Comments on: Blog Donation Tool: ChipIn

By: Frontline

Frontline — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:04:23 +0000

Great idea. Have you tried Scratchback also? I’m curious as to how much money you’ve made off of ChipIn. Would you be willing to tell us how much money you made?

By: Ankesh Kothari

Ankesh Kothari — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:22:53 +0000

Thanks guys for all the encouragement!

Richard: Creating a goodie is a very very effective way of getting others to link to your blog. After creating the goodie, make sure you allocate some time to promote the goodie too. You’ll need to spend at least a couple of hours contacting bloggers and publishers to check your goodie out - if you don’t already have a prior relationship with them.

By: Jared Schwager

Jared Schwager — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:49:24 +0000

Though ChipIn is a really great tool, I still think the idea behind your plugin is a better one. Giving readers a specific thing they can donate for usually results in more donations.

By: Richard Callaby

Richard Callaby — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:59:06 +0000

I have to agree the buy me a beer plugin or rather for me the buy me a expresso plugin is a far better alternative. I figure that if what I write has any value to my audience that they might just pay the small amount in exchange for my effort. Now while this has not happened yet, I expect it might do so in the future.

It is a good idea to create a plugin in order to create backlinks to your website. I have thought of doing the same but with a ebook or course. I am not sure of how effective that might be but I am willing experiment to find out.

Thanks for the hard work and please keep it up. It is appreciated!

By: Brian Vaughan

Brian Vaughan — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:23:11 +0000

I’ve seen the chipin widget floating around for past few days, it looks nice, but I have to say I still like the buy me a beer better