TMR
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Thank you all for your views, ideas and suggestions regarding this month’s issue of COONHOUND BLOODLINES. Content for any magazine is always ongoing with any publication. For CB, our content is either solicited or sent in to us for publication. To answer one post - yes, when articles are sent in, and it’s appropriate for use in that particular issue, it’s used. If it’s not, then it’s used for a future issue.
You all bring up great points in regards to the internet, most people get their information online these days. I do go back to what I mentioned with my interview with Steve Fielder, I believe print will always be around, but to add to that – in a different way than we are used to. When we had to dissolve our all-breed publication, Bloodlines Dog Event News, it was a difficult decision and one that was not taken lightly. This publication highlighted our Conformation and Performance events information such as upcoming events listing, winners, new titles and Top Ten. With a declining subscriber base and content that was being driven to our website, it was the decision that had to be made.
I would like to tell you that this will never happen to CB, but there are no guarantees. I would love to see the coon hunting community inundate our publications staff with great articles and ideas; along with advertising. We can and do solicit articles, but if there’s no follow through, we can't make someone help us or write an article for/with us. I’m not sure how we can be made accountable for that. Let us know what you want to see in CB and who you want to read about. We don’t know if you don’t tell us.
In regards to the lack of advertising, the truth of the matter is that, as mentioned, when you can advertise on the message board for free, why advertise? Maybe advertise in CB because you will reach a different audience, maybe you want to support print and not see it die, there are many reasons. Again, we can’t make people advertise in CB. The day MAY come when free advertising on the message boards will end, is that day soon? Time will tell. If it did come to that, you would be given plenty of notice prior to any changes.
One thing I can assure you of and that is UKC is invested in our customer base and providing valuable services, events and promoting better dogs. Are we in it for the money? We are a business like any other in that we need to keep the bills paid and the lights on, but our staff has a passion for what they do and take their jobs very seriously. Many of you know some of the staff, as well as myself, through the years of travel to coonhound events. I hope that those years of dedicated service to our coon hunting community would speak for itself. It’s much more than a job for us.
Feel free to forward article ideas to subscriptions@ukcdogs.com and I look forward to seeing you at future events. Thank you for your continued support of United Kennel Club, the coonhound breed(s) and COONHOUND BLOODLINES.
Tanya Raab
President
United Kennel Club
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