Just a quick note about the Blog For Relief effort last weekend. Deborah and I were so impressed with the quick action of our business coaching clients and readers of the Business Owner’s Blog that we had our editor publish a press release on the results.

Here’s a brief excerpt:

Hawaii residents and owners of RPM Success Group Inc., Deborah and John-Paul Micek were planning on making some donations on their own, but when they saw what Hewitt, Reynolds and Bear were doing, they put their money where their mouths are.

Mr. Micek says, “As strong proponents of marketing with business blogs, Deborah and I decided to test the word-of-mouth power of business blogs. Our intention was to act as a catalyst to inspire some action from our business-coaching clients and business owners who read our blogs. We issued a $1,000 matching challenge on http://www.biz-ownersblog.com in the afternoon of August 31st. We had hoped to get at least $1,000 in donations that we could match. But, what happened in less than 24 hours blew us away! Including our matching funds, we received proof of more than $12,500 in donations by September 1st at 11:59 p.m. To me, that’s proof that marketing with business blogs works.”

At the same time that the Miceks were putting their Marketing With Business Blogs multi-media course to good use (http://www.marketingwithbusinessblogs.com,) the total tracked over at truthlaidbear.com was approaching $350,000. The momentum was building and Blog for Relief Day turned into Blog for Relief Weekend yielding nearly $1.3 million for the victims of Hurricane Katrina by September 5.

You can read the full press release on the business coaching effort here on PR Web.

Thanks once again for your donations of close to $15,000 in 3 days!

Enjoy!

John-Paul Micek is known as the “Click-and-Mortar Business Coach” by business owners around the world thanks to members of the Business Owners Coaching Club™. He’s a published author and weekly columnist for the business section of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, and a managing partner with the international small business coaching company RPM Success Group Inc.®

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