A WORD FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF JOHNAS PRESBYTER

"The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves" (Og)

  Johnas Presbyter as a young Chief (to your right)

 "Og" quoted above is the nick name for "Old Guy" the Capo de Capos around these parts. Og is a big fan of a U.S. TV show called SHARK TANK.  In SHARK TANK people with small business ideas are placed before a ruthless board of venture capitalists and given an opportunity to sell a part interest in their companies to one or more of the venture capitalists who make up the shark tank.  Og's favorite character in the shark tank is a particularly profit minded individual referred to as "Mr. Wonderful" because he has the most caustic personality in the tank. We are approaching the third anniversary of this blog. "Mr. Wonderful" says that if you are not making money with an activity by the third year you don't have a business, you have a hobby.  Og agrees. We failed our review in September but sine our readership was growing rapidly we were given a temporary reprieve. So please before our year end in January could you help us out by doing as much of the following as possible:

Help us build circulation by:
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Following us on Twitter ( we're finally there now but may be hard find at first, please make the effort)

Liking us on FACEBOOK ( yes we're there now too, just barely we may be a bit hard to find). There is a button for this at the end of every post.

Help us generate direct revenue by using us as your preferred AMAZON portal. Please think of us whenever you think of shopping Amazon even if you are not on our site at that moment, and even if what you are looking for has nothing to do with anything maritime.

 Amazon - Shop. Connect. Enjoy. All from Earth's Biggest Selection.  This link can be found in numerous places all over our site. It leads to the general search engine for all Amazon products. When you enter Amazon via this link on our site no matter where you roam in Amazon and no matter what you buy or don't buy (maybe just enter one of their promotional contests) we (AAB) are credited with your visit and that means revenue to us. Our parent organization American Admiralty Informational Services is not a non profit. If we aren't doing better by our next review Og and the directors may declare the effort a "hobby".  Staff and funding will be dramatically reduced and our progress towards becoming the real portal to any and all maritime information on the web will be seriously retarded. If you enjoy this site keep us rolling at full speed. Use social media to help us build our visitor count, use us as your preferred Amazon portal. If we don't start showing a profit soon funding and staff will be cut seriously. We've been assured that they won't pull this site but it will be reduced to one staffer's part time efforts. Between now and January we need a lot more visitors and a lot more traffic to Amazon.  Give us a hand if you can.

Thanks,
Johnas Presbyter, Editor in Chief.

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