These Snacks Should Last Us a Week or Two…

Posted by lauren on August 26, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

McFathington takes a break from his busy schedule to pick up more snacks for the office!

FreeCause Takes a Trip to the Yahoo! Headquarters

Posted by justin on August 20, 2009 under Company News | Read the First Comment

We had a great time last week visiting our partner Yahoo! and checking out their high-tech headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. We made sure to grab some Yahoo! swag to play with back at FreeCause, and so far everything has been a big hit (especially the Insta-Yodel button). Matt thinks he’s going to keep the Sector 9 skateboard in his office - but we might just have to flip a coin!

Shop, Save and Win Big!

Posted by lauren on August 10, 2009 under Facebook, SnapCMS, Toolbar | Be the First to Comment

The recent launch of Jackpot Nation, Jackpot Reward’s brand new application developed by FreeCause, is a one-of-a-kind community that offers longtime fans and first-time players alike an exciting new way to Shop, Save and Win Big on Facebook!

With Jackpot Nation, you can enjoy the popular daily sweepstakes drawings, generous shopping discounts, and exclusive Deals of the Day from Jackpot Rewards, while simultaneously doubling your odds of winning it big - for free! The application makes it easier than ever to earn more entries with a listing of free offers to complete and an invite wizard that lets you send messages to your entire Facebook network in one click.

Want to give yourself an extra boost just by shopping online and searching the internet? When you download the new 2X Toolbar and perform ten web searches or when you spend $10 at one of the 1,000 brand name retailers in the Jackpot Nation Facebook Mall, you will automatically earn two extra entries! It’s that easy!

So whether you’re looking to hit the jackpot, save on your everyday online purchases, or just have some fun, check out Jackpot Nation on Facebook right now!

FreeCause’s New Mall Technology Drives over $3 Million in Retail Sales!

Posted by bob on August 8, 2009 under Company News, General News, Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

Launched in early May of this year, FreeCause’s new mall content management system, ShopCMS, hit an important early milestone by driving over $3 million dollars in sales for U.S. and international retailers in just it’s first 90 days in operation.  The new software allows clients to build state-of-the-art online malls in less than an hour and feature popular shopping tools such as Deal of the Day promotions, Billboard Slideshows, and loyalty systems that award shoppers points or cash back.

Among the many features making this system unique in the marketplace, that ability for clients to build fully functional malls within social media environments (currently: Facebook, MySpace and Bebo) allows them to instantly monetize any existing applications they may have.  In fact, the key to our system’s early success and high adoption rates has been the substantial existing userbase offered by social networks (sometimes numbered in the millions) as opposed to the “old” way of launching an online mall which is to launch and then drive customers there through expensive SEO tactics.

More to come!

FreeCause Mall Team Heads to the Googleplex

Posted by bob on August 6, 2009 under Bebo, Company News, Facebook, General News, Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

Last week the FreeCause Mall team took to the road in their ongoing mission to partner with even more of the top retailers in the U.S. (currently over 1,600 strong). This California leg of our journey took us to the VIP-only Google Affiliate Network event hosted at none-other-than the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA where we started relationships with the great folks at Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Ann Taylor, and BOSE among many others.

Modeled after the popular “speed dating” networking format, over 60 retailers sat on Google-colored plastic chairs and “dated” approximately 125 hand-selected affiliates (such as FreeCause) to see if there was a potential to form a business partnership. Many were excited to hear about our new Mall tools especially since it represented a start to new revenue from the social media space!

Photo credit: Shawn Collins, Affiliate Summit

A Trip to Santa Barbara Can Only Mean One Thing: Commission Junction.

Posted by bob on August 5, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

No visit to the Left Coast would be complete without a stop at Commission Junction’s headquarters in sunny Santa Barbara, CA.  Although weary after over 75 meetings with retailers and account managers from the Google tradeshow and CJ San Francisco office, the FreeCause team powered ahead and held a series of three 1-hour-long meetings with CJ’s top account managers.   These were indeed worth the jet lag since the group represented some huge retailers such as HP, Dell Small Business and Apple.

This round of meetings sets the stage for one of the top events in the affiliate marketing industry, CJ University, which is a three-day event set in Santa Barbara every September which draws over 700 high-level marketing attendees.  See you there!