The 3/50 Project began as a blog post suggesting consumers return to locally owned brick and mortars. Since then, I’ve been funding the Project out of my savings account (with the exception of a brief two-month period when a corporate sponsor helped out). Yeah, I know. Crazy. But it never occurred to me the words in that post would explode into a viral grassroots movement.
Lesson:
Be careful what you blog about; it might become your new unpaid job.
Since then, The 3/50 Project has garnered massive press, massive traffic...and massive bills, a big chunk of which is website hosting. Unlike a “normal” business site, our traffic alone pushes bandwidth and RAM requirements into the server stratosphere, making hefty VPS hosting a necessary evil. The days of $7.95/month are long, long gone. We’re talking more than 10x that now...per month. Plus all the other overhead that comes with running a viral grassroots campaign.
Together, we can make a difference...but we need folks to chip in.
Like the message we’re spreading from coast to coast?
Want us to continue promoting small business goodness?
Cool. Please drop a tip in The 3/50 Project jar today to keep us around tomorrow.
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Click here to tip $50.00
To each of you who have berated scolded chewed me out gently noodged me
about the stunning oversight in not representing The 3/50 Project is obvious numeric terms:
Click here to tip 3 x 50 ($150.00)
Click here to tip $350.00
You’ll be returned to The 3/50 Project website after dropping your tip in the jar.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and again, thank you.
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