Hello. I'd like to start by thanking Rich Lucibella, and the admin staff here, for letting me post this message. It is much appreciated.
For those of you who don't know me, my name is Eric Powell. About twenty years ago, I started the website Glock Talk. I sold the site to another company in late 2010. I continued to be an administrator on Glock Talk and still am, but I came to miss having my own site. So, I have opened a new one.
The new site is called The Bore Site, http://TheBoreSite.com/ . Like GT before it, the new site is a place where firearms enthusiasts can hang out and talk about firearms & related issues, or just about anything else. The site currently has a forum system, a photo gallery, a social club system and a blog system. Several other features will launch soon, including an article section, an online game area and a comprehensive review system.
The site will display ad banners, but they will be unobtrusive and there will never be any pop-up/pop-under banners, or similar types of advertising. We will also not run ad content from third-party ad providers. To compensate our members for the ad network which will help to fund the site's operation, we intend to run the advertising and marketing of the site much like radio stations do now.
A portion of all ad revenue will be used to buy products for regular giveaways, on a continuing basis. I will post more info about these giveaways on The Bore Site, in the near future. For now, anyone who registers before the end of September and posts at least fifteen times, will be entered in a drawing for a new Glock pistol, the winner to be be picked during the first week of October. This will be the first of many such offerings.
The new site gives me a chance to once again try my hand at building and growing a successful site and it gives me an opportunity to do some things differently than I did the first time around. I am looking forward to the challenge.
I absolutely do not want to entice people away from sites like The Firing Line or Glock Talk. I think there is plenty of room for more firearms enthusiast websites online and I hope to bring back into the fold some of the folks all of our sites have lost to Facebook and other social networking sites. I would love it however, if you folks would give the site a look and maybe add it to the list of sites you check in on. I hope to grow the site and add new features quickly. I believe it will be a keeper.
I thank you all for giving me a few minutes of your time to read this and once again, I want to thank the admin staff here and Rich Lucibella for letting me post about the new digs. I met Rich a long time ago, when he was in the process of opening this site and he has always been an old-world gentleman. I'm glad to see this site continuing to thrive.
For those of you who don't know me, my name is Eric Powell. About twenty years ago, I started the website Glock Talk. I sold the site to another company in late 2010. I continued to be an administrator on Glock Talk and still am, but I came to miss having my own site. So, I have opened a new one.
The new site is called The Bore Site, http://TheBoreSite.com/ . Like GT before it, the new site is a place where firearms enthusiasts can hang out and talk about firearms & related issues, or just about anything else. The site currently has a forum system, a photo gallery, a social club system and a blog system. Several other features will launch soon, including an article section, an online game area and a comprehensive review system.
The site will display ad banners, but they will be unobtrusive and there will never be any pop-up/pop-under banners, or similar types of advertising. We will also not run ad content from third-party ad providers. To compensate our members for the ad network which will help to fund the site's operation, we intend to run the advertising and marketing of the site much like radio stations do now.
A portion of all ad revenue will be used to buy products for regular giveaways, on a continuing basis. I will post more info about these giveaways on The Bore Site, in the near future. For now, anyone who registers before the end of September and posts at least fifteen times, will be entered in a drawing for a new Glock pistol, the winner to be be picked during the first week of October. This will be the first of many such offerings.
The new site gives me a chance to once again try my hand at building and growing a successful site and it gives me an opportunity to do some things differently than I did the first time around. I am looking forward to the challenge.
I absolutely do not want to entice people away from sites like The Firing Line or Glock Talk. I think there is plenty of room for more firearms enthusiast websites online and I hope to bring back into the fold some of the folks all of our sites have lost to Facebook and other social networking sites. I would love it however, if you folks would give the site a look and maybe add it to the list of sites you check in on. I hope to grow the site and add new features quickly. I believe it will be a keeper.
I thank you all for giving me a few minutes of your time to read this and once again, I want to thank the admin staff here and Rich Lucibella for letting me post about the new digs. I met Rich a long time ago, when he was in the process of opening this site and he has always been an old-world gentleman. I'm glad to see this site continuing to thrive.
Eric