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Adam Carolla and thoughts about Hardcore Husky
DerekJohnson
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Over the past few years, Damone and I have had periodic email exchanges about Adam Carolla. I'm a big fan of Adam, but I do not listen to his main podcast because I can't stand listening to Bald Bryan. For quite awhile I've been listening to Adam's podcast with Dr Drew. I enjoy their banter.
But that podcast is becoming increasingly difficult to listen to. They open up with four minutes of commercials. Then they start talking, but sixty seconds later they start giving plugs to their sponsors. Then Adam will start complaining about the mayor of LA or he's yelling at Drew for something. A few minutes pass and here they go cramming more 60 second ads and plugs into the show. So now, if the show goes 30 minutes, there are 10-12 minutes of plugs and commercials. It feels like the podcast equivalent of QVC.
But this has given me thoughts about Hardcore Husky. I have long said that the ultimate goal of this site is to get to 5 million page views a month and then get a bunch of quality sponsors who don't mind all the profanity and shenanigans found here. But would that be best for the site? Would it cheapen the experience to log onto Hardcore Husky and have all these ads and flashing banners, etc.? I don't think I'd like it. I feel like it would be akin to wading through all those ads with Adam Carolla.
I almost feel like if our traffic can continue to grow and the annual fundraiser eventually reaches $15-20,000, that would be enough compensation for running this degenerate day care. I would prefer that than making more $$ but having Hardcore Husky have a bunch of flashing banners. I would prefer to maintain the experience that we have on here every day.
I'm just thinking out loud here.
But that podcast is becoming increasingly difficult to listen to. They open up with four minutes of commercials. Then they start talking, but sixty seconds later they start giving plugs to their sponsors. Then Adam will start complaining about the mayor of LA or he's yelling at Drew for something. A few minutes pass and here they go cramming more 60 second ads and plugs into the show. So now, if the show goes 30 minutes, there are 10-12 minutes of plugs and commercials. It feels like the podcast equivalent of QVC.
But this has given me thoughts about Hardcore Husky. I have long said that the ultimate goal of this site is to get to 5 million page views a month and then get a bunch of quality sponsors who don't mind all the profanity and shenanigans found here. But would that be best for the site? Would it cheapen the experience to log onto Hardcore Husky and have all these ads and flashing banners, etc.? I don't think I'd like it. I feel like it would be akin to wading through all those ads with Adam Carolla.
I almost feel like if our traffic can continue to grow and the annual fundraiser eventually reaches $15-20,000, that would be enough compensation for running this degenerate day care. I would prefer that than making more $$ but having Hardcore Husky have a bunch of flashing banners. I would prefer to maintain the experience that we have on here every day.
I'm just thinking out loud here.
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But if I'm not gonna get a badge then I'm out.
The solution remains for people to be better poasters (i.e., improved content) and for the parsimonious bastards to open up their piggy banks and pull out a shit ton of dimes.
Great show today with AJ Benza.
I go to bed late, wake up late, stay in bed, masturbate a lot, finally roll out of bed around 1 PM, go to the fridge (shower is optional most days), eat some moldy cheese, and finally around 3 PM I fire up the app. I do maybe two short rides a day and it's back home for cheap beer and some more masturbation.
I think advertising can work, but shudder to think what they might ask in return (rules). If I can't call Hardly Clothed a useless fag, then I might as well just jerk off instead of sitting here
4681016 hours a day.I’d say you hardcode a few spots into your pages and find a few “purple unicorns” to drop 5k a month.
They would likely need to be comfortable with their brand associated with this shit so there in lies a challenge.
As my thought process comes full circle maybe talk with categories that can’t advertise where ever they want. Guns, weed, nudy cams, all of the industries blocked by google and fb. Those fuckers would see our content and site and feel it was an appropriate audience.
Then mix in an option for getting husky gear and I think you could easily find 4-5 suckers. Based on site traffic, 5k might be a stretch but reminding them it’s your exclusive (used loosely) audience and this is the only way to get it. Might need to sweeten the pot with a monthly news letter with BRIEF sponsored content from the sponsors and logos on signs created for any events.
Watch out now...
edit: We have 63 Wigwams now, but a handful of those are freebies given out to people who do a bunch of other stuff for the site. So figure about 60 Wigwams. We need to double that. And the year before I think we had like 43 Wigwams, so we went up markedly last year already. Doable I guess, but going to take more fans of the site. And if we could get a few of the free beer fucks to pony up that would be great as well.
In all seriousness, I don't understand not donating to a site that has so much entertainment value. Most of us spend a shit ton of time on here for a reason. We get something out of it. So chip in, fuckers.
I plan on donating a little more this year.