It all started on Saturday when I realized my laptop goes into cyclic restart. I had just woke up, made some coffee and I was about to write my second article on adjusting ski bindings. I turned on my laptop, waited a while.. and realized that it boots again. Eh, what’s wrong? Then it booted again, and again, and again.. I realized the drive had crashed. Damn!

I was a bit furious. I really don’t like tech problems. Anyhow, life goes on.

Contests, Give-Aways, Interviews, Reviews…

It is almost the end of January, which means we are getting busy with our preparations. New things are coming up in this blog and we are currently preparing for those. So what is coming up? May be the most interesting thing from reader’s point of view is that we will start giving away free and valuable stuff. As you see, there are few ads in this blog. Those make us few dollars a day, which is used for hosting this service (web server outsourcing and domain). We have received a bit more dollars than we need, so we will give them away. No, not actually dollars, but valuable items. We will give out DVD’s, books and many skiing and outdoor related items. The more people comes into this blog, the more dollars we receive from ads, the more items we give away.

Now, how this is going to happen in practice? We are preparing a weekly newsletter to which people can subscibe. The newsletter will provide skiing articles that you cannot read anywhere else, as well as interesting news, competition information, resort reviews and skiing related product recommendations. All those who subscribe to our newsletter join a monthly drawing in which someone always wins free items. If you subscribe to the newsletter, you automatically join the contest every month. If you decide to unsubscribe from the newsletter, then you naturally won’t join the contest anymore.

Another interesting thing coming up is that we are going to provide interviews of top skiers and players in skiing industry. As we are enthusiastic skiers, we have a great network of pro skiers and people working in skiing industry. We are going to provide interviews of interesting people, race skiers, photographers, backcountry skiers, skiing entrepreneurs, etc. We are excited about this and I believe we will be able to provide you very interesting interviews!

We are also going to provide more ski reviews, because we have noticed that reviews are what many people are looking for. As mentioned, we have a great network of people which includes also those who run ski shops. We have negotiated a deal in which we borrow new skis for review purposes and go testing them in various ski resorts.

We’ve got loooots of ideas for the future

Man, there are gazillion ideas in our heads and we are so eager to bring them all live that I just don’t have words to express. I just want to say there are interesting things coming up soon, not just those I already mentioned, although those you will see first. We go forward step by step and try to finish one thing before jumping to the next one, even though it would be so nice to do this and that.

All in all, the very first Homeboy newsletter will be sent out in the beginning of February and the very first giveaways will be given out in the end of February. What will it be? I can tell you that in February we will give out a very nice package of skiing DVD’s. First interviews will also be published in February. So stay tuned, subscribe yourself to the newsletter in the beginning of February, and get yourself free items and nice readings!