As I mentioned yesterday, 2013 was a busy year with more than 50 new galleries being added to the Royboy Galleries. That’s of course almost 1 a week, which it kinda nutty when I started the year thinking I would scale back and only do 25 or so events… so much for that plan. I’ve procrastinated like crazy on a few things lately one of them being planning for 2014, something I should have had done a month ago. I’m not exactly sure where 2014 will take me yet, I do know that I want to continue to provide free car show coverage on this site for all of you. The goal here is still to promote the Midwest’s hot rod/kustom car kulture and promote the incredible craftsmen, car owners and shows that we have here in the Midwest.
Midway through August of this year I switched up my site combining my blog with the main website and redesigning the entire thing. Since then I’ve seen a huge jump in readership and that’s awesome, that’s what I did the switch for. Part of that switch was adding my first sponsor. Sponsors will allow me to cover more of the expenses of running this site instead of funding it all out of my pocket. Right now the magazine pieces that I do cover about 15% of the costs of gas and hotels, not counting the computer hardware, cameras, etc. My goal for the site is to become self sustaining in 2014. To do that I need you to help by sharing the stories that you enjoy. If you read something here that you like, share it with your gear head friends, the more readers that we have the more income we can generate to put gas in my tank and cover hotel rooms on the road trips. Hopefully throughout 2014 I can bring on more amazing sponsors like RJay’s Speed Shop. Cory at RJay’s is a good friend and the only official sponsor that I’d approached to be a part of the site, I used him as a guinea pig and hopefully some of you have gone to his site and become customers. RJay’s has great prices, fast shipping and amazing service, go buy stuff from him!
The Top 5 posts of 2013 are:
5. 2013 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Set Up Day 431 VIEWS / POSTED JULY 25, 2013
4. Event Coverage: 2013 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Part 4 455 VIEWS / POSTED JULY 29, 2013
3. Event Coverage: 2013 Rodder’s Journal Revival 441 VIEWS / POSTED OCTOBER 4, 2013
2. Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 2 652 VIEWS / POSTED SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
1. Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 1 1146 VIEWS / POSTED SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
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See you at a show,
Royboy