1/4206 Conversion Rate on Buy Me a Coffee

Pretty much every story I've read about donations went along the lines of yours. The ones where the person actually made a living based on donations was on projects where they could easily have made 100x more with a paid plan.

Donations are just not a monetization model.

Yeah ads are a distraction, that's the whole value proposition after all.

IMO: Your "buy me a coffee" page copy could be edited for better conversion:

"You can support my efforts by buying me a coffee or become a member. If you do not prefer any of these for any reason, you can also send me a supportive email about your thoughts."

Don't ask for supportive emails or hedge here. Ask for money! Ask for money from anyone receiving value from your project. They're on your buymeacoffee page. They're not on your sendmeasupportiveemail page. Sell, sell, sell!

I'm not sure what's standard, but I think you can do much better than 1/4206 conversion rate.

Hey Fatih,

Very nice project, however as you mentioned the niche is quite competitive. You already got some great ideas from the folks in the thread that I would agree with most of. Let me suggest another thing ..

Would you be able/afford to disable ads for some time and see if helps (at least on your best performing tool) the reason for that is when we see ads running on a site like yours we think internally that the site is already making money via ads so my donation would be a redundancy in such case (at least phycological) most of the products that I have seen having good conversion with BMC aren't running ads or at least it's very minimal between navigation .. In all cases you will need high traffic or as others said ask for donations at the aha moment . One last thing try different copies many people out there don't even know what buy me a coffee is, specially if you have international traffic.. best of luck buddy

Random feedback for your site: The hero text is "All Online Tools in “One Box”"

Tools for what? I tried searching for analytics tools and didn't find any, so it's definitely not "all online tools".

1. Optimize copy
2. Ask for donation after Aha moment (for example connverting SVG to PNG
3. Every quarter, nudge chrome extension users to donation page like Adblock plus extension do.

P.S. I love last gif / animated stuff. Where you found it?

I have a few points about this:

• I think you're "buy me a coffee" prompts aren't in the right places. You have to remember that they came on your site to use the online tools. It's when you've solved that pain-point, you can then ask for a donation. I tried using a few of them and I didn't see any prompts. Also, ensure the prompts aren't annoying popups. Make it super UX-driven.
• I'd say to change your messaging on your "Buy me a coffee" page. Donating is what you'd call an "impulse buys" and research shows that most impulse buys are triggered by strong emotions. So change your messaging to appeal to the emotions that fits the context of what your tool solves, founder backstory, and ultimately give them a compelling reason to donate. Tip: Ensure to A/B test your messaging too for the best results
• You operate in a super competitive environment that doesn't solve a big enough pain-point so trust me.... Noone's gonna pay for a subscription. Atleast, not in its current form. Instead, try to get power users to sign up and take small steps to being apart of your ecosystem (signing up for an account, regularly using the tool while signed in, or users that reached out with feedback/feature suggestions). Then, setup a prompt for them to see when they've used a specific tool "X" times with the prompt saying, they could possibly lose access to that tool and to donate to avoid that. --> At this point, you're using both the built up stored value + loss aversion psychology principles to your advantage.

Idk how much these steps will help boost your conv. rates, but I'm pretty sure it's much better than 1/4206 lol (unless 99% of your views are bots or something).

I would suggest to add "pricing " in the header. In the pricing section a large text screaming "Forever Free" and somewhere near it, include the buy me a coffee button with some catchy headline.

The reason I'm saying this is, most people are very supportive and would love to donate, and having the right words at the right location will trigger them to donate (this will require A/B testing and your creativity). The pricing tab is what most people check out after the homepage.

I like the all in one toolbox concept, how do you plan on monetizing this though?

Hey Fatih,

first of all, 10015.io looks really cool!

As for Buy Me A Coffee, I've been releasing a small project -Where Can I Watch this?- a few weeks ago.
It's a simple website that lets you check where you can watch a movie or tv show in your country. I've also implemented a Buy Me A Coffee on the website. I made a post on Reddit about it and the post got more than 500K views in just a few days. People have been using my tool consistently since then (I didn't set up any analytics on the website so I'm not sure how it translated into visits).

So far, I only got 1 coffee! Like you I'm wondering what could change that but I don't really have a clue so far...

PS: Where can you see the page stats on Buy Me A Coffee? I can't find the views metrics on my dashboard.

Just do some affiliate

I don't get it, why would someone buy you a coffee?

Start chargnig for your project.