An idea for domainers to help charity.
After paying $127.50 for a sugar cookie in the name of charity, I had an idea. Couldn’t we auction off some other swag for charity?
So I’m going to give it a shot. I’m introducing the “Ultimate Swag Bag Auction Series” on Domain Name Wire.
Here’s how it will work. For each auction, a domain name company will put together a nice swag bag. Now I’m not just talking about a handful of chotskies that I could just pick up from your booth at a tradeshow. It needs to be really cool. Ideally, you throw in something really cool plus offload some t-shirts and trinkets from your swag closet. The total package should be worth at least a couple hundred dollars in total, and perhaps more.
What’s in it for domain companies:
-Get publicity on Domain Name Wire
-Help a charity
-Get some domainer to proudly wear your t-shirt around town
What’s in it for bidders:
-Help a charity
-Get some cool swag
-Get mentioned on Domain Name Wire
At first we’ll just try auctioning a swag bag off on Domain Name Wire using the comments system. If necessary we can upgrade to a real auction site.
So what do you think? If you’re a company interested in putting together a swag bag for auction, hit me up at editor (at) domainnamewire.com.
Josh says
This is a great idea Andrew!
We need a $1 reserve to start.
Merchandise no one would ever actually buy themselves otherwise.
Stuff that will remain worthless or need “renewing”.
You should try a daily offering and entitle the auction after the company.
Only offer the merchandise the company knows is no longer any good to them.
Wait a second, where have I seen this before!!! LOL
All kidding aside it would be fun and I am sure would do great, I wear my DomainSponsor tuque all winter 🙂
Peter Askew says
cool idea Andrew..
do you have a banner / ad tile image for this? I can throw on a few of my other sites to promote it..
Andrew Allemann says
Peter – I don’t have any images for this right now, unless someone wants to make one.