Since I started doing more daily exercises and physical activities, the life has become so much more enjoyable, meaningful and abundant.

I had felt the need for more physical activities before but never done anything consistently since I had my first child. Life can be full of excuses with family/business commitment and demanding everyday chores. But this time, I actually took action.

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The small hotel operator in New Zealand called me just to say, ‘Oh my Goodness, it really works. We just had two people book in who’d seen the B1G1 logo on our ad.”

It’s great, of course. But not ‘validated’ in the strictest sense of the word just like all the feedback we get on B1G giving. From the Education Centre that tells us bookings are up 60 per cent in 4 months to the Weight Loss Solution that refers to being overwhelmed by the media coverage she’s got since she became a B1G1 Business.

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I’m indebted to Paul Mogg for this story.

As you read it, you may not think at first that it is about giving. But in a very real sense it is – giving to ourselves. And how many people have observed over time that we cannot give to others that which we ourselves don’t have.

SO with that brief background, let’s get into it.

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Just on my way home from a friend’s christening (well, their new baby’s christening). And on the car radio I heard an interview with the President of Microsoft Africa, Dr Cheick Modibo Diarra .

At one point the interviewer asked about Microsoft’s pricing and image in Africa particularly in view of some of the ‘challenges’ the company has faced in terms of anti-trust legislation.

Dr. Diarra told how Microsoft’s pricing included ‘everything’ as compared with all the free stuff out there. And in relation to the image question he said, “How many people know about the good we do? How

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If you're like me, every so often you go back through your files to review the 'standout' things.

Hopefully each one has resonance in one way or another. But one in particular from my friend Tim Wade  in Singapore stood out for me. 

Tim is a great writer, speaker and ALWAYS can be relied upon to bring insights. In his note, Tim reflected on what has been an amazing year for him. And then he said this:

Then there was the financial crisis. In truth, it's not really that big a deal. With 80% of the people in the world living below $10 a day and 50% living on less

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In a radio interview a few weeks ago, the host told me how he’d actually cross to the other side of the road if he saw a charity group ahead of him ‘rattling a tin under everyone’s nose’.

And a senior executive in a major corporation told me how the way the giving worked in their company was essentially like this: ‘we figure out what the profit is and then we decide how much of that we can give away – taking into account tax breaks of course’.

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For the past 27 years, I've travelled the world presenting Seminars - in some years over 200 of them. And I've done the TV interviews, the radio interviews, the DVD programs and all of that sort of stuff.

And as exciting and adrenalin-rushing as that is, there's nothing that quite matches the thrill of doing a live Webinar.

That's why I'm privileged to invite you to a stunning one on Tuesday 12th May. It's called 'Getting the Giving Going'. Come and dialogue with and explore what adding B1G1 to your business really means.

You'll be able to fully understand the 'magic' of B1G1 transaction-based giving and discover why being a part of this Global Giving Movement makes such a difference.

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Usually, all my blogs are about giving in one way shape or form. This one is about a special type of giving – giving to yourself. This morning I was doing that – taking time to have a great breakfast with a friend. When my friend left, I decided to stay on at the café to have a ‘quick flick’ through the weekend newspapers. And something I saw struck me as really relevant to giving to ourselves, or perhaps more appropriately as taking from ourselves.

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OK, I know that sounds like a weird title. But read on!

I don’t know about you, but I LOVE ideas and products that make me laugh. And when those ideas also have a great ‘give back’, it’s even better. And here at B1G1 it takes our tag-line, 'sharing the joy of giving, every second, every day and in every way', up a notch as well.

I was reminded today of some material a new B1G1 Business Member sent us. It scores high on the laughing index and it scores hugely on the give back index as well. And to top it all off, the business, run by Tom Minter in the UK has a seriously great name.

It’s called Socks for Happy People.

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Last week, our very good and highly talented friend Carl Bates held the first Sirdar Extreme Business Summit in South Africa. 60 delegates from start-ups, small business and established enterprises were all able to benefit from Carls’s crystal clear awareness of what business really needs to do to achieve extreme business success.

And importantly, since Sirdar is a B1G1 Business , all of those delegates got to give back, automatically and big time. Thanks to the power of B1G1 transaction-based giving, just by being there, every delegate was able to feed a child for two and a half

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New Study Reveals Why B1G1 Really Works

An October 2008 Study at the Cone/Duke University in the USA carried this title :

Consumer Behavior Study Confirms CAUSE RELATED MARKETING CAN Exponentially Increase Sales

The phrase 'exponentially increase sales' is rarely used in research reports. It points to the impact B1G1 transaction-based giving can have. Whilst the study was done in America, empirical evidence in other markets (and other global studies) confirm the trends noted in this particular research.

The study validates for the first time that transaction-based giving can significantly drive actual consumer choice.

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Michael Todd - thank you Michael - let me know today about a new Disney initiative – one that comes so close to (yet also so far from) what Buy1GIVE1 (B1G1) is all about.

In a web post on Ecorazzi.com headed “How about this new twist on getting people to see a film?” you’ll read how Disney is planting a tree (in the Brazilian Rain Forest) for everyone who attends the new Disneynature production of the film ‘EARTH’ during its opening weekend.

Good on them! What a great start. And as some other Websites who’ve picked up the story suggest, it’s a smart move by Disney. It will, without doubt,

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A lot of people ask, ‘why do you use a bee as part of the B1G1 logo?’ Here we’ll give you the answer to that AND look at some strides B1G1 is making in the ‘buzz’ department.

First the bee in the logo.

Buckminster Fuller, the legendary American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary talked about what he called procession and precession effects. He said that all wealth was a precessional effect. He showed how precessional side–effects occur throughout nature.

For example, a bee collecting honey is a processional effect – the bee goes directly for the honey.

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[Thank you to Louise Gilbert for writing this piece]

Every Buy1GIVE1 Business Member we talk to is guided by a higher purpose and expresses that purpose and passion through work they love. Giving could be considered an art: an art that arranges our business activities in a certain way that appeals to our emotions, and expresses what we desire at the deepest level - to make a difference somewhere else in the world.

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February 27, 2009

Interesting day today. A major international philanthropic NewsWire (Triple Pundit) picked up the Buy1GIVE1 'story' and circulated it worldwide in the form of a conversation between the editor and me as B1G1 Chairman.

If you'd like to go to the Triple Pundit site to view it, just click here. Or, if you'd like to save a click, we've reproduced the text of the article for you right here. Hope you like it. Come join us.

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New Worthy Cause projects

Over the last 18 months, we have continued to grow our Worthy Cause list. As you can imagine, it is not a quick process since we have to validate each cause. But wonderfully, now we have nearly 600 projects listed and we have many new additions coming in every month.

Without your recommendations, referrals and suggestions, we would not have found such wonderful causes from many countries. Let us introduce you to some of the new ones that may inspire new ideas.

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Cause marketing - The need for a cause

We are in an era where consumer power is real power. The media a few years ago could whip up a storm in a teacup at any time, but now with REAL connection from friend-to-friend, traditional media is becoming the second cousin to creating change.

Reading a newspaper article about a company being ‘naughty’ is one thing, but when you have several friends texting, emailing, Twittering and Skyping you about an issue, you listen and often follow.

With the advent of close-nit social networks, large companies can receive a massive onslaught of bad

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Just before Christmas, I had the pleasure of meeting Dee Allan.

She's the MD of 3C Synergy , a recruitment company specialising in the construction industry. She gave me a new distinction around pledging versus actually giving. Let's check it out and see what you think.

Dee 'found' Buy1GIVE1 quite by chance on the Internet a year ago. At the time, she was planning to move her company from the UK to Singapore.

Dee is what we might call a 'natural' giver - she really does get the role giving plays - and so before moving to Singapore she was searching on the Internet how she could make her giving happen. She found the usual ones like WWF and Oxfam and wasn't too sure about pledging a large monthly amount because that might not suit her business cycle.

  

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