As the Founder and CEO of iBuddy Club, Inc., I am often asked, why did you get into the fundraising business?

As a 30-year veteran tennis professional and father of four, I had no choice. Most of the parents of the students I coached were blue collar and my children’s education and quality of schooling is important to me. The athletes that I coach, must pay to play tournaments, travel, practice, buy equipment, and this is an incredible burden on parents. So as soon as mobile apps and smart phones were invented, I had a mission to answer 4 critical questions.

1) How does a fundraiser take the inventory, financial responsibility and tracking out of the hands of the children, parents, coaches, and administrators?

2) How can an individual and or a group raise funds, through one easy to use platform that identifies and tracks every sale?

3) What type of product can be offered that will help defray the cost of the sale and entice supporters to give in an ongoing fashion as well as renew yearly?

4) How do the fundraisers stay connected to the community of supporters, merchant sponsors, and participants?

After answering these questions, I set out to build the smartest, most aware, precise, easy to use, scalable, secure, and most powerful branding, compound giving, advertising and fundraising platform on the planet. iBuddy Club, Inc. A mobile fundraising platform that brands the fundraiser, tracks all sales, offers compound giving technology, and stays connected to the community of supporters.

iBuddy Club, Inc. (iBC) fundraising and marketing platform leverages all that is unique about mobile as a channel, and that lights a spark to create meaningful and valuable mobile and fundraising experiences for its customers’ and also places the fundraiser in front of the right people, at the right time, and in the right place, to raise funds, awareness, drive usage and brand engagement.

iBC provides innovative branded landing pages as well as administrative and participant dashboards. The robust 5 Star mobile applications can be found on the Apple and Google marketplace.

Donors who purchase the app can shop and dine at merchant supporters in 97.8% of the USA at a significant discount-while doing so they can simultaneously give back a portion of that savings to the fundraiser or the fundraisee of his or her choice. This compound giving technology is the first of it's kind in the industry.

Supporters now have access to contracted deals with over 150,000 “Buy one Get One Free” offers that easily defray the cost of the app and allows for ongoing compound giving in all 50 states.

The iBuddy Club fundraising platform has raised funds and awareness for individuals, schools, teams, school districts and non-profits.

Our next phase will be a franchise model coming in the fall of 2018, called FundMeSmart.com where entrepreneurs can purchase territories and operate their own fundraising business from their home. This will increase the community support around the fundraiser and allow for small business to advertise on a large mobile platform and brand themselves community conscious.

For more information:

Visit: EarthSmartMedia.com or Call (803) 514-6579

Fred W. Layman III, USPTA Elite, Founder and CEO of iBuddy Club, Inc., and Earth Smart Media, LLC. Fred Layman is also the President of an Augusta, GA based Sports Club Consulting Company, Fred Layman Ventures. His articles can be viewed at FredLayman.com.