Making Money from Group Websites
Papajacomber
websites? I can think of having an Amazon button to link to that site
and take a % of the value spent, but are such deals popular and
productive?
Kevin
DBSL - Fylde
GSL - 2nd Kirkham
chris.5th
no. it's not for that...
the money raised will be minimal. just put subs up by a quid.
baloo
We use buy.at (https://users.buy.at/fundraising/free.php?
type=schools). It doesn't generate a huge amount but that is probably
because we don't push it enough. Having said that there is very little
effort involved once the link has been put up on the website, so any
funds that are generated are in effect bonuses. Have a look at our
website and click through to have a look.
Peter
CSL - 2nd Bracknell - Scouting for Bullbrook & Warfield - www.2ndbracknell.co.uk
Shop online http://buy.at/2ndbracknell. You get good prices, we get
commission.
Graeme Worrall
There's an article at problogger
(http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/11/15/how-i-make-money-blogging/)
on making money blogging.
I think most of them would work on a scouting website. I don't know if
it's 'wrong' for a scouting website to have ads though. I don't see why
it should be.
--
Graeme
mundanedave
Easyfundraising:
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/referral/4127
Everyclick:
http://www.everyclick.com/uk/grantham---district-scouts/202277/0
Easyfundraising is great as you also earn from referrals and their
sales.
We don't get much from either, but it all helps, and it just about
covers the cost of the webhost.
I also display selected adverts as part of an affiliate program -
though this doesn't generate a great deal either!
SL_wim...@yahoo.co.uk
collect subs via PayPal, which parents like and find convenient (most
of the them now pay that way).
All the best.
Rich
<SL_wim...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:0056009f-6cdb-4048...@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
How do you cope with the fees?
Rich
Neil Williams
<rh003h0161**@wideblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>How do you cope with the fees?
Charge extra[1] to cover them would seem the sensible approach.
[1] Either to everyone or just those people, depending on your view,
just as happens with credit cards in shops.
Neil
--
Neil Williams
Put my first name before the at to reply.
marc
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:59:36 GMT, "Rich"
> <rh003h0161**@wideblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> How do you cope with the fees?
>
> Charge extra[1] to cover them would seem the sensible approach.
>
> [1] Either to everyone or just those people, depending on your view,
> just as happens with credit cards in shops.
But how do you pay them?
Neil Williams
Pay what? The fees? They're automatically deducted from your balance
at the time of the payment, aren't they?
marc
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:16:28 +0000, marc
> <initial...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> Neil Williams wrote:
>>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:59:36 GMT, "Rich"
>>> <rh003h0161**@wideblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do you cope with the fees?
>>> Charge extra[1] to cover them would seem the sensible approach.
>>>
>>> [1] Either to everyone or just those people, depending on your view,
>>> just as happens with credit cards in shops.
>> But how do you pay them?
>
> Pay what? The fees? They're automatically deducted from your balance
> at the time of the payment, aren't they?
Without two signatures?
chris.5th
> Neil Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:16:28 +0000, marc
> > <initial.surn...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> >> Neil Williams wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:59:36 GMT, "Rich"
> >>> <rh003h016...@wideblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >>>> How do you cope with the fees?
> >>> Charge extra[1] to cover them would seem the sensible approach.
>
> >>> [1] Either to everyone or just those people, depending on your view,
> >>> just as happens with credit cards in shops.
> >> But how do you pay them?
>
> > Pay what? The fees? They're automatically deducted from your balance
> > at the time of the payment, aren't they?
>
> Without two signatures?
it is not a bank account.
do you have 2 signatures for the petty cash box on camp?
marc
It is an account, Paypal is a bank
" PayPal is duly licenced as a Luxembourg credit institution in the
sense of Article 2 of the law of 5 April 1993 on the financial sector as
amended (the “Law”) and is under the prudential supervision of the
Luxembourg supervisory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du
Secteur Financier, with registered office in L-1150 Luxembourg. "
Unless you want to argue that a Building society or a credit card isn't
a bank either?
However if you want to say that it's not a bank then the money shoudn't
be there as ...
Rule 3.50: Bank Accounts
1.
All monies received by or on behalf of the Group either directly
or via supporters, must be paid into a bank account held in the name of
the Group. This account may, alternatively, be a National Savings
account or a building society account.
so is it a bank account without 2 sigs or is it not a bank account and
so not complying with 3.5?
Simon Draper
> chris.5th wrote:
>> On 3 Feb, 16:05, marc <initial.surn...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> Neil Williams wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:16:28 +0000, marc
>>>> <initial.surn...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>> Neil Williams wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:59:36 GMT, "Rich"
>>>>>> <rh003h016...@wideblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>> How do you cope with the fees?
>>>>>> Charge extra[1] to cover them would seem the sensible approach.
>>>>>> [1] Either to everyone or just those people, depending on your view,
>>>>>> just as happens with credit cards in shops.
>>>>> But how do you pay them?
>>>> Pay what? The fees? They're automatically deducted from your balance
>>>> at the time of the payment, aren't they?
>>> Without two signatures?
>>
>> it is not a bank account.
Can I ask, if your using PayPal for subs, how much are you actually
losing on there fees? Would it not be cheaper in the long run for the
group to revert to cash/cheques specially since you'll end up paying
fee's not once but twice
ie
Parent - Paypal = Fee to paypal
Paypal - Group Account = Fee to paypal
chris.5th
cost of paypal: 1.7% plus 20p
so... £35 subs... 79p
but... the parents are asking for it. we now requests subs by email
and the next term, they will be able to pay by paypal.
no, not cheap... but very practical and very simple
Papajacomber
> commission.
Thanks for that, Peter
It all gradually adds up. I hadn't seen our website as a money maker,
however small. It has made me think.
Kevin
GSL - 2nd Kirkham (St Michael's)
DBSL - Fylde, West Lancashire
Papajacomber
Very interesting links, Dave, representing two quite different ways of
earning money.
I will discuss these with my Exec. It was the Exec that initially
raised the prospect of using the website as a fundraiser.