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[SickBeast]

I can see why Mark left.  Partnerships often fail in business.  If I were him I would want to run my own show as well.  I personally think that BTR is going to be very successful for him.  He writes great reviews and he has a lot of industry contacts at this point.  He's going to get traffic the more articles he writes.

ABT needs content more than it needs forum members at this point.  Do the forums generate any type of revenue for Dave?  I would say no.

I guess I don't understand this business, but I was under the impression that ad revenues are paid on page hits the ads are on.

Babeltechreviews has no web traffic rank, this place had around 100,000 as it's web traffic rank at the height of it's popularity.

Ironically, immediately after Apoppin banned me to care for the site's "growth phase" the web traffic here began to PLUMMET. (apparently more than a few people found my posts interesting) Even before the problems with the site traffic dropped like a stone after Apoppin banned me.

Personally, I think the only chance he has is to come back here and try to do what he was doing before, make this site an AT VF alternative.

Apoppin isn't getting any younger. He put 7-8 years into this place. Now what? He's going to put 7-8 more into BTR and be over 70 years old when he starts to get some traction? Time is not on Apoppin's side.

At the end of the day, Apoppin and Dave both have reasons to partner. Although it may be in Dave's better interest to try and find younger reviewers more in touch with computer gaming. When you go to CES, PAX, Nvidia launch parties, in general you don't see people in their 60s.

Apoppin may not be a web presence the all important teen to thirty something market can identify with.

Well I don't see any ads whatsoever on the forum. I'm pretty sure that ABT would get money every time someone clicks on an ad. They probably also get money whenever someone views the ad.

Perhaps Dave should try putting some ads in the forum. If it pays to keep this place going I'm all for it.

I really don't think apoppin is coming back here. I think he will be fine at btr. Give him a year and see what happens over there.