Thank you for all you business owners who have stepped up to the plate and donated yesterday.

As you know, in support of Blog For Relief Day Deborah and I decided to get creative and try to catalyze some action from our business coaching clients and business owners who read our blogs. So we issued $1000 matching challenge on biz-ownersblog.com on the afternoon of the 31st.

We had hoped to get at least $1000 in donations that we could match — but what happened in less than 24 hours blew us away.

We received proof of over $11,500 in donations by 11:59 p.m. September 1. With our matching challenge amount of $1,000 we are humbled to have catalyzed $12,500 in donations for victims of hurricane Katrina in just 24-hours.

The total tracked over at truthlaidbear.com was approaching $350,000 at midnight Hawaii time last night. That total is now reaching towards $400,000.

And with momentum just starting to build, thanks to Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Reynolds, and N.Z. Bear Blog For Relief Day has now turned into Blog for Relief Weekend (Sept 3 – Sept. 5.) The goal is to get international bloggers and corporations to participate to multiply those donations exponentially.

Thans again for all you business owners who have stepped up to the plate and donated.

God bless you all.

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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