Team Optima: Light the Night Cancer Walk
We’re walking to raise money for cancer! The Light the Night Walk for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is coming up October 5th. Our goal is to raise a bare minimum of $3,000. Please donate to our team! Team Optima’s Donation Page Optima will also be donating $0.50 for every new Twitter follower we get between now and the event! So, if you don’t want to donate money, tell all your friends about us, get a bunch of people to follow us, and we’ll make the donation for you! We’ll keep everyone posted as we kick off our fundraising efforts. Stick...
Read MoreFollow us on Twitter and Help us Donate to Charity
Help us support the charities that YOU love! UPDATE We have partnered with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) to raise money for the Light the Night Walk, coming up in October. We have also doubled the contribution for every new follower. Read about our charity work with LLS. We do a lot with charities around here. We’ve built free websites for worthy causes. We offer discounted web presence management services for registered nonprofits. Sometimes, we like to donate to the causes our friends and followers believe in. More Followers = Bigger Donation! For every new follower between now...
Read MoreCharity Website Redesign – Freedom Fire!
Back in November we announced that we’d be starting our first free website for charity. After hearing from several great causes, we decided to work with a wonderful cause right here in Kansas City: Freedom Fire Urban Ministries. The work this group is doing ministering to the underprivileged kids in the heart of downtown is really inspiring. Their website, however, is not: According to one member of their team, some volunteers refuse to tell people they even have a website because they feel like it just isn’t capturing the essence of what they do. They also admitted that the...
Read MoreHoliday Gift Idea: Charitable Giving Cards
Is anyone else disgusted by the consumer culture that has taken over the holiday season? Let’s review some of the highlights: First, Acura invites you to “over-save,” rather than over-spend, at their “Season of Reason” sales event. Because when I think of over-saving, I immediately think of the $47,000 Acura RL. Target, and many other retailers, have made Thanksgiving into Black Friday Eve. Their ad campaign shows a shopper training hard for Black Friday shopping. They also required all store employees to report to work at 11:00PM Thanksgiving night. This Black...
Read MoreGiving Thanks by Giving a Free Website to Charity
As Thanksgiving approaches, I’ve had some time to reflect on all the things I’m thankful for, both personally and professionally. We’ve had a great year here: We’ve got great clients who make us love doing what we do. I’ve got a team of talented and dedicated employees and contractors who make Optima look pretty darn good. We’ve grown this year, adding a couple of full-time employees and some contractors. I could go on with that list, but you get the idea. We’ve been blessed with a great year and talented people, and now we want to pay it...
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