My Plea for Help on Two Fronts, Multiple Sclerosis Charity and My Dream Job
Hi folks! I’ve got two challenges ahead of me. I have agreed to ride in a 175 mile bike race to benefit a Multiple Sclerosis Charity and raise $300 $3,300 as my entry fee.
I am also on a personal mission to gain more experience in Internet Marketing and quite possibly find my dream job.
I decided that it might be interesting to try and combine these two challenges into one.
It occurred to me that if I can’t figure out a way to raise $300.00 $3,300 online by the October deadline that I will probably have a really hard time convincing others that I can increase their sales over the Internet.
I know times are tough but $300 $3,300 seems like a small amount of money for me to raise in 4 months.
So starting today I’m going to use some of what I’ve learned thus far to raise as much as I can through online sources, starting with this plea.
Would you donate $5 to my personal MS donation site?
In addition to raising money to help in the research and development necessary to find a cure for this terribly dehabilitating disease, I’d like to prove to myself that I have a chance at acheiving my dreams and that I can reach a wide enough audience.
This is why I am only asking for the site’s minimum of $5 dollars from you.
Let me know if you have any questions or have any suggestions for how I can increase the number of people who read this post.
By my best guess, based on personal rules of thumb, I need to get about 6000 60,000 people to view this page. Thank you for your help.
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Update: I have up’d the ante and increased my goal to $3,300.
Glad to help Frank. Keep us updated on your progress.
Thanks so much Adam. So far 101 clicks on the article link, 5 clicks on the donation links and 1 donation.
Hey Frank,
Suggestion: ask some high profile people on Twitter if they’ll help you spread the word. My guess is this is the only action you’ll need to take to get > 6,000 views. Consider the time of day when you make the asks though…best for those messages to go out during working hours.
Good luck!
Thanks,
-Brian
Thanks so much for the suggestion Brian! I’ve @replied a few folks like Robert Scoble and others … but no luck yet.
Btw, I meant to say Hi to you a few weeks ago at IgnitePhilly but didn’t get around to it. I’ve been told by a few folks here at Accenture/GMS that I remind them of you. Guess we should meet so I can understand why that is ;)
Interesting…now I’m curious! I’m sure we’ll run into each other at one of these Philly area events, and it will be good to meet you then!
Just another quick update folks. After almost 3 hours I’ve had a pretty great response. 189 people have clicked on my article link and 18 have clicked on the donation link. That is about on par with my experience, 10%. But out of the 18 that have clicked the donation link, 7 have actually donated for a total of $95.
Great results! I’ll update the graphic in the article with my progress. It only refreshes automatically on my Facebook page.
Thanks again to everyone that has helped to spread the word!
That number should go up, I just threw my $$ into the ring :-) Good luck with the race and your quest for you all time dream job (whatever that may be :-> )
Thanks so much Michelle! Yea my next fund raising effort might have to be for my post race medical bills :P