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Just secured a 2 day per month contract at £500 per day.
Which is just enough of a basic contract to ensure the viability of everything going forward, and to not consume my time or distract me too much from the underlying hard work.
My cap of 4-5 days per month to third party contracting is now halved because of it... but long term security of the company is becoming more secure.
Also... on money, donations used to average a couple of hundred per month, but in the last 2 months have almost doubled. This has partly been due to this thread, but also due to two very kind people who donated £100 a piece this month and last.
Donations are a weird thing... I've got to make sense of them at some point. Now I'm a company, donors are effectively customers, and it doesn't work so well to say that this is for a service already rendered via provision of the site. But the problem is that to formalise this into an exchange would change the structure significantly... should I force everyone to pay? Or should I stop donations altogether? I will spend time thinking about this.
Unfortunately becoming a company might put an end to the whole concept of "pay what you want, according to your means and the value you got out of it", which is a shame as I think that's the most decent thing to do.
I want to find the equivalent charging model as a "Pay what you want" restaurant. It may be as simple as just changing the terminology I use from donations to online content sales, you pay for content already consumed, the value you felt it was worth to you.
Affiliate revenue continues to be what really sustains the company and myself, though now I'm drawing a wage it wouldn't be possible without all of the side pieces of work I've done that beings in an equal amount of revenue.
That's the dull money post.