The $8.88 Campaign, 88 Sites, and 8 Wishes
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Paul Sanchez got one of his wishes, an interview with Paul Orfalea, the founder of Kinkos and a fellow dyslexic. It’s an amazing interview and really provides you with a different perspective on life and business. My favorite line:
The A students work for the B students, the C students run the businesses, and the D students dedicate the buildings!
The other part of this that’s amazing is Paul’s take on business and leadership. He states that his job isn’t to work, it’s to think. He doesn’t maintain a busy schedule because it interferes with his thinking. He doesn’t read or use email. He watches and learns.
Paul Sanchez has a month to go and his #1 wish is to raise $1,000,000 for children with learning disabilities. I’ve never had a learning disability but have watched the devastating affects it has had on some close friends and their ability to feel good about themselves and their ability to fit in. It’s a great cause and Paul is bringing to light that it’s nothing that can’t be overcome as long as its identified early and treated.
Paul was gracious enough that he has commented on my site and mentioned it on his simply for supporting his cause. Here’s my challenge to you… donate $8.88 and do a post about 8 Wishes to get the word out. Donating $8.88 lets Paul know that it originated from our campaign. You can donate using the following widget (and you can post the widget on your site):
Let’s call it the $8.88 campaign for 8 wishes!
Here are 88 sites that have already posted about 8 Wishes:
Absent Canadian - Akira Media - All My Causes - AllBusiness.com - Beertjes - Beth’s Blog - Bike Liker - Bike Tourist Podcast - BizSolutionsPlus - Bonez - Brain Based Biz - Business Blogging Excellence - Carl Grint - Chaotica - Charitable Living - Charity News - ChipIn - Copy Blogger - Crash and Burn - Design Singularity - Dmitry Linkov - Douglas Karr - Fiendish Glee Club - FredCast - FrogWitch - Golden Practices - Grasping for the Wind - Highlight This - Hitchiker’s Guide - Hola! Oi Hi! - Home is where the heart is - I Speak of Dreams - I think I’m going for a walk now. - Influential Foofaraw - Jeremy Latham - Jules.ca - Julia Rosien - KnowHR Blog - LDBlog - Liza’s eye view - Lonely Marketer - Make it Great - Matt Wiggins - Michael.net - Miss 604 - Mode Mag - MyBlogLog front page - Neowin.net - Nettie Hartsock - NewsAssigment - NextUp - Nomadik - Note to CMO - Odd Time Signature - Pentimento - Perkonis - Power of Trinity - Project Pedal - Quarter Life Crisis - Radical Trust - Raul Valdez - rkgblog - Ruminate this site - Ryan’s Life - Schwab Learning - Scot Richardson - Seth’s Blog - Seven Load - Sirberus - Socially Given - Spiked Humor - Stage6 front page - Stumble Upon - Successful Blog - Tammy Allen - Technically Speaking - Techzones - The Digital Perm - Throw Away your TV - Today Top Videos - Two Hat Marketing - Uniquely The Epitome - veritas/tic - Front page of Metacafe - Web Impact - Word Sell - Yeah Right - Yoga Coffee Outlook
55,000,000 blogs… we should be able to get 112,000 sites to donate $8.88 each, right? When you donate $8.88 or more to 8 Wishes, I’ll post about your blog on my site. My blog is in the top 6,000 blogs on Technorati and in the top 90,000 sites on Alexa, so it will help your ranking quite a bit. Just leave a comment below that you’ve donated and do a trackback to this post with your post. We’ll get Paul the help he needs in no time!
Read more at 8 Wishes. Once you give, be sure to put a badge on your site!
Paul
Good luck on your campaign!
I continue to be amazed and impressed by what I am finding in the blogosphere, the people I meet and what they are doing. Last week I briefly commented on a site that I found called 8 wishes - definitely…
So I clicked over to ChipIn and coughed up $88.88 — $8.88 was just too weenie.
Thanks for the noodge and for making it easy.
I really appreciate blogs such as yours. I’m a single father of a son and daughter and sometimes it’s hard to tackle some issues without a balance of a father and mother in a family.
Thanks Again!
Doug
Thanks again! I just noticed that you did all those backlinks too. We are going to do a post about the 8.88 campaign.
Paul
Doug
In my correspondence with Douglas Karr today, he pointed me towards Paul Sanchez’ 8 Wishes campaign.
Paul hopes to raise $1 million which will go to 100 kids suffering from dyslexia in the form of $10,000 scholarships. This is his first wish. Bes…