The Parenting Toolbox is Open!
After a lot of deliberation, I have decided to cancel the membership portion of my ParentingToolbox.com web site. That was a hard decision to make but it came down to a couple of reasons:
1. The Economy
2. Helping Parents
The Economy
As everyone is all too aware, the economy is hurting families on many levels. Everyone is feeling the pinch and this includes me and my membership web site. Families don't have the discretionary money to pay for a membership even when I reduced the price. Logic would suggest I just shut the site down. I have chosen to be illogical. For why, see #2 below...
Helping Parents
The ParentingToolbox.com has been providing parents with online information and support for 10 years! That is a long time online. It started as a labor of love for me and the volunteers that help me run it. The only reason we went to online memberships was to provide enough income to pay the overhead. Ok, maybe my wife and I went out to dinner a couple of times but I never quite my day job :)
The downside of making the site membership-based was that it limited the number of parents I could help. My focus was and always has been to help as many parents as possible. Consequently, we have giving help and hope to thousands of families, even giving memberships away free to low-income families or agencies that worked with them. Now that the economy has taken its toll, we are going back to our original model of a completely open website. No more memberships!
How You Can Help Too!
Of course, this decision will mean that I have no income to support the site. That helps no one! You can help by giving a donation to the ParentingToolbox.com to help us keep the site open and free. I have cut expenses everywhere possible. My volunteers are still willing to be active and help answer questions in the online support groups. But, it is going to be tight. I hope that ad revenue will help if we get enough traffic and we will be offering up valued ebooks and products I hope people will purchase. Ultimately, I am having faith that we can continue on into the next decade of service to parents online.
Take a look at the ParentingToolbox here > http://parentingtoolbox.com
Contact me to make a donation or propose a joint venture > ptmembers@aol.com
Blessings!
Ron Huxley
1. The Economy
2. Helping Parents
The Economy
As everyone is all too aware, the economy is hurting families on many levels. Everyone is feeling the pinch and this includes me and my membership web site. Families don't have the discretionary money to pay for a membership even when I reduced the price. Logic would suggest I just shut the site down. I have chosen to be illogical. For why, see #2 below...
Helping Parents
The ParentingToolbox.com has been providing parents with online information and support for 10 years! That is a long time online. It started as a labor of love for me and the volunteers that help me run it. The only reason we went to online memberships was to provide enough income to pay the overhead. Ok, maybe my wife and I went out to dinner a couple of times but I never quite my day job :)
The downside of making the site membership-based was that it limited the number of parents I could help. My focus was and always has been to help as many parents as possible. Consequently, we have giving help and hope to thousands of families, even giving memberships away free to low-income families or agencies that worked with them. Now that the economy has taken its toll, we are going back to our original model of a completely open website. No more memberships!
How You Can Help Too!
Of course, this decision will mean that I have no income to support the site. That helps no one! You can help by giving a donation to the ParentingToolbox.com to help us keep the site open and free. I have cut expenses everywhere possible. My volunteers are still willing to be active and help answer questions in the online support groups. But, it is going to be tight. I hope that ad revenue will help if we get enough traffic and we will be offering up valued ebooks and products I hope people will purchase. Ultimately, I am having faith that we can continue on into the next decade of service to parents online.
Take a look at the ParentingToolbox here > http://parentingtoolbox.com
Contact me to make a donation or propose a joint venture > ptmembers@aol.com
Blessings!
Ron Huxley