Amerikan Body Art Newsletter

The Art of Giving

I’ve been putting off doing the January newsletter because I felt like the first newsletter of the New Year should contain something AWESOME and inspirational. Obviously I started this business as a means for helping my family make ends meet, but I’ve been blessed with so much more than a second income for my family. I’ve travelled the world and met wonderful artists from all walks of life. I’ve had the honor of teaching and helping so many people to reach their personal financial goals. I’ve learned so much about myself and what it means to be a true friend. I am truly enjoying this journey and feel that I owe so much to my friends and colleagues for their support and experience.

We get a ton of requests each month for donations to charitable organizations. I wish that I could give to all of them, but we’d be out of business in a hurry if I did that. We do support several local charities, but I know that many of you have charities that are near and dear to your hearts as well. So I’ve come up with a challenge that should be fun and will help a different charity each month.

Send me an essay (500 words or more) describing your charity, how this charity has become important to you and why you feel that it should be our featured charity of the month. I will choose a different winner at the beginning of each month and that winner’s charity will receive 50% of the proceeds from the sales of our glitter color of the month in 1/2oz poof bottles. And if we sell at least 100 poof bottles in that color during the month, I’ll also gift $50 in retail products to the essay author. The catch is that this has to be a legitimate registered charity for which we can claim a charitable donation on our federal taxes and your organization must be able to provide a receipt for the donation. I apologize to our international customers since I can only open this to US-based charities at the moment. But there are some international charities that might qualify such as Doctors without Borders (one of my favorites) and the Red Cross, so you’re not completely out of the game.

I know from experience that many will look at this and think that they aren’t lucky enough or creative enough to win a challenge like this….so they won’t bother to try. Remember that you’ve got to participate to win….and if you believe in your cause; your heart will say what is needed. I’ll post the winners and glitter color of the month in the newsletter and/or on our Amerikan Body Art Facebook page.

And now… an update from the company formerly known as, “Amerikan Body Art.”   We have finally incorporated the business and the new official name is, “The Amerikan Body Art Company.” And to go along with the bigger name, we’ve moved to a new larger office building. The best part of the move is that the new building has a classroom. So we will now be offering local classes as well as a free monthly jam. We still aren’t completely moved in yet, but we anticipate holding our first jam during the month of February.
Be sure to check out the website for new January sales.