Category: Cause Marketing

  • That time I tried to buy Gawker.com out of bankruptcy

    That time I tried to buy Gawker.com out of bankruptcy

    After generating over $8 million for nonprofits with We-Care.com’s cause marketing powered shopping I developed aa technology that would facilitate cause marketing powered content. So, I tried to buy Gawker.com out of the bankruptcy in January of 2018. Got a ton of press and almost got it. My winning bid was invalidated due to someone’s… Read more

  • The biggest mid-sized check We-Care delivered.

    The biggest mid-sized check We-Care delivered.

    I won’t lie, being on prime-time TV was fun. We-Care.com the predecessor to AmazonSMILE (story for a different day) has raised over $8 million for nonprofit causes and wanted some PR as a cause marketing platform. We had collected funds from shoppers who designated us as stewards of those funds instead of designating causes. So… Read more