ADVERTISING based business models are always called “FREE”. We debated extensively on whether or not to follow the route of Google, facebook, Youtube, and many others to offer a free Pyxlin. In the end the choice was obvious:

3 reasons for not doing a “free” ad-based journal system:

• Profitable ad based models (”Free” models) required intrusive data mining that is not appropriate for personal journals (and Youtube is STILL NOT profitable).
• With a “free” model we would not be able to afford to provide you with person-to-person phone support (it is nice to know you can call rather than search through time consuming Help Systems)
• When was the last time you wanted to see banner ads plastered all over your journal? This allows you to control what is in your journal, or your kids journals for that matter. You don’t have to worry about inappropriate ads being displayed to you or your children.

Pyxlin is absolutely affordable, just $2.50 per month (less than a gallon of gas) to offset the costs of unlimited service (including unlimited phone support) and archiving. This allows us to focus completely on your experience, making sure that Pyxlin is the best journaling system in the world.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
—Benjamin Franklin

I found this great painting of Ben Franklin at Chas’ Compilation. Benjamin Franklin is a hero of mine and this month he is 302 years old.

I have reason to believe that he would buy a Pyxlin journal. Among other things he was an author, printer, scientist, and inventor.

Here are some other interesting stats that we learned from a survey of over 3000 people:

• 21 percent of journalers have lost a journal by misplacing it (these are probably mostly handwritten).
• 13 percent have lost their journal to a computer crash.
• 2 percent have been destroyed in an accident (e.g. House fire, water)
• 0.5 percent have been lost in a natural disaster (e.g. tornado, flood, hurricane, earthquake)

This is a total of 36.5 percent! Wow, who would have thought this many people have experienced losing their journal?

Could your personal journal/diary survive this? pyxlin can.