For example you can login to your administrator area and create a virtual product called "Vic Firth Drum Sticks", and price it at $7.99. Your sponsor (fans/friends) can send you money through your Paypal account for that virtual product. You will not actually receive Vic Firth Drum Sticks in the mail but you will get $7.99 in your bank account. Pretty cool huh :-) ? Even cooler when it's a virtual "New Microphone" for $300.
In return for their generosity you will be able to automatically display all of your sponsors with pride on your website and even place a link back to their sites if they wish.
One of the main benefits of this scenario is that you never have to ask anyone for $7.99 and your sponsors will never feel that they might offend you by sending you a mere $7.99 but instead will have provided you with a new pair of drum sticks. See how it works?