Buy Me A Beer? – PayPal Donation Button?

I read through other blogs whenever I can and quite a few of them have a Buy Me A Beer (or similar) plugin or a standard PayPal donation button. I see this whole concept of buying someone a beer or basically donating a really small amount of money to them as a show of appreciation for the content on their site. The donation will not necessarily go towards buying an author a beer (may very well do so if they drink) but may go towards costs associated to their site such as hosting or advertising etc. if they have any such costs.

I like this whole idea and you could actually make a bit of money doing so. I have been on a few blogs/sites that publish their earnings with some putting down figures in the hundreds via this method. That is really easy money!

I had a PayPal donation button on my blog but liked the Buy Me A Beer plugin better. I am not that tech savvy and I have been looking around for information on how to add this widget to my blog. All I came up with was a WordPress plugin and nothing for Blogger.

I was reading through Money Online with ProfitSense Blogger and found a post on how to setup this plugin for Blogger – Blogger’s Buy me a Beer – PayPal donation. I was excited when I came across it since I no longer have to go around looking on how to setup the plugin on my blog. What I like about it is that it is so quick and easy to set-up. All you need to do is follow the three simple steps outlined on the post. These steps involve an image, your registered PayPal email address and you changing a tiny bit of code and text to suit your requirements and you are good to go. That simple.

Take note that you can always use another image and/or caption. Some bloggers have it down as buy me a coffee or a cocktail and so on with images that they prefer. You will need to have a PayPal account to recieve the donations. If you dont already have one, go on over to PayPal and sign up for a free account.

If you like this post, buy me a beer!

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6 Responses to Buy Me A Beer? – PayPal Donation Button?

  1. Admin July 6, 2007 at 3:56 am #

    Hey gerri, great post and hope it does help you and your viewers when searching for a code like this used on WP plugin.cheers!

  2. GK July 16, 2007 at 5:32 am #

    Thanx Gerri,courtesy you I have been able to install beer plugin.
    You left a comment on my blog http://www.day-trading-shares.blogspot.com regarding beer plugin information.I am indebted to you for your goodwill gesture.
    You can get Stock Market Day Trading Tips at my blog.
    Regards

  3. SiR July 23, 2007 at 6:19 am #

    I liked it! That’s agood idea 😉

  4. Pinyo August 2, 2007 at 12:48 pm #

    Gerri, this is good information. I have seen this on a few blogs and thought it was cool. You explained it well. I think I will get one for my WP blog. Thanks!

  5. Dave March 26, 2008 at 8:24 pm #

    I tried on my site, but I couldn’t get it done! WHat happen is the message keep saying my xtml code is incorrect…any idea?

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