Adding a donation button to your website

by NeedBucksNow

Posted: 11 years ago 16 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hey everybody. I just added a donation button to my website in order to raise funds for advertising it with shares. I was just wondering if anybody has ever tried this and what kind of results they have had? I was thinking about using GoFundMe but hate to ask for money when there are much more desperate people on there. I think this may be a good idea though and have been using a WordPress plugin called MoreSharesForYou for getting the ball rolling on them. I've had pretty good results and they even refunded them one time I had my campaign paused. Just wanted to share this with everybody and wish me luck. I would love to share my site with as many people as possible and show them the right ways to make money online. Thanks

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RealCasher 11 years ago

I tried a donation button on my mobile app which has thousands of users on a daily basis..
Guess what? Only 1 donation of 3$ from about 15000 clicks to the donation page.
I took it down, obviously.
But don't take my words for granted, because all my traffic was on mobile + 3rd tier countries.
So you may get better results.
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Tom Addams 11 years ago

They're weak. Seriously. You'd be much better off knowing what your traffic wants and showing the an affiliate offer.

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seobro 11 years ago

That might work for a church or a charity, but not for you. BTW, if you need to be begging for money. Hey, that is not a good sign.
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Raymond T 11 years ago

I've seen people try everything from donation buttons to tip jars to buy me a beer features. Unfortunately, it never works unless you're a non-profit. Even then, online donations from strangers are extremely rare. Consider monetizing your audience via ads or affiliate links, as Tom Addams mentioned. Best of luck!
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salegurus 11 years ago

Not a good idea if you are in the MMO niche.... ie: You want to show/teach people how to make money online but at the same time you're begging for donations?
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- Dana Holt 11 years ago
  
  I've tried donation buttons on a few different occasions (mostly with software products), and they never worked for me.
  
  I did have some success in making some money off of users that didn't want to pay for a product using a service (can't remember the name now) that would allow them to complete CPA offers in exchange for the software.
  
  The company gave me a cut of the payout, and I gave the end user a copy of the software for "free."
  
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- discrat 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by salegurus
  
  Not a good idea if you are in the MMO niche.... ie: You want to show/teach people how to make money online but at the same time you're begging for donations?
  
  He could always just show/teach people how to beg
  
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  Tom Addams 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by discrat
  
  He could always just show/teach people how to beg
  
  - Robert Andrew
  
  You joke, Robert, but this used to be a thriving niche. lol No idea if it still is. I remember reading discussions about it on one forum or other; the techniques involved. I think someone read the Bum Marketing Method and got the wrong idea!
  
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KingServers01 11 years ago

You will hardly get any visitor who would donate some dollars.. you should focus on AdSense.
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NeedBucksNow 11 years ago

Hey everybody. Still in the beginning stages with the site and it is only 3 months old. I'm willing to keep it up for a year to see how it goes but it still takes time. I know the potential that it could be if I keep at it & was doing the donations as sharing is caring funds. It is not necessary that expensive to buy the shares (ordered 400 real shares for $29 last night). It was just an idea because I saw the success that people were having with GoFundMe. All well, maybe someday it will help me
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- WD Mino 11 years ago
  
  Wait.... What?
  
  You are advertising how to make money, and you are focusing on a begging site?
  So that makes you appear to be a scammer person.
  
  Um, really not a good thing to give people that impression. I don't know about others but I find it highly offensive. Shame on you. You do realize that in doing that you are trying to purposely take advantage of people , right?
  
  What a terrible thing.
  
  I Hope you don't get one single person to take advantage of.
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QueenMelanie 11 years ago

you just reminded me that I had a paypal donate button on one of my old sites, just went back to check and Woalah! 0 donated in 3 years!

I did just have a modest little icon in the corner though, didn't ask or anything!
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NeedBucksNow 11 years ago

Wow. Really feeling the love here. Was just wondering how it would do but sounds like you couldn't get a dollar if you tried.
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NeedBucksNow 11 years ago

I went ahead and updated the button and think it looks better. Still don't see why everyone thinks a donation is begging for money anymore than GoFundMe.
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- The Niche Man 11 years ago
  
  Be careful, I came up with that brilliant idea many years ago, I got zero donations, but I did get a friendly note from the local I.R.S district office.
  
  The officer just wanted to know why I'm asking for donations for an obvious commercial website.
  
  I took the donation button down faster than you can say "IRS audit" !
  
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NeedBucksNow 11 years ago

Hmmm. Do you think it would be better to make a GoFundMe button in place of the donation button? Starting to seem like that would be a better idea...
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