Once Working Hours hits 200 published episodes any future episodes of the show will need to be paid for in order to cover my time. The price covers just the editing time at a heavily discounted rate. I have born all the labour and costs for Working Hours for six years and can no longer aford to do. Rather than end the project completely I am asking Loiners to buy episodes of the show in order for it to continue. Hopefully, people see the value and want to help the project while also seeing how being on Working Hours can benefit them.
Any money to be raised is to create and pay for episodes, either via direct purchase, small donations, fund-raising activities, bolt on purchases of Working Hours content or in show advertising or sponsorship.
Buy Your Own Episode – direct and complete payments only.
Buy an episode of Working Hours and contribute to the project by being and buying a part of it.
£250 for video and audio episode – audio only episode distributed to all podcast hosts and channels and video episodes posted to both Working Hours’ YouTube channel and Spotify feed.
£200 for audio only interview and episode (includes free audiogram episode version on the YouTube channel)
Gift Episodes
Buy an episode for someone else and support the project.
For gift episodes there will be a £25% service charge to cover any online fees taken from your payment and for providing you with the flexibility of a gift episode.
There must also be a time-limit on gift episodes. I’ve waited months for guests to proof their free episodes in the process of making Working Hours so gift episodes must be redeemed within a six-month period. This limit is set so in order to encourage people to redeem their gift episodes sooner rather than later and to limit the number of gift episodes sold and unredeemed (and therefore the amount of tracking I need to do for gift episodes).
Historic Episodes
To make sure I’m not leaving anyone out I will also be offering previous guests the chance to buy social posts for their already published episodes. Again, the main reason for doing this is to raise the funds to make more of this show but, for previous guests this is also a chance to highlight and revisit both their interview and their episode.
Old episodes get listens.
Working Hours is designed as an evergreen project, so even if your interview seems like its no longer relevant, well, now its history!
Your episodes can now teach us new things in our changed context.
Episode Upgrades
£25 upgrade option – add 3x audiogram social posts to your episode purchase
£50 upgrade option – add 3x video social posts to your episode purchase
Sponsored Episodes – singles and bulk
£250 per episode – with an in-show ad-read and your business name read out with the title of the show.
For £300 – you get the same as above, plus five social media clips from your sponsored episode (with your business’ name on it) that you can post to your own social channels and which WSL will also share for you on our social channels.
Bulk buys knock up to a maximum of £100 off your sponsored episodes.
Blocks of five equals £1111.11 – that’s a saving of £138.89.
Blocks of ten equals £2000 – that’s a saving of £500 or two free episodes.
If you sell houses, heat pumps, solar panels, boilers, driveways, double glazing, conservatories, extensions, automotive services, sheds, motor homes, static caravans, boats, jet skis, tourism, life insurance, pensions, mortgages and loans. If you sell business solutions that are likely to cost someone more than a grand to buy, then this is a great offer for you.
Not only will your message reach new audiences, but your message will continue to be heard by people long after your sponsored episodes are published. People continue to listen to episodes published long ago and they will continue to do so.
In terms of advertising then, this offer is best suited for West Yorkshire businesses for whom dropping a couple of grand on marketing is “no biggy” (ideally Leeds businesses but, any West Yorkshire businesses that sell in Leeds are welcome to take part too) because for these sorts of businesses making one sale would make their marketing investment worthwhile.
If you’re a Leeds based business sponsor you might even want to use some of the episodes that you’ve paid to sponsors for your own employees, or maybe you’re a non-Leeds business who’s sponsoring the show and you have an employee that’s Leeds born that you’d like to put on the show? Well, if that’s the case, you can do that too!
Small Donations
For every £300 pounds raised in donations or Patreon memberships an episode of Working Hours will be produced.
This must be £300 on one site: £300 pounds raised on Ko-Fi will get an episode made or £300 pounds on Patreon will get an episode made.
Check both sites and donate to the one that’s raised the most money when you look. If there’s no money in either pot, then it’s up to you which one to choose.
Why this price?
Because online landlords take massive cuts from all these donation sites. It is not feasible to aggregate donations across sites to make up the cost of producing an episode.
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