Izotope Black Friday Cyber Season Sale – Save Up to 87%

[peter]

iZotope Ozone 11, RX 11, Elements & Creative FX Black Friday Cyber Season Sale14 Nov – December 05, 2024
iZotope’s mission is to enable creativity for all through intelligent, compelling audio technology. Save up to 87% off on some of their most renowned plugins in our Black Friday Cyber Season sale! Featuring Neutron 5, Ozone 11, RX11, Elements Suite 10 & more. – Don’t miss out!

https://www.pluginboutique.com/deals/show?sale_id=18162#a_aid=66fd59ee09bb9

[affiliate link]

Your friend who keeps the beat. I suppose I'm also the chef at this place.

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[pseudopop]

@peter, you’re the boss, but I thought posting affiliate links was against the community rules?

[Brian]

On pseudopop said

@peter, you’re the boss, but I thought posting affiliate links was against the community rules?

Good question.  @Peter mentioned his intent to try to monetize to offset his out of pocket expenses for paying devs, licensing, hosting, etc. in other LM forums.  I don’t see it in the main “Rules” page, so it would probably be a good idea to put it in there.

And to quote Mel Brooks: “It’s good to be the king.”

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[peter]

On pseudopop said

@peter, you’re the boss, but I thought posting affiliate links was against the community rules?

The rules against posting affiliate links apply to those using the site. It’s pretty common in various reddit, Facebook and other groups to have that policy and the group owner can post affiliate links to compensate them for their time. In the case of LinkedMusicians, those affiliate links are the only method I have to get some help funding the site. So far, my first year costs for the site are around $1,700 US. I’d be lucky if the affiliate links bring in $20 US per month at our community’s present volume.

For you or anyone that doesn’t want to use them (they don’t change the price you pay), you can strip out the code at the end after the ? or #. Affiliate codes often use the letters “aid” for affiliate ID, if you’re looking to remove it.

As far as people using the site posting affiliate links for their own profit,  its not the same thing. They didn’t put more than 3,000 hours and $1,700 into the site. This isn’t going to break even. I’m just looking to hopefully get to that point within the next couple of years. A few people have asked about helping with the costs of the site and I will put up a contribution page in the future. Consider that Cakewalk Forums is support and marketing for a business.  VI-CONTROL generates 6 figures of revenue from developers from their pay to play model and advertising. KVR easily makes over $1 million per year. This site’s model is not going to be a money maker like those communities, and we’re unlikely to get that volume of traffic any time soon. I’m committed to making this the best community to research plugins and libraries and not have the manipulation that goes on at say VI-CONTROL (most users don’t have any idea, but they are aware of the toxic culture). Anyhow, my tendinitis is killing me. I’ll be happy to answer any questions.  Just ask. And never hesitate to be candid.

Your friend who keeps the beat. I suppose I'm also the chef at this place.

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[pseudopop]

On peter said

The rules against posting affiliate links apply to those using the site. It’s pretty common in various reddit, Facebook and other groups to have that policy and the group owner can post affiliate links to compensate them for their time. In the case of LinkedMusicians, those affiliate links are the only method I have to get some help funding the site. So far, my first year costs for the site are around $1,700 US. I’d be lucky if the affiliate links bring in $20 US per month at our community’s present volume.

Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up.

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[fretman]

<sigh> The full Neutron 5 is not part of this deal. I was hoping they’d at least extend the intro pricing until  BF. Now I gotta wait until their normal yearly sale which is …. tell me again. When is that? Maybe part of the NI summer sale?

Studio One, Windows, RME UFX, Yamaha MSP7

[peter]

On fretman said

<sigh> The full Neutron 5 is not part of this deal. I was hoping they’d at least extend the intro pricing until  BF. Now I gotta wait until their normal yearly sale which is …. tell me again. When is that? Maybe part of the NI summer sale?

Studio One, Windows, RME UFX, Yamaha MSP7

I’m really bummed about Izotope’s policy. I own everything in their MPS bundle and more Izotope software, but because I bought another bundle which they stopped making, they won’t allow me to get the MPS upgrade pricing (I have twice contacted their customer support to see if they’d let me upgrade using the MPS upgrade and they told me they would not). It’s really absurd and is killing my former good feelings for the brand. I really do want to upgrade, but I can’t get myself to pay more than twice the cost of the MPS bundle deal when I have all of the products in the last version of the MPS bundle registered — including a couple of advanced versions of product beyond what’s in that bundle.

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