Yes, there’s a Buy Me a Coffee button in my sidebar.
It’s been there a few days, and it looks like this…
Should you click it, you’ll be offered the opportunity of… well, as you can guess, buying me a coffee – or more than one, should you feel like – through PayPal.
And since I don’t drink coffee, I might use those money to, say, buy a domain for Karavansara, or a better template; or I might employ that cash to promote online my ebooks, or buy cover art for my ebooks, or to buy gifts for my long-suffering editors… you get the idea.
Now, I was told so many times that putting donation buttons, Amazon product links and Amazon shops and other commercial links on a blog is in poor taste…
I was told so many times you can’t blog for money…
I was called a tramp for saying that a few cents might be fun to have after all the writing…
… hell, I was publicly slammed for (supposedly1) trying to make money with my Italian blog by a guy that tried to sell his own blog’s brand T-shirts in the same article!
In other words, basically, I was told so many times that this is a no-no, that as soon as I discovered ko-fi.com, I decided to use it.
After all, I only had to place the button on my blog.
Everything that comes afterwards depends on you.
You can use it, or ignore it – the overall performance of Karavansara and your experience of its contents will not change.
Nor will I start writing differently because now I might get a tip out of it.
So, let’s see what happens.
What do you say, was this really such a terrible breach of etiquette?
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- actually I have no time to waste with lost causes, so I never tried making money with my Italian blog – but you know how these mind-readers are, they know what we are thinking better than we do ourselves. ↩
12 December 2015 at 20:34
Thanks! Ko-Fi is a great alternative to advertisements and affiliate links. It’s much more polite than asking for money too.
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12 December 2015 at 22:04
Thank you!
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20 February 2016 at 08:26
How have you found using the Ko-Fi button? I recently added a ‘buy me a coffee’ button on our site as well, but I’m not too familiar with Ko-Fi and whether it is totally legit, or works well. I’ve tried searching for some reviews on it, but haven’t had much luck. Interested to hear how you’re finding it.
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20 February 2016 at 14:57
Hi!
As far as I know, the Ko-Fi button is perfectly legit, and it works – I have received some donations on my PayPal account.
Of course, much depends on the generosity of your readers, but from the technical point of view, the widget works just fine.
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20 February 2016 at 08:28
How are you finding the ko-fi button? We’ve just added it on our site as well. I haven’t found many reviews on it.
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20 February 2016 at 14:57
See above 😉
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