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The buymeacoffee link on https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/ https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/ is broken - it points at https://streetlifesolution

by hcta 6y ago

The buymeacoffee link on https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/ https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/ is broken - it points at https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/01/buymeacoff.ee/DoreenMichele https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/01/buymeacoff.... which 404s.

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DoreenMichele 6y ago
Thank you. I've updated it.
- Kye 6y ago
  Related: how has your experience with buymeacoffee been? I used Ko-fi for a long time, but BMC keeps popping up.
  - DoreenMichele 6y ago
    I actually mostly stopped using it because it wasn't getting results for me. I removed it from most of my sites and this link got overlooked.
    - DoreenMichele 6y ago
      Though I will add that it occurs to me that if I was using a broken link across most of my sites, that could explain the poor performance. Duh.
      - Kye 6y ago
        My experience with various donation-themed money collectors is they don't go far without active promotion. The problem I had with Ko-fi is they run right through to your PayPal account, and PayPal likes to flag payments through Ko-fi as requiring shipping. After a while I had to manually set "doesn't need shipping info" on every one, and it wouldn't release the funds for weeks. It's easy to get people to send by PayPal because PayPal is easy, but Stripe requires getting a card out. Donations cratered the moment I turned PayPal off. As much as Patreon frustrates me for a long list of reasons, it's low-pain on both ends since it handles the link between payment and your bank account. The numbers are smaller, but people stick around and don't expect anything extra from you. Even if they pick a benefit-having tier. I made an account on Buy Me A Coffee, but it seemed like a less refined Ko-fi and I wasn't sure if I missed something.
        DoreenMichele 6y ago
        Given that the link was broken, I am thinking I may put it back on various sites of mine as an option and see if it works. I still don't have enough income yet and having more payment gateways seems to open up options for people to pay how they prefer. I prefer PayPal for tips (and Patreon for something I can count on at the start of every month), but if that means some people aren't tipping who would if there was another payment gateway, then I am leaving money on the table. That's something I can ill afford to do given how cash strapped I routinely am the last half of every single month.

by hcta 6y ago

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DoreenMichele 6y ago

Thank you. I've updated it.

Kye 6y ago
Related: how has your experience with buymeacoffee been? I used Ko-fi for a long time, but BMC keeps popping up.
- DoreenMichele 6y ago
  I actually mostly stopped using it because it wasn't getting results for me. I removed it from most of my sites and this link got overlooked.
  - DoreenMichele 6y ago
    Though I will add that it occurs to me that if I was using a broken link across most of my sites, that could explain the poor performance. Duh.
    - Kye 6y ago
      My experience with various donation-themed money collectors is they don't go far without active promotion. The problem I had with Ko-fi is they run right through to your PayPal account, and PayPal likes to flag payments through Ko-fi as requiring shipping. After a while I had to manually set "doesn't need shipping info" on every one, and it wouldn't release the funds for weeks. It's easy to get people to send by PayPal because PayPal is easy, but Stripe requires getting a card out. Donations cratered the moment I turned PayPal off. As much as Patreon frustrates me for a long list of reasons, it's low-pain on both ends since it handles the link between payment and your bank account. The numbers are smaller, but people stick around and don't expect anything extra from you. Even if they pick a benefit-having tier. I made an account on Buy Me A Coffee, but it seemed like a less refined Ko-fi and I wasn't sure if I missed something.
      - DoreenMichele 6y ago
        Given that the link was broken, I am thinking I may put it back on various sites of mine as an option and see if it works. I still don't have enough income yet and having more payment gateways seems to open up options for people to pay how they prefer. I prefer PayPal for tips (and Patreon for something I can count on at the start of every month), but if that means some people aren't tipping who would if there was another payment gateway, then I am leaving money on the table. That's something I can ill afford to do given how cash strapped I routinely am the last half of every single month.