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Stoty wins... pm me your details (again lol) and ill add you to the list, you can pick up your tickets at the show!

the first person who can tell me when its on!! Please only reply if you plan on making it to the show.

Try http://www.getnorth.com

Were doing some updates as well... may be a glitch here and there.

Monitization, is the use of different tactics to make revenue from a website.

I honestly don't think its ever going to come to the point where we will be asking for $$ At this point we are waiting to see what the bill is gonna be for the upgrades and then we are going to make some "monitization" decisions, depending on what we need to do to cover the increased costs. None of the mods are here to make any real $$ doing this, so as long as we can cover our costs and a bit left over we are fine, which is the way its always been. I think were going to have to do a couple of things though. #1 We are going to have to put another bank of google ads at the bottom of the pages. Because some google advertisers pay by the impression, this will help us out. #2 I am going to have to go after some more banner sales, I mean its only $100 per year to be up there so another couple of dozen advertisers shouldn't be too hard to get. #3 We may put up a "Guides Showcase" where for an annual fee Guides and Charters can post pictures of their trips and catches. This would be great for a charters business. AS a VERY last resort we may put up a PayPal "donation" button, but only as a very last resort. I am of the opinion that this would give a false sense of "entitlement" to donators, and create hard feelings along the way. In any event none of this is critical, were gonna find out what the bill is gonna be and go from there. One thing everyone can do to help however is turn thier ad blockers off so the google ads can function the way they are supposed to. Hey thats post 6,750!!

Grade 6 for me.

Thank god... Bottom line... our bandwidth use was bringing other boards down on the server we were using. (Thats good, I guess...) So we had to be swithed to a different one with just us on it. To be honest, our host just pulled the plug, without letting anyone know, even after it was done. not good business practice as far as Im concerned. Any way were moved to our new home. Its gonna cost more, thats for sure, but at least we are back up and running.

Good to be back!

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...........

LOL.. ya... were back... if you dont think it was fun... be in MY shoes ...

Nice report!! Thank!!

Good on ya for letting it go.. what a beast!!

Happy BDAY!...

LOL... #1... I guess you wouldnt want to curl with me.. I yell at the other sheets....

Awesome report!

As always an awesome report!

Congrats!!

Try this... http://www.getnorth.ca/

Congrats... its a great feeling....

WOW Life size and everything!!!!

Now thats what Im looking for!!!

Did this site turn out like I wanted.. lol.. dunno.. like most of my business plans I have no idea where its gonna wind up. For sure I started the board for business reasons, it evolved from there, till it went way beyond business.. a couple of death threats to my family and some real nasty emails, and lawsuit threats pretty much convinced me that it went way beyond business. Ask any of the mods and there are at least a dozen times where I was on the verge of pulling the plug and saying it all not worth it. Sleepless nights, and more time spent on it during the day when I should have been looking after my business. Just before we went to this new format a couple of years ago, I had had enough and told the mods that I needed some help with the brunt of the abuse as I couldn't moderate anymore... I was sick of it, especially because of a business venture that barely, and I mean barely pays for itself. We had went to pro boards cause I was loosing money bandwidth wise. I was loosing money and getting abused for the privilege. The problem is that we had built this huge and REAL community... and like family its hard and I couldn't let it go. If there is any thanks to be given.. its to all our present mods, whom I have delegated the real job of Moderating, ModQing and Banning. I just don't have the heart to do that anymore. They do all the tough work. I get to run the contests and promote stuff and have the fun job. If theres any thanks to give its them that deserve it. "Real people, real everyday lives. Real everyday". Ya I d say. sometimes way too real. Anybody whos come out to the G2G's ands met me knows that what ya see is what ya get.... sometimes.. lol.. ya get too much!! but that's me. I have got to meet ALOT of people through this board, and think Ive become a good judge of character.. I've met some winners and some losers in my book.. Ive met some people who are way better than me, and some people I thought were not, and proved me wrong. - Just like family. I consider alot of the people I've met to be real friends now, not just acquaintances. I've had some people I thought were friends turn on me over nothing. If anything this board and all its been through has made me more aware of real human nature. I guess the best way to put it is that just like family, respect has to be earned over time, which is probably why some of the oldtimers get cut a break here now and then when they say something stupid... just like family, sometimes ya gotta cut the crazy drunk uncle some slack.. cause he took ya fishing when you were a kid. So to answer your actual question "Did this site turn out like what you wanted, or did it turn out to be a friendly place for friends to visit, chat and share." What I wanted was a business venture, what I got was family. So it turned out better than I ever could have imagined.... and this is like the longest response I have ever written. (PS What I really want is for someone to ask for my autograph in front of Dave Mercer... LOL)

My heart goes out to you, I lost my mother the same way.. time heals all.