Good.ly is a run by a goodly person..!
By Ben Robinson on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 at 1:03 PM PST In The Digital Life, UK News
Well it’s not everyday you find an entrepreneur who gives their profits to charity, but that is exactly what Alicia Navarro is doing!
According to TechDigest, the person behind the good.ly service is also shortlisted for a prize at the National Business Awards!
Alicia Navarro’s Skimlinks company allows online publishers and bloggers to create affiliate links automatically, turning big hits into big bucks.
And after tweaking this technology she’s found a way of making money from tweets. Using her good.ly service, which like tinyurl.com, shortens URLs, Navarro’s users link to say, a book they enjoyed and someone else buys it – cablow! Navarro is in the money.
So there you have it! Are you impressed? I am, and if you want to know more you can go to the TechDigest site.
[Via: TechDigest via: London Evening Standard]
Whoa, there!
It’s important to remember that although good.ly is doing great things for chartiy, we shouldn’t be calling the pope to make Ms. Navarro a saint quite yet…
Remember that good.ly claims a whopping 45% of all commissions made: that’s a whole lot of server maintenance and beer money! Of course, the great thing is that with a sustainable business model like this increases the chance that good.ly can stay on the web and keep doing good things.
You can read the full review here: http://good.ly/gplp6te (thanks good.ly for the short URL!)
Is this more a PR vehicle to promote a commercial product?