Upgrade to a Premium (Paid) Subscription
EFFECTIVE APRIL 10, 2024, NON-PAYING SUBSCRIBERS WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE AND BE ABLE TO READ OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, AS BEFORE. HOWEVER, WE'VE ADDED ADDITIONAL PREMIUM SERVICES FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS.
As mentioned several weeks ago, on April 10, 2024, For Yacht Builders, Buyers, and Owners (FYBBO) will officially launch an expanded range of sections and supplemental marine-related premium-subscription services.
All of our present 15,000+ free-subscribers are invited to consider upgrading to the premium services available with our new paid subscriptions. However, rest assured that, even if you choose not to upgrade, you will nevertheless continue to receive and be able to read our monthly newsletter postings, as you have for the past year or so.
We’ve opted to implement this tiered subscription system because 1) we value you as a reader and subscriber, whether or not you are paying and 2) we believe that setting up the subscription system in this way, lets you determine for yourself how best to take advantage of what we offer on our online publishing hub and community forum.
Below, is a breakdown of what will be available to you as a standard (free) subscriber vs a premium (paid) subscriber vs a founding member (paid) subscriber.
By now, you’ve likely had a chance to sample free the various sections on our publishing hub, to get a feel for what each will deliver on an ongoing basis. However, just in case you haven’t yet had the chance to see for yourself, after April 10, we’re going to continue to offer a one-time, one week free access pass to our premium level sections.
Beginning April 10, 2024, here’s what’s available and included at each subscription tier level:
Access to our monthly free newsletter articles at publication and for a month thereafter, until they are archived.
Open access to a) the general Chat feature, b) the Travel Forum, and
c) our Products section.Membership in the For Yacht Builders, Buyers, and Owners (FYBBO) community of yachting/boating enthusiasts and marine industry professionals, including access to comment on frii posts and to participate in our ongoing online community discussions concerning those posts.
Everything that is included in a Standard Free Subscription plus:
Open access to “special edition” articles published at irregular intervals.
Open access to our DIY Forum and the ongoing exchanges there between boatbuilding and refit professionals and lay DIY enthusiasts.
Open access to our Marine Master Classes section, where we host a variety of educational courses, podcasts, and interactive video master classes, many of which are free and some few of which require a modest (and significantly discounted) additional registration fee.
Open access to our full Archive section (including eventually some 1,000+ articles by Phil Friedman and a select number of experts/authors, previously published on For Yacht Builders, Buyers, and Owners and elsewhere in the marine press).
This is the Premium Level subscription at a discounted price (12 months for the price of 10 (a 17% discount), when paid on an annual basis).
Note the following limited-time special discount offer on an annual premium level subscription:
Everything included in both the Standard and Premium level subscriptions plus:
Open access to our Marine Business Blog & Forum section, where we publish monthly insider articles on a broad range of topics concerning the recreational marine industry and marine small-business operations and management. This is also where we’ll provide a private, moderated discussion forum for marine industry professionals and marine small-business people who want to connect their peers across a wide range of topics.
Access to our Sponsored-Content program for recreational marine sector professionals and marine small-businesses. The base Sponsored-Content program will include, at no additional charge, a 1/2-page fixed-format ad that will appear at least once per month in a bank of select advertisements appended to one or more feature articles. Participants in the base Sponsored-Content program will have the option of sponsoring, purpose-written and -published articles that will be distributed to all our FYBBO subscribers via both our website and direct email, as well as across several of our parallel social media channels. Contact us for complete details of this Sponsored-Content program.
Please note that should you choose not to upgrade to a paid subscription, you do not need to do anything. You will continue to receive and be able to read our regular monthly newsletter editions.
Feel free to reach out to me personally with any questions or comments you may have about our tiered subscription program. You can reach me at: phil@portroyalgroup.com.
I look forward to seeing you on the inside and, if you are not already a subscriber, to welcoming you to our growing community.
— Phil Friedman, Editor and Publisher, FYBBO
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