Mankind's most successful fundraising ever with more than $100.9 and counting... And here are the business lessons to learn from #IceBucketChallenge

1. Business lessons from #icebucketchallenge
by Umakant Jani

2. Heard of
Ice Bucket Challenge?

3. Its about donate $100 to ALS org or
dump a ice bucket…

4. You think its stupid?

5. Most successful fundraising campaigns in the history of social
or crowd fundraising. Numbers speak for themselves,
$ 100.9 million and counting…

6. So, Think again!

7. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) also
known as motor neurone disease.
Average survival time from onset to death
is 39 months, and only 4% survive 50
years or more. Currently affected by
What is ALS?
30,000 Americans.

8. ALS is only responsible for
2 deaths per 100,000 deaths per year.

9. but… Malaria has been responsible for
estimated,
627,000 deaths in 2012.
207million affected cases.

10. And Bill Gates has been
advocating the awareness for
Malaria for many years and has
many videos, but
#ICEBUCKETCHALLENGE has
been more effective because the
way the information is being spread
has been remarkable.

11. ??
WHY
so much of hype for ALS?

12. Reason 1

13. ideas The
that share, wins.

14. 5share people wants to

15. movement. people wants to be part of

16. Reason 2

17. awareness spreading

18. You should do it, my friends invited me and I did it.
You don’t necessarily need to
dump ice water.
I believe, the most important thing is spreading
awareness for the ALS campaign and helping them
raise money.

19. Reason 3

20. social networkimportance of

21. Most important lesson learned is,
if you’re not on Internet
or Social Network
you’re not in the game.
You will never get hyper
viral growth.

22. now learn
and get your business right.

23. about me
I am a great fan of business and its my
religion. You can use following terms for me;
workaholic, coffee-freak, tech-freak, designer,
entrepreneur, believer of business.
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