[Hidden-tech] Best way to do a trackable link to someone else's site (NON-affiliate)? TIME-SENSITIVE

[Shel Horowitz]

Thanks, Mik, Noah, Viet, and Stephen,

I'm going with Noah's side suggestion of using bit.ly or one of its
competitors--and that way the receiving org doesn't have to do any tracking
at all. Simple and elegant, and no one can strip out the referrer code as
they can with a traditional affiliate link (which, again, this is not).
Though of course, if we want to know how much money we generated for them,
we will still have to ask them.
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 3:00 PM Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com>
wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> I am part of a grassroots immigration justice organization that wants to
> raise emergency money for one of our partner organizations working on the
> border. I'm of the opinion that there are advantages to knowing how much we
> raise on their behalf--but we want to make it easy for people to donate and
> not clutter it up with collecting the money and sending it off.
>
> We don't have an affiliate relationship with them and of course we have no
> access to their stats page. If I take their link,
> https://www.angrytiasandabuelas.com/donate , and convert it to
> https://www.angrytiasandabuelas.com/donate?source=JAIJ , will they be
> able to easily retrieve the number of times that link was accessed and the
> total raised? Is that the best way, or should I be looking at
> another method entirely? They are not techies (their fundraising collection
> is actually handled by another partner org). We just decided to do this at
> our meeting this afternoon.
>
> They have an urgent need to raise significant money to build safe shelters
> for migrants arriving at the border and being threatened by cartels and
> gangs. Many have been kidnapped, including children. I know it's short
> notice, but I'm hoping to report back this evening on what I've learned.
>
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-- 
Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"
________________________________________________
Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger,
poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change
* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified
* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame
* Certified speaker: International Platform Association
https://goingbeyondsustainability.com
mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com 413-586-2388
Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books.
Latest: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World
(co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)

Watch my TEDx Talk,
"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"
http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809
(move your mouse to "event videos")
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