If you have followed me and my blog for any period of time, you know that I am an avid supporter of fighting breast cancer. My wife’s aunt and grandmother are both survivors, so I have personal reasons for my crusade.
This past year I participated in the Chicago Breast Cancer 3-Day, and raised over $34,000 for the event by giving away theme packages from StudioPress.
About a week ago as Breast Cancer Awareness Month began, I saw a post that Adii over Woo Themes wrote – they were campaigning to raise money as well to fight this horrible disease. As I was thinking about Woo’s attempts to make a difference, I felt the urge to send Adii an email to see if there was a way we could somehow team up.
As I had expected, they were more than receptive to the idea, so after a bit of brainstorming we worked something out. Woo Themes is now running a #woobs Giveaway where StudioPress has donated 1/2 the cost of the theme packages in prize list below:
- 2 x 3-month Developer Club Subscriptions
- 4 x Woo Themes Developer Packages
- 10 x Woo Themes Standard Packages
- 5 x Awesome WooThemes Ninja T-Shirts
You might find this cross-promotion a bit unique, I’d prefer to call it co-ompetition (thank you Brian Clark). More than anything, both Woo and StudioPress believe in giving back as we both have been blessed.
You can read more about their efforts to fight breast cancer…
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Good stuff, Brian. Giving back is important, especially against this nasty disease.
Brian,
I like your work.
You can imagine my surprise when I googled our organization and found your site. Seems cool.
I assume you thought it would be a matter of time before somebody stumbled on it. Good way to strum up business. Your strategy worked, as it says that you’re very very busy now.
Can I ask the “6 degrees of separation” process that led you to us, and me to you?
Let me know, I’m very curious
Bruce Ross
Commander, Milford Power and Sail Squadron
203-378-9780
Stratford, CT
Great idea! Ok so I’ve been searching all day trying to find info and ran across this and thought I’d comment. First, Our organization is actually using your Allure theme to upgrade our current website The Breast Chek Kit. We had the theme customized but we’re adding content and have been searching for additional information/instruction on how to do certain things…. We love this idea and had been searching for a Breast Cancer related theme, but could not find one where we could use our logos and branding. The founder of our organization is a Breast Cancer survivor. She created and patented a product to show women how to perform a monthly breast self exam. She also created an organization, to provide programs and services to Uninsured women facing breast cancer. Can’t wait to share this with her! Ok, so where can we get some help on the Allure theme?
Its nice to have people like you Brian who struggle for these disese.Keep it up.
My mother lost her battle in 2003. I just read about a new targeted cancer drug that has been shown to shrink tumors in women with metastatic breast cancer after an average of seven other drugs, including Herceptin, failed. The new drug, called T-DM1, combines Herceptin with a potent chemotherapy drug. Here’s to keeping our hopes alive that someday this retched disease can be nothing but a memory! Happy Holidays to All!