Suggestion on helping people to subscribe [LWN.net]

Suggestion on helping people to subscribe

Posted Jul 31, 2002 20:57 UTC (Wed) by addw (subscriber, #1771)
Parent article: LWN status update

I posted something like this a few days ago - but it seems to have evaporated.

Looking at your 'donate' page, there are ways in which it can be improved to help some people give you money. Those that I am thinking of are people who could claim it back from their company (or as a tax legitimate expense) if the wording was slightly different. Maybe you want 2 pages, let people choose which one they want to use.

Changes:
* remove the word 'donation' it won't go down well on an expense sheet, 'subscription' would be better.
* Allow people the option of requesting an 'invoice' to be sent to them following receipt of payment, if you can get their/company name in so much the better - a PDF file would often be acceptable.
* How much: the equivalent of a tank of petrol will get past any accountant, in the UK that is about £32 (=~ $50).
* Offer a box that they can tick to have a reminder mailed to them in 1 year - you don't want to go through all of this again do you ?
* Some people don't like sending credit card details over the Internet but are happy to fax things - allow this as an option - maybe a small file they download, fill in & fax.

The above will not be useful to everyone, but to some people.

Help people to help you.

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