Well, still thinking of goals for this website. It kind of started as a spin off of http://op-weg.inspiration-for-success.com/ with the idea of inspiring other people who are on the way of achieving success. Then, with my knowledge of and interest in internet, together with my business that does not do so well at the moment, I was thinking of somehow monetizing this site.
Some other thing on the background was that I want to boost my self confidence with something like to check if people are willing to pay for the work in this website, see if this website has value, see if the work I am putting has value. That is also the background of my donate page.
There is some more background to the donate page, as I would preferred being paid directly and not by putting advertisements in the site or through affiliate programs and such. And that goes back to that I don’t like advertisements in sites in general and the strong commercial push I find in many websites. But it seems that’s how the world works, how the internet business model works: you pay indirectly through those programs. And I know newspapers and t.v. works the same way.
I know one exception though and that is Wikipedia. They insist in being a non commercial site, but the begging type messages I often see in the site also don’t appeal to me.
So the big question is if newspapers, t.v. and this type of sites on the internet can only exist through all kinds of indirect payments? Or through pushing products?
I guess for some people who have visited this site the worth of what they read was more than two dollars. And I guess some of those people might have ended up in my donate page. And looking at the number of hours I have put in the site until now the site is probably worth more a thousand dollars. However, until now, nobody donated one dollar to me yet, or actually paid me one dollar yet for the use of the site.
So of course something to think about for me, like what to do if I want to earn a living with this site or other sites.
But maybe also something to think about for you, do you really want everything for ‘free’?