Present of arms, please. Who can’t stand these Nationwide Public Radio fundraising drives? Yeah, me both. I modify the station, however not after ponying up, as a result of NPR is necessary to me and I do know that my donation goes on to their work.
It’s the identical for Journey Journal, though on a a lot, a lot, a lot smaller scale. To place readers first, make the perfect journal and web site we will, and publish responsibly, ethically, and sustainably, we restrict our promoting, don’t settle for sponsored content material, and don’t promote our posts or social media content material. We plant a tree for each buy—and one for each journal bought. Which means we’d like readers to be part of what we’re doing, and I don’t simply imply by liking us on Instagram. Particularly, we’d like you to subscribe to AJ in print.
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I’m not asking for a handout. We predict that Journey Journal is likely one of the finest outside publications ever made. That’s actually our purpose. 98 p.c of our susbcribers renew—a quantity so excessive it’s remarkable in publishing. Virtually day by day, a reader emails us with a beautiful notice about what AJ means to them. I’m saying this to not boast, however simply to say there’s fairly good proof that when you like what we publish on-line, you’ll love what we do in print.
Small unbiased publishing calls for low overhead. AJ’s “delivery room” was our daughters bed room. We haven’t gotten too far updating it. 🙂
And right here’s the factor: The Journey Journal mannequin will not be sustainable. We’re worthwhile. However we’re additionally the one top quality outside quarterly that gives a number of tales on-line without spending a dime day by day and has a sturdy stream of unique social content material. Do you know that there are solely three of us working full time on AJ or near full time? Justin Housman runs our web site, Joni Casimiro is our artwork director, and there’s me. We want extra assist—to convey you higher tales, enhance the web site, and never blow up in a pile of ashes—and for that we’d like extra help.
Our print circulation is tiny. Getting new subscribers is tough. I don’t know a lot about advertising and marketing and our time is spent making the journal and web site, not promoting it. We don’t depend on tacky journal methods, like placing horny journey athletes on the duvet or promising that we’ll make your life higher by way of new health ideas. AJ is comprised of fantastic tales and pictures, shared with respect and honor, concerning the folks, locations, and issues that matter to the outside tradition. There may be stoke and keenness and enjoyable and pleasure. Our items are evergreen and our product is gorgeous—we’ve designed it so that you can have a lifelong relationship with every problem, and with us, to not be some flash within the pan the place we take your cash and also you throw it away after a fast flipthrough.
For Journey Journal to be sustainable, we’d like not less than one other 2,500 subscribers. Greater than 300,000 people learn our free tales each month on the web site. A handful are carrying the load for everybody else. I’m not saying that AJ will go away, but when we don’t get the help from readers that we’d like, it WILL change. We want you to be part of moral, stunning, unbiased publishing. Which means you, not another person. And I do know if I don’t ask, and ask recurrently, it received’t occur.
So, I’m asking. Please subscribe proper now. Not tonight, not tomorrow. Proper every now and then it’s completed. You possibly can cancel any time and when you don’t like the present problem we ship, we’ll offer you your a refund. 🙏🏼👊🏻♥️
Thanks,
Steve Casimiro
Editor and Founder
P.S.: In the event you already subscribe, THANK YOU. Would you contemplate giving an AJ subscription as a present? And/or sharing your expertise with AJ under?
P.P.S.: In case you had been questioning who’s behind all this, right here’s your AJ crew:
