Hey Mike, Thanks for the suggestions and sentiments. We've been thinking long and hard over the last few months about the best way to raise revenue to pay the bills while ensuring that the basic principles remain the same. I've talked to people who have tried the donation jar idea and it's been a total failure - though the guys and girls who hang out here are certainly a closer knit (and more sharing) community than many others. Linking to Amazon is a possibility too, but often the returns on the amount of effort - and advertising - needed to generate enough interest and produce sufficient sales is simply not worth the time it takes, and the annoyance factor to the readers. I would much rather work with a company that has a cool product and promote them on their merits, bringing them into the CodeProject community as a sponsor and helping them and those looking to use their products rather than give away thousands of dollars of potential advertising in the hopes of gaining a few hundred in cut. Our advertising is more on forming close relationships with talented companies than just hiring out space to anyone. That's not to say we haven't, and won't, look at further reselling ops (like the VS.NET package we currently have) but many of the 'sell on your site and get a percentage' schemes just aren't that appealing when you do the numbers. cheers, Chris Maunder
