On today’s Consumerism Commentary Podcast, Tom Dziubek speaks with Nate St. Pierre, founder of the community building website ItStartsWith.Us, and Budgets Are Sexy founder J. Money. Tom talks with Nate and J. about their new micro-giving endeavor, Love Drop. They talk about what Love Drop is and what it hopes to accomplish, such as leveraging people in the community to help others in need.
Nate St. Pierre & J. Money, Love Drop: S04E7 / 107
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Table of contents
[00:00] Introduction from Tom
[00:31] Interview with Nate St. Pierre and J. Money
– [00:47] Nate’s background
– [02:02] J. Money’s history
– [02:32] Love Drop
– [03:59] How Nate helped create a charitable online community
– [05:10] The Love Drop process
– [06:55] Love Bomb vs. Love Drop
– [08:14] The anticipated rewards for Love Drop recipients
– [10:00] Planned frequency of Love Drops
– [11:02] Logistics of Love Drops
– [12:25] Community building
– [13:51] Overhead costs
– [15:58] Ideal expectations of people in the Love Drop network
– [18:13] How offering up services can be mutually beneficial
– [21:12] How you can recommend a Love Drop target
– [21:43] Future plans for Love Drop
[24:05] End
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Luke Landes founded Consumerism Commentary in 2003 and has been building online communities since 1990. Luke, also known as Flexo, has contributed to PC World Magazine, US News, Forbes, and other publications. 
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Great interview guys – good luck with the project!
I love this project. Great innovation. Just tweeted it
Thanks Fin and L. Marie – we’re really excited about it . . . gonna do some good, w00t!
I cannot wait to start DROPPING this help!!! Man, months and months of planning and now it’s time for the big show ;) (well, on 1.1.11, that is)
I love hearing you guys talk about it -you can HEAR the passion (and first ever time I’ve heard J Money’s voice too!) :)
I like to let Nate do most of the talking :) He paints a prettier picture and I tend to get right to the point! haha… 1.1.11 baby!!!
I think J. would have done more talking but there appeared to be a significant amount of police activity happening behind him.
You can blame Obama for that… Seems it takes 15 cars to get him anywhere!
Love the title, I need some help making my budget sexy