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Good Day,

How is everything with you, I picked interest on you after going through your short profile and deemed it necessary to write you immediately. I have something very vital to disclose to you, but I found it difficult to express myself here, since it's a public site.Could you please get back to me on:(sophiereyer1@yahoo.com) for the full details.

Have a nice day

Thanks God bless.

Sophie.

This post (below) is getting too long. Have you got time to talk to me on the phone tomorrow?

About 10?

Tom King
(903) 593-7700

Tad,
I'm working with Bob Hammer on a new book on Charity Golf organizing called "Have a Ball: How to Host A Six Figure Charity Golf Tournament"

In the past 4 years Bob has taken his company's annual golf tournament which cost them $5000 a year and turned it into a charity tournament that makes now more than $175,000 for Lance Armstrong Cancer Foundation and about 8 others.

It's a unique approach that challenges some of the old "rules of thumb" about how to host a tournament. Bob's approach is from the corporate side - the company that wants to give to the community. There are a lot of folks out there like that who come from a business point of view and these tournaments can be very effective. It's easier to sell a tournament where the host it saying "Come support this wonderful charity we love." than it is if the hose is the charity saying "Come support us because we think we're wonderful."

In these hard times, I suspect that community driven tournaments are where the big money will be raised. Bob supports about 28 cancer charities from his tournaments. He's raised 3/4 of a million dollars in just 4 years starting from zip. I suspect he'll clear a million with this year's outing.

Bob's asked me to co-write the book. We plan to self-publish and market. That's not the hard part. He's got a bunch of "experienced" nonprofit types on the board of his foundation. They stay out of his way on the golf tournament, but when he approached them about using some of their funds to write the book and create and educational program to share Bob's success with other charities, they immediately threw up walls.

Board objection: "Do we want to give away our "secret".

Answer: Yes! How many communities could do the same thing? There are more than 150,000 charity tournaments and a million total tournaments. Bob's wasn't a charity event when he started. That's 800,000 potential tournaments that could be making money for nonprofits.

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