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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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

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

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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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

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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BOGO

- A new way to look at the world of giving

Definitions of words can often change quite quickly these days. In the distant past the meaning of words was often set in stone. Today the meaning can change in a blink. With new faster ways to communicate with wider and more culturally, socially and educationally diverse audiences – words are put back on the anvil of evolution and reformed into something new and more meaningful to reflect life and living today.

There is a growing global movement where consumers are asking businesses to take care of the things that they care about.

Sometimes, we may feel that our individual and everyday activities don’t make much of a difference.

But what if they did? What if people around the world set up their businesses so that every single transaction made a positive difference? What a world that would be; and that is actually the world of Buy One Give One. And it’s now becoming a global movement.

This transaction-based giving movement is now inspiring and transforming our world. It is a new and immediately effective form of philanthropy, serving the worlds poor with practical gifts from every sale.

Several

Like you, I’ve received so many wonderful Christmas messages this year.

And each one has resonance in one way or another. But one in particular from my friend Tim Wade 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 than $2.50 a day¹,

the crisis has only really

Yesterday 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 and she knew that might be risky – she knew, as she puts it – that she’d have some lean months and some spectacular months too.

Dee is what we might call a ‘natural’ giver – she really does get

Paul Dunn from Buy1GIVE1 got rated as the number 1 presenter at the recent CSR forum in Singapore. Business people around the world came to this recent conference to explore the latest CSR topics.

He was also interviewed by a reporter (Alicia Wong) from 'Today' newspaper after his presentation.

Read the article here .

Buy1GIVE1 transaction-based giving is now being recognised as one effective way to create more synergy and energy in organisations.

When it comes to life and business there are countless ways that we can do things. In business there are methodologies for everything from improving staff performance to increasing the bottom line results.

One thing that I have noticed in life is that if I observe I learn! Most of what I have learnt in my own life has been free because I've simply observed. One day I was on Sentosa beach in Singapore and I learnt one of the most valuable lessons in my whole life simply by observing.

I was enjoying a great day out with my two children, Myra and Kai. Children as they do, show us so much. Today

Bees are all giving by nature. They give naturally to maintain the world of abundance. But each bee actually takes different role in maintaining the colony as well as the flower garden. So, I thought human beings are the same. We are all naturally giving and caring. But we tend to express our giving in different ways. So, here it is a 'giving bee' chart where you can find your bee type. Watch out for the following bee analysis! The more you share your value as a givine bee, the more we can do together make a difference.

The Christmas season is coming.

Everyone is thinking of the Christmas holiday.

So, what do we have in mind for the Christmas holiday?

At Buy1GIVE1, we have suggested an interesting project as a part of our team privileges. We can all choose to take a few days 'giving' holiday. Normally employment benefits focus on how much you get paid or how many day holiday you are getting. And whether you get 3 more days or less would not make a massive impact to your feeling about your work, would it?

We had a meeting about this holiday this week. Everyone is actively participating in this and thinking

New findings from this year's goodpurpose(TM) global study of consumer attitudes reveal that nearly seven in 10 (68%) consumers would remain loyal to a brand during a recession if it supports a good cause, and 71% say that when they think about the economic downturn, they have either given the same or more time and money to good causes.

These findings, part of the second annual goodpurpose(TM) study, convey the eye-opening yet encouraging news that recent economic events have not had a negative impact on consumers' contributions to good causes. Despite the downturn, across the globe

You just have to check these guys blog out. They will soon have full online information available about how to buy their socks through the internet. They are surely the coolest sock company in the world! Each pair of socks sold supports a child in Mongolia to receive a free pair, protecting their toes from the desperate winter temperatures.

Check out the Socks for Happy People blog