| Monday
8th March
I
went to my local branch of Tesco yesterday,
wheeled my shopping trolley (For the benefit of
our American readers that's a CART) up and down
the isles where I selected all of the
Buy-one-get-one-free offers. Each time I placed
just one in the trolley then moved on to the next
item.
At the check out
the girl scanned each item before handing me a
bill and asking for payment.
"But these are
free," I protested.
"No sir it's
buy one get one free."
"But I don't
want the buy ones, just the get one free
ones."
She looked puzzled.
"I left the
buy ones on the shelves, these are the free
ones."
She thought I was
mad and had this actually happened I would have
been.
Leaving
Tesco and the aborted attempt to get my weekly
shopping for free I went to TGI Friday's where
they were advertising free starters. But when I
tried to order just a free starter and nothing
else I was soon shown the door.
No of course this
did not happen - I would have to have been a bit
mad to have tried it and the whole world would
have had to have been turned on hits head for
anyone to even think it could work.
Hold all that in
your mind for a moment while I tell you something
that DID happen yesterday.
As
I was explaining in yesterday's blog we want to
expand our Guyz Stories website by bringing in new
writers so the stories there are from more authors
than just myself. I also explained yesterday how
the site is FREE to use. I contacted a lot of
writers whose stories appear on the Nifty site,
that site is also free to use but has extensive
banner advertising on every page.
I had not one but SEVERAL
writers e-mail me back saying they only submit
their stories to free sites.
Doh - idiots -
thick or what ! Guyz Stories is FREE.
One said he preferred to have his stories on free
sites and we have on Guyz Stories lots of links to
pay sites. Yes we do - OUR PAY SITES. You don't
have to click the links any more than one would
when visiting the superb Nifty site - GUYZ STORIES
IS A FREE SITE.
Why is it free
? How can it be free ? Simple the paid
areas of Guyz Studio fund it.
Just the way the
BUY ONE funds the GET ONE FREE items in Tesco or
the MAIN COURSE funds the FREE STARTER in TGI
Friday's. The only thing is with Guyz
Stories you CAN have the FREE element without
having to buy the paid bit. Yet still some people
moan !
Every time a
visitor opens a web page within Guyz Studio it
costs us money - YES IT DOES - a little thing
called bandwidth where we are charged for server
use. OK it is fractions of a penny but with
several million pages opened every month this adds
up to a significant sum. It costs £40, or about
$68 + tax per year for every giga byte of hosting
space, we have a lot of hosting space. Every
domain name costs £17 + tax - about $29 per year
- we have over 20 domain names. So having Guyz
Studio on the Net costs money every second of
every day.
Trust me running a
website is NOT a passport to riches. Last
week we had a good week for sales income but I
have just worked it out across the hours the team
spent running the site - it comes to £1.90
an hour or about $1.11. That is BEFORE any
of the above operating costs are taken out. Would
you work for that sum ?
I
was at the computer for 5am this morning. In my
e-mail inbox is my co-director Jo's work schedule
for the coming week. Today Jo will be leaving his
home in South-east London at about 11am, taking
the train and plans to be in the office for
1pm. He is staying here until 8pm then
heading home. He should be back by about
10pm. That's an eleven hour day ! If
Jo is here in the office until 8pm that means I
will be here until 8pm = 15 hour day. James
is working on more art for the Guyzpix site - by
the way his latest portrait featuring Mikey and
Ian is reproduced on the left. Other team members
are hard at work.
Most of Guyz Studio
is FREE - we don't have a problem about that an
nobody is obliged to use any of the pay areas if
they do not want to but you know it hurts when
there are those who begrudge us the few pennies we
do get from all our work - it's like a slap in the
face or putting the finger up to us.
It would be mad to
expect Tesco to give away free all of the
groceries it sells or TGI Friday to hand out free
food, why then do some people think we should make
all of our content free ?
Sorry about the
moan but I hope you can see my point of view.
BUT
a lot of positive things came out of those e-mails
I sent to writers yesterday.
Dale from Wisconsin
USA added two stories yesterday AN
EVENING WITH ADAM and THE
PAPERBOY DELIVERS
- do have a read, they are GREAT stories. I
have another of his works to add to the site later
today. This new friend of the site and cyber buddy
will be adding hot tales on a regular basis.
Then
there's Will, also from the US of A who has some
great stories I'll be starting to add over the
coming days - you'll defo enjoy them.
Super
and supportive people like Dale and Will make up
for the clowns who e-mail me asking why everything
is not free.
By the way visitor hits to Guyz Stories are going
up day on day.
Let
me tell you about another contributor to Guyz
Studio - Sunny from NW Britain - somewhere between
Liverpool and Manchester. I was talking a while
back to an American friend of our site and said
that the further North one goes in England the
kinder and more friendly the people become.
Honestly in my experience that is a fact. Well
Sunny comes from the friendly North West of the
country.
Sunny
has been hard at work writing and recording audio
for our Phone the Boyz area of the website. Tales
like these:
CALL
0982 860 5429
Press
1 for Tender
dicks in tight speedos
Press
2 for Getting
rude on the doorstep for postie
Press 3 for
Getting naked with the computer repair man
Press
4 for Caught
wanking under the desk at college
Press
5 for Me mate
bummed me and wanked me off into his bird's mouth
No
the calls are not free and guess what they are
relatively expensive but compared to the time and
effort put into making them this is not
significant. Honestly you'll love listening to
Sunny. And don't forget to call his spoof
horoscope lines - they are hilarious.
Joseph
has within his standard e-mail signature has the
words MAKING PORN PERSONAL. I'm not a person
particularly into being politically correct but I
much prefer the term ADULT ENTERTAINMENT.
Whatever.............
But what we do here
on Guyz Studio is personal, if you are reading
this blog page then we regard you as our friend.
We have thousands of friends round the world -
valued friends without whom we could not run our
websites.
Yes the majority of
what we publish is FREE - it will always be that
way. But next time you are in the
supermarket and pick up a buy-one-get-one-free
offer think of us.
Have a GREAT day
everyone.
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