Dirty Sailor Company has never been about profit. This company is designed within the ideation process and for the results that come with… However, we do generate some monies. I want this business to be in the business of supporting people – sailors mostly – the community at large specifically. If I can run this website, publish books, collect sea-stories, and link sailors with sailors, then I am a happy sailor – and that is just what I am doing. In the meantime, my bills are getting paid and fun is in the air often.
With all of this said, I have taken inspiration from a Meditation guide that I follow a few times a week. Starting with Jan 1, 2022, Dirty Sailor Company is committing to donating 10% of all profits to charitable causes. Using the advice at both founderspledge.com/ and givewell.org/, Dirty Sailor Company will be donating to charities that have a mind towards education around the globe.
What you need to do: nothing. If you enjoy our site, keep doing so. If you have the time to share links to our site, leave reviews on Amazon, or talk about what we do with your peers, please do.
Cheers!
Here’s to good sailing and a meaningful experience.
I actually want to take a quick second to discuss my financial model…
This website was never designed to make money. Any financial gain the Dirty Sailor Company realizes is just a tangential perk to what this was all created for. Dirty Sailor Company is first about people, specifically it is about me (Bradley Angle) staying in touch with maritime buddies and meeting new ones. This is about goofing and growing. I would love to help those sea-people I’ve met along the way that are suffering, and I think I do to some degree, at least some people communicate that to me. But, I mostly want to share my experiences with the water world that I love and I want to do it in a way that helps me grow as a human.
All of this started in 2013 as an idea for a target market. I knew – the world knows – that there is a demographic in the maritime that is raunchy, rugged, and invigorated with lust for the sea. I thought I could apply what I learned in business school to interact with this market, and find some value that was worth focusing on… I entered into a Blue Ball – Green Ball business model with Dirty Sailor Company. I had no product to start. In fact, my original products were had crafted t-shirts. Then growth happens, as it does, and I realized people were at the heart of it all, not their sailor image, but their hearts and their minds. Their stories were/are windows into the juices of life. That is where we are at now. This is why I still do it.
Dirty Sailor Company will never advertise. It doesn’t make sense to do that. Sure I could sling Grudens or Salty Dog merch on this site. I could plug in Google Ads or a number of other click bait drag-and-drop penny collectors. But why? For a cash stream that interferes with what I love about Dirty Sailor Company? No, I won’t do that. Every now and then I may ask you to look into buying a book or a hoodie, but we’ll never sling ads your way. This is authentic man. The authors on this site are the real deal, unsensored and often without much sense (just joking)….
If money is made beyond what it cost to keep things going, I’m gonna give back. Hence the Founders Pledge above.
