Later this yr, Vooks will flip 25 years outdated, and we’ll have been bringing you all of the Australian and worldwide Nintendo information, evaluations, bargains, movies, and podcast for 1 / 4 of a century.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 location has been self-sufficient and in a position to preserve its independence utilizing numerous earnings strategies to pay for the location and podcast internet hosting, safety, and all the opposite little charges concerned.
Luckily, the location is doing fairly effectively; we’re always breaking new visitors data, and issues are on the up and up—even with issues winding down with the Swap. It’s an attention-grabbing downside as a result of regardless of visitors being up, nearly all of the methods we pay for the location’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, normally our bread and butter, aren’t doing too scorching both.
So, as a result of visitors is up, we are able to’t transfer to any kind of smaller internet hosting. The a whole lot of hundreds of people that learn the location a month chew by means 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 may be some methods to assist us with out doing an excessive amount of totally different. We’re not seeking to make a tonne of cash right here , simply sufficient to maintain the lights on with out impacting our pockets.
The entire under on their very own received’t cowl all the things, but when there’s something you are able to do – please take a learn.
Promoting
Internet adverts suck; both they take up an excessive amount of house, get in the best way, 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 effectively, and in others, they create in nearly nothing.
There’s most likely an advert proper right here for some kind of topical butt cream ⬇️
If you happen to run an adblocker, take into account turning it off on Vooks. However if you happen to discover them too annoying, you realize what? We don’t blame you. Block away.
Affiliate Purchases
For years, we’ve carried out cut price guides and roundups to save lots of everybody cash. Then, Amazon got here to Australia, and affiliate hyperlinks turned a “factor.” Some individuals on social media make it their total life and make some huge cash off it. Now we have our cut price guides, and so they have some affiliate hyperlinks in them, however we want to allow you to determine the place to purchase from even when it doesn’t internet us something. We wish you to save lots of.
You may assist Vooks by shopping for from cut price guides and utilizing our hyperlinks to purchase something—it doesn’t should be video games as effectively.
By clicking any of our Amazon hyperlinks, Large 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 just lately, 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 hundreds of people that comply with us on social media, only a handful of individuals ever see these posts – even if you happen to like/comply with/subscribe to our channels. It’s sucks, and it’s solely going to worsen as Daddy Google slurps up our knowledge and makes use of it.
So, if you happen to like our work, please share it and let individuals find out about our website—we’re a small area of interest inside a small area of interest. We’re additionally always posting the Vookcast video and gameplay clips on YouTube —if you happen to 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 have 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 manner for individuals to assist the location and get just a few little perks. Sadly, being primarily based in America (particularly California), Patreon has a complete bunch of boring guidelines about having the ability to do enjoyable issues like contests, so having the ability to giveaways to our Patreons has been stopped lifeless in its tracks for actually years. However individuals get that the Patreon is only a option to assist the location (and people little perks).
Even only a greenback a month goes a great distance.
Merch
Individuals have been asking for Vooks merch for years—not many individuals, but it surely’s at all times one thing we wished to supply however couldn’t discover the fitting option to do it. So now we now have the Vooks Merch store with a spread of cool issues that we might purchase ourselves (and have!).
We’ve stored the margin as little as potential, so we get somewhat for every merchandise. However we actually simply wished to supply a manner for individuals to purchase one thing to assist the location and put on it out and about.
Like something, transport is the killer, and we’ve tried to select 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 might blow issues out.
If you happen to’ve learn all the best way to the top, thanks for studying it – thanks for being right here on our website in any respect. We truely recognize it.
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