November 17, 2015 at 07:59Why does Dronk.ru put referral links on a hub?
Hi Giktayms. My name is Yura and today I want to talk a little about the monetization of our project, which allows us to pay back the maintenance of this blog (which is especially important because of the recent increase in value by 2 times). Let me remind you that we are dealing with the problem of choosing complex equipment and this is the main mission of Dronk.ru .
If you look at many of our posts on giktaymsa, you can see a terrible fact: “They use referral links, which means they earn on my purchases !!!”. And you will be right - we really do it, but what if I say that a referral link is better than just a link to an online store of a Russian company? We want to be as open as possible, so we reveal the cards.
When a typical online store sells goods in Russia, it makes an extra charge for:
- 18% VAT (mandatory tax for any Russian company)
- Extra charge for paying for the office,
- Extra charge for paying employees
- Extra charge for paying for advertising
- Extra charge for making the company
It should be borne in mind that the purchase abroad is of course at a lower cost, but still, if we are talking about goods from China, the margin will be about 20-1000% compared to goods that can be bought without any problems in retail in China and receive by mail or urerom 2 weeks.
In order not to be unfounded, let us look at the example of the most popular budget quadrocopter with GPS - the Cheerson CX-20, which we recently described. On the market it is sold for 22 900 - 25 190 rubles. , and our card shows prices in China, where it costs 14,767 rubles , from where you will also be given free courier delivery to the door.
Another unconditional plus is our store selection system, since we have no restrictions on choosing the best price offer around the world.
All major online stores selling all over the world have an affiliate program, which means we do not limit ourselves in our choice. By selecting objects to study, we can refer to amazon, aliexpress, ebay, gearbest, banggood, jd, tomtop, etc. That is, we are looking for the most interesting offer and add it to our article, and those who wish can buy what they liked, without wasting time looking for where it is cheaper.
However, if the difference between the offers is not significant, then we also focus on the reliability of the seller (especially Ali and ebay) and on the speed of delivery. And given that we order a lot ourselves - we absolutely know who delivers and in what condition the parcels arrive to Moscow, Murmansk and Melitopol (Ukraine).
Since we work with different online stores, we each have a “manager” in each of them who periodically tries to give us uninteresting “hangers” and I admit that we, inexperienced, undertook to investigate some of these hangings.
But the truth is that this is of no interest to anyone, neither to us, nor to the reader, nor even to the store, since nothing good came of such advertising, so we went through this rake and completely abandoned this policy. (Hangs remained hanging, but already on our balance sheet.)
But the study of all the new products on the market and the in-depth study of gadgets that you yourself are extremely interested in - gives a completely different effect. The materials are lively, easy to write and with a smile on their faces, so that in the end they give the reader pleasure as well, which can be easily understood by the responses that come to our mail.
Well, after we studied the subject of the review, wrote an article - we add all the observations to ourselves, in the dronk.ru database, where this experience remains for a long time.
Naturally, we are not only writing articles, the whole “football team” works daily to find the best prices and manually adjust the automatically collected product information to create a truly unique database. And our core team, consisting of 7 specialists of various professions, has been working on the project development every six months (there will be a big update soon) to offer our visitors even more opportunities for a simple choice of complex equipment.
By the way, we are always very happy about the wishes, suggestions and error messages that you send to contact@dronk.ru
If you look at many of our posts on giktaymsa, you can see a terrible fact: “They use referral links, which means they earn on my purchases !!!”. And you will be right - we really do it, but what if I say that a referral link is better than just a link to an online store of a Russian company? We want to be as open as possible, so we reveal the cards.
Simple math or who is more profitable?
When a typical online store sells goods in Russia, it makes an extra charge for:
- 18% VAT (mandatory tax for any Russian company)
- Extra charge for paying for the office,
- Extra charge for paying employees
- Extra charge for paying for advertising
- Extra charge for making the company
It should be borne in mind that the purchase abroad is of course at a lower cost, but still, if we are talking about goods from China, the margin will be about 20-1000% compared to goods that can be bought without any problems in retail in China and receive by mail or urerom 2 weeks.
In order not to be unfounded, let us look at the example of the most popular budget quadrocopter with GPS - the Cheerson CX-20, which we recently described. On the market it is sold for 22 900 - 25 190 rubles. , and our card shows prices in China, where it costs 14,767 rubles , from where you will also be given free courier delivery to the door.
How do we choose a store for recommendation in our articles?
Another unconditional plus is our store selection system, since we have no restrictions on choosing the best price offer around the world.
All major online stores selling all over the world have an affiliate program, which means we do not limit ourselves in our choice. By selecting objects to study, we can refer to amazon, aliexpress, ebay, gearbest, banggood, jd, tomtop, etc. That is, we are looking for the most interesting offer and add it to our article, and those who wish can buy what they liked, without wasting time looking for where it is cheaper.
However, if the difference between the offers is not significant, then we also focus on the reliability of the seller (especially Ali and ebay) and on the speed of delivery. And given that we order a lot ourselves - we absolutely know who delivers and in what condition the parcels arrive to Moscow, Murmansk and Melitopol (Ukraine).
Selection of the subject of the review and further application of experience
Since we work with different online stores, we each have a “manager” in each of them who periodically tries to give us uninteresting “hangers” and I admit that we, inexperienced, undertook to investigate some of these hangings.
But the truth is that this is of no interest to anyone, neither to us, nor to the reader, nor even to the store, since nothing good came of such advertising, so we went through this rake and completely abandoned this policy. (Hangs remained hanging, but already on our balance sheet.)
But the study of all the new products on the market and the in-depth study of gadgets that you yourself are extremely interested in - gives a completely different effect. The materials are lively, easy to write and with a smile on their faces, so that in the end they give the reader pleasure as well, which can be easily understood by the responses that come to our mail.
Well, after we studied the subject of the review, wrote an article - we add all the observations to ourselves, in the dronk.ru database, where this experience remains for a long time.
Conclusion
Naturally, we are not only writing articles, the whole “football team” works daily to find the best prices and manually adjust the automatically collected product information to create a truly unique database. And our core team, consisting of 7 specialists of various professions, has been working on the project development every six months (there will be a big update soon) to offer our visitors even more opportunities for a simple choice of complex equipment.
ps For those who are willing to help us in our mission and do not mind to make money on it
And now I want to offer you to help the residents of giktayms with the choice of complex equipment. If not so long ago you became the owner of an interesting smart device (it can be a phone, a quadrocopter, a tablet, a watch, a bracelet, etc.) - you can write an article about it, why you chose it, about whom you compared it, what pushed you to desire to purchase it and of course about the product itself. In general, share your experience with the community, write a useful article.
To add motivation to the creation of really useful material - you can add your referral links to it, thereby thanking the seller for a good product and of course in order to make some money on it. But note that you cannot change the place of purchase. For those who do not want to bother with affiliate links - they can just get a bonus of $ 1000 from us for a quality article that is allowed to be published on our blog.
Before writing an article - write to me in a personal email to approve the selected topic and get answers to questions of interest.
To add motivation to the creation of really useful material - you can add your referral links to it, thereby thanking the seller for a good product and of course in order to make some money on it. But note that you cannot change the place of purchase. For those who do not want to bother with affiliate links - they can just get a bonus of $ 1000 from us for a quality article that is allowed to be published on our blog.
Before writing an article - write to me in a personal email to approve the selected topic and get answers to questions of interest.
By the way, we are always very happy about the wishes, suggestions and error messages that you send to contact@dronk.ru