02-08-2010, 06:38 PM
I wanted to toss this idea out and see if it might be useful. I've been studying some marketing material and I think this business model might work really well here.
For the audio sessions:
Clean up and encode one session a week, starting with Ra session 1 and moving forward.
Ask Carla and Jim, if he's interested, to give a five minute introduction to the session, and a ten minute wrap-up to the session. In these talks, explain a little bit more about the content covered in the session and the circumstances at the time. Highlight a couple of distinctions that people might not catch at first, or that have been frequently asked about the session. If the question is carried over from the previous session, give a little summary reminding people of the context. The tone of book V's explanations would be perfect for this.
Make these available as a subscription service. Each subscriber always starts with session 1 and always gets the next session in series every week. (An autoresponder service such as aWeber can handle the technical logistics of this.)
The session is delivered by email, in the form of a link to a specially coded file on the site with a random path and file name. For example, session 1 might be bring4th.org/dfd79879/jejfjef.mp3 while session 2 might be bring4th.org/379d97d7/f9urjkf.mp3. The email includes the link to that week's new session and subscribers would be on their honor to keep the links confidential. If the original session and the commentary is separate, then it would be f9urjkf.html which includes links to the introduction, the original session, and the concluding commentary, as three different mp3 files.
There would only be a need to stay one week ahead of the earliest subscriber. This means loading up the first couple of sessions, and then processing the others as it's convenient given time and health constraints, etc. Each month, there would only be a need for four more sessions to get processed and uploaded into the subscription system. And that can happen any time at all in the month to ensure subscribers get the next month's content without interruption. No need to scramble to get a huge inventory built up before sales can begin.
Charge a $10/month automatically recurring subscription through Paypal.
In about two years, subscribers would receive the entire Ra material with the commentaries. At that point, they could stay on, if they like, for whatever other material was added next. Periodically include an email asking subscribers to go to a special web page with a survey form asking what they would most like to receive after the Ra series.
Subscribers who stay on for the whole two years would wind up paying a total of almost $250, in easily affordable monthly installments, for a massive library of spiritual guidance and philosophy in audio format. Just a few hundred subscribers could entirely pay for all the costs of the venture, for physical upgrades to the LLR location, and for whatever helps and blesses Carla and Jim in their journeys.
For the audio sessions:
Clean up and encode one session a week, starting with Ra session 1 and moving forward.
Ask Carla and Jim, if he's interested, to give a five minute introduction to the session, and a ten minute wrap-up to the session. In these talks, explain a little bit more about the content covered in the session and the circumstances at the time. Highlight a couple of distinctions that people might not catch at first, or that have been frequently asked about the session. If the question is carried over from the previous session, give a little summary reminding people of the context. The tone of book V's explanations would be perfect for this.
Make these available as a subscription service. Each subscriber always starts with session 1 and always gets the next session in series every week. (An autoresponder service such as aWeber can handle the technical logistics of this.)
The session is delivered by email, in the form of a link to a specially coded file on the site with a random path and file name. For example, session 1 might be bring4th.org/dfd79879/jejfjef.mp3 while session 2 might be bring4th.org/379d97d7/f9urjkf.mp3. The email includes the link to that week's new session and subscribers would be on their honor to keep the links confidential. If the original session and the commentary is separate, then it would be f9urjkf.html which includes links to the introduction, the original session, and the concluding commentary, as three different mp3 files.
There would only be a need to stay one week ahead of the earliest subscriber. This means loading up the first couple of sessions, and then processing the others as it's convenient given time and health constraints, etc. Each month, there would only be a need for four more sessions to get processed and uploaded into the subscription system. And that can happen any time at all in the month to ensure subscribers get the next month's content without interruption. No need to scramble to get a huge inventory built up before sales can begin.
Charge a $10/month automatically recurring subscription through Paypal.
In about two years, subscribers would receive the entire Ra material with the commentaries. At that point, they could stay on, if they like, for whatever other material was added next. Periodically include an email asking subscribers to go to a special web page with a survey form asking what they would most like to receive after the Ra series.
Subscribers who stay on for the whole two years would wind up paying a total of almost $250, in easily affordable monthly installments, for a massive library of spiritual guidance and philosophy in audio format. Just a few hundred subscribers could entirely pay for all the costs of the venture, for physical upgrades to the LLR location, and for whatever helps and blesses Carla and Jim in their journeys.