Posted by mike on October 7, 2009 under General News | 
The FreeCause Team showed up to support one of its favorite clients – peta2 – at their book signing at Harvard’s Coop Bookstore last night. The two authors, Marta and Starza, did a wonderful job and even let the FreeCause team taste some of their great vegan recipes –Shepard’s Pie, a great 7-layer dip, and some beer bread! To check out more recipes, go to PETA’s Vegan College Cookbook website.
Posted by bob on September 9, 2009 under General News |
FreeCause has been nominated as a top finalist in the CJYou Awards for Commission Junction’s Rookie Publisher of the Year. The other nominees include Kayak, the popular travel site, and New Epoch Software, a software and business consulting firm. The winner of this prestigious award, which recognizes the new publisher that has achieved the highest total revenue, will be announced later this month at Commission Junction’s premier industry event, Commission Junction University (CJU) at the company’s headquarters in Santa Barbara, CA.
CJ has released a complete list of nominees for the CJYou Awards in a press release and on the CJU event website.
Posted by bob on August 8, 2009 under Company News, General News, Uncategorized |
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!
Posted by bob on August 6, 2009 under Bebo, Company News, Facebook, General News, Uncategorized |
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
Posted by lauren on July 16, 2009 under General News |
Posted by lauren on July 6, 2009 under General News, Toolbar |
For over 140 years, the ASPCA has been the voice for millions of animals across the nation needing homes and protection from abuse. With the help of FreeCause, the ASPCA has successfully launched a free, easy way for supporters to get involved – all while raising valuable contributions for the cause and earning cool prizes!
The Orange for ASPCA Facebook Application has been a huge success, boasting over 36,000 members and still growing. Users can “Gift an ASPCA Pet” or create a “Profile Badge” to spread awareness throughout their social networks in a few simple clicks. The application has other fun features that let supporters “Place a Paw” on an interactive map and share stories about their special four-legged friends.
The ASPCA Toolbar and Shopping Mall offer another easy way to get involved! Without spending an extra dime, supporters can raise money just by searching the web and making purchases at the thousand plus e-merchants featured in the online mall. At the same time, supporters earn Paw Points for the chance to win great prizes from the ASPCA’s weekly raffles!
To help the ASPCA build a more humane future for all animals, join the Orange for ASPCA Facebook application and download the ASPCA Toolbar today!
Posted by mike on June 25, 2009 under General News |
After working with the band on the new Aeropoints Loyalty Platform and Toolbar, FreeCause finally got the chance to see Aerosmith perform live last week at the Comcast Center! A huge thanks to Paid, Inc. for making it happen — the concert was a blast!
Posted by lauren on June 15, 2009 under General News |
FreeCause took the Summer 2009 Interns to the 27th Annual Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl, which raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s research and treatment programs . The all-you-can-eat event lets participants sample flavors from nine of the nation’s leading ice cream companies. The favorite? Maine Lobster Tracks!
Posted by Blaine on October 7, 2008 under General News, MyFreeCause |
In celebration of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’ve teamed up with Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Citi to raise awareness for a cause that affects countless Americans every year. We’ve re-launched a new and improved Pink Ribbon on MySpace and Facebook that gives users tons of easy ways to show their support and help out in the fight against breast cancer. We’ll even give you Pink Points for participating and at the end of the month, we’ll be raffling off cool prizes like iPods and iPhones. So join Pink Ribbon and inspire others by sharing your story, read others’ stories about how breast cancer has touched their lives, donate year round without spending a dime by downloading the Pink Ribbon Toolbar, sign-up for a credit card and Citi will donate $50 to Komen if your application is approved, and much more!
We’re really excited for everyone to get involved and we’re confident that with your help, we can reach our goal of raising $250,000 this month for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which will go directly to funding breast cancer research and programs. So go ahead, make a difference, and join our Pink Ribbon Facebook and MySpace applications.
Posted by justin on June 25, 2008 under General News, MyFreeCause |
Thanks to everyone for being involved with one of our many charitable causes or organizations!
We have started this blog to keep all of our members up to date about whats going on with your MyFreeCause portal and to help add some transparency to the entire fundraising process.
Anytime we launch new features, pages, or anything else really, we’ll be posting on here
We’ve been very excited about the response we’ve seen with this new application and we are really looking for some feedback from you about how we can make this better, whats not clear (which right now could be quite a bit), and ways we can add more value to your fundraising experience.
Looking forward to helping make a difference,
FreeCause Team