Posted by Cam W. on April 4, 2001, at 8:47:30
In reply to Re: membership fee idea, posted by Dr. Bob on April 3, 2001, at 1:37:31
Dr.Bob - I haven't been following this thread very much, but have you considered drug company money. To be fair, you could offer all drug companies an option of participating with links to their sites (ie for monographs, drug information, etc) and their sites have mutual links back to PB.
To fund a site like this would be a drop in the bucket to any drug company. To cover a year's operating costs would cost less than one conference. The participating drug company links could be placed at the bottom of each page.
In return, you could allow access (which they really already have) to post marketing information on their drug &/or competitors' drugs. Almost all of the information on this site is balanced, eventually and it would give their marketing boys a chance to use the info to tailor the marketing of their product (ie Wyeth-Ayerst could fashion an ad campaign to educate doctors about how to handle &/or prevent Effexor withdrawl symptoms).
Also, how much would membership cost. I do think that a membership fee may chase me away. With all the expenses I have been incurring lately (and the awful exchange on the Canadian dollar) I can barely "pay" attention, let alone pay to give information (passionate or otherwise)
:^)- Cam
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