TweetAn efficient way to earn money, especially if blog/site is on a niche where the readers learn and gain value from your content. Personal development and productivity blogs for instance tend to perform well with donation based systems. You can even re-word your donation’s with your own message and ask for specific things. With WordPress there is a blog plugin called Buy Me A Beer, others followed with Coffee etc. Just insert your custom message at the bottom of each article or important part of website, simply asking them to chip in.
ChipIn.com
Go to the home page of Chipin and start creating your widget straight away.
Sign up with your admin@ email address and activate the email.
Fill in the rest of the details to finalise registration.
Once signed in, head to your widgets that you created when you first landed on the site.
Your widget is ready to promote wherever you wish and is still also editable.
You could use chipin to gain money before writing your next album or for a piece of equipment the band may need quite soon, anything that needs money such as petrol for gigs. Incorporating petrol expenses with travel to gigs you can receive more donations to travel further a field and even lower gig prices due to the new donations?
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/paypal-donations/
fundable.com/ which has features within to raise money under different circumstances
Similar to the band services where you can collate money from fans, Sellaband etc. With ChipIn, you are creating a small widget which you can place on your website to ask for financial help for whatever cause. There are also many plugins for blogs and content management systems, but luckily it is not too hard to grab the code you are given and place on a webpage within a div, under your songs or on a sidebar of a webpage.
Head on over to paypal.com and sign up.
Choose the business option as you may need the majority of services that the business one allows.
Next choose your business payment type.
Fill out your details, anything that does not say (optional) requires that it needs to be filled in.
The final page on setup is the account details on which you will login and logout with and confirm security incase you ever forget your details.
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