Autism FreeZone "The Dad Blog"

Autism FreeZone: The Progress Report

We are so proud to announce that we have 847 members and
seven companies that have offered our members discounts.

We have not advertised nor sought out PR. We've just shared our idea with some of you and you've responded. We will wait to call "the media" until after we launch the website.

So, here is the plan:

On June 1st THE BETA TEST!

If you are not signed up please enter your name and email address in the sign-up form in the right side bar. We will be sending out information about the launch via email really soon.

The site will be launched on June 21, 2008 (assuming nothing goes haywire during the beta-testing).  Why June 21, 2008, you may ask? It's my birthday, the first day of summer, and 21 is my lucky number.
Financial relief for my birthday, could be the best present ever!

A critical part of this community's success will be based on member feedback.Please click on this link and take our latest survey. It will give us important insight as we move forward in our quest to get discounts for our members and advertising to sustain the website.

With gratitude,
Randy

www.AutismFreeZone.com

Start Spreading the News

The power of the internet and like-minded people has just amazed me this week.
409 Members, all from our community, no advertising, no PR campaign. This is our
communities Marketplace. We are making it happen together!

We will be composing a brief information email for everyone that signed up, that way
you will be up to date on how things are progressing. I wanted to share one of the many responses
we have received. I will post many more in the coming days!

Thank you for your comments and support. The wave is rising and soon we will have our own dedicated marketplace. If you have any ideas for the site or suggestions of companies you frequent please send me an email.  My email address is randy@autismfreezone.com.

This comment is from Jeanne:

"I don't know if you've heard this yet, but WHAT A GREAT IDEA! ;-)  I've signed up and am now going to put a link on my blog for you guys, as well as a write-up and link on The Autism Solution Center's website.

Can't wait for you guys to get up and running!"

So we are now posted at:

www.Autismsolutioncenter.com         Laura  Corby - Founder/CEO
www.Charlieinwonderland.com         Jeanne's Blog

The word is spreading fast..."THE ZONE" is being built,  together we have power and strength.

Thank you for being a part of this grassroots effort,
Randy

The Response has been AMAZING!

So we launched this to get the word out on May 2nd and today we have over 150 members!
Just from postings on the Yahoo! Groups. I have to say that this response has our team churning
to get the site up and running as soon as possible.

We were also contacted by Your Dinner Secret, an amazing company that ships out
GFCF meals all over the country. They have agreed to give our members a 5% discount
on all orders with a special code. Just type in AFZ in the Coupon code box to receive this
discount. You will find a link to their website in the right-hand column of this blog.
Thank you Your Dinner Secret for being the first company on-board to help our
community here at AutismFreeZone!

Our web-poll has been answered by 120 visitors and I am certain that no one is surprised that the
most pressing issue is paying for interventions. We are looking for some suggestions for our next poll.
Let us know what topic you would like and we will add it to the site this week.

 

Stay tuned...more to come.

Randy