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MOTÖRHEAD, Wacken 2009
METALLICA, Prague 2008
have been on sale at almost every place they
mentioned, but it simply wasn’t there. I think
I don’t have to point out the fact that this
puts you in a bad position in the eyes of your
potential customers. First, I visited around ten
places myself and was shocked to find out that
WITHIN TEMPTATION, 2008
not only were they not selling the magazine,
but they hadn’t even gotten the offer to sell it.
I didn’t understand how this can be possible
– to have such misleading information from
the distribution company – so I arranged
an appointment with the company director.
Everything was clear after couple of minutes
of talking to him and I immediately left the
contract and changed the distributor. But it
didn’t bring any bigger changes because the
second company didn’t have such a large
share of the market and I had to deal with
the same story. Behind it all, I still believed
my readers will follow me anyway and that I
was going to build my position through doing
good work. I decided to give it all some more
time and space as I concentrated mainly on the
creative side of things. However, the problems
just kept growing and it was impossible to
ignore them. The competition gave me a really
hard time in all sense of the word, and they
played an unfair game from the start. I was
chasing windmills with all of this. I was getting
messages from some of my business partners
and potential sponsors saying they couldn’t
afford to continue working with me because
they received threats from them. If they were
going to work with me again, the doors would
be closed for them at the other magazine. In
spite of the fact that my magazine had only been
out for a short time, they had already decided
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