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<blockquote data-quote="Malrex" data-source="post: 7887280" data-attributes="member: 6880534"><p>I have 2 products as PWYW and the rest I have set a price. My first attempt at PWYW was near the beginning and it hasn't done that well with donations--in fact, after 3 years, I'm still in the hole from creating it. I cringe when I look at it though as I have learned a lot more about layout, etc. Since it bothers me, I plan to take it down in a few months to rework it. See my last paragraph why.</p><p></p><p>My second PWYW did pretty well comparative to my other products. I attribute to that to being extremely lucky with someone asking a hardcore reviewer to review it and he seemed to like it. When my email was blowing up I had to scour the internet to see what the heck was going on and stumbled upon the review. It has made more profit than some of my products that I have a price on.</p><p></p><p>I have conflicted thoughts about PWYW. I agree with the person above that you should do it as a labor of love and that you do it to share to others....but I also agree with some of the others that say be confident about your work and set a price. When people don't put a value on something, they may not even read it. It's also frustrating by trying to do something 'nice' and giveback to the community by putting something up as a PWYW, and people throw down 1 cent for it. Seriously? Geeze.</p><p></p><p>A PWYW item, more than likely, is not going to make you a profit in my opinion. Instead I view it as more as a advertising tool (since I HATE advertising) in that it gives a bigger example of your finished work. I want to take down my first PWYW item because it could use some improvement on the layout and currently, isn't a very good advertising tool or a best example of my work--so it makes sense for me to do so. PWYW COULD be a strategic tool in that you get a lot of people to download your product, BUT...that's hard to fathom because you may get a crapload of downloads, but how many of those people are actually reading it? Aha!! but you had people download your product and now you can build up your audience for when you send out a shout out for your next new product that has a cost!!!!....except....a lot of people have that feature blocked and don't want emails....so it's a toss up if PWYW is a useful tool for a publisher or not--I've started to lean towards 'not'.. I agree with the above that if you are well known and people enjoy your work, PWYW may work out for you but I wouldn't know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malrex, post: 7887280, member: 6880534"] I have 2 products as PWYW and the rest I have set a price. My first attempt at PWYW was near the beginning and it hasn't done that well with donations--in fact, after 3 years, I'm still in the hole from creating it. I cringe when I look at it though as I have learned a lot more about layout, etc. Since it bothers me, I plan to take it down in a few months to rework it. See my last paragraph why. My second PWYW did pretty well comparative to my other products. I attribute to that to being extremely lucky with someone asking a hardcore reviewer to review it and he seemed to like it. When my email was blowing up I had to scour the internet to see what the heck was going on and stumbled upon the review. It has made more profit than some of my products that I have a price on. I have conflicted thoughts about PWYW. I agree with the person above that you should do it as a labor of love and that you do it to share to others....but I also agree with some of the others that say be confident about your work and set a price. When people don't put a value on something, they may not even read it. It's also frustrating by trying to do something 'nice' and giveback to the community by putting something up as a PWYW, and people throw down 1 cent for it. Seriously? Geeze. A PWYW item, more than likely, is not going to make you a profit in my opinion. Instead I view it as more as a advertising tool (since I HATE advertising) in that it gives a bigger example of your finished work. I want to take down my first PWYW item because it could use some improvement on the layout and currently, isn't a very good advertising tool or a best example of my work--so it makes sense for me to do so. PWYW COULD be a strategic tool in that you get a lot of people to download your product, BUT...that's hard to fathom because you may get a crapload of downloads, but how many of those people are actually reading it? Aha!! but you had people download your product and now you can build up your audience for when you send out a shout out for your next new product that has a cost!!!!....except....a lot of people have that feature blocked and don't want emails....so it's a toss up if PWYW is a useful tool for a publisher or not--I've started to lean towards 'not'.. I agree with the above that if you are well known and people enjoy your work, PWYW may work out for you but I wouldn't know. [/QUOTE]
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