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Good.ly: Shorten URLs, Help Charities

David Haywood Smith — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:38:03 +0000

Remember the Fund It Frog that earns money for charity as you shop online? Here’s another service that uses affiliate links to raise money for charity.

Good.ly, produced by the folks at Skimlinks, is a straightforward URL shortener. Simply enter a URL into the box on the homepage and click the ‘Make it Good’ button. If possible, the shortened URL will also act as an affiliate link from which 55% of any revenue earned goes to charity. At the moment they have three charities on board: Dogs Trust, Crisis and ChildVoice International but they are open to new charities signing up. There is also an option to support all available charities.

There is also a nifty bookmarklet so that you can shorten URLs as you browse the internet.

Check out the Miss Good.ly Two Shoes blog and their Twitter feed for updates.

Gary Vaynerchuk: The Future of Communities

David Haywood Smith — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:06:59 +0000

Gary Vaynerchuk spoke at FOWA Miami 2008 about the importance of the community in building a business. Check out his talk here:

I just searched for previous articles about Gary on LovelyCompanies.com to link to and, to my horror, I couldn’t find any! I will definitely tell you more about this wonderful guy soon. In the meantime, if you are on Twitter, follow him now!

(Hat tip: Ryan Carson)

Lovely Company: MoreEco

David Haywood Smith — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:50:11 +0000

Another lovely company that got in touch with us recently is MoreEco. MoreEco is an eco shopping reward site…

We search the internet for the best organic, green, environmental, and natural online retailers and negotiate with them a reward level which can be passed on to the moreeco registered users. For every 10 points a person earns, moreeco offsets 1kg of carbon!

It’s a little like Fund it Frog but with an environmental twist! What a great idea – click here sign up now!

FundItFrog.com launches!

David Haywood Smith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:26:50 +0000

Until now FundItFrog – the service we covered earlier that raises money for charity as you shop online – has only been available as a Facebook app. However the service recently launched as a standalone website: click here to check it out!

Congratulations to Geoff Hughes, the chap behind FundItFrog, on the launch! Here’s hoping it helps raise even more money for worthwhile causes!

FundItFrog: Shop Online, Raise Money for Charity

David Haywood Smith — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:14:42 +0000

Here’s a great idea: when you shop online with the FundItFrog Facebook application, they get paid a commission which they share with the charity of your choice. Simply do your shopping through their app and you automagically raise money for your favourite charity!

Here’s a video of Geoff Hughes explaining the concept in a little more detail:

Affiliate links and MoneySavingExpert.com

David Haywood Smith — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:10:10 +0000

Affiliate links. A fantastic way to make money online? Or, as Jason Calcanis argues below, the latest form of internet pollution?

On MoneySavingExpert.com, Martin Lewis marks all the affiliate links in his content with an asterisk in order to main absolute transparency for his readers. It is also worth noting that the affiliate links are added after the content is written and if no affiliate link is available for the service being recommended then the site makes no commission from referrals to that service. He argues that the content of many other financial service comparison sites is driven by which affiliates pay the most.

While keeping the site free to use and free of advertisements, the revenue has also allowed Martin to give away more than £100,000 to charity via the MoneySavingExpert.com charitable fund.

Transparency with customers and giving money to charity? Lovely!