As you know, every year we do an annual reader survey. And today’s the day. It would be a great help to us at TPM if you could take just 4 or 5 minutes to fill out our survey. Just a few minutes of your time helps keep TPM growing and strong. Click right here.

If you need more explanation about why it’s important, how we protect your privacy and so forth, please check out the full post I did earlier this morning.

Thank you in advance. We really appreciate it.

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Again, many thanks; we all really appreciate it.

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As longtime readers know, once a year we do a reader survey. And it’s really important that we get as many responses as possible. If you’ve already heard enough and are ready to give us 4 or 5 minutes of your time, great. We really appreciate it. Please click right here.

If you want to know more, here’s the story: TPM is currently funded 100% through paid advertising. And advertisers want to know just who makes up the TPM audience. So we need that information to sell ads. And those ads bring in the money that keeps the reporters paid and the servers humming. It’s not only about selling ads but also selling higher quality ads and, hopefully over time, fewer and more high-paying ads. So it’s really simple: giving us 4 or 5 minutes of your time today makes a big difference in keeping TPM funded and thriving. We need you.

Some of you may have concerns about privacy. Let me put them to rest. We are not collecting or sharing any information whatsoever about individual people. We are compiling aggregate demographic, occupational and lifestyle data about our audience as a whole. That’s it. Nothing more.

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