mute all There we go. Well, Aaron, where are you? I came down to the basement. Oh, I feel like yeah, that was like briefly looking up at cupboards that was wild. All right, I'm gonna mute all and then start since I'm already late. I'm also going to beg your pardon. I don't know what's been happening to me. And this has been Aaron, since we talked earlier, it's only gotten worse. So if my eyes look like somebody punched me, it's just some crazy allergic reaction that is making me a little loopy here. Anyway, in spite of that, in auspicious start, I think I'm recording and let me share the screen. Alright, I'm going to assume I'm Oh my God, my eye looks so red. Like I just see my anyway. I'm gonna assume I'm good here, somebody interrupt me if I'm not sharing. And I will get started. So got the month, right, that's a good sign. So news and announcements for June of 2024. This is actually going to be a fairly easy slide deck to run through. So not too many announcements. One thing I did want to say is like I got a notification from I think the government of Michigan that hit subscribe is seven years old now. And Amanda is listed as the forget the role like the person of record on the business. So that's cool. The business is seven years old. And actually stay tuned if you're interested. I have queued up another book for publication, and Amanda has edited that. So that's going to come out soon. And the Eric Amanda, dynamic was actually one of the motivations for founding this business. So it's kind of fun to have that happening. Again, anyone interested, the book is going to be called SEO for non scumbags. We are giving it away for free as part of our marketing collateral. So if it interests you, and you're listening to this later, you can absolutely go consume that and there is no charge or if we do charge for it, because I guess the publisher tells me some platforms, you have to set a price, we are going to pick a charity and just donate all of the proceeds. So next up is another slide that I'm just leaving on here. For anyone watching, listening or reading the transcript later, if you want to be on our site, just let us know. And we will put you on the site. And that's it. At least in terms of business announcements. So opportunities. As always, I am documenting here, sorry, I can't stop I can see myself and I can't stop looking at like how messed up my eye looks. I'm going to try not to look at myself. So as always, the referral program is on here. If you refer us any business, we will give you a 10% revenue share of the first year of business. If you're working for a company and you don't feel comfortable taking that rev share, the other thing we can do is instead of paying it to you, we can give your company the first or the rev share, so to speak. So if you're working at Acme Inc, and you feel like it would be weird for you to take a cut of doing business with hit subscribe. The other thing we can do is say Hey, dear friend of hit subscribe because you referred business to us, we will give you our employer Acme Inc, a 10% discount of the first year of service. So that can be a nice way. For any of you out there listening or watching that don't exactly feel comfortable taking money. It's another way to have a warm referral in a benefit. So every month now I am trying to do some common referral scenarios. So you know, we tee this up and say if you introduce people to us, you can make some money. I think it's good to also tee up a way to actually make an introduction. So you understand. And the one I'll highlight this month is one that Aaron and I and looking at businesses that have run across it is fairly common for people in Dev Tools to stand up a site on something like Jekyll or ghost or whatever. The other thing that we see that is fairly common is if you do that, sooner or later you will regret that decision and to side to move to WordPress or web flow, it is almost always one of those two. If nothing, if not that, then by the time they get big enough to have internal IT staff, they will do some kind of custom headless thing that there it runs, but it'll be one of those three, nobody is going to go from seed to be round, or later and keep running, whatever. technical founders do static site generators, they will not do that. So sooner or later, they will want to move to something that their marketing staff can actually operate that isn't constructed in Markdown, and doesn't involve deploying every time you publish a blog post. So if you see an early stage company, and they are using static site generator, there is a good chance that at some point in the future, they will not want to do that anymore. And one of the things we can absolutely do is make sure they don't lose any SEO juice as they make that migration. So for you out there that might want to refer business, if you see a dev tools company that is using a static site generator. And especially if you get the sense that they might be planning a migration away from it, that is a great moment to make an introduction because we can specifically ensure that they don't lose traffic through SEO when they do that. Another thing that I want to mention here is the showcase files. So I've been threatening this for months, and Eric Goble Becker, and I had been talking about it, this is a thing that we're doing, and it is actually technically live now. So Theo wrote this blog post in here. This is a screenshot from the hit subscribe blog, and we paid him for it. I assumed Angela, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he was offered the standard author compensation rate. That is certainly the goal. So the idea is, if you are interested in writing a blog post showcasing how to use a dev tool that we are not currently working with, we will pay you for that, like hit subscribe will essentially become its own client, and pay authors and other contractors as applicable to create content. And we will publish it to the blog. And we have been over the last month ironing out distribution of that. So we I think I put it up on our dev too. And we want to publish these zones of other places and promote it on socials tag the brands etc. So we're spinning all that up. But it is a real thing. It exists. And we are interested in paying those of you who are authors who are creating content like this, we will get more sophisticated about socializing the dev tools that we're talking about. But for now, we have this glitch site I a couple months ago put up three brands code anywhere short loop and say Glen's air Aaron and I are working on a backlog of other brands that we would put up there for showcase purposes. But the TLDR is if you are an author and you want to write about a developer tools brand, there is a decent chance we will pay you to do that. If it is one of the brands that we've identified as potentially being a good fit for hit subscribe, we will kind of no questions asked to pay for that. If you have a proposal, like you know, a dev tool, you know, say you work with. This isn't a good example, because we're not gonna go pitch this to Microsoft. But let's say hypothetically, you worked with Visual Studio, and you want to do some kind of showcase about Visual Studio, you could come to us and say, I have this idea for a showcase. And we might turn around and say either, yeah, absolutely, we will pay you for that to put it on, hit subscribe. Or we might say, I'm not sure that's a great fit for our business as a client. But if you publish it on your own blog, and you bet on yourself, and you get their attention, and they reach out to you and you refer them to us, we will still give you the referral bonus. So to be clear in either of these scenarios, whether we pay you for it on hit subscribe site, or whether you just go off on your own and write whatever you want. In either case, if your work results in us getting the attention of that company and then doing business, we will pay you the aforementioned 10% revenue share. So this can be a great double dip to like get paid for writing for hit subscribe, and also to really get paid if we do business with them. And I say this on pretty much every stage of the business but just to give you an idea. I forget how much we paid out over the years but it isn't like crazy. I think so far this year. We have paid out 6000 In referral bonuses. So like this is a thing like it happens and you can make a good bit of money doing it So TLDR here, if you have a tool that you would like to show off your knowledge of and demonstrate how to use it, approach us err on the side of reaching out to us and proposing it and we'll talk from there. And I believe that's it. So I did not receive any questions in advanced does anybody live on the call have any questions? 321
I'm going to take that as a no, wrap it up. And thank you to everybody for attending slash watching slash reading after the fact.
