Comments on: Soliciting Voluntary Contributions & Donations for Online Content: 2 Approaches http://subscriptionsiteinsider.com/blog/index.php/soliciting-voluntary-contributions-donations-for-online-content-2-approaches/ Mon, 24 May 2010 13:09:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Tim Bourquin http://subscriptionsiteinsider.com/blog/index.php/soliciting-voluntary-contributions-donations-for-online-content-2-approaches/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Tim Bourquin Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:54:08 +0000 http://subscriptionsiteinsider.com/blog/?p=144#comment-6 Good thoughts Anne. My experience has been though, that the donate or tip jar method can actually hurt long term. When a site grows to the point that charging IS an option, people who have seen the tip jar for some time on the site often assume if the content wasn't worth charging for initially, it probably hasn't changed. Most people won't make much of anything with a donate button anyway, so the best solution may be to just put the pay wall up as soon as possible and work hard to grow the subscriber base as they go along. Good thoughts Anne. My experience has been though, that the donate or tip jar method can actually hurt long term. When a site grows to the point that charging IS an option, people who have seen the tip jar for some time on the site often assume if the content wasn’t worth charging for initially, it probably hasn’t changed.

Most people won’t make much of anything with a donate button anyway, so the best solution may be to just put the pay wall up as soon as possible and work hard to grow the subscriber base as they go along.

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