• Facebook Ad Campaign Update: Here some encouraging results as of September 29, 2009. We have spent $498 in ads resulting in 1,643,145 impressions, 2844 click-throughs, and 1,443 people becaming fans. That means, for every dollar spent we’ve received three fans. Every $25 Facebook ad translated into about 72 new fans discovering Krishna.

  Some testimonies: Oooh I love this site the most. —Theresea H. | Awesome. —Karen S. | Breathtaking and Breathgiving. —Cathy D. | My Holy Lord How I worship all that you are from mighty molecule to upholder of stars! Hare Hare, Krishna Krishna! —Erich G. | I should be in bed, but Krishna is WAY more interesting. —Liz C. | Very beautiful. —Veronica V. | All I can say is wow, what breath-taking photos. Fantastic illustrations. I would like to have some to look at every day when I wake up. —Amber W. | Thank you. I needed this inspiration to uplift me right now. —Lily S. | Absolutely phenomenal! —Amanda R.

• $25 or more… sponsor a Krishna.com ad on Facebook.com. As you can see from the above results, with your help, we are creating a Krishna.com presence on the social networking site Facebook.com. Every donation of $25 will allow us to spread the glories of Lord Krishna on Facebook for an average of 83,000 “impressions” (people who see the ad), 130 people clicking on it, and 72 people becoming fans of the Krishna.com page. That’s right, on average, every $25 you contribute turns into 72 new fans of the Krishna.com page on Facebook, 72 fortunate people beginning their journey of discovering Krishna. Once a person becomes a fan, we can stay in touch and let them know about what’s new at Krishna.com. If you’ve seen the power of Facebook networking, you know the potential this tool has. Some fan pages have millions of fans and you can message all of them with one click. Let the glories and mercy of Sri Sri Radha-Krishna flow on Facebook.com. Help sponsor a Krishna.com ad on Facebook for $25 or more.

  Thank you very much to the following people who have contributed towards the Krishna.com Facebook Ads:
  
  Jayakrishna Nidamarthi
  Valentins Rubulis
  Pragati Garcha (Two Facebook Ads)
  Jagdish Patel (Four Facebook Ads)
  Mahendra Gooroochurn
  Anjali Desai (Four Facebook ads)
  Vanessa (Four Facebook ads)
  John Heinzen
  Luke Rubcic
  Guy Varegheese
  

• Krishna.com is currently running on five web servers, at a cost of $1,450 per month. Your donations help offset this cost and keep Krishna.com alive and vibrant on the web. Please use the “Make a Donation” button at the top of this page to contribute. Or sign up for a monthly donation based on the amount you can afford to give.

• Giving Krishna to over 2000 unique visitors a day from all over the world — priceless!

  

With your help, we were recently able to purchase…

• $155 Western Digital 1TB External Hard Drive for Back to Godhead magazine. Thank you very much to John for his kind donation.
• $535 Manfrotto Tripod with Fluid Video Head to use for filming our live shows and video content. Thank you very much to Deonarine Gopee ($50), Dave Cotner and Nimai Palomar ($350), and John Prabhu ($135) or their kind donations.
• $599 Canon High-Definition Camcorder to use for creating high-definition video content for Krishna.com. Thank you to Aditi devi dasi for her kind donation.
• $499 Canopus ADVC analog to digital video converter to increase the quality of our live shows. Thank you to our anonymous donor and Luke Rubcic.
• $69 Belkin Firewire Expresscard to connect a video camera to the live webcast laptop via the ADVC converter. This card will give us better quality on the live webcasts. From Mahendra Gooroochurn. Thank you!
• $2,320 towards Radha-Shyamasundara’s new webcam in Vrindavan, from Bohra Rakesh ($1,129), Aditi devi dasi ($1,160), Amit Desai ($21), Anuj Ghai ($10).
• $1,160 for Gaura-Nitai’s webcam in Vrindavan, from Sandip Bhatt.
• $1,634 for live sound equipment for Vrindavan webcast: $37 Alfred Wolf, $25 Hhomeopathy, $350 Jai P. Gupta, $100 Eli Tamal, $40 Amit Desai, $90 Devang Jani, $85 Ganesh Palave, $199 John Prabhu, $150 Sandhya Rajput, $558 Bohra Rakesh . Thank you!
• $99 WD External Hard Drive for Krishna.com Live Shows Thank you very much to John Prabhu!
• $99 Radio Station Software Krishna.com would like to offer you the service of hosting an Internet radio station Thank you very much to John Prabhu.
• $279 Graphics Card for Back to Godhead magazine layout computer for Yamaraja Prabhu Thank you very much to John Prabhu.
• $650 Editing and rendering computer to speed up the workflow of publishing video material from our live shows on Krishna.com. Thank you anonymous donor, for donating this computer.
• $2000 Krishna.com in Spanish - Phase One Thank you very much to Jai P Gupta and four anonymous donors.
• $995 Flash Streaming Server software for interactive live shows from our studio at Krishna.com. Thank you to Raghushridhar Tallapragada, Jai P Gupta, John Prabhu and an anonymous donor.
• $284 External back-up hard drive for Back to Godhead magazine production. Thank you to an anonymous donor.
• $1,999 Macbook laptop for Nagaraja Prabhu to edit Back to Godhead magazine. Thank you to Raghushridhar Tallapragada, Anjanadri K Venkatasubbareddy, John Prabhu, Ravikumar Chandrababu, and two anonymous donors.
• $599 Apple 20” Display monitor. Many thanks to John Prabhu and an anonymous donor.
• $182 Abhay’s LCD Monitor for video editing. Thank you to Vanessa Brock.
• $1,299 Final Cut Studio 2 video production suite of softwares. Many thanks to John Prabhu and an anonymous donor.
• $395 Weather-proof Housing for Vrindavan Webcam. Many Thanks to Jai P Gupta.
• $130 - Mac OS 10.5 operating system. Thank you to John Prabhu.
• $2,345 Vrindavan Webcam (SONY SNC-RX550). Many thanks to Jai P. Gupta.
• $500 Sound Equipment for Mayapur live sound webcast. Thanks to an anonymous donor.