With all the new growth this years past, and the rapid growth in the last two months, the Knights PodCast! has been running out of bandwidth every month about a week before our bandwidth revolving date. That is great, in a way, and hard on us in another. Due to certain aspects in our operating budget, ie... a new grandson, a grandfather in the hospital, school costs and bills over this winter, we are having a hard time on providing the bandwidth needed to keep the podcast updated and available to our listeners without interruption.
Although our podcast is free, and hope to always will be, as many of the Knights of the Stone services are, we do rely on donations from time to time to keep our online network in operation. This is true for many organizations, and most of them rely on their members to support the functions of the organization. Our membership began in the Mid-South region, and has slowly spread across the US. Our growing pains have ushered in many new and wonderful things as a whole, but has streched us pretty thin, in budget mainly, and with our varied locations of our memberships, we do not come together physically as much as we one had. But our online presence, and our network that we have built, has grown vastly.
We do care so much for our podcast audience, and our online friends and activities, and at this time do ask the one simple favor of donations. (Our podcast expansion only costs us $10 US a month, and total operations are at $35 US monthly now.) Our podcast does have advertisements on it, and we do run an intro advert once for free, but very few actually pay our contract terms for multiple adverts on air (which are way below many other podcast terms) and we try not to run more than 5 adverts per podcast as to keep the podcast as free from commercial affairs as possible and focus on events announcements and entertainment. We also network with many other pagan organizations and run free adverts for them as part of our online networking, and they in turn have links or introductions for us for free. The upside to that is the growth of our podcast base audience, and the downside is the bandwidth demand due to the growth.
There is a donation button on the Knights PodCast! page, and it is verified to our Paypal account. Any amount helps keep thing going, and growing. Or, you can use our feedback form to request more information on donations, advertisement placements, or anything else that you or your organization can do to help and even link to or be placed with our listings. Also, don't forget to check out the Knights Shoppe, our Knights products are our largest source of potential income for our events hosting, and our affiliation with our friends at The Magick Moon is more than a business relationship, we have known the owners of it for many years before the store came into being! And on a last note, membership is always free! and with your help, our podcast subscription and most services will remain free as well!
May your journeys bring you all that you seek!
Aiyanna & Shadar