Comments on: The importance of a ‘Donate’ button

By: http://learn-free-medical-transcription.blogspot.com

http://learn-free-medical-transcription.blogspot.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:11:51 +0000

i also would like to add “donate” button to my free medical transcription button. Thanks for this idea.

By: Web About Theme

Web About Theme — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:05:54 +0000

Before some months. I add the donate button to my site, But after two month, There is no one donate, hehe! So I remove the donate button now. I think if you blog really have more helpfull things, The reader could donate you! Web About Theme´s last blog post... TimeCafe News - Premium Magazine Style WordPress Theme

By: Jacques | Website Design

Jacques | Website Design — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:17:11 +0000

I really like the “buy me a beer” button, which can be tweaked a bit to read “buy me a coffee / lunch / etc”

If you offer value, and dont really have a solid monetization plan, this might well be the ideal plan to help you cover a little bit of the expenses.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:47:56 +0000

@Nihar, go for it man… you never know the potential until you try it

@Ruchi, you are welcome

@Madhur, it’s just not for free software/plugins. Sometimes great coding/blogging tips can fetch you money as well. Yes, in this part of the world we generally do not donate for any service that comes free

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:51:35 +0000

I think this works when someone is providing some free software or some themes or plugin. I had it on my blog for sometime but it was not a success.

By: Ruchi

Ruchi — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:36:55 +0000

Dnate button is a great idea, and thanks for the nice information how to set it up using paypal. Ruchi's last blog post... Some Qualities of a Successful Leader

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:23:25 +0000

I never tried putting donate link. May be i should put donate links on cricket links posts. May be somebody who is happy for the links might donate 1$

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:17:17 +0000

@Barbara, I agree with you Barbara. Sometimes, it’s a great way to appreciate your efforts especially when there’re no other intrusive income generators such as ads on a blog.

@Lax, as I mentioned in the above comment, if the users are provided with plain good content (and not ads) there’s nothing wrong in putting a ‘Donate’ button. But it may be ridiculous if somebody has a lot of ads, even popups and want to accept donations further.

@H’woodcasino, Got your point… Yes, sometimes to push a cause further – e.g. certain open source idea – one (or those who buy that idea) may contribute as well.

@Kim, absolutely… If somebody has been struggling with a technical or software problem and one of our posts has been extremely helpful to him in sorting out the same, why not donate? If he had taken professional help, probably that would have cost him $100 or $200. So it’s just not for plugins, themes and coded software alone.

@Yoginder, agreed. I must add for ‘useful and consumable’ content.

@Dennis, thank you for your views. You may be right. On business and professional blogs, it may be redundant as anyhow they may be generating huge income even otherwise.

@Ramesh, yep.. it’s a personal choice. In fact, there are bigger moneymakers out there for blog. But somebody like Barbara, who doesn’t sell things or stuff advertisements on her blog, may have a donate button which is absolutely acceptable I think.

@Harish, I do not know if the plugins as such will fetch in money. I think it also depends on the readership and how a particular post or tip really helped someone.

@Harsh, exactly… It’s all about how useful the content is.

@John, yes, it would be great if we know which particular post helped people and hence is making money. This probably is the idea behind Buy me a beer plugin.

By: John Samuel

John Samuel — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:41:40 +0000

I have seen donate button in couple of blogs. But the idea of putting this in a post is ok, but not for the blog completely. It’s because the donation for a post clearly gives an idea of the post leading to the donation and as pointed out here raises the morale of the blogger

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:03:49 +0000

Its always a good idea to use donation plugin, because sometime you help people unknowingly.
And they don’t mind helping you with few dollars .