[Theforum] 3 Alternative Funding Ideas

[Ken Kogler]

Expanding on idea #3 a bit more, what about a page that says "Here's
some web design/usability books (or ASP books, CF books, JS books) that
the members of evolt.org recommend:" and having each link be for a
referral account?

It'd be nice to see recommendations for certain types of books (without
posting to thelist), and it'd be even better if a portion of my purchase
went back to evolt.org.

This nice thing about a setup like this is that it's very
self-sufficient on evolt's part - we're not "selling out" to any
corporate sponsors.

-Ken

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> Seeing aardvark's .sig with the link to the Usability book about evolt
> at Amazon (<http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904151035/>) got me
> thinking:
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> Why not create a referral account for evolt at every major
> online store,
> and politely request that anyone in the evolt community who
> wants to buy
> something online, from say Amazon or buy.com, would use the referral
> links provided to give a few % of the purchase to evolt? I'd be more
> than willing to use an evolt referral link to continue my DVD buying
> addiction. It's the most non-intrusive way for me to fund evolt - I'm
> buying those DVDs anyway. I've got no problem using evolt's "search
> Amazon's site" box rather than using Amazon's search.