Do donation buttons work?

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Has anyone had luck with adding a PayPal donation button or one of those Amazon Honor System deals to their site or blog? I heard some bad stuff about PayPal not paying up and closing accounts, which sounds typical of them. What has been your experience?
 


WallaceCleaver said:
I've never heard of him. Does he have any authority to make such a recommendation?
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Hes done very well for himself as an independent game developer, and now works as a motivational speaker. Cant say about his authority on web development, but hes pretty well known.

As to if they work, I would think if you're going to put adsense or other ads, I dont know that a donation button would be effective.
 
They never worked for me, but if you provide a decent service you'd probly get donations. Xoops gets quite a few i believe.
 
Steve Pavlina is pretty well known in professional blogging circles too - I think his blog made a killing and he posted the adsense cheque somewhere (or something like that - kind of like what Jon did.

I enjoy his stuff about blogging, but I am not really into the whole "motivation" and self improvement thing.

Another thing is I like to watch what people like him DO rather than what they SAY to do.
 
You would defiantly need to be providing quality content or a service to make it work. I know I wouldn't donate unless I was getting something useful back in return.
 
Peter said:
You would defiantly need to be providing quality content or a service to make it work. I know I wouldn't donate unless I was getting something useful back in return.
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Would entertainment value be enough. Take, for instance, Overheard in New York or Stuff on my Cat. Would you find them to be donation worthy?
 
WallaceCleaver said:
Would entertainment value be enough. Take, for instance, Overheard in New York or Stuff on my Cat. Would you find them to be donation worthy?
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I think it would be different from person to person. One person might think it's defiantly worthwhile but another might think it's not. :)
 
chris22 said:
They work best on forums, and sites that provide free services.
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I'm interested to learn why you think that they are better suited to forums than blogs. I can see why they would work well with sites offering free services, though. I imagine the guilt factor would kick in on that one.
 
I'm sure they work on blogs too. As long as you're blogging about something of interest/value to people, and you have a following, then yeah.
 
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