“ Ya Gotta know where to Go….The FUN Starts Here….”
“because we have fun doing it. It is that simple.” As I finish up this issue…FINALLY! The header of this column/page is staring at me…screaming at me. “YA GOTTA KNOW WHERE TO GO!!!!’
As many of you have been notified, a number of MAJOR “hot rod type” magazines are ending their print editions this year. Hint: Cost prohibitive!
I say this as it has been TOO LONG since we have put out a FULL ISSUE of the “almost world famous” Gearhead Gazzette.
That left us to determine if we keep the monthly magazine or expand the weekly email blast into something more. I played with other formats and looks that could possibly work depending on where we wanted to go. Add in what role FACEBOOK will/could play and I struggled to say the least.
It’s not that we haven’t shared gearhead info with you, or told you about car shows and cruise-ins and other great gearhead fun. Actually we have been doing quite a bit of that through the Gearhead HOT NEWS Email blasts every Thursday, and also with our FACEBOOK page posts that we do daily. “WHERE TO GO” has been the question for me with the Gearhead Gazzette magazine. Ever since we turned the newsletter into a magazine a few years back, the response from you are readers has been nothing but great. While based in the Southeast part of the USA in Middle Tennessee, our readership has grown monthly with readers in every part of the USA and also in other countries around the world. The question for me has really been, where and what direction does the Gearhead Gazzette need to go, moving forward. A good number of our readers have asked when the “hard copy” version of the magazine will be available? As much as we would love to have the magazine in print, it isn’t cost feasible today for us to do, and keep it FREE to you our readers. We will need a whole lot more ad revenue to make that happen. We are not saying it will never happen, just not in the near future. We also have been watching what the “BIG GUYS” in the automotive type magazines are doing with their print editions and on-line offerings.
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Here’s where we’re going! We will continue to use FACEBOOK as a tool to share all this gearhead fun. We will do daily stuff on our page. We know not everyone is comfortable or wants to be on FACEBOOK and we respect that. If you are on FB, check our page out, hit the LIKE button and enjoy the ride! The Gearhead HOT NEWS will continue to be sent out weekly. The HOT NEWS gives you an update on the current weeks Gearhead Events across the USA. It helps you plan your gearhead weekend. If you want to get the HOT NEWS in your email box, go to our website and on the Homepage, sign up for the email list. No worries as we don’t SPAM you or sell the addresses. And most importantly, we’re going to keep putting out full issues of the magazine on a regular basis. Based on you’re your feedback, that you like it and want it and because we have fun doing it. It is that simple. Help us out….tell us what you think, what you like and don’t like. It helps us get better for all you gearheads. You have choices and we want to be one of your choices! We know where we’re going now….
Jimmy B.
“the fun starts here”….