[Groop]groo flash cartoon + Groo e-commerce?

[Josh 'Evening O' Jones]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Mark Evanier wrote:

> ME: I maintain my site on my own, though with the occasional technical
> question to friends, including Josh Jones.

<blush>Aw shucks, 'tis nothing!</blush> Actually you remind me of my
uncle.. he hosts grantbooks.com with us (although I make *him* pay!) and
about the only time he ever calls me is when he wants to do something with
his site. But that's okay, I hear from him a lot more now that he's
hosting with us..

> 
> I appreciate all that you and others are posting here but I am
> extremely skeptical that there's any way to make money by putting Groo
> on the Internet, or that the promotional value would be worth the cost
> and effort.  I'm willing to be proven wrong but I'm real skeptical.
> 

I made a little money off groo selling email aliases @groo.com actually
(enough to cover the domain at least). So technically there is a LITTLE
money. Heck, people were willing to pay $12/year to have an
address @groo.com, maybe they'd be willing to pay thrice that for
unlimited access to every groo comic there ever was or will be from any
computer (or wap phone, hah!) in the world!

But yeah I don't think the promotional value would be that great in terms
of drumming up interest in purchasing the real comic. There's already a
dozen or so groo fan sites on the web, and I'm pretty sure their effect on
sales has been negligible.

Anyway, I'm willing to try and prove Mark wrong! I just need about six
months. And when the time comes, some content! Mark? Sergio? Nate? Heck,
MAD Magazine (thanks, Tennille) could put up all their back issues and
maybe they'd make enough extra money to stave off advertising for a little
while longer. Or if they finally can't afford to keep publishing, maybe
someday they'll switch to an entirely on-line format and keep it alive
that way.

I guess enough boring everybody with this stuff!

good night!
josh!