How you can support LinkedMusicians

[LinkedMusicians]

As a growing new community of music producers, there are a good deal of costs for operating the LinkedMusicians website including software/code/plugins, web hosting, security services, and email services. The big forum sites easily pay for these costs through selling advertising, subscriptions, selling product, advertising/sponsorships, e-commerce, etc. While LinkedMusicians is growing rapidly, we’re still not at the volume that would make selling advertising viable although I’ve had some developers — small and one large one tell me that they want to advertise on LinkedMusicians when I roll it out. Consequently, I’ve been self-funding the site at this point, with a little help from contributors. To date, we’ve had around $3,000 in costs and raised around $65 in contributions, and netted around $20 from merch sales, so we’re a long way from covering LM’s costs through those sources. To date, the most viable source of funding (beyond my bank account), has been via affiliate commissions. They’re a long way from covering all of the costs of operating the site, but they are largest source of funds for LinkedMusicians. To be really candid, I don’t love using affiliate programs. But it is the only way I can move from having to fund the site to it being self-sufficient. – Peter

Here are the various ways you can help support LinkedMusicians:

Financial Contributions

Make a one-time financial contribution, as little as $5, with the following link:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DGWFE3HE6F7NW

 

LinkedMusicians Merch

Purchase a LinkedMusicians t-shirt, hoodie, mug, water bottle, mousepad, stickers, and other merch at our merch store. The store, a print on demand retailer (Printify) gives a portion of the sale back to LinkedMusicians, which goes towards the operation of the site.

LinkedMusicians Merch Store

Affiliate Links

Some of the links on the site are affiliate links. When you click an affiliate link and complete a purchase, the seller gives us a commission on the sale – commonly from 2% to 15%, which goes towards the operation of the LinkedMusicians website. This has been the best source of funding LinkedMusicians to date.

 

ADSR

Append this to the end of a URL:

#a_aid=lm

 

http://www.adsrsounds.com/#a_aid=lm

 

Audio Deluxe

Append this to the end of a URL:

?sca_ref=9905602.8KvuZSaQ9x

Example: https://audiodeluxe.com/?sca_ref=9905602.8KvuZSaQ9x

 

Audio Plugin Deals

Append this to the end of a URL:

/ref/384/

Example: https://audioplugin.deals/ref/384/

 

Best Service

Append this to the end of a URL:

?aid=ZBgL2roqVxRSujmR

Example: https://www.bestservice.com/?aid=ZBgL2roqVxRSujmR

 

Loot Audio

?affid=1bN4yEa7213iFngp3cQ5lSC540hJjk

Example: https://lootaudio.com?affid=1bN4yEa7213iFngp3cQ5lSC540hJjk

 

Melda Production

Append this to the end of a URL:

#LM

Example: https://www.meldaproduction.com/#LM

 

PluginBoutique

?a_aid=66fd59ee09bb9

Example: https://www.pluginboutique.com/?a_aid=66fd59ee09bb9

Pluginomat

?aff=LinkedMusicians

Example:  https://pluginomat.com/?aff=LinkedMusicians

 

Plugin Fox

Append this to the end of a URL:

?aff=484

Example: https://pluginfox.com?aff=484

Rhodes Music

#a_aid=LMdeal

http://www.rhodesmusic.com/#a_aid=LMdeal

 

Thomann

?offid=1&affid=3831

 

United Plugins

Append this to the end of a URL:

#a_aid=LM

Example: https://unitedplugins.com/#a_aid=LM

 

Yurt Rock

Append this to the end of a URL:

?el=yurtrockaffiliate&sca_ref=8858066.v0SmmmpG68

https://yurtrock.com?el=yurtrockaffiliate&sca_ref=8858066.v0SmmmpG68

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[Dorian Gray]

lm’s quickly become one of my favorite forums. great deals, it’s really friendly. i like best that anyone can post a deal to beat what’s been posted. you’d be kicked out a subreddit if you did that. they’re trying to make as much money as possible from their affiliate links, so it’s great that lm lets people post better deals if they can find them. please keep doing that! it really separates this site out from the rest. i’ve found a bunch of better deals here than i’ve seen posted at a subreddit i regularly visit. lm is training me to just come here.

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