Particular due to all of you who responded so shortly and generously to our crimson alert yesterday, “We Interrupt Our Frequently Scheduled Programming for This Essential Announcement” the place we warned that we had been so badly behind the place we normally had been within the fundraiser that I may need to take no pay for the upcoming 12 months. That’s not sustainable and if that end result got here to go, I must take into account the dire end result of radically restructuring and even shuttering the positioning in late 2024.
Lots of youchip in“> went shortly to the Tip Jar or despatched e-mails pledging to ship checks, some by readers with restricted means who nonetheless very a lot need Bare Capitalism to thrive and prosper, some by the properly off who made hefty items.
So now we have now handsomely exceeded our unique donor (now donations aim, since some have given twice) of 1100 donations, and are actually at 1207. I’m growing our donor aim to 1350. Let’s see if we are able to now beat that.
Because of so many beneficiant and immediate responses, we’ve now hit our first 5 targets: funding important tech plumbing, bonuses to our loyal visitor writers, growing staffing for continued expanded Hyperlinks; supporting the feedback part; and offering the staffing of our 24/7 protection with out burning out the writing workforce. Let me stress once more: your donations have and proceed to make all these crucial gadgets doable.
However we’re nonetheless not the place we must be! We’re nonetheless behind, however not as alarmingly as earlier than. So when you’ve got not donated but, please make a cease on the donation web page and dig deep! No matter you can provide helps this web site thrive!
As in recent times, we’re together with the aim of funding for increasing our attain. This can be a hostile surroundings for small unbiased websites, so we’d like spend to extra time than bringing in new readers.
Our site visitors is holding stable regardless of repeatedly being downgraded in Google, like many unbiased web sites like The Intercept, Truthdig, and Counterpunch, and dealing with the prospect of overt censorship and deplatforming for the heinous sins of questioning standard narratives on main points just like the function of vaccines in combating Covid and the progress of the Russia-Ukraine battle.
Even with our content material has solely been getting higher (and we predict extra related) over time, we’re working more durable than ever simply to remain in place.
So whether or not you’ll be able to contribute financially to this fundraiser or not, spreading the phrase about Bare Capitalism can also be completely important for us to thrive. Encouraging individuals who may like our work to take a look at Bare Capitalism is critically necessary (as is cchipping in by way of our fundraiser web page in the event you haven’t had the time to take action already).
Readers despatched us very emphatic messages about how necessary Bare Capitalism is to them. As an illustration, from John Z:
I can not stand the concept that you may need to chop again. I might be misplaced with out NC as it’s my essential supply of sanity on this loopy world.
I can’t even discuss to most of my family and friends about present occasions as they’re captured by the mainstream narrative and are unwilling to analyze different factors of view.
Thanks for all that you just and the NC workforce do to make this world extra comprehensible.
And Shelby H:
Nonetheless the very best web site on the web! Thanks for all you do – lighting a candle within the darkness ‘ we certain do want it…
And dftbs:
Thanks for all you and the workforce at NC do. Whereas I’ve much less time to be an lively member of the neighborhood, your arduous work is extremely appreciated and I sit up for NC as now the tenth factor I do within the morning, after diapers and bottles and so forth.
My finest to you and the NC crew.
So what may assist to extend visibility? Earlier than we get to new issues we are able to do, please think about using the Songbooks as a solution to introduce folks to Bare Capitalism, significantly followers of pop music or colleagues with a sardonic humorousness. The overview and the pdfs are right here.
First can be for Yves to take extra interview requests. We too typically have to show them down as a result of they arrive in too near the “hit time” for me to have the ability to do them and never shirk off on posts.
We want we had the time to do podcasts of our personal, however doing something along with what we do now introduces much more complexity, which lands on Yves’ desk and takes time away from producing written content material.
However we are able to’t be assured, even when we took up all of the prime quality interview alternatives that got here throughout the transom, that they’d come up commonly sufficient to extend our visibility.
Second can be e book critiques. Additionally they take extra time than common posts and therefore require extra web site sources however assist with creating extra visibility with different writers, who then may consult with or hyperlink to Bare Capitalism extra typically. And thoughts you, we don’t imply currying favor, a really un-NC factor to do. A pointy detrimental overview of a deserving goal typically appeals to like-minded skilled writers, even when the goal takes umbrage. And that is one thing our different achieved writers may take up in the event that they discovered a e book that suited them.
And naturally our common readers get pleasure from a extra diverse submit food plan too.
Third, we may professionalize our publication (proper now it’s for regulars and has a homespun look) by altering to a slicker structure and/or presumably having a second leaner and slicker model. We at the moment use the publication as a loyalty-builder for established readers. We may construct a second mailing checklist of doubtless receptive candidates, with so-called influencers like columnists, journalists, and economists. As an illustration, we don’t ship our publication to our MMT allies. So we have to construct this checklist and improve the structure. You probably have any publication layouts you want (spare and straightforward to learn are finest), please ship an instance with the topic line “E-newsletter mannequin” to yves-at-nakedcapitalism-dot-com
We’re setting a goal of $10,500 for this aim and have simply began on it, at $1,155 in direction of it. Discover now we have stored this aim modest in comparison with the others.
If we wind up not utilizing all of the funds within the aim to assist with numerous exterior visibility efforts, they may go to assist extra unique reporting. So please, assist us be even larger and badder by going to the Tip Jar and giving as generously as you possibly can! Whether or not $5 or $5,000. All of them assist us hold this web site buzzing!
