Raising Cash For Charity?

Hi John,

1. I'm not sure.

2. Absolutely, yes!

3. Not offhand.

4. If I can think of anything, I would be more than happy to contribute. Maybe writing a few custom blog posts, if nothing else.

Best of luck on the project!
Michael

Hi John

It should be really simple raising money for charities but it's actually a lot harder than one would think! I think it's because there are so many charities and so many people doing things for charities, i.e. sponsored run, sponsored walks, etc. It also (and shameful I know, but is true) depends on the charity. Children's charities/cancer tend to raise more of a profile because of their nature etc.

Anyway, let's focus on the positive.

There are many marketing activities you can do:

First of all, you need to create a "wish list" of people you would like to help you promote it. Ideally people who have a large leadership within their blogs. An easy way to do this is to check out how many comments they have. Generally the higher volumne of comments can often mean they are generating a lot of traffic to their sites, which is what you want.

You then need to contact these people, either directly or by asking if anyone knows them and getting an introduction.

I would really recommend also leveraging Twitter and Facebook. I'd be happy to post a few links for you to my Twitter followers (I have over 43,000, so would reach a fair few).

You need to make sure you're monitoring everything so you can see where your results are coming from, track everything etc.

Wishing you the very best of luck, I hope you raise lots of cash for them!

Feel free to PM me their link to post to Twitter.

Lilach

I actually run a fundraising business for charity organizations myself (in my sig).

I have a lot of articles online about different fundraising methods all pointing to one of my blogs. The traffic isn't huge, but I would be more than happy to write a post on my blog about your efforts.

Just let me know!

Schoemoney and Jonathen Volk probably have the largest readerships you could reach out to them and see if they can help you.

ProBlogger (Darren Rowse)
Yaro Starak
Carl Ocab (carlocab.com)
Mashable?..
ProBlogger
John Chow
Matt Cutts
CopyBlogger
Chris Garrett
Dan Raine @ 30DC?
ShoeMoney

I am in no way suggesting that these guys WILL get involved.. but they do have a big sphere of influence in the blogosphere... and you might want to approach them.

As for the rest. I'm not actively doing anything in this niche right now, John.. but I'd be prepared to spread the word around where I can and of course, I will buy anything you put out for this.

Peace

Jay

1a. Mom bloggers who are also internet marketers: Alice Seba, Lynn Terry, Nicole Dean, Melissa Ingold, Jackie Lee, Amy Bass...to name just a few off the top of my head who are also WF members.

1b. Bloggers who focus on asthma.

2. Sure!

3. I'd be happy to write up an online press release and post it on PRLog.org, as well as email it to a list (I can compile one) of Mom bloggers and 'asthma bloggers'. Anyone who wants to help me contact people on the list is welcome to volunteer to help me

I'll need specifics from you about the charity and the product/bonuses. You can PM me or email me via Contact Me | writers:green

4. Yes -- I'll work on a bonus to contribute.

Audre

Chris Garrett
Yaro Starak
Chris Brogan
Ed Shahzade (on Twitter)

2. Yes

3. Will email you.

4. Yes, if 'Blog Profit Ideas Exposed' will help.

All success
Dr.Mani

Also... John...

If you can PM me with more details at some point... That'd be great



Peace

Jay

I would be happy to donate an Imnica Mail account for the AR part of this, as well as donate some level of giveaway accounts if that will help.

As I have a son with Asthma, I would also be more than happy to promote this in any way I can for zero comms of course.

John,
not much on blogging but am willing to help out any way I can - many members of my family suffer from Asthma so I know what they go through. If there's an email where I can send a bit of $$ let me know. I 'force' my kids to donate part of their allowance each month so they can get in the habit of that instead of spending it all on themselves so I'm not talking about Trump sized donations but figure every bit helps.

Also, I have MRR rights to a WP membership plugin I can offer as a bonus - just pm with the details or give me a shout on skype.

Thanks for helping out!
best,
--Jack


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I'll lend you a herd of my hamsters. They don't need much room. They can all live under Taylor's smelly kilt.

OMG - that is just so wrong on so many levels.... :-)

John, good to see you doing something like this. I have been giving some thought to setting up a charity via means of internet marketing by applying certain tactics. This is for a little down the road though.

Once you're ready to roll with this I'd be happy to mail my list. I think that other marketers coming on board and mailing their lists when the time comes would be a great way to drive the traffic that you need.

Andy

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your kind offers of support. I think it's time for me to provide a little bit of back story to how this all came about.

A few days ago I was sat in a beer garden, enjoying a cold pint with my old man, when we were approached by a slightly crazy looking guy with a charity bucket. He wandered around the whole beer garden and must have been lucky if he collected a couple of quid. This got us talking about charity workers and their lack of economic sense...

Why do so many people raise money for charity at less than minimum wage, when they could just get a job and donate what they earn?

Unfortunately for me, the conversation didn't stop there and I foolishly (ok, drunkenly) proclaimed about how much better I could do.

"Prove it", was my Dad's response.

To cut a long story short, I now have a bet going with him. That I can't raise $10,000 for Asthma Research (my Dad's an asthma sufferer so it seemed appropriate) by 19th July 2010 (1 month).

I figured what better place to start than twisting the arm of a highly respected Warrior Forum member to help me spread the word...

Unfortunately, the best I could find on short notice was John Taylor.

So thank you again, I really appreciate the community spirit for what really is a great cause.

Cheers,

Andy

I've set up a "Sponsors" blog with a list of people
who have contributed or promised to contribute:
WP Syndicator | Sponsors, Supporters and Contributors

I'm also in the process of compiling a list of people
who might be able to help spread the word.

If you can help in any way, please do let me know
by posting in this thread or by PM.

Thanks

John

Donate button on the site might help? (it would certainly help me send a few bucks)

Hey John,

Let me know when you get your donate button up.

I went to donate but couldn't

Andy

Found this through @JayXtreme's Tweets :-) I'm happy to help RT and spread the word as well. Good work John (et all).

1. no idea, but I'm thinking you might want to try people who are blogging about Asthma, they would have a public that is interested in this niche and would me more willing to give to a charity that's related to it.

2. Yes I would

3. no, sorry

4. Yes I would. I'm working on a project right now that I would be willing to add to this.

Leslie

John,

I'll contribute a lifetime pass to VisiOlo. Will PM you the details.

WP Syndicator | Sponsors, Supporters and Contributors Digg it

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2F9GOi....com/sponsors/ and stumble it

Doug,

That's very much appreciated.

I've sent you a PM. ;-)

Thanks

John

Thanks for all the offers of help so far. John and I have had lots of questions about how people can help so in an attempt to answer it one more time rather than to everyone who PM's/Skype's us ...

Donate - OK, ok we won't have a donate button until tomorrow but it still remains number one regardless!

Donate a product - If you've got something that will complement a Wordpress plugin targeted at bloggers who want to syndicate their content and generally raise their profile and you are happy for it to be sold at a massive discount to over 1,000 people let us know so we can include it in the OTO bundle.

Agree to run a promotion to the charity page - Whether your list is 2 or 2 million people, sending that traffic to the offer page between 5th and 19th July would be massively appreciated.

Sign up to beta test the plugin - The plugin will be in beta 28th June to 5th of July, the more the merrier (but a pox on anyone that sees this as a free way to get a plugin that is being sold for charity!!!!)

Digg/Stumble/Web2.0ify us - Check out DogScout's post above and help raise awareness.

Tell us what we're forgetting - We don't have all the answers and we don't pretend to so if you think we're missing a trick then let us know.

Cheers,

Andy

I know a few gurus who will mail for this.

...Also Shoemoney I can almost guarantee will blog about this. I think I still have him on AIM so I'll give him a holler.

Whenever you have everything set shoot me a PM. Not interested in the stuff - but I'll donate some cash. Just tell me where to go to do so.

Cheers,

Zach

Once again THANK YOU!

I keep running out of "thanks" when trying to get through everyone so if I haven't put my name against your post please don't take offence. I am truly truly grateful.

The only problem I can see here is that some people will always have that small shadow of doubt that you are giving all the money to charity. Especially if people don't know you or haven't heard from you. So for affiliates doing it for free...it may be hard to find them unless they personally know you.

However, if you set it up that the proceeds go to the charity direct... like bank account or something on their site that points to yours to make it seem legit, it will help people to make that decision to contribute.

There are some big names out there and they will certainly help... it's just a matter of finding the right people that are in that frame of mind to want to help.

Have you seen the Chip-In Widget?
ChipIn

There's a plugin called WPFooter that you can post the widget code into after each blog post?

Thought these might help with the set-up?

Try ===> doitforcharity.com

i recently raised money for a skydive for Unicef ;-)

Shaqir Hussyin

Thanks for everyone's continuing support.

I'm currently working hard to recruit sponsors who
will be willing to promote the charity offer for zero
commissions and I'm getting some great responses.

Please do tell as many people as you can that they
can sign up as an affiliate here:
WP Syndicator

Check out the great graphics that Karl Warren has
very kindly donated while you're there. :-)

Thanks

John

Speaking of FaceBook, you would also have this featured on FaceBook Causes and have the capability to invite your co-marketers to support this.

I hope this helps too.

Just a quick note to be mindful of accessibility issues if using WP; some themes are better than others. This might not be as big of an issue for an asthma organization but I wanted to mention it anyway.

I built a website and much more (pro-bono) for a new non-profit organization as well. They did not want to use wordpress because of potential accessibility issues vs. current html standards.

ileneg

Just a quick update...

In less than 4 days, we have managed to raise
just over $6,500 for the asthma charity.

With all the help and support we are getting from
this amazing community I have every confidence
that we'll reach our target.

Thanks!

John

Just discovered this thread. I've got asthma, so I'd be more than happy to run a blurb about in my newsletter. I've got over 10,000 subscribers. It's not about blogging, but some of 'em have to have a blog. PM me some promo material if you're still looking for help spreading the word.

Bought the plugin yesterday. Haven't tried it out yet, but I'll send the url to my list.

I'm interested in this but I don't know if those of us that use AlertPay can contribute.

This is one thing that gives me happiness and unfathomable joy.

Somehow I missed the latest additions to this thread.

@MarkAndrews - Thank you so much, I'd take you up on the offer but since we're only running until 19th July I'm not sure we'd really have time to take advantage of this. If you think it's worth trying though I'd absolutely love to hear from you and will do everything I can to help!

@dougp and King Shiloh - PMs on their way

ETA: And by "PMs on their way" I mean I've just kicked John via Skype