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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rpghost" data-source="post: 1318893" data-attributes="member: 2834">I had a talk on our forums about doing a pay-for-exposure on the front page concept. Wasn't really well recieved. Anyway, GOLD VENDOR is meant for 2 people really. The first kind of person is a publisher with little resources to do much on their own in the way of managing their sales and customers or their marketing. GV lets publishers handle a lot of things that a bigger publisher might just do on their own. GV gives you a bit more exposure on the site when bigger publishers get more exposure on news sites by default.Still, the REAL reason for GOLD VENDOR is that 20% really isn't enough $ for our company to grow with. It's maybe enough to survive on these days with the larger volumes, but still, it's not a healthy margin if you poeople expect us to be around for the long haul. So instead of just upping the % for everyone, I did the thing that would cause least resistance. Started adding new cool features that cost more to use. Thus since 50% of our revenue is now generated by GV, that means our net margin is more like 22.5% which is a bit healther. Still it's not easy, which is probably why there hasn't been a lot of competition. I'm a programmer and self-employeed so I do a lot of the work and thus costs are very low. Any large company having to pay full time staff would have a hard time with these margins.A startup fee or monthly/annual fee is very hard for the upstarts to pay. It would undoubtably have caused many companies not to bother to try. But then again, with the glut of new products maybe we should make it a $19.95 manditor purchase of the e-publisher guide to join <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for the GTS... we plan to have RPGNow there in a big way hitting up a lot of the vendors. Regretfully, my new son and my new store are going to keep me from going there this year. But there will be staff there. We'll be using RPG Objects' booth as a home base to check in now and then.James</blockquote>

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