Not like me

January 12, 2010 · Filed Under General · 5 Comments 

I work a day job in addition to my internet marketing.  Everyone I work with is not like me, no one in my town that I know is like me.  Everyone seems to be happy with their day job, or more often not happy, but not doing anything about it.

I find myself going to my day job and then coming home and working and everyone else talks about how they go home and do nothing.  Its kind of discouraging sometimes, just wish I had someone that I could see in person that wanted to hustle to change their future via online marketing.

I can connect online, but finding people that hustle and are on my level (not very advanced) is hard to do.  Ever feel like that?

Gary V on my URL drop down list before Google

January 12, 2010 · Filed Under General · Comment 

Ironic.  When I type the letter G into my URL bar in Firefox it gives me some choices in the dropdown.  Gary Vaynerchuk often lists first, before Google.  Guess I visit his site a lot.  :)

CauseWorld iphone app

January 2, 2010 · Filed Under General · Comment 

CauseWorld lets you donate money to charity just for taking the time to “check in” while doing your daily activities.  You install the app on your iphone or droid and when you go to stores, resturants, etc.. you launch the app.  It will check based off of your GPS location if the place you are at is on their list.  If it is you can “check in” which is simply clicking a button on yoru phone. 

When you check in you get Karma points.  Karma points can be donated to the charity of your choice (picking from the ones they offer, and you can suggest your own).  When you donate, it tells you exactly what/how much your donation will do.  Then the donation is translated in to real world dollars by their sponsors – Currently Citi and Kraft foods. 

The store you visit doesn’t pay anything, at least not now.  You can go visit stores you might not normally, but I have been using it to just check in at the places I was going anyway. 

So how much difference can one person make?  So far this morning since I downloaded the app, about 4 hours ago, I have been able to donate 7 times. In total I have donated 3 meals to hungry folks here in the US and have given clean water to 4 people in Sudan for 1 month each.  (Helping stop the spread of disease).   This has just been in my spare time this morning while going places I was going anyway. 

Did I mention the application is free and there is no cost to you? Think you can spend 5 minutes of your day to give a meal to someone?