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Have a great and...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.
Great idea!
Awesome idea, Alex. You’ll be seeing my post later today.
Alex,
Very cool stuff! I will put your link up in the Link Love edition that I put out this Saturday.
Thank you for your support guys. Someone in need will definitely appreciate the effort.
Count me in. I’ve got a perfect post coming up for this type of thing.
Love the notion! My post will be up before the end of the evening (dst)
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.
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!
Thanks for the on going support everyone! We’re starting out strong - remember, tell a friend! =)
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/
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
Thank you Dustin, I appreciate it - The end date is April 15th at 4:59am to make it exactly one month.
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
This is a great effort.
Keep it up!
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
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.
Great Idea, I’ll put up a post right now.
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
Thanks guys - I appreciate all the support!
great idea alex!!!
Ingenious idea Alex!
Hoping you reach your goal!
http://empowerwomennow.com/news-women-entrepreneurs/index.php/search-engine-optimizationseo-for-online-women-entrepreneurs-part-12/
To our success & empowerment,
Pnn
Thank you Ponn, I have never been called a blogger-extraordinaire before. You’ll make my head-swell if you keep it up =)
Alex,
You are the man! This idea is great!
Hi Alex, nice idea and as you can see you will be famous in the Netherlands too
Hello again. Thank you for the comment on my blog. I have gotten together with a few friends and we have started what we hope to be a good way to raise more funds that are honesty needed. We have decided to start a mega fundraising site selling over 600 popular magazines online. The plus is that you can purchase these at a fraction of newstand price. You can purchase here and start your own newstand…
Go here…http://www.magfundraising.com/Neria
love the ideas, be generous and you’ll get something in return
love the idea, be generous and you’ll get something in return