.

Flames Off

voyager
'A Yearly Subscriber'

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - Profit (or Loss)?
From: Bobert
Date: 19 May 06 - 06:34 PM

Well, I kinda like the idea of nominal yearly dues but I also have been curious as to the "finances" of Mudcat...

I haven't been real deligent 'bout sending $$$ in the past... Maybe $50 over the last 5 years but if I knew how much it took to run the joint and it was comin' up short I would give more...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - Profit (or Loss)?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 May 06 - 06:38 PM

There is another thread, now closed, that addressed this very question.

Big Mick and Max are now working on the way forward and we expect to hear more in a day or two.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - Profit (or Loss)?
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 May 06 - 06:52 PM

Over the years we have talked about this a lot. THIS THREAD is the latest and asks for ideas which it gets as you can see.

Read Max's response in that thread. He has never wanted to do much beyond the emergency "Hey Rube" type of thing. I'd like to form a US version of the UK "Friends of Mudcat" and there are other excellent ideas, such as the the one SRS suggests which require a bit more from Max. He's had a lot of that from us before on incorporation and such but doesn't seem to want to go that route.

As far as accounting goes, Max has some figures based on recent stuff and I think they are in that thread at the beginning as well.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - Profit (or Loss)?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 May 06 - 04:42 AM

I Profit from the free access to Mudcat, it would be a great Loss to me if it disappeared.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - Profit (or Loss)?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 May 06 - 11:31 AM

Well put!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - Profit (or Loss)?
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 May 06 - 11:36 AM

"our" financial model????