Australian Kiteboarders we need your input!!!!
We are currently putting together our winter edition - if you would like to contribute and be famous here is how you can help
we need -
Fun and random pics of people from the industry or just your mates being stupid
A young grom to feature
A new talent - for whos hot
A female kiter to feature
Any travel stories
Letters to the ed
Any good pics you may have taken
Any good gopro pics
please send all material to [email protected]
thanks Beaver
my home spot would be a great column ,where someone promotes their local area,wind conditions, riding conditions,( ie waves flat water, beginner friendly advanced , schools),no wind activities, accom, nightlife etc etc, with some good photos to back it up , and the editors contact address if the wind doesnt blow
send us pics and 400 word blurb on your area and well run it if the pics are good
thanks
Beav
If you fancy that one for some kind of caption competition I can dig up the high-res version:
(but feel free to NOT add my name, my dignity suffered enough already 
)
Maybe do some coverage of the Nationals in Townsville next week? A bunch of talented young groms and chicks will be ripping it over there => www.aksa.com.au/Default.aspx?pageId=651617&eventId=423144&EventViewMode=EventDetails
So Beaver
What are you paying per word and per photo
Or are you attempting to get free content for you Magazine
What a remarkably interesting business model...you have a "limited budget" for some articles & photos, you will take free photos & stories/"contributions" from the good folk "promoting our sport", and one must assume that you also take dollars from paid advertisements? And then sell your magazine to the rest of the kiting & general community.
Would I be correct to assume that those "contributions" all help you to make a profit??
That truly is a sensational business model. Done well old boy....
You are a humphrey...better to have a mag than not at all...besides printing a magazine is not 100% profit...if you wanted to make serious $$ you wouldnt start a business or company in kiting..theres always someone on here worried about someone making a $$..if kiting is your passion/job you deserve like any other dickwad to make some cash to feed your wifes shoe fetish..I dont go to the doctor wait one hour with sick people and then go and smash my doctor for making 200k a year. IT IS What it is. Probably the crew who do deserve to get paid are the Photogs who have invested allot of time and cash into equipment.
People on here are way too bloody cynical, send in your pics, see them in a glossy mag and thank the guy for printing them or alternatively go and hang yourselves....
DANEgerous
(I am hoping your name is not a reflection on your launch/landing skills but that's an entirely different conversation old boy isn't it???)
There's nothing wrong with anyone attempting to make a dollar from this sport - there are certainly numerous skinny European chaps travelling around Australia each summer trying to steal Australian women and teach the locals how to kite... so why shouldn't an up & coming magazine publlisher also turn his hand at making a dollar from the sport - if Rupert Murdoch can do it (publishing that is, not kiting), why shouldn't someone else give it a nudge I say?
I was purely making the observation that the business model they are relying on is a particularly clever model - you give me your photo/story for free, I'll publish it, acknowledge you gave it to me to use, and I'll then go make money from it. It's capitalism at it's finest DANEgerous, nothing at all wrong with that!!!
I was merely highlighting the commercial nouse this guy is using - to say nothing of the transperancy of the business model.
But you knew that...
well said paul 1, these forums are like parliment , some one brings up a discussion then a load of backbench w******rs stab each other in the back and ends in the discussion not being answered,
Hey Beav,
Are you chasing any Dude and Man stories for the mag ?
I'm working on a couple of junkmail pieces right now.
lol.
^^^ would be easier to copy straight from your hustler feature(interview with our biggest subscriber and his mum)
Hey just cause mum pays for the subscription and textas bikinis' on the girls before I'm allowed to read them doesn't mean her good name can be brought into disrepute on a second rate water sports forum...
Besides, she was misquoted by hustler any way..
What she actually said was 'i once got wet getting hustler from the mail box when it was raining'
And not ' hustler gets me wet'
