[Finance] Re: [Theforum] note from Nick Bradbury
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sat Jan 11 12:55:20 CST 2003
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Marlene Bruce wrote:
> >minimum of $10?
>
> $10 seems okay to *me*. Madhu, does it seem excessive to you? Would
> $5 be significantly better? Any other non-Americans with an opinion
> on this? I was thinking $5 might encourage more donations...
Try it at $10 for a couple of months, then at $5.
> For the record, we've received this following number of donations for
> each dollar amount:
>
> $ - #
> 2 - 1
> 4 - 1
> 5 - 5
> 10 - 11 (including one rounded up from $9.59)
> 11 - 1 (rounded down from $11.03)
Both forex conversions, right? I'd guess that they'd be round numbers in
their original currencies.
> 15 - 2
> 20 - 8
> 25 - 7
Interesting peak...
> 30 - 1
> 35 - 2
> 40 - 1
> 50 - 6
> 100 - 3 (wow - I recalled there was only one, but there were three)
Another interesting peak.
> >Marlene, could you please mail Nick and ask if he's OK with 6?
>
> How 'bout if I email him and ask how many he had in mind (and I'll
> suggest 6
with an explanation, so it's obviously not just a random pick.
> ). I'll also make sure he's okay with the idea of giving out
> n prizes over n months.
>
> >I'd be happy to type out the announcement to thelist once we're cool with it.
>
> >That's a really generous offer from Nick, very cool of him. What can we do
> >to thank people who go that little bit further to help us?
>
> That's an important question. We need to make public thank-you's to
> people/companies who donate prizes.
Yep - stuff which leverages into bigger donations is definitely
differently useful, and when it's on top of cash it's a different order of
magnitude.
> How should we do this?
net.fame
We did it pretty well with the Glasshaus books (right, Bruce?),
accrediting both Bruce & Glasshaus in all communications.
Maybe bounce off Nick what we did with those books and ask if that kind of
thing is OK..?
> We need to plan for this in our next redesign too.
+1
Cheers
Martin
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