Rubber Bullets
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Hi,
A colleague and I are considering setting up a website related to radiography and radiography technique. This would be an educational site and of interest to student radiographers, qualified staff and some public, a fairly small demographic, though not limited to thsi country.
We do not see this as the next Friends Reunited, and are not intending to become dotcom millionaires, but it would be nice if the site could make enough money to pay it's own way.
Buying a domain and running a site are relatively cheap, as long as traffic is low, and I guess making money is easier if traffic is high. Our problem is that the images we would want to use may be expensive. I do not want to steal images from other sites, and so the costs of licenses may be prohibitive.
Is there anything that sites of this naturecan do to make money? I'm not keen on banner ads, though this may be the only way, but another thought I had was to make the images on the site reasonably small and low quality and to make larger hi res versions available to registered (and Paid) members. I have paid $20 or so to emedicine.com for exactly this privilidge, so it can work.
Are there any other ideas? Advice?
Thanks
RB
A colleague and I are considering setting up a website related to radiography and radiography technique. This would be an educational site and of interest to student radiographers, qualified staff and some public, a fairly small demographic, though not limited to thsi country.
We do not see this as the next Friends Reunited, and are not intending to become dotcom millionaires, but it would be nice if the site could make enough money to pay it's own way.
Buying a domain and running a site are relatively cheap, as long as traffic is low, and I guess making money is easier if traffic is high. Our problem is that the images we would want to use may be expensive. I do not want to steal images from other sites, and so the costs of licenses may be prohibitive.
Is there anything that sites of this naturecan do to make money? I'm not keen on banner ads, though this may be the only way, but another thought I had was to make the images on the site reasonably small and low quality and to make larger hi res versions available to registered (and Paid) members. I have paid $20 or so to emedicine.com for exactly this privilidge, so it can work.
Are there any other ideas? Advice?
Thanks
RB