Nobody gives until you ask
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All of us were too scared, or too nervous to ask from the pulpit or wherever we were for a donation. And then And guess what? Nobody, nobody ever gave us any money. Yes, it all came out of our own pocket. It's amazing. As soon as we got some balls, and started asking that they people people started giving,
Episode 173: Pugnacious Proclivities (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:10:23 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Dave's apologetics ministry offered its events for free and hoped for donations, but everyone was too nervous to ask from the pulpit, so nobody gave and the costs came out of their own pockets. As soon as they got the nerve to ask, people started giving. The same applies to value-for-value podcasting.
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Episode 72: Hitting the Apex (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:41:55 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
what I see a lot of people doing is they turn it on and say where's my money?
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Episode 79: Users and Developers Partying Together (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:02:41 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
the value for value is critical. It is just like anything else, you have to tell people that is there.
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Episode 92: Space Boost (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:08:21 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
historically within like Apple's ecosystem, it's a rate our app and it would pop up right at the worst time, it would be annoying to your user.
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