Note: The next Community Meeting will be on Sep. 16, please join us.
The next Kachingle Community meeting will be on Thursday, August 19:
- Europe Focus: 18:00 Central European Time (9 a.m. PDT) DONE!
- Americas Focus: 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT DONE!
Our two topics will be the next version of the Medallion, including a new, smaller version and a gorgeous, enhanced overlay/pop-up, and ways you can get the most return on your Medallion.
Most of the Kachingle team will be present and we expect to have a couple of special guests as well.
The July slides are available on SlideShare.
Hope to see you online!
Once again we’ll be using Adobe ConnectPro. If you’ve never been in an ACP meeting you can test your connection and get a quick overview to be ready.
Heather Cushman-Dowdee’s Email to Readers
Heather, our special guest, graciously allowed us to share the email she sent to her own audience. This email got great results and many Kachinglers signed up to support her. You can use it as inspiration for your own, similar actions.
Dear Mama Blogger, parenting expert, attachment specialist, and etc. etc.
I’m sending this as a group email because I just learned about this cool new internet-y thing called www.kachingle.com, or kachingle to be exact. It’s a way for the readers of your blog to support the content creator (that’s you) with almost no effort at all. And it’s feel good, benevolent, social and really kind of cool.
Here’s how it works. Let’s say I become a kachingler (which I am, now) and I sign up and every month I pay $5 to kachingle sites.
You, my friend and favorite blogger, turn your site into a kachingle site. Which means that you add a kachingle medallion widget to the top of your site. (see the little box in the top left of my site http://www.mama-is.com/?)
Then (bear with me) when I come to visit I ‘kachingle’ you (roll my mouse over the medallion on your site) and voila! every time I visit you during the month it’s noted and at the end of the month my $5 is divided between all the sites that I kachingled according to how many times I visited them.
This means that when I come to your site because you’ve posted a hilarious true account of breastfeeding in the trenches of the local coffee shop, I can kachingle you and then if I link to you and visit you over and over throughout the month because you’re so funny and you make me laugh and I really enjoy a bit of lightness know and then you’re making money from my visits, instead of not making money from my visits. Which is the way as you know it works now.
I’ve turned my site into a kachingle medallion site and have had a bunch of my readers sign up and start kachingling my site, but if it’s really going to become something cool we need more sites, more kachinglers, and more benevolence in this world. Besides, I’m also a kachingler and I want my $5 to spread around to the sites I love.
So I’m asking you to add a medallion to your site. I don’t make any money off of this (well unless you kachingle me, which would be cool, but not mandatory ;o) but i would like to throw some pennies your way.
Go to their site and see how it works, I know you’re busy, but I hope we can make our attachment parenting community a benevolent place for the writers and artists and creators that live there.
Sincerely yours,
Heatherps. also it would be cool if you would send me an email if you do sign up so I can kachingle you right away. Also, if you love the idea of building a community of parenting blogs, send a letter to some of your favorite blogs and get them to sign up too.
