I regard most of the new shiny web 2.0 stuff as a real pain. Sometimes it yields nice fruits though which even grabs my attention.

Money, money, money

good stuffCreating a blog-entry can take a lot of time. At least if you care about the quality of it. For an example writing the NS7-review from taking pictures to translating it took 12 hours.

Increasing the motivation

Most bloggers have fun doing it, but no one minds a well-meant back-slap. This can be a comment or a small donation. Donations showed to be not very effective in the past. People have to overcome their inhibitions of directly pay for something which is free.

Flattr tackles that problem by making its user pay a monthly amount you can adjust yourself starting at 2€ (in USA 2$ ?).

In the course of one week you click on all Flattr-buttons worth a contribution (besides your own one, which of course deserves the most clicks. At the end of the month your budget is spread across all clicked articles. That means if you only click on one button, one person gets the whole monthly budget. If you click two or more of them, it is spread among them. That takes away the aforementioned inhibitions because you have to for it either way.

You could ask yourself the question why you should become a member if you have to pay for it in the first place. Everyone who knows how hard blogging, programming, cutting videos etc. can be appreciates the hard work of the others and maybe wants to motivate them to continue.

That’s why a lot of people like me give that model a chance. All of my posts now contain a Flattr-Button. If you like a post and want to know more about that topic use the button.

Conclusion

You wont become rich using Flattr, but its definitely boost your motivation and that of others at a pretty low cost. Additionally it helps identifying whichof your content is regarded to be of high quality. The page impressions alone aren’t the best indicator because target groups have quite different sizes. If Flattr can assert itself is questionable but their on a good way with an own wordpress-plugin and an idiot-proof API.

I’ll toss out all AdSense out of my blog if it runs good.

Invite-Codes

Flattr has still beta-status. You can instantly register using one of these codes below:
Update: The codes have already been used. At least the three lucky guys could show their appreciation by clicking my Flattr-Button.

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