BCM Announcement for subscribers

[HighTechRedneck]

Thank you for supporting our efforts with your subscriptions.

We have a lot of work to do to get the magazine back up to its prime.  But the more we work on it and the more we here from everyone, the more we are confident.  We are already finding some former advertisers to be receptive to returning and next week we will launch a major drive for new advertisers.

As mentioned in the other thread, we are changing printers.  This new printer is a company I used to deal with when I worked at McKee.  They do excellent work and gave us a good price.  As a result the belated July issue will already have one of the first improvements - it will mail in plastic.  This will protect it so that you always get it in good condition.  I beleive it will also help with the delivery reliability.

We have some great quality articles lined up for coming issues and are working to get more as we start increasing page count in the coming months.  As you may have noticed in the last few months we have been increasing the focus on self converted buses.  We will continue in that direction.

There are many more tasks being worked on to rebuild the magazine, improve reliability and communication,  attract advertisers and authors, and leverage the web side of things better.  You will see the results over the coming months.  Many of them are just a matter of labor and they will be implemented quickly.  Others (i.e. page count) are revenue dependent and will be fazed in over the next several months as the revenues support them.

As I said before, we greatly appreciate the support of those who have renewed.  And we ask that everyone that can, please consider subscribing.  We are not a big publishing house with 6 or 7 digit budgets.  We are bus nuts with bus poor budgets working to rebuild the magazine back to the point that it properly serves the bus nut community.

[Paladin]

I have to say that I was very skeptical about subscribing after reading many things less than positive over the years in the past but things are new now. I did subscribe however and thus far I have to say that Mike has done an outstanding job. Sure, there are always some things that I would have like to see maybe more of or less of but it is improving with each magazine and I find myself always looking forward to the next issue.

Hats off Mike, (HTR) and those who have contributed articles and keep up the good work! I plan on re-upping when the time is due.


One question, will Paypal be an option for payment or is it already? My brain is fried today like most days.


-Dave

[HighTechRedneck]

Dave, thank you.  We do our best and one thing I can say with confidence is:  "The best is yet to come."

We had some difficulties getting the PayPal payment module to work properly with the subscription system software due to a couple other programs on the site also using it.  I will see what can be done.  In the mean time, anyone wishing to renew using a PayPal account please contact us telling which subscription you would like and filling in the requested info on the form.  I will create a PayPal invoice/payment request and send it to you.  That way you can just click the button on the invoice and pay using your PayPal account.