Pepsi Refresh SXSW Project

Pepsi Refresh SXSW Project
Today starts the voting for the Pepsi Refresh SXSW Project. Pepsi decided to not do Superbowl ads this year, instead they are taking that 20 million dollars and depursing it over the year to charitable causes.
The winner of this event at the SXSW conference will receive $50,000 to carry out their idea. It has to be completed within a year and the winner will be responsible to complete their idea.
Melissa from Consumer Queen was sponsored by Pepsi to have entries on her blog to enter this. Melissa is my “campaign manager” for this. Thank goodness! She will be with me on the panel and interviews. We are going to be interviewed live after our panel tomorrow with Deric Ashong’s radio show on the Oprah network.
Starting today at 12:30 cst (1:30 est) you can start voting for my idea on twitter. You can vote every 2 hours. Just use the #RefreshMelissa
Here is my video – but I will have some changes from this video. You can see more of that on my Chat with Sandy blog.

Disclosure: Pepsi is not sponsoring me on this trip. I have not been compensated in any way by Pepsi.

Pepsi Refresh Project

Pepsi is having a contest called Pepsi Refresh Project –  for those who are attending SXSW (South by Southwest).  Since I just found out I am going to get to go to SXSW I entered the contest.  It would be so cool to see this come to fruition.  My friend Debbie is the one who works at a food pantry.  She has told me how important it is to give cash instead of cans for food drives. She is also in the process of developing a web site called “Set Another Place.org”. It should up and running by the end of the month. It will focus on raising money for your local food pantries.

She has referred me to a site called Cash Feeds More that the guy has a funny rap to help you understand why.

You can enter to win on Consumer Queen if you are going to SXSW.  The Consumer Queen will pick one winner from her site of what she feels is the best idea. She will then represent that person at SXSW and campaign for them to win the Pepsi Refresh Project. Whoot Whoot…cheer me on!!

Here is my entry video.