An MBA prospect set to raise a million dollars for education

TORONTO , ON , CANADA – January 22, 2007 – A unique concept with a goal of raising $1,014,650 for education.

A Canadian MBA prospect launched a fundraising campaign aimed at collecting enough money to pay off his outstanding debts and at making a million dollars to cover his impending MBA tuition expenses. Faced with the enormous costs of tuition he came up with a unique solution, launching www.DonateMeSomething.com to fund his education.

Targeting both charitable donors and advertisers www.DonateMeSomething.com employs a combination of fundraising methods from collecting actual donations to selling advertising space. Ad spots sold on www.DonateMeSomething.com are grouped into three categories (based on the banner size) and displayed in a rotating order within each group. With each page refresh ads are shuffled to display new banners. The limited number of ad spaces within each group ensures good click-through rates and quality exposure for each individual banner.

Furthermore, all website users are encouraged listing something futile on eBay or Yahoo auction instead of sending it to a landfill. In return for donating a small portion of the auction proceedings, the auction itself would be promoted on the front page of www.DonateMeSomething.com.

“Of course, the objective is to raise money for education.” says the creator, “However, my main goal is to prove that anyone, literally anyone, can make a small fortune on the Internet.”

Good luck with donations, but why would anyone buy ads? Placing a banner ad on a site whose popularity continuously increasing, no recurring costs and guaranteed exposure until January 2012 would offer excellent advertising value for the money spent. Additionally, all purchased ad spots are transferable (after all available spots are sold out) so every advertiser has an option of re-selling the ad spot in order to return the invested money.

A week after its release the website already collected over $2,000 and the number of hits exceeded 60,000, averaging 15,000 a day.

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For more information please contact:
Alex Pest
Donate Me Something
Tel: 416.939.5449
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www.DonateMeSomething.com

 

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