Tomorrow, Sept. 1, 2005 has been designated Blog Relief Day. Hugh Hewitt suggested “perhaps the bloggers could agree to set a day for a unified blog beg” and Glenn from InstaPundit suggested this Thursday, September 1. NZ from The Truth Laid Bear is tracking some of the action on a special blog relief participant page.

It’s a day where bloggers of all types, from business bloggers to political pundits will join together to make a difference. If what happened in the blogosphere with the Tsunami relief earlier in the year is any indication of what type of difference bloggers can make, than tomorrow is your chance to make a BIG difference in providing relief for our fellow country men and women.

What Deb and I have decided to do is put out a $1,000 challenge to all our readers and subscribers.

The $1,000 challenge:

If you make a donation to any disaster relief organization between today and 11:59 p.m. Hawaii time on September 1, we will match your donations up to $1,000.

To make this possible, all we ask you to do is take TWO simple steps:

    1. Just post a comment here with the amount of your donation, and to whom you made it

    2. Email us a copy of your receipt to: “relief.support@rpmsuccess.com”

I will post the total donated on Sept. 2 and then match your contributions up to $1000. Deb and I will make our donation to Mission Harvest America, Inc. due to our personal interaction with them and their local connection with the areas impacted.

If you would like a list of recommended relief organizations you can use, visit InstaPundit.com. And if you’d like to check out the credibility of organizations you’re not already familiar with (always a good idea in situations like this) then visit http://www.charitynavigator.org as recommended by Michelle Malkin.

If you’re a fellow business blogger, then please post about this and urge your readers to contribute tomorrow.

Please keep the people of the Gulf Coast in your prayers.

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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