We appreciate the loyal support of our readers! But please don't send us your hard-earned money! We are a FREE SERVICE! FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS and FREE ADVERTISING!
During the past several months, we have received cash and checks from readers and advertisers who want to support our online news service. While this has been deeply gratifying, we have returned the money in every case. Thank you for your support, but we cannot accept your donations!
As you know, we operate Hermann Hearsay on a shoe-string budget. We are very frugal. Our reporters are NOT the top journalists in the county, so we don't pay them very much. Our laptop computers are about five years old on average. Rather than pay big money for fancy offices, we do our work at home and out in the community. Our owner and founder is a real cheapskate!
The only revenues we receive are from Google Ad Sense for allowing them to post their ads on our website. If you want to support us financially, you can click on some of the Google Ads and visit the websites advertised by them. Each time you click on one of these ads, we get paid ..... not very much, but it all mounts up over time.
Because of our unusual business model, our monthy cash flow is pathetic! However, we are gaining a larger and larger readership every week. And we are gaining more advertisers as the word gets out that we are FREE! One of these days, we will have a huge readership with many satisfied advertisers.
Using this approach, we are slowly building "sweat" equity in our business. A few years down the road, we project that we'll be able to sell our little online service for BIG BUCKS! That's when we'll finally cash in! Just like those few people who started out with Sam Walton while everyone else laughed at him down in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Please don't send your money! We have a long-term plan to get filthy rich!
Clark Kant
Editor In Chief
http://www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com/
Just received my $20 back in the mail this morning, Clark! You are a real pioneer in the online news business! Just like Sam was in the retail business!
ReplyDeleteA. E. Newman
Bland, MO
Thamks for returning my $10, Clark! I can use the money to pay off my account balance down at the tavern.
ReplyDeleteElmer
Clark,
ReplyDeleteI could just hug and kiss you, sweetie! I received my $30 donation back from you on Saturday! I hadn't planned on getting the money returned, so I went to Wal-Mart and bought me a new dress, a new DD bra, and a new pair of panties. They sure are nice, and you are welcome to take a look at them anytime you want! Wink!
Henrietta
Clark,
ReplyDeleteSure glad your not begging for money like the other web sight in the county! In these troubling times it is great to see something for free. Might be a lot of BS mixed with good hard facts but what a good read! Keep up the good work because I can't afford anything else! The Happy Shouvler.
Thanks to all who have commented! Ya know, I've been thinking! Wouldn't it just be great IF we could conceive and implement a revolutionary business model that would not only be FREE but would build equity over time for our community of readers and advertisers.
ReplyDeleteSome ideas that Truman T. Tiger are kicking around:
1. First 200 loyal readers and advertisers who assist in promoting our enterprise get shares of stock in Hermann Hearsay. Mr. Tiger would first have to take the company public and give up a piece of ownership.
2. These 200 shareholders will have to commit to spreading the word about Hermann Hearsay so that we can quickly build readership and our advertising base.
I think it's an idea which just might work out splendidly for all concerned!
Please give me your opinions.
Clark
Clark,
ReplyDeleteMy banker, Milburn Drysdale, says I ought to take you up on the stock offer. My mother, Pearl Bodine, would like to get some shares of stock too!
Jethro
Clark,
ReplyDeleteIf you ever DO need to raise cash to buy Jimmy and Lois new computers or to install some of your own webcams up there in Hermann, you could always hold a telethon, sell raffle tickets or conduct a bake sale.
I too like the stock idea. Keep me in mind if Hermann Hearsay goes public. Would your stock be listed on the NYSE or the NASDAQ?
A. E. Newman
Bland, MO
You'll never make it being a FREE SERVICE! Why do you want to give your labor away FREE?! Guess you guys don't think your product is worth anything!
ReplyDeleteThe real forward-thinking online news websites run "Subscriber Telethons" and they charge subscriber fees.
You guys are a bunch of dumbasses!
Hank
Hey Clark,
ReplyDeleteIs this the same Hank who has that other web sight County Soapbox? If it is he really has a lot of stupid comments on his sight as well as on CountyNewslive as well as yours. I don't think he is all there. He says your a dumbass for doing this great web sight for nothing, doesn't he do the same on his web sight? He askes dumb question like who is Jerry Spurgeon, hell old Hank lives in the Owensville area and don't know who his neighbors are. Being the dumbasses we are I can tell you that Jerry Spurgeon is a great hard workig and honest man. A man with good business sence. Sounds like good old Hank should do a little home work and he will find out what I said is true. But after all don't take my word for it after all we are all dumbasses in old Hanks eyes! Stay happy!
The Happy Shouvler!