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Offer Incentives - Community Tip #9 on Educating Others About Web Monetization

For the adoption of the Web Monetization Standard and fostering appreciation and understanding as why it is important to support content creators through Web Monetization, education is needed. To help the Web Monetization Community, and past, present and future Web Monetization projects with educating their communities on the Web Monetization Standard, we've created this series, entitled Educating Your Community About Web Monetization.

Visit the links to the series above to explore pain points and community tips to educating others about Web Monetization.

Community Tip #9 on Educating Others About Web Monetization

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Offer Incentives

If you are lucky enough to have funding, why not help spark people past the Web Monetization set up hurdle by offering them an incentive. Examples of some incentives that the Web Monetization Community members have offered in the past include:

  • trial Coil accounts
  • Coil and Cinnamon boosts
  • XRP and MGS tips
  • content creation grants
  • Web Monetization grants
  • Web Monetization competitions

Case in Point: mgSocial's December incentive challenge ...

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Tell Us About Web Monetization Incentives That You Have Enjoyed

Our community has been full of great Web Monetization Incentives. Tell us about the Web Monetization Incentives that you have offered or enjoyed, in the comments below. If they are still ongoing incentive programs, be sure to share a link to them, so that we can share them with others.

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Radhy • Edited

Offer Incentives
If you are lucky enough to have funding, why not help spark people past the Web Monetization set up hurdle by offering them an incentive. Examples of some incentives that the Web Monetization Community members have offered in the past include:

Coil membership giveaways would be cool to get small portion of people gets started and to get their testimony first before recommending them to other people. I recalled Andrzej Mazur (@end3r ) did some giveaways for some participants for his games competition. Would be great if we can buy bulk membership giveaways directly from Coil dashboard somehow.

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Andrzej Mazur

You can still reach out to Coil folks for the codes, but yeah, being able to just bulk buy a set would be so much easier. And yes, giving "test" accounts to devs made a huge difference, as they were able to debug the entries on their own before submitting to the competition.

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Radhy

Yeah, seems like getting them is in a must list when doing competition or other events.

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Chris Lawrence

@radhyr If you need some free Coil codes, email us directly.

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Radhy

Thanks Chris. I'll keep that in mind if I have plans to organize events in the future!