Later this yr, Vooks will flip 25 years previous, and we’ll have been bringing you all of the Australian and worldwide Nintendo information, evaluations, bargains, movies, and podcast for 1 / 4 of a century.
For the longest time, the positioning has been self-sufficient and in a position to preserve its independence utilizing varied revenue strategies to pay for the positioning and podcast internet hosting, safety, and all the opposite little charges concerned.
Fortuitously, the positioning is doing fairly properly; we’re continuously breaking new site visitors data, and issues are on the up and up—even with issues winding down with the Change. It’s an fascinating drawback as a result of regardless of site visitors being up, nearly all of the methods we pay for the positioning’s existence are down. Adverts aren’t bringing in as a lot, slower bodily releases imply fewer affiliate buys, plus nobody has any cash for discretionary spending, so bargains, often our bread and butter, aren’t doing too sizzling both.
So, as a result of site visitors is up, we are able to’t transfer to any type of smaller internet hosting. The a whole bunch of 1000’s of people that learn the positioning a month chew by way of the bandwidth, so what to do then?
Everyone seems to be having a tough sufficient time. As a substitute, utilizing the instruments we have already got, there could be some methods to assist us with out doing an excessive amount of completely different. We’re not trying to make a tonne of cash right here , simply sufficient to maintain the lights on with out impacting our pockets.
The entire beneath on their very own gained’t cowl all the pieces, but when there’s something you are able to do – please take a learn.
Promoting
Net adverts suck; both they take up an excessive amount of house, get in the way in which, decelerate your cellphone or simply aren’t related to you in any respect. Worse nonetheless is once they’re too related and snoopy. Vooks has had adverts for years; in some months, they work properly, and in others, they convey in nearly nothing.
There’s in all probability an advert proper right here for some type of topical butt cream ⬇️
If you happen to run an adblocker, take into account turning it off on Vooks. However in the event you discover them too annoying, you realize what? We don’t blame you. Block away.
Affiliate Purchases
For years, we’ve performed discount guides and roundups to avoid wasting everybody cash. Then, Amazon got here to Australia, and affiliate hyperlinks turned a “factor.” Some folks on social media make it their whole life and make some huge cash off it. Now we have our discount guides, they usually have some affiliate hyperlinks in them, however we choose to allow you to resolve the place to purchase from even when it doesn’t internet us something. We wish you to avoid wasting.
You may assist Vooks by shopping for from discount guides and utilizing our hyperlinks to purchase something—it doesn’t must be video games as properly.
By clicking any of our Amazon hyperlinks, Huge W hyperlinks, or heck, even LEGO hyperlinks, you’ll undergo us, and we’ll get a portion. Do you want a carton of Pepsi Max or some pet food? You may assist us out even only a tiny bit with these hyperlinks.
Like, Remark, Subscribe and Watch
With Google shitting the mattress not too long ago, and social media networks and their algorithms being what they’re – it’s even tougher for us to be discovered than ever earlier than. It’s a brag, however out of the 1000’s of people that comply with us on social media, only a handful of individuals ever see these posts – even in the event you like/comply with/subscribe to our channels. It’s sucks, and it’s solely going to worsen as Daddy Google slurps up our information and makes use of it.
So, in the event you like our work, please share it and let folks find out about our web site—we’re a small area of interest inside a small area of interest. We’re additionally continuously posting the Vookcast video and gameplay clips on YouTube —in the event you can like them and depart a remark, it does assist. (even depart it on within the background!)
It’s a cliche, however they wouldn’t say it except it had been true, would they?
As a reminder, we’re on
Patreon
Most individuals use Patreon to offer you unique content material or a separate degree of content material – for years; we’ve used it as a approach for folks to assist the positioning and get just a few little perks. Sadly, being based mostly in America (particularly California), Patreon has an entire bunch of boring guidelines about with the ability to do enjoyable issues like contests, so with the ability to giveaways to our Patreons has been stopped lifeless in its tracks for actually years. However folks get that the Patreon is only a method to assist the positioning (and people little perks).
Even only a greenback a month goes a great distance.
Merch
Folks have been asking for Vooks merch for years—not many individuals, however it’s all the time one thing we wished to supply however couldn’t discover the appropriate method to do it. So now we have now the Vooks Merch store with a variety of cool issues that we’d purchase ourselves (and have!).
We’ve stored the margin as little as potential, so we get a little bit for every merchandise. However we actually simply wished to supply a approach for folks to purchase one thing to assist the positioning and put on it out and about.
Like something, transport is the killer, and we’ve tried to choose merchandise which might be made and shipped from Australia so the prices are low. However so many cool merchandise aren’t made right here in order that it may blow issues out.
If you happen to’ve learn all the way in which to the top, thanks for studying it – thanks for being right here on our web site in any respect. We truely admire it.
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