Why we're taking this PollWe'd like to determine how many of you are enjoying reading the weekly Hangout Transcript and how many of you wouldn't mind donating a little each week to help offset our cost and time to produce them.
Hangout Transcripts cost between $60 - $100+ USD depending upon length of the Hangout.
For the past 6 months we have funded the Hangout Transcripts out of our own pockets totaling $1,715 or we've written them on our own which takes between 6-10 hours on average.
At times Dan (bytemaster), Beyond Bitcoin (fuzzy) and onceuponatime were kind enough to give us Brownie.PTS (or BTS) that were converted to BTS>BTC>USD, mostly when BTC was well under $300, which covered $670 of our out of pocket cost.
THANK YOU!!!This leaves us with an expense of $1045 (plus many hours of labor ourselves) for Hangout Transcripts.
Our SolutionRecently we setup our own blog at
BitSharesNews.info in an attempt to offset some of these cost by bringing in referral income.
However since we are a newly established blog we have very few readers and only one (non LT) referral at this point, but we're trying!
Before we end up spending all of our BitShares investment on Hangout Transcripts we thought we'd try to bring some more awareness to the fact that :
1) Someone is actually typing up Hangout Transcripts and you can read them for FREE!
2) This is BitShares History!
3) It cost $60 - $100+ per Transcript out of our own pocket.
4) Referral's are hard to come by at this early stage.
5) We have spent over $1,000 to date plus many, many hours of our time on Hangout Transcripts.
Our Plea for HelpIf just 20 readers donated around 500-1,000 BTS (or whatever you can afford) each week it would help us tremendously and allow us to continue providing Hangout Transcripts for the BitShares Community.
This original content is great Google food (SEO), raises awareness of BitShares, makes it easy to search and find what was said during a Hangout and documents BitShares History for eternity on the internet.
We'd like to have a little BTS left when things take off and we think Hangout Transcripts can assist in doing just that!
If you would like to donate anything, no matter how small, no matter which UIA or SmartCoin, please send to :
BTS :
bts-transcriptor BTC :
1MLHMGjpLN7pgoPKPhJ8pswa8w8ddCPQvMWhen our blog takes off and we're able to cover our cost for Hangout Transcripts with referrals we will stop asking for donations.Thank you BitShares Community!