[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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