Today is Small Business Saturday, and as a small business, I wanted to write about one of the biggest challenges impacting the media industry and the site today. If you want to skip all of that, we have deals at the end of the article for new subscribers, along with deals for gift certificates, and a simple request for our current subscribers.
“There is free stuff everywhere.”
That’s the biggest thing killing the media industry from advancing. Back when newspapers first started putting their stuff online, they made everything free. That decision set a precedent, and led to people expecting everything online to be free.