Blog donation 2020! We started very strong!

It's such a thing with money. You rarely talk about it, but it has to be once a year. Then we bother the readers with our budget. Because everything we do costs money. With these things I always have a slight stomach ache, because who can say how the action will end? This year there was the element of surprise. Because we got off to a strong start.

Blog donation 2020

That is good news because we have a lot to do for 2020. After the first week, the sum of € 3.721,43 landed on our blog account. A great start and I would like to say thank you very much! So far, 74 readers have made their contribution, and there have been small but also several larger donations. The largest contribution so far was made by Saab Friends of Thuringia, who transferred exactly € 700,93. This is great Saab Spirit, just amazing!

With 74 readers, of course, there is still a lot of room for improvement - with several 1.000 readers a day. There should be something else, it has to, and our campaign runs until January 31, 2020 for this reason.

Where do we want to go?

In a week, we have achieved almost half of our desired goal! As a result, we need to collect 2020 5 amount, at least 10.000 €, for 30. That may sound like a lot, and that's undisputed. On the other hand, it is a pretty small budget for a larger blog. Just to demonstrate the magnitude, here's a number from the past: Saabsunited's bloggers had a budget of 2020k a year at a time when news of Saab was still growing on the trees. We will not get that close and we do not have to. Nevertheless, we need a bigger budget than in the previous years, because the number of companies supporting the blog continues to improve according to the current state of XNUMX.

What do we have in mind?

What are we planning with the money? We are strengthening Saab's digital home, every € flowing into the project. A little teaser for 2020: In addition to a digitization campaign that has already started, we will continue to be creative. Our vehicles are getting older and we take this into account. For this we have two actions in the pipeline, which should bring some “psychological help” with increasing mileage and advancing age. In short: Driving pleasure is not a question of the age of the vehicle!

The first action is well advanced in the planning and is definitely feasible. With our second idea, which revives an old Saab thought, it becomes more difficult. There are legal and logistical things that have to be taken into account, the final financial feasibility depends on the budget for 2020.

So the blog could develop further in 2020. Because even in the year 9 we have fresh ideas, and what we do benefits a community that speaks Saab with its heart. Donations are still very welcome and needed! After the strong start we are very confident.

The next interim report will arrive before Christmas.


Donations account:

Bank details: T. Knecht - IBAN:   DE 08 7955 0000 0011 7754 75 - BIC: BYLADEM 1 ASA

PayPal:

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Franc troll
Franc troll
4 years earlier

Not an unrealistic goal! I am optimistic for our blog regarding 2020!

EF-moose
EF-moose
4 years earlier

would also be a very good solution….

uli1957
uli1957
4 years earlier

Shit, I donated a fair amount. 🙁
For the future: the 93 or 95 does not have to be to the right of the decimal point. 😉

Greetings from Bad Salzdetfurth
Uli

EF-moose
EF-moose
4 years earlier

Tom is of course absolutely right - 0,93 € urons related of course to a SAAB 93 of our Thuringian Saab friends 🙂
Of course there was a more significant number before the decimal point ...

Apart from that - if every single blog user would only transfer this 0,93 / 0,95 ...

For me, daily “use” of the blog would really not be compatible without (my) annual contribution!?
Anyone who has an honorary position or something similar in this country - in whatever form - knows what I mean.
Somehow there should always be a mutual “take and give”.

Lg. From Thuringia and everyone have a nice Christmas time - Thomas

Ebasli
Ebasli
4 years earlier

Oh soooo - that's funny! 🙂 So that's how you recognize the real fan, for me it would also be a donation for x, 93. And the 9000 fans have no choice but to donate 9000,00 😉 😉 😉 or maybe 90,00, which is by no means as nice ... 😉

Aero-9-3
Aero-9-3
4 years earlier

Pleasing donation start! 🙂
The projects for 2020 sound exciting ... it would be a shame if they stayed “castles in the air” ...
Ergo: 74 new donors are welcome! 😉
Greetings

Aero-9-3
Aero-9-3
4 years earlier

possibly made a purse empty! 😉

Herbert Hürsch
Herbert Hürsch
4 years earlier

@ Gosh,

Lord Nobody did that. The Saab friends have emptied their wallets thoroughly and donated a large amount of comma 93 ...

An odd number between 1 and 73 has been added to comma 50. Hence the 43. Every penny counts 😉! ! !

Ebasli
Ebasli
4 years earlier

🙂 I have already asked myself the similar question ... Since the Thuringian Saab friends collected and donated € 700,93, someone must have slaughtered their piggy bank and donated € x, 50! After all, a reasonably straight sum! 😉

On average, the individual donors donate € 40,817567… 😉 Not that bad at all. My donation comes next week - € 10 per month. But MUCH more readers have to donate! It's good that the campaign runs until the end of January!

I still have two questions:

1. How is the number of readers determined (see above)?
2. Does it really make sense to always collect in December / January? Employees may then get a Christmas bonus in addition. But for many small freelancers (who have to pay the Christmas bonuses to their employees) this is the most expensive month ever, plus (also for everyone else) the private Christmas gifts, tax appointments, the whole insurance in January, etc. There it can times narrow, which may not increase the willingness to donate. And all the stress at the end of the year, when you have to worry about a thousand things. 🙁

Gosh
Gosh
4 years earlier

Wer spendet ,43 € 🙂 ?

Gosh
Gosh
4 years earlier

Several thousand readers a day ?? And 74 have donated so far ?? However, that is now surprisingly low number of donors, the more gratifying the high amount.
Are these counted clicks or participants?

Ken-Daniel S.
Ken-Daniel S.
4 years earlier

My donation is still coming, I hope it comes together enough. Every little donation helps.

Freising86
Freising86
4 years earlier

I would make a workshop list on the blog. If every workshop should have the SAAB the chance to be published for an amount X per year. Nothing high, maybe 100 € or so. This would give the blog further funding and we would have an up-to-date list of workshops that really do SAAB. Win / Win 🙂 At ORIO, every 2nd address is basically dead or doesn't feel like seeing me and my troll ...

Only my thoughts on the current discusssion.

Robert
Robert
4 years earlier

Hello you!
First of all, the interim result gives hope ...
And then: I see it like Matthias,
who supports the blog, our blog, if I may say so, we support.
Keep on rolling!

Black Saab
Black Saab
4 years earlier

I see exactly as Matthias. Who does not want to blog (sorry that had to be) should not get my money. A current orientation guide in January would be awesome!

Matthias
Matthias
4 years earlier

Hello Tom, thank you for the good news………after you once again pointed out the thinning ranks of “commercial” Saab blog supporters, I have another idea in particular: I can’t tell at first glance which ones are loyal commercial Saabisti support this blog. However, I don't want to give my money to companies that don't do that...perhaps after the fundraising campaign is over you could do a ranking, or at least a list of the commercial Saab blog supporters and post it here! Greetings from the Lower Rhine, Matthias