Missing Persons

Choose a missing person whose story touches you, and post their case and pictures on your myspace profile, blog, website, etc. Put up flyers in your area for that person, tell people about their case, etc. My husband and I chose Becky Kraemer Marzo, because we knew her personally and miss her very much. You don’t have to personally know a missing person to help though! Do whatever you can think of to try to make a difference for them!

On my classifieds site, I try to add missing persons cases and remove solved cases regularly, but there are tens of thousands of missing persons in our country, and I am only one person (and I work 50+ hours a week and have dogs that need exercise and love too!)… needless to say, I can seriously use some help here! If you are willing to maintain the Missing Persons category for your state, I would be eternally grateful. It’s not without it’s rewards either, if that helps sweeten the pot for you!

Basically, you would be given an account that can post unlimited ads. You would be responsible for paying attention to missing persons cases in your state, and then creating new ads for missing persons and uploading their pictures to the ads. When you hear that a person is found, you will just edit the ad to just let people know the person is no longer missing (so that efforts can be redirected to a still missing person instead). You would be using a very easy to use WYSIWYG editor just like the one used in myspace blogs. I don’t expect you to find or post every single case every single day – I know you have a life and a job too! But I am grateful for any help you can provide.

Your reward, if you have any use for it, is unlimited ads on our site for your own personal or business use. As long as the ads do not violate our terms of service (no surveys! no porn! no pyramid schemes! no 419 or related scams! etc.) you will be allowed to post unlimited personal or business ads in return for your kindness and generosity. This is a great offer for a businessperson, church group, nonprofit group, or other organization that has many members who could take turns pitching in for a good cause, and who could benefit from unlimited free advertising in return. There are other ways I could thank you as well, such as a discount on a professional website package, or a discount on a merchant account. etc.

In our case, we decided that the best way for us to help was to use our business websites to promote these cases. I own a web design and marketing company, as well as a popular network of classifieds websites. I have been the volunteer webmaster for 911BC K9 Search and Recovery for over 7 years now. I have also been the webmaster for WISARK9 for almost 3 years. I have been designing websites for over 12 years. My husband and Father each own their own related companies as well. Between the three of us, we own over 200 high traffic business websites (and maintain an additional 200+ websites on our clients’ behalf). With all of this in mind, it just seemed natural to use our websites and our internet marketing skills to try and raise more awareness.

Figure out what your own unique resources, skills, connections, and talents are, and then use them to make a difference for somebody who needs help!