Help Us Help You

Here at the Buckeye Battle Cry, we try our best to keep the focus on the world of Ohio State sports. And, judging by the numbers of folks who are stopping by for nachos and stuff, we’re doing a pretty decent job.

But every now and again we need to lift the curtain and let you know what’s going on with the great and powerful Oz. Whether it’s adding new writers or highlighting a great design update, we’ve been fortunate to add to the site in ways that hopefully enhance your ability to get Buckeye news, talk college sports, and generally avoid the TPS reports at work.

And we hope this announcement will continue in that trend. As we grow, there’s a couple of next steps we’re looking to take- we’ve got some internal upgrades brewing, we may expand the staff in the future, and we’re excited about being able to bring you “live” coverage of the Buckeyes from practice and from the games.

To do that, though, we’ve got to get some funding. So, we’ve begun working on ways to address step two of the business model that we have as one of our guiding principals. We’re infinitely grateful for our current sponsors (that’s them over in the right sidebar), but will be exploring some new advertising on the site. As usual, we’ll make sure that it goes with the overall vibe of our mission and readers; we’re not featuring anything from the Martha Stewart collection hereabouts.

So, one of the first things we’ve done is create a partnership with Amazon.com that will allow you to help our efforts. By clicking on the link over in the left sidebar or this one (Shop at Amazon.com!), tBBC gets a small percentage of anything you buy from them. If you were feeling particularly helpful, you could drag that link to your Chrome or Firefox toolbar and make it your Amazon start page for any future purchases.

Oh, and this doesn’t do anything to your order- Amazon does not share any information with us regarding who bought what or anyone’s account information, only the total amount that all of the people who have used our “launching point” have purchased.  They don’t charge you any extra either, the amount comes straight out of their profits.

Thanks again for all that you’ve done to make our little slice of the World Wide Woody Hayes Appreciation Network such a success, and for your part in the future development and growth of tBBC.