My friend Mustapha sent a message on Facebook today asking his friends to support him on the Platteklip Charity Challenge.
Seeing as though I can’t sponsor him, I thought I would do the next best thing…ask you guys to
Mustapha Baboo has entered the Platteklip Charity Challenge
This is the message he sent out…please support him:
Hi all,
I have entered an endurance event called the Platteklip Charity Challenge to raise money to upgrade creche facilities for Aids affected children in Samora Machel, Cape Town. It is a 100% charity event which last year managed to raise more than R500 000.00 for the creche. I am going to see how many times I can summit Table Mountain via Platteklip Gorge from sunrise to sunset. You can sponsor me as little as R100, and know, that apart from making a huge difference to someone less fortunate than you, you are also making me suffer terribly.
Those of you living abroad are expected to pony up a little extra!
If you have been thinking about registering for the “Getting your business Facebook ready for 2010” Workshop next Thursday, the 25th of February, you don’t have forever to think
The bookings will close this Monday, the 22nd of February.
Social Media IQ presents the "Getting your business Facebook ready for 2010” Workshop
If you are keen but still undecided, please let me know and I will make sure Lisa or Peter gets in touch with you to support you in making your decision. If you have any questions or concerns, they will be able to help you.
Just a reminder of the content that will be covered in the workshop:
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN BY ATTENDING:
1) HAVING A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEW WEB TRENDS
· Projected web developments in the next 5 years
· Understanding why people visit the web
· Understanding online trust
· Understanding the Social Media environment
2) FACEBOOK (COVERING EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE IN PLACE IN ORDER TO HAVE A “BUSINESS” PROFILE)
· Pictures
· Video
· Status updates (prime property)
· News Feeds
· Commenting
· Tagging
· Facebook Applications
· Security Settings
3) FACEBOOK PUBLIC PAGES
· How to use pages for your business
· Page functionality
4) MICRO-BLOGGING
· Micro-blogging defined
· How businesses are using this platform
5) TWITTER
· Profile setup
· Programme functionality
· Direct Messaging; @ replies; Retweeting
· Favourites
· Posting links & photo’s
· Search capabilities
· Twitter clients
· Twitter Mobile
· Ideas on implementation
and much more…
CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK TO TAKE YOU TO THE ONLINE BOOKING FORM
So far, 2010 has been pretty damn good to me. There have been ups and downs but definitely more ups than downs…touch wood (what a weird thing to say, I wonder where touch wood comes from)
WARNING! This is a bit of a long update, I won’t be offended if you don’t read all of it. If you are interested, please read on
Anyway, I have a few exciting projects this year. Some have launched already and some are launching very soon.
MY RIGHT ARM
MY RIGHT ARM launched at the beginning of the year and is my answer to the question “What are you willing to do to live without spending money?” Quite literally, I am giving MY RIGHT ARM, are at least advertising space on MY RIGHT ARM to friends of mine with businesses.
I am creating 25 extremely unique advertising opportunities on MY RIGHT ARM for brands who would like to support me in my quest to live with out spending money. If your product or service can help me live well, or do the things that I need to do, get in touch with me, you could be next to have your logo tattooed on MY RIGHT ARM.
Don't you think your logo would look good tattooed on My Right Arm?
Coming soon is 555 T-SHIRTS, my first social enterprise project. What I mean by social enterprise is that it is a project that runs like a business, designed to make money to be given away. It’s high time, I got cracking on my goal of giving away R555 555 555.55 – I got a long way to go still!
I am developing a unique business model that allows friends of mine who believe in my crazy goal to partner up with me by contributing their ideas, skills and resources.
All partners will be sharing in 50% of turnover generated by this project, the other 50% will be giving to charity.
My first 2 partners are Jonathan Kapelus and Lourens van Dyk.
This is just the nutshell version of 555 T-SHIRTS…stay tuned for more info.
Please note that from now on I will be looking for more and more partners to launch more and more businesses.
If you would like to test this unique 50/50 model with me PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME! It’s a great opportunity to make some money and make a difference at the same time
THE ENLIGHTENED MANIFESTORS CLUB
Then, starting this Saturday is the first of a series of public talks that I will be giving at THE ENLIGHTENED MANIFESTOR’S CLUB (E=mc3). Remember Calvin Dorman, of Calvinbusiness.co.za, my friend who agreed to buy me petrol for the rest of my 5 year experiment? The deal that we struck was that I will give a talk per month at Calvin’s business networking and goal setting club, E=mc3.
Calving and I at Mugg & Bean sealing the petrol for speaking deal
E=mc3 is a weekly event with me as a guest speaker once a month, cool hey? The subject of my first talk is POSSIBILITY. I hope you will be able to make it. There will be a Facebook event up shortly.
Right, this is actually an area where you can help me.
I have been agonising about what to talk about. Maybe it is just nerves because I have only done a handful of talks. I rather think it has to do with the fact that I see myself more of a conversationalist than a speaker. I am not so comfortable with the idea of me standing in front of people just telling them my story.
So, I have decided to build my talk around questions, questions from you guys. I guess, if I am responding to questions it will feel more authentic to me. So please, can you submit your question or questions ASAP, I would like to include them.
Please note, I will be recording all my talks so you will be able to see me answer your question, cool hey?
Here is an example of the kinds of questions you might want to ask. These have been submitted Michelle Chamroo:
-What inspired you to go without money for five years?
-Do you have a plan for sustaining this lifestyle?
-How do you envisage meeting your aims, and have your aims/objectives changed since you started?
-Has your experience of being a life coach assisted you?
-Are you happy? : )
Awesome, thanks guys.
I do have much more to share but I think this is good for now, I promise to be more in touch from now on.
One of the most common questions I get asked is “But how do you get food?”
So far there have been various ways:
When I house sit there is usually food left for me
I get invited to dinner a lot (my friends like to feed me)
When I’m at my folks there is always food, so I’ll never go hungry
The last one has been a bit of an issue for me and for some of my more critical readers. I must say I have to agree with them, the support I have been getting from my parents is the thing I am most grateful and most resentful of at the same…very confusing emotionally let me tell you!
I know I shouldn’t judge where support comes from but the fact that a lot of it has been from my folks kinda feels like cheating, you know what I mean? In return I do my bit to be valuable around the house. I do things like wash dishes, mow the lawn and generally just try to be as helpful as I can. I definitely and getting more than I am giving and I guess that is where the uneasiness comes in.
Having said all of that, I am please to announce that I have a new way of feeding myself. One that I am proud of and one where I feel like I am giving fair exchange for the food I receive.
How so? I have a new coaching client called Joanne Clegg, she is working on launching a catering company called The Food Crew. And guess what, she pays in food…how cool is that?
Watch this video for more on this story:
If you are reading this as a note on my Facebook profile, you can watch the video on Youtube or Facebook.
Not only did I get the first 3 logos tattoo’ed on My Right Arm that day, I was also able to provide for my family who has done way too much taking care of me.
Thanks to my new coaching client, Jo Clegg, who is ‘paying’ for her sessions with meals from her catering business… How cool is that?
My friend Marilu Matthee aka as @UrbanAngelM on Twitter, is running an awesome competition on her website – www.urban-angel.co.za. The prize dinner with her at the award winning La Colombe restaurant of the Constantia Uitsig Wine Estate.
Below you will find the email I wrote her in an attempt to win:
Dear Marilu,
Firstly, thanks to you, La Colombe & American Express Platinum Fine Dining for running this competition. I like competitions, they are good for people like me.
Right, so why am I the perfect person to go to dinner with you at La Colombe? Well, let’s first take a look at the oath you mention on your blog that entrants must take: Take an oath that you will only bring with you a good attitude, light heartedness as well as entertaining and interesting conversation. No problem, I can make that oath easily as I really do have those qualities. But, for the sake of formality and commitment here is my oath:
I promise to bring with me my attitude which is great, my heart which is of the light variety and my entertaining and interesting conversations. (So far so good)
Honestly, I really do think I am the ideal person to go to dinner with you. I think I would be excellent company for reasons other than those mentioned above. My natural humility would usually prevent me from indulging in this kind of self promotion, but with the prize being a fine dinner with an Angel like yourself, I will act out of character just this once.
In addition to the above oath I am charming, funny, intelligent, a great listener and some say I smell good too
If that isn’t enough, perhaps my way of life will be the deciding factor. Again, I wouldn’t usually play the ‘No Money’ card, but with a prize like this I pulling out all the stops. One of the biggest challenges of living without money is in one’s social life. If I do not win this competition, I do not know when next I will have the opportunity of enjoying a great meal with a beautiful girl. I deserve this
Plus, we said that we should get together soon to catch up…what better chance than this?
Think about it…–
Adin
Some people get famous in traditional ways like being really good at something. Like being a great artist, singer, musician, actor or sports star.
Some people get famous for doing something really great for the world. Like Nelson Mandela, Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King or Albert Einstein.
Other people get famous for doing stuff on TV in reality shows. These people sometimes don’t even have to be good at what they do, and can become famous for the sake of being famous. I’m talking about people like Paris Hilton (vomit), the Kardashians (more vomit), Ozzie Osbourne’’s kids, that slag Heidi Montag from Laguna Beach or that loser who didn’t even win Survivor, Jonny Fair Play from Survivor.
Then there are people who get famous doing interesting, meaningful, creative, random or even scandalous stuff online. This seems to be the latest trend.
Have you heard about the guy who traded One Red Paper Clip for a house? Kyle MacDonald started with one red paper clip and over a series of 14 trades from 2005 to 2006 had a house. This story inspired my friend Telana Simpson to do something similar with One Matchstick. She is trading for offices though, not a house.
What about the movie Julie and Julia…heard about that? It’s about a woman called Julie Powell who in 2002 wrote a blog about cooking Julia Child recipes for a year. Just been made into a movie with Meryl Streep as Julia and Amy Adams as Julie…which is nice.
Matt Harding is a guy who got famous for dancing around the world, badly. His site Where the Hell is Matt features plenty videos of him dancing badly in various parts of the world. People just loved the videos and they spread virally, big time.
According to TechCult’s Top 100 Web Celebrities a lot of people have become famous on the web for various reasons. At 100 is Alex Tew, who came up with a clever way to pay for college. His Million Dollar Homepage project is genius! He sold pixels on his homepage and made more than enough money to pay his tuition!
At the top of that same list is Tila Tequila, a stripper…oops I mean video star, who made a million friends on Myspace then ended up having her own reality show. It was a bisexual version of those lank-people-living-in-a-mansion-competing-to-date-one-person-type-shows called A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. (quality viewing)
Why am I telling you all this?
Well, I have come up with a way to make My Right Arm the most famous arm in the world. It is also a genius way of living for 5 years without spending money. On the 5th of May 2009 I gave up using money, and have been successful in surviving since then. Problem is I am tired of just surviving…I want to thrive like everyone else.
To live without money I need to find creative ways to add value to people who will give me things or do stuff for me. Everything is an exchange right? I’ve learned that exposure is very valuable and that a unique sponsorship opportunity may the most valuable thing that I can trade with people.
People have been asking me what am I willing to do to live without money, and the answer is I’m willing to give My Right Arm…literally. Instead of selling pixels, I am trading space on My Right Arm. That’s right, I am giving branding opportunities to 25 people’s businesses or give me their product or service for free or buy me something I really need.
I have just started this campaign, but here are some videos I’ve got so far:
If you are reading this on Facebook, please watch this video on Youtube
If you are reading this on Facebook, please watch this video on Youtube
Now if you go and tell all your friends about this crazy idea of mine, then I can become a web celebrity too and it won’t be too long until there is My Right Arm, the movie. All that’s left is to answer the question…
I need your help. I’m in a situation that is a bit of a challenge for someone that doesn’t use money.
What’s the problem?
Firstly, there is something that I really want to do but it costs money…R850. I can’t tell you what it is for (not yet at least) but I can say that it is very important to me and I will be very very sad if I don’t get to do it.
Secondly, I need to ‘pay back’ R900 to my friend Jess and to my dad for covering my share of the Joburg to Cape Town trip.
PREDICAMENT!
But not to worry, I am an out of the box thinker so I have come up with some possible solutions…I just need your input.
How can you help?
You can buy a years hosting sponsored by Dirk Tolken of PERONii and save R300. You pay R900 for something valued at R1200. (more on this offer, here)
You can hire me to do something for you – I am a life coach, house sitter, designated driver, inter-personal assistant and all round favour-doer. Basically what I am saying is, if you need something done I reckon I will make a plan to do it. You name the price.
You can buy some advertising from me. I’ll give you a banner on this site for a month, I will write a blog post you and your business and thank you on Facebook & Twitter. Again, I will let you name the price.
PLEASE NOTE: I don’t have a bank account. So if you take on any of these offers you will pay the money to my dad’s account and he pay the money to the relevant people thus maintaining my money status.
Ok, so I kinda need to sort these things out ASAP. Please can you think about these offers for yourself as well as your friends. PLEASE SHARE – I need your help with this one.
For the last couple of weeks I have talking about a campaign that I am launching called My Right Arm. If you have been paying attention to some of my tweets and updates, I should have had the first tattoo already but sometimes things take longer than anticipated.
What would you give me to get your business on My Right Arm?
When I met with Fabian & Daniel from Young Guns, the peeps who are sponsoring my tattoos, they said I should come in on the 4th. I naively thought that meant I would be getting inked that day. I guess I should have paid more attention to Miami Ink and remembered that a little preparation has to go into getting tattoos. I put myself through a whole bunch of unnecessary anxiety for nothing cos all we did that day was to find a film strip image that Daniel could model my tattoo on. Gareth and I went to the internet cafe found one that worked, and then I left it with them.They said they would call me when they were ready for me…YAY…more anxiety!
Anyway, the waiting is over. I got a call from Fabian yesterday asking me if I could come in on Monday. So, it’s official…the wait is over. I am getting inked on Monday the 11th of January 2010.
This is the deal, I’ve asked Daniel to design a film strip with 25 frames that will wrap around my arm. Each of the 25 frames is a unique branding opportunity for my friends who support me on my mission. 25 brands will get to play this game with me in 2010 – 3 tattoos in January then 2 per month thereafter. I already have the first 4 tattoos lined up so if you want in you better get in touch soon!
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