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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alaxk Knight of Galt" data-source="post: 4946511" data-attributes="member: 4129">I commend your efforts to turn your (probably full time) hobby into a successful business.  If you can pull it off, you'll be living the dream <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I'd recommend few thingsOffer a free month as a community supporterMMOs, WotC's DDI, and many other on-line subscriptions offer a free month to try things out before a user purchases a subscription.  When you are ready to launch ENWorld++, I'd offer that to encourage those who hesitate to purchase on-line subscriptions a chance to try it out.  I'd also spell out what an ENWorld++ member is getting over a normal user.Call for Community ContentI'm sure many of us who read Enworld would love a chance to produce material for enworld.  I'd issue an open call for submissions (quarterly perhaps), select the best items from those submissions, and offer them to the community at large (with a hefty discount for community supporters).  Move the Profit Making IconsI come here for the message boards and after a brief scan on the front page, click directly on the forum icon.  When your call to look at ENWorld for pdf purchases was made, I had to look around to find the ENWorld pdf section (at the far right of the icon bar).  I'd put that for-profit icon right next to the most popular icon you have <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Remove the request for donationsIf this is going to be a for-profit venture, I'd remove the request for donations.  Personally, I'd never donate to money to WotC, Blizzard, or Amazon (the companies where I spend the majority of my dollars for on-line services) and would consider it tacky if they asked for donations.  For profit businesses, in my mind, should live or die by their services and goods, not by the generosity of the consumer.Explore OGL SoftwareWe've seen on this very board the split between 3 and 4.  WotC provides a good set of tools for 4E (Compendium, Character Builder, etc).  There is no reason you couldn't do the same for 3.X content from OGL publishers and offer that as a benefit to Community Supporters.  It might be difficult to get WotC owned 3E material up (as they might see it as direct competition with DDI), but I'm willing to think an arrangement could be reach with companies like AEG and Green Ronin.Again, best of luck and I look forward to seeing where you take ENWorld.</blockquote>

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