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Listen and respond. I questioned something in one of the issues and got emails from Karen
In Response To: GOB's reader loyalty is second to none. Wooden boat has a similar loyalty. ()
inquiring about what I meant. Sent pics and she thanked me for clearing up something. Jerry will do the same. They are ATTENTIVE to readers. Have no way of knowing how Cruising World would have responded any more since I haven't read that in years, except incidentally. Since I do longer cruises on a small (53 year old 25 footer) boat, I'm simply not one of their targets.
Small Craft Advisor is pretty much the same way, but slanted to a different audience. Josh has done events, and reported on them, in various areas, such as the Texas200 on the Texas coast
Both very good mags, subscription driven
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- Decades ago, Time and Newsweek almost put the same photo of Bruce Springsteen on their covers the same week.
- Editors heads may have rolled back then, eh?
- When I saw the mag on our kitchen counter this afternoon,
- That's what happens when mags get cheap.....
- Here's my guess as to what might have happened...
- Bingo. Another notch down.
- What would happen if CW or SAIL went high end($) and the other became a free publication?
- Tom, check out Voyages....cruising club of America
- What makes a "High End" free?
- Someone pays for advertising because the readers might buy.
- No. Two routes out of the middle: Higher volume price-less advertising. Free-totally advertiser supported.
- There's some science to subscription rates -- about which I know very little
- GOB's reader loyalty is second to none. Wooden boat has a similar loyalty.
- Listen and respond. I questioned something in one of the issues and got emails from Karen
- GOB's reader loyalty is second to none. Wooden boat has a similar loyalty.
- There's some science to subscription rates -- about which I know very little
- What would happen if CW or SAIL went high end($) and the other became a free publication?
- Here's my guess as to what might have happened...