j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Mar 7, 2011 8:31am
Read the article Simmons posted to ESPN.com Friday and tell me he didn't channel JJ when coming up with that hypothetical. It's fucking eery the similarities (the numbers are inflated, no doubt, but still).
Greed is Good in NFL Labor Talks
Greed is Good in NFL Labor Talks
Bill Simmons wrote:I decide to leave ESPN, start my own blog and charge $10 per year for anyone to read my column. Just for fun -- again, it's hypothetical! -- let's say one million readers sign up, guaranteeing me $10 million for that first year (2007). And let's say I sign advertising deals with three sponsors for another $2 million apiece, raising my total haul to $16 million for Year 1. I spend the next 12 months writing and pinching myself for my good fortune. Life is good.
Fast-forward to December 2007. I just learned something about myself. I don't like it. I know it's wrong. I can't shake it. I can't deny it. See, I really, really like money. Even if I never imagined making $16 million in my lifetime, much less for a single year, I now find myself smitten by those dollar signs. How much more can I make? How high can this go? Someday, I want my financial adviser to cackle and say, "Good Lord, I don't even know what to do with all this cash flow." That's what I want.
Hence, I need to raise the total value of my "franchise." I build a more sophisticated website, pay for designers and extra bandwidth, then hire a team of writers and editors to work for me. That creates $2 million in expenses for Year 2, which I pay off by finding a fourth sponsor. In order to cover these additional expenses, I'm "forced" to raise the 2008 subscription fee to $25. (That's what I tell my idiot readers.) This time around, only 700,000 readers sign up. Between sponsors and subscribers, I am still guaranteed a total haul of $23.5 million for Year 2. Profit. This is good. I am showing "growth." Even as I slowly antagonize my audience.
Iliketurtles
Posts: 8,191
Mar 7, 2011 9:01am
Haha I read this article on Friday and never even thought about that but yeah does kinda sound like what happened on the huddle.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Mar 7, 2011 10:05am
Can't say JJHuddle here.
redstreak one
Posts: 1,152
Mar 7, 2011 10:17am
jjhuddle, jjhuddle, jjhuddle, is that like beatlejuice or something?
dwccrew
Posts: 7,817
Mar 7, 2011 11:03am
What is JJHuddle? Some minor league website?
Skyhook79
Posts: 5,739
Mar 7, 2011 12:03pm
JJHuddle was 10 dollars for a lifetime membership not 10 dollars a year.
JJHUddle then went free not to 25 dollars a year.
JJHuddle then went to 12 dollars and a free magazine subscription a year.
Nothing at all like what Simmons wrote...well he did get the "idiot readers" part right, the ones that ponied up the 12 dollars after they paid a 10 dollar lifetime membership.
JJHUddle then went free not to 25 dollars a year.
JJHuddle then went to 12 dollars and a free magazine subscription a year.
Nothing at all like what Simmons wrote...well he did get the "idiot readers" part right, the ones that ponied up the 12 dollars after they paid a 10 dollar lifetime membership.
jordo212000
Posts: 10,664
Mar 7, 2011 12:29pm
I just checked out JJHuddle the other day, looks like it is free again haha. The place is largely dead though
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wkfan
Posts: 1,641
Mar 7, 2011 12:48pm
Not free. My username is staill active over there and I can only go to the free forums, not all of them.jordo212000;702001 wrote:I just checked out JJHuddle the other day, looks like it is free again haha. The place is largely dead though
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Mar 7, 2011 1:03pm
wkfan;702041 wrote:Not free. My username is staill active over there and I can only go to the free forums, not all of them.
Damn. I was ready to shut this crap hole down and go back.
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thavoice
Posts: 14,376
Mar 7, 2011 4:09pm
I occasionaly look over there every couple of weeks......and I dont pay...an dman it is D E A D! Oh well....
ididnt see any similarities either.
ididnt see any similarities either.
O-Trap
Posts: 14,994
Mar 7, 2011 5:21pm
Alexa doesn't look good for the former major-league site: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jjhuddle.com#
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Mar 7, 2011 5:25pm
O-Trap;702362 wrote:Alexa doesn't look good for the former major-league site: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jjhuddle.com#
JJHuddle US Traffic ranking - 175,781
OhioChatter US Traffic ranking - 126,925
Oh snap!
O-Trap
Posts: 14,994
Mar 7, 2011 5:26pm
Uh oh.justincredible;702365 wrote:JJHuddle US Traffic ranking - 175,781
OhioChatter US Traffic ranking - 126,925
Oh snap!
Welcome to the Bigs, rookie!
wes_mantooth
Posts: 17,977
Mar 7, 2011 5:32pm
Yep...this place officially sucks. NCF was right all along.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Mar 7, 2011 5:33pm
I definitely shoulda packed up and shut this place down a while ago. What a waste.
wes_mantooth
Posts: 17,977
Mar 7, 2011 5:39pm
justincredible;702378 wrote:I definitely shoulda packed up and shut this place down a while ago. What a waste.
Maybe LJ would buy it for real this time?
O-Trap
Posts: 14,994
Mar 7, 2011 6:38pm
Hell, I might buy it. Wouldn't be the first time I bought a site of Justin.
dwccrew
Posts: 7,817
Mar 7, 2011 7:54pm
O-Trap;702418 wrote:Hell, I might buy it. Wouldn't be the first time I bought a site of Justin.
Yeah but the other one you bought off him just had a bunch of naked pics of Justin. Not sure why you wanted that one so badly.
O-Trap
Posts: 14,994
Mar 7, 2011 9:43pm
Sold it on Flippa for a 10,000% profit. It's amazing what fat, sweaty men will pay for something like that.dwccrew;702554 wrote:Yeah but the other one you bought off him just had a bunch of naked pics of Justin. Not sure why you wanted that one so badly.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Mar 7, 2011 9:49pm
I am a physical specimen.
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Polar Bear 73
Posts: 216
Mar 7, 2011 10:08pm
justincredible;702754 wrote:I am a physical specimen.
Hmmmm.... I just had to give a specimen to my doctor the other day. Do mean something like that?
karen lotz
Posts: 22,284
Mar 7, 2011 10:10pm
O-Trap;702362 wrote:Alexa doesn't look good for the former major-league site: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jjhuddle.com#
haha there are some excellent reviews on there.
2kool4skool
Posts: 1,804
Mar 7, 2011 10:12pm
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Mar 7, 2011 10:26pm
2kool4skool;702792 wrote:
lol wtf
Heretic
Posts: 18,820
Mar 8, 2011 9:31am
2kool4skool;702792 wrote:
First, an earthworm; next, the head segment of a human centipede.