Working up new ideas
Several people have asked me and been curious about why I decided to reopen CashDuck. (Just a note: I am under 30, and not going through menopause, as has been suggested.) First, and most importantly, I decided that the ideas that I had been thinking of for new ventures, while not originally part of my plan for CashDuck, could still be implemented through a redesign. Then everyone who was part of CashDuck could continue to participate and especially keep their referrals. Second, I really like the little community we have built up here and I don't want to lose it. It just seems like it would not be as good when starting over, as some people have been here from the very beginning. Third, part of the reason I decided to close initially was that CashDuck had grown so large that I just did not have the time to keep it up anymore, and I especially won't have time during school (I also have a full time job, that I will continue at while going to school.) I have two very-part time helpers, but a lot of the work was not easy to farm out to other people, nor does everyone have the space for a LOT OF DUCKS in their house.
So in the new CashDuck you will see a different emphasis on the offers, more opportunities to form groups and communities, and a different variety of prizes. I hope to make CashDuck something that you can invite others from your own communities into, and that CashDuck can help you meet goals for your own groups as well as earning money and prizes for yourself. You will also see a lot more opportunity for philanthropy - the breast cancer donation drive was so successful that I think that if we all had the opportunity to participate in things like that on a more regular basis that a lot could be accomplished.
So I guess we could sum it up as this: What we have here at CashDuck is valuable and unique, and I believe that we can all benefit from a little change in focus, without throwing what we have away.