You Click A Button – I Donate A Dollar

Today marks the 3 month anniversary of this Practical Personal Development site. This project has been a lot of fun for me and has helped me grow more than I imagined. In order to celebrate I have decided to contribute money to the charity of YOUR choice.

Here is how you can get me to donate $1:

Link to this post and alexshalman.com from your blog. You must use the line “Alex Shalman at Practical Personal Development (a blog about self help and personal growth) is hosting a Donation Contest in which you press a button and he donates a dollar”, with all links intact and any additional things you would like to say. I choose this specific sentence in order to build search engine rankings, in a plan to have my dollar go a long way.
Recap

You post about the contest in your blog and I donate a dollar. That’s a total of $1 going to charity! My budget for this charity project is $500 so feel free to be generous and spread the word of this donation contest around to other bloggers.

How do YOU get to decide?

In exactly 1 month, on April 15th I will be randomly selecting a person that has linked to this contest. I will contact them and let them pick a legitimate charity of their choice! If this contest goes very well I have plans to acquire more funding to increase the donation love.

The more people that participate, the more good will that is spread around. So, tell a friend or ten and we’ll contribute to a good cause.

[edit] If you checked the blog between 10:30 – 11:30am on 3/15 there was mention of adding this blog to technorati favorites in order for me to donate an extra dollar. I decided to do away with that part of the contest and perhaps do something with it at another time. Linking to the blog with the key sentence is the way to get the donation going.

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  • http://bwoods.wordpress.com Bradley Woods

    Great idea!

  • http://creatingabetterlife.net/ lyman

    Awesome idea, Alex. You’ll be seeing my post later today.

  • http://todayisthatday.com/blog/ Aaron M. Potts

    Alex,

    Very cool stuff! I will put your link up in the Link Love edition that I put out this Saturday.

  • http://www.alexshalman.com Alex Shalman

    Thank you for your support guys. Someone in need will definitely appreciate the effort.

  • http://www.johnchow.com/you-click-a-button-he-donates-a-dollar/ You Click A Button, He Donates A Dollar « John Chow dot Com

    [...] I received an email from blog reader Alex Shalman about a new contest he is holding. Apparently, Alex has taken my evil make money online linking idea and kicked it up a notch. Alex is going to give away up to $500 to a charity of your choice. Here’s how it works. Link to this post and alexshalman.com from your blog. You must use the line “Alex Shalman at Practical Personal Development (a blog about self help and personal growth) is hosting a Donation Contest in which you press a button and he donates a dollar”, with all links intact and any additional things you would like to say. I choose this specific sentence in order to build search engine rankings, in a plan to have my dollar go a long way. [...]

  • http://www.notsoboringlife.com Nathan Metzger

    Count me in. I’ve got a perfect post coming up for this type of thing.

  • http://bwoods.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/example-of-giving-and-receiving/ Example of Giving and Receiving « Conceive, Believe, Achieve

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  • http://creatingabetterlife.net/2007/03/15/how-to-give-500-to-your-favorite-charity-for-free/ How To Give $500 to Your Favorite Charity… for Free! – from Creating a Better Life

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  • http://lifedev.net/2007/03/link-to-alex-donate-to-charity/ Link to Alex, Donate to Charity

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  • http://thoughtsphilosophies.com Carolyn Manning

    Love the notion! My post will be up before the end of the evening (dst)

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  • http://www.randomn3ss.com Mike Panic

    Landed here via the John Chow blog and have written an article w/ the links requested on my site, it will auto-publish tomorrow at noon EST. Great site, I spent a few minutes poking around and really like the concept of this fund raiser.

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  • http://saniawyatt.blogspot.com Sania Wyatt

    Hello Alex, hope you are doing great. This was a really busy week for me. I’ll try to update my blog later with this donation you are running! Count me in! :)

  • http://www.alexshalman.com Alex Shalman

    Thanks for the on going support everyone! We’re starting out strong – remember, tell a friend! =)

  • http://creatingabetterlife.net/2007/03/16/the-million-dollar-project/ The Million Dollar Project – from Creating a Better Life

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  • http://neriaiansebastien.blogspot.com/ Neria Sebastien

    hi great idea…I am also raising money for cancer projects and treatment in the west Indies…
    Please donate here as well
    http://neriaiansebastien.blogspot.com/

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  • http://www.digmann.com Dustin

    Do you have an end date for this ‘contest’?

    Either way, I gave mine here:
    http://www.digmann.com/2007/03/16/give-a-link-to-charity.html

  • http://www.alexshalman.com Alex Shalman

    Thank you Dustin, I appreciate it – The end date is April 15th at 4:59am to make it exactly one month.

  • http://thoughtsphilosophies.com Carolyn Manning

    Since other people have managed to trackback, it must be possible. Am I blind? Can’t find the link.

    Oh well, I’ll take a cue from Dustin:

    http://thoughtsphilosophies.com/?p=129
    Link Love At Its Best

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  • http://shiokculture.blogspot.com Culture Shiok!

    This is a great effort.

    Keep it up!

  • http://www.milliondollarjourney.com MillionDollarJourney.com

    What a great idea! I may have to borrow it in the future.

    I have a similar fundraiser initiated on my blog, but I’m selling link space and donating the proceeds to charity.

    Best of luck!
    FT

  • http://www.alexshalman.com Alex Shalman

    Sorry FT – it’s actually copywrited so you won’t be able to use it. I’m jk, good luck with your project and thanks for visiting.

  • http://www.brandon-hopkins.com Brandon Hopkins

    Great Idea, I’ll put up a post right now.

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  • http://www.AskDanAndJennifer.com/ Dan and Jennifer

    Hey Alex,

    Gotcha on today’s link love reader-appreciation post getting published this evening.

    Congrats on going so damn viral with this, very cool. Way to go.

    Have an awesome day!
    Dan

  • http://www.alexshalman.com Alex Shalman

    Thanks guys – I appreciate all the support!

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  • Diana

    great idea alex!!!

  • http://www.empowerwomennow.com/news-women-entrepreneurs/ Ponn Sabra
  • http://www.alexshalman.com Alex Shalman

    Thank you Ponn, I have never been called a blogger-extraordinaire before. You’ll make my head-swell if you keep it up =)

  • Cynthia

    Alex,

    You are the man! This idea is great!

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  • http://www.kletskous.com Catharina

    Hi Alex, nice idea and as you can see you will be famous in the Netherlands too :)

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    Fab 5 on Friday 03/23/07…

    It’s becoming increasingly difficult to restrict myself to 5 posts. So, this week I gave up! I present to you the fabulous 5 – 6, 7, okay 8 – posts for the week:
    Carolyn does a guest post for Joe on short notice entitled This Community Is Our Com…

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  • http://www.dying-to-know.com dyingtoknow

    love the ideas, be generous and you’ll get something in return

  • http://www.dying-to-know.com dyingtoknow

    love the idea, be generous and you’ll get something in return

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