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immamac

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  1. Yeah the NIL programs are August to August and I do tax reporting January to January. The loss is mostly due to having to pay out their contracts front heavy not that it’s bleeding to death. The shortfall total is around 5k for this year for burnt ends which is easily made up for with ad revenue. I very publicly switched off ads for a while then went to a new partner who significantly reduced the ads but revenue went up. These ad networks are on net 60 pay timetables and there was a breakup fee for the one I turned off. All of these things landing before January 1 are what fuck things up on the balance sheet for the year, but they don’t make the site in the red. I have always run it to as close to 0 as possible, the tailgates are really what threw things into the red this year and that’s like you said an easily solvable problem. The NIL funds don’t need to be escrowed lol I run P&L for shit way bigger than surly this is a cakewalk. Also it shouldn’t be its own corporate entity because the quid pro quo is advertising surly. The whole thing is very intentional and on purpose it’s just my tax year being calendar aligned that’s fucking this up. I will likely switch it up this year.
  2. General Information: Can I leave and come back once I have a wristband? Yes What is premium bar? Generally considered top shelf liquors and all draft, canned and bottled beer and a selection of wines. Food Menu for Mannings: FOOD DISPLAY ONE: Serve Time: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM Veggie platter Louisiana Meat pies FOOD DISPLAY TWO: Serve Time: 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM Fried chicken tenders with dipping sauce: buffalo, BBQ, honey mustard Traditional Creole chicken and andouille sausage jambalaya FOOD DISPLAY THREE: Serve Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Pulled pork with Hawaiian rolls, pickles, sauce Traditional Creole chicken and andouille sausage jambalaya Food Menu for Fulton Alley: Appetizers Selection LOADED BAKED POTATO TOTS GF bacon, cheddar, green onions, ranch SMOKED & FRIED CHICKEN WINGS DF GF choice of buffalo, bbq, thai chili or honey mustard SOUTHWEST EGG ROLLS shredded chicken, roasted corn, black beans, mozzarella Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya grilled chicken, andouille sausage Red Beans and Rice andouille sausage, bell pepper
  3. Correct and livestreams etc. the high velocity threads.
  4. I will bring back the discord to thread integration. Bidirectional. We will also tie in live casts with our voiceovers or something. It’ll be fun All chats and thread update in real time.
  5. This stadium seems weak. Does NRG not get any louder than this?
  6. The podcast is hard with wives and 2 young children each. By the time we are able to do it it’s usually so late that one of us is just exhausted or beat or already passed out.
  7. I’m using brevo with dedicated IP and a 100% trackable open rate. I don’t know why spam is picking it up.
  8. Generally speaking it’s this. A lot of it is “we don’t buy ads directly anymore talk to our ad network” and then that ad network wants to buy shit at stupid dumpster rates that make no sense. The sponsors all have significant ROI from the site it’s not hard to get a return if you are a business that offers a service or a good product here as the user base is extremely loyal. Like straight up it’s kinda weird that we don’t have a law firm sponsor for all legal needs as weird as that would be it would kill it here.
  9. Yeah we don't need the 9.95er analysis necessarily but who they are, what they've done and why it's a good thing would be EXTREMELY valuable for those threads vs their recruitment tweet and a bunch of titty gifs.
  10. there are more than 2000 unique posters in CR - this is false. I think you are just pissed off about politics which is fine.
  11. The issue is if you take it away all of that goes into all the other threads.
  12. Daily texan and Cloak Room are basically shitholes now because the topics related to both of those things are shit. There isn’t any real news that’s not divisive in the cycle anymore.
  13. lol what the fuck are you talking about no one talks politics anywhere else we moderate it pretty hard.
  14. We are running real short on VIP tickets because we only ordered 450 wristbands and 375 are already sold and paid for.
  15. The discord thing is doable. I even built an integration for bidirectional sync.
  16. I don't really think that's true and computer science/semiconductor design in it's current state is actually proof of that. Sure for maybe some more of the hardcore sciences that require big expensive labs that are only available in academia, yes you are correct.
  17. This is such a strong post. This is the dilemma. I don't have a problem collapsing the boards down that are lightly trafficked and this seem due to happen.
  18. I hope my kids are smart enough to not even go to college. It seems like such a racket to the point where it feels like select sports vs rec league.
  19. I moved that discussion to the other thread in 9.95 for now for visibility. This is exactly right.
  20. I was actually thinking about this today. This is brilliant and very easily doable without really changing anything about the board or doing any development. Yeah - there's no way I'm doing ads for legacy members or treefiddy. If there was a way that wasn't overly manual to do a group with people who have 100 posts within the last year that would get you excluded from ads too. My thing is if you are a pure lurker with no account you see ads, but it shouldn't make the site unusable (that happened this past year and was fixed recently). I've told people this before, but if we had just 8 $750/mo sponsors we'd add even more NIL programs and probably have the Kill Squad done. The site isn't in danger or running at a loss in a fiscal year that is calendar aligned - if it's August to August aligned there isn't a shortfall. The danger is that if Surly shows a loss for more than 1 year it becomes a "hobby" instead of a "business" from the IRS perspective. If anything we just cut back Burnt Ends and the tailgates and call it a day.
  21. That's not really how it works and I am definitely "old" from their perspective, I have 12-16 years on these people.
  22. This is the problem, everyone is too busy on insta and tik tok to do any of that.
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