New Zealand is full of good people

Posted in Life, Projects, happysheep on 18 April 2008

Today I’ve been humbled by the huge number of good people out there who really want to see us succeed with our ventures.

About four hours ago we sent a happysheep email newsletter to just over 1,000 people, inviting them to email us if they’d like to stick up happysheep stickers in their local area. To my amazement about 40 people have already emailed to say they’re keen to help out. Wow.

What’s even more interesting, is that so far this afternoon only 20% of people have actually opened the newsletter. 20% of 1,000 recipients is 200, and of those about 40 have requested stickers. That’s about one in every five people wanting to volunteer to help out, for free.

Here are a small handful of the comments we’ve received:

“Hi, I would be happy to hand out stickers & plaster them all over, please send me some.
I am Queenstown – Glenorchy area”

“great i will also hand them out in my shop and plaster them on vehicles give them away to customers spread the word”

“thanks – ps: send lots!!”

“hi ,i would love to help get the word out about HAPPYSHEEP !!!”

” We would love to receive some stickers. We have a shop at the Historic Village in Tauranga. The Village is becoming a thriving Arts, Crafts, Events and Community Centre – pretty much all the things happysheep is trying to promote.

A number of the groups that hold classes at the Village got together and are going to be running a range of school holiday classes – we have listed them all on happysheep. It’s great that there is somewhere we can promote them!! Thanks :-) ”

“We get a lot of visitors on holiday as well as the locals and they are all looking for things to do and see around the region so the stickers would be fantastic so they know where to go to find that information. Thanking you in anticipation.”

“Hi, I would love some stickers please. I live in a hall of residence so can help spread the word!”

“Send heaps, ill put them in our bags when customers purchase.”

It makes me smile to think there are so many good people out there who are happy to volunteer their time to help us succeed. We may only have a small number of people on the payroll, but an excercise like this one quickly illustrates that our team is in fact a lot bigger than that :)

Comments

  1. Posted by Tim Norton on 18/04/08 at 11:46 pm

    Bring on the community love man… its a real thing you’re connecting with there… you’re building something the NZ people and they’re tuning in,

    nice work man

  2. Posted by dylan on 20/04/08 at 9:26 pm

    Update – we’re now at over 70 requests :)

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