As you guys may or may not know, MuscleChemistry.com has been online since 1999. So we have been online for 12 to 13 years now making MuscleChemistry.com one of the first Bodybuilding forums ever to be online, and we are one of the oldest Bodybuilding forums online today as we have seen many many Sites like this come and go over the years. Many sites fell due to guys just opening up a site like this so they could get free gear and make money, while MuscleChemistry was started because we thought we could do it better then the others and cater to our members better then most.
So with all that being said, I wanted to ask what our members thought about MuscleChemistry.com asking for DONATIONS from our members. We have always been a FREE Site and we will always remain to be a FREE Site to the masses.
I will explain what the DONATIONS would be for, and I will explain what each member who DONATES would get in return for their DONATIONS.
DONATIONS would be to Help MuscleChemistry Sponsor More Athletes Every Year. As it is now we Sponsor About 5 Athletes per year, and we have done this for the past 8-9 years. And we do this out of our own pocket every year using the proceeds from our store and from our advertisers.
I would like for MuscleChemistry.com to be able to sponsor 5 more athletes each year. We pay each Sponsored Athlete $250-$500 cash per show depending on the athlete and what show they are doing and how much exposure we will get from said show. We also send our Sponsored Athletes FREE Products from our store. And Send them Free shirts for them and their familys to wear at the show, and we also sometimes get our Sponsored Athletes Special Made Cloths to wear to the show with our name and logo on the cloths. So long story short is we spend about $500-1k$ per Sponsored Athlete each year.
What would be the benefit for members to Donate Money to MuscleChemistry. Well for one you get that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you know you helped someone else,lmao. Not enough I know,lol.
Well I was going to offer each person who Donates access to a new Lottery forum For members who donated to MuscleChemistry. This New Lottery forum would have a WEEKLY LOTTERY with NO LESS then $250 in prizes each and every week from all of our different Sponsors. So one week would be $250 Sponsored by MCAS, or Cyber-Suppz, or from UncleZ, or from, Alin, or from Biogen ect....
And as you know our lottery system is set up so their is a Lottery winner each and every week. And I was going to make it so each member who Donates a certain amount of money will get a certain number of picks to play in each weeks lottery.
example
$50 allows you to choose 1 set of numbers to play in the New Lottery forum.
$100 Allows you to choose 2 sets of numbers to play in the lottery
$150 allows you to choose 3 sets of numbers to play in the lottery
$200 Allows you to choose 4 sets of numbers to play in the lottery
So something like this is my idea so that Those who DONATE would get a little something back and they would also make their money back with winning the lotterys as im sure their will not be alot of others to compete with as it will be a lottery forum for only those who donated!
Donaters would also get something under your name stating your a donater, and we may also offer all who donate a certain % off of store orders for the year.
And we may also grant access to our private forums for those who donate.
ANyhow thats about it.
I am just trying to figure out a way to help Sponsor More Athletes while at the same time make it worth it for the people DONATING.
GOOD IDEA OR BAD IDEA?
So with all that being said, I wanted to ask what our members thought about MuscleChemistry.com asking for DONATIONS from our members. We have always been a FREE Site and we will always remain to be a FREE Site to the masses.
I will explain what the DONATIONS would be for, and I will explain what each member who DONATES would get in return for their DONATIONS.
DONATIONS would be to Help MuscleChemistry Sponsor More Athletes Every Year. As it is now we Sponsor About 5 Athletes per year, and we have done this for the past 8-9 years. And we do this out of our own pocket every year using the proceeds from our store and from our advertisers.
I would like for MuscleChemistry.com to be able to sponsor 5 more athletes each year. We pay each Sponsored Athlete $250-$500 cash per show depending on the athlete and what show they are doing and how much exposure we will get from said show. We also send our Sponsored Athletes FREE Products from our store. And Send them Free shirts for them and their familys to wear at the show, and we also sometimes get our Sponsored Athletes Special Made Cloths to wear to the show with our name and logo on the cloths. So long story short is we spend about $500-1k$ per Sponsored Athlete each year.
What would be the benefit for members to Donate Money to MuscleChemistry. Well for one you get that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you know you helped someone else,lmao. Not enough I know,lol.
Well I was going to offer each person who Donates access to a new Lottery forum For members who donated to MuscleChemistry. This New Lottery forum would have a WEEKLY LOTTERY with NO LESS then $250 in prizes each and every week from all of our different Sponsors. So one week would be $250 Sponsored by MCAS, or Cyber-Suppz, or from UncleZ, or from, Alin, or from Biogen ect....
And as you know our lottery system is set up so their is a Lottery winner each and every week. And I was going to make it so each member who Donates a certain amount of money will get a certain number of picks to play in each weeks lottery.
example
$50 allows you to choose 1 set of numbers to play in the New Lottery forum.
$100 Allows you to choose 2 sets of numbers to play in the lottery
$150 allows you to choose 3 sets of numbers to play in the lottery
$200 Allows you to choose 4 sets of numbers to play in the lottery
So something like this is my idea so that Those who DONATE would get a little something back and they would also make their money back with winning the lotterys as im sure their will not be alot of others to compete with as it will be a lottery forum for only those who donated!
Donaters would also get something under your name stating your a donater, and we may also offer all who donate a certain % off of store orders for the year.
And we may also grant access to our private forums for those who donate.
ANyhow thats about it.
I am just trying to figure out a way to help Sponsor More Athletes while at the same time make it worth it for the people DONATING.
GOOD IDEA OR BAD IDEA?