Fraser’s quote explains his inspiration:

“My real inspiration is Body Shop founder Anita Roddick. When she was alive she proved you can make a successful business AND make it ethical.

“The fact she gave all her cash to charity says everything. I’d like to run my business like that.”

Gary Vaynerchuk’s ‘Scaling Caring’ talk delivered at the recent 140Conf in New York.

Other Gary Vee posts on LovelyCompanies.com: Profile, How to react to your website getting hacked, The Future of Communities.

Social websites run by lovely companies often have lovely communities. One of the earlier social websites with a lovely community that was kind, friendly and helpful, was Flickr.

Last week Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake announced her latest project – Hunch.com – with a delightful blog post.

Hunch is a decision-making site, customized for you. Which means Hunch gets to know you, then asks you 10 questions about a topic (usually fewer!), and provides a result — a Hunch, if you will. It gives you results it wouldn’t give other people.

You can also teach Hunch about yourself by answering a never-ending series of questions many of which are witty and bizarre. Your answers help build a “taste profile” which the system uses to choose just the right Hunch for you.

I’ve been playing around with the service for a few days now and I love it! Unfortunately Hunch isn’t launched to the public yet but we’ve got two invites to give away to the first two readers to comment on this post!

Here’s an amazing opportunity for a LovelyCompanies.com reader! We’ve got a ticket to next week’s PSFK Conference in New York to give away, worth $300!

A little while ago my friend Jonny Philp, founder of OW! Health, won the ticket on Twitter. Unfortunately he can’t make the conference so he donated the ticket to be given away on LovelyCompanies.com – thanks Jonny!

With speakers from Diageo, Fast Company, Hello Health, Treehugger, ideo, BBH Labs and boxee, the day promises to be hugely inspirational. It’s also an unmissable networking opportunity!

If you can get to New York on April 2nd then all you have to do to win is let us know in the comments why you really need to be at the PSFK Conference and we’ll pick a winner over the weekend!

Email marketing is now quite a crowded market with hundreds of companies touting their various solutions. However one company that has consistently floated to the top of the pack for the last few years is Campaign Monitor.

They describe themselves as “email marketing software for designers” and count many lovely companies, such as MOO and Carsonified, among their clients. Not only do they have an excellent product and plenty of happy customers but they also make a splendid effort to look after their community.

If you organise an event for web designers or developers then you can get free credits for Campaign Monitor to give out. They can also provide sponsorship for events in the form of pizza, beer and prizes! They have already supported BarCamp and Refresh events amongst many others. Check out their Giving Back page to find out more.

The guys at Campaign Monitor also started the Email Standards Project – a much needed effort to advocate better standards support in HTML emails!

Hat tip: Chris Stainthorpe