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I’ve never been a consisted blogger (i.e. weekly) and I haven’t setup a way to collect donations, but I get a lot of nice emails. Some of them even say I saved

I’ve never been a consisted blogger (i.e. weekly) and I haven’t setup a way to collect donations, but I get a lot of nice emails. Some of them even say I saved the user hundreds or thousands of dollars with my technical instructions. Yeah, it’s hard to find your fans. But, it’s also on us to do so in some organized way. They aren’t going to donate if I don’t have a donate button.

bookofjoe 4y ago
Boy, you lasered right in on the crux of it: Long ago, back in August of 2004 when I started my blog, the guy who set it up for me asked if I wanted him to include a DONATE button. I said no way because it seemed — and still does — to me to be akin to begging, like people do who really need help. Now, if I could've had a sort of line graph that said "Help me make my first million" where the endpoint was $1m and each little amount — even a penny — added would show up a là Million Dollar Homepage [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage], I'd have mos def done that.