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A Request For Your Help - help us spread the word!
Carol Haynes:
How about this one ... sorry I neglected to keep the editing version and I forgot which font I used!
mouser:
i've added carol's imags to the banner collection:
https://www.donationcoder.com/About/PromoUserBars/
I'd be happy to host more -
heres the photoshop template for mine -> https://www.donationcoder.com/About/PromoUserBars/dcuserbar.psd
but feel free to make your own in your own style with your own amusing text and i'll add them.
mouser:
If anyone belongs to any user groups, or subscribes to any mailing lists -
now would be a great time to let them know about our software, our site, our giveaway, etc.
mouser:
Two different press-release type things...
If you know a website/mailing list/forum/tvshow/magazine/etc that might be interested in something like this, please do pass it along (even better would be to personalize it to include your thoughts and words).
1) I wrote this one to c|net news.com:
I'm writing to tell you about a site we've been running for almost a
year now with little notice from the mainstream internet.
Donation-based software often seems like the ugly-stepchild of the
software industry. We're trying to revive it as a viable approach to
ethical software.
We've got tons of professional quality freeware and we're trying to
focus on the building of a community of software developers and
software aficionados who are willing to support them.
I hope you can take a look at our site and see if it's something worth
doing a story on. So far our freeware software is extremely popular,
but the broader spirit and message of our site had been hard to
communicate, just because it's something people aren't used to.
--- End quote ---
2) i wrote this one to betanews.com news:
"DonationCoder.com Fundraiser and Software Giveaway"
After almost a year of operation, the donation-based software site
DonationCoder.com is holding its first fundraiser.
To celebrate the event, and the move to a faster server, throughout the
month of November DonationCoder.com will be giving away tons of software
including VmWare, Website Watcher, WinRAR, BeyondCompare, BB FlashBack Pro,
Camtasia Studio, SnagIt, TheBat!, and more, and is providing up to 50% off
a wide variety of shareware programs [a donation of some amount or honorary
membership is required].
In addition to the software giveaway, DonationCoder.com is marking the
occasion by releasing new reviews, new freeware programs and major upgrades
to its most popular freeware programs like Process Tamer, Find+Run Robot,
URL Snooper, and Screenshot Captor.
DonationCoder.com is an effort to build a community of programmers and
software aficianados, funded entirely by voluntary user donations.
https://www.donationcoder.com
--- End quote ---
rrtwister:
I found another small way to help spread the word. I was talking to a tech on my ISP's national help desk about a browsing issue at a friend's house. Some sites were loading extremely slow. We decided to pull a few sites at random, so guess which site i pulled at first? DonationCoder of course. The tech was pulling the same sites and she was impressed with the site and was bookmarking it to dig thru later. She completely liked the entire idea behind the site and was going to pass it on to a couple of other techs.
The point to my rambling is that promotion of the site is so easy and it does not have to be forced on anyone.
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