From The Naked PC issue #5.08...

Anyway You Ad It Up, The Naked PC Is Still Free

by T.J. Lee
April 11, 2002

(soapbox on)

Some of our readers have discovered that there are ads in The Naked PC. And it's true! Yes, friends, I'm here to tell you that we've got ads! Right here in River City! With a capital... Sorry, I watched the Music Man on DVD last weekend. Anyway, we got trouble because these ads are, well, ads. And we've been told that if we run an ad in our free newsletter we had durn well better be careful because we're endorsing that advertiser. Ha! The only endorsement we make for paid advertisers in The Naked PC is that their checks are good. Okay, we do make a fair attempt to determine if the product they're selling is illegal or immoral and if we think they qualify on either count we don't run the ad. Otherwise if they can get the samolians up on the virtual counter, they're in.

Advertising consumes perhaps 50 of the 800 or so lines of text that make up each free issue of this newsletter. Remember, while The Naked PC is entirely free for you to receive, it is most definitely not free for us to produce. Ad revenue offsets just a fraction of the costs we incur publishing The Naked PC. We clearly mark the ads so you can see them for what they are; you can read them or skip them at your discretion. If you have suggestions as to how we can drop the advertising and still cover our publication and marketing costs, we'd love to hear them. If you have an idea about how we could continue cranking out The Naked PC and actually make some bucks to help feed our 15 collective kids (counting mine, Lee's, and the twins Dan's wife just had) we'd love to hear that too. And if you're a venture capitalist with millions burning a hole in your pocket and a yen to get into email publishing please call us toll free... sorry these fits of silliness just overtake me.

What's more is that some of the products you see advertised in The Naked PC are our very own products. CD's and books that Lee, Dan, and I have written ourselves. Those items along with Micro- Lights and the SwissTech tools have helped keep this newsletter free for all of you. Anyway, since we have to go through this explanation about advertising and trying to turn a dollar with The Naked PC every so often, there is now a page on our Web site that explains in detail all the money-grubbing things we do via The Naked PC to try and make a buck:

http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/508/tr.cgi?jim2

(soapbox off)

You can reach T.J. Lee at:
mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com

Return to Top

TNPC Hot Tips:

• Email out of control? Spam filling your inbox? People trying to steal your identity? Same here - until I applied these tips. You can too in a new multimedia e-book. Tame Your Email.

• DO YOU MAKE THESE MONEY MISTAKES? Do you know that trying to pay off your high interest rate debts first and/or paying extra on more than one debt is the SLOWEST way to get out of debt? Don't make these same mistakes. Learn more at by clicking here...