Mileage Rewards for Health, Fitness & Fun
Plus 3 Network is a mobile, GPS-enhanced social network that
connects people with corporate sponsors and worthwhile causes on a
lasting journey of personal fitness and charitable giving.
Making It Count
Plus 3 makes the world a healthier and better place by helping its
members lead healthier better lives. Plus 3 Network will count millions
of daily rides, runs, walks, or swims as mileage-rewarded fundraising.
We are the social network that actively manages, motivates, validates,
and rewards our members for participating in fitness activities. Plus 3
links our members with corporate sponsors and non-profits in a shared
goal of worthwhile giving. Making It Count is our phrase for this
process of bringing people, causes, and sponsors together for the good
of everyone.
The Story
In 2007 Rick, Jon, and Steve -- three of the guys who formed a sports
marketing company named GaleForce in the early 1990's -- had an idea to
create a bicycling-rewards program to encourage people to ride more and
get out of their cars . Rick called up a guy named Joe, who was working
in the cell phone world and had worked with Rick, to share The Idea.
The three sports-biz-guys-plus one-tech-guy team shaped The Idea into a
global vision that includes gadgets and the internet to build a system
that motivates healthy lifestyles by collecting exercise activities
and, with the financial support of Sponsors, Plus 3 puts a value on it
-- literally turning "sweat equity into social capital."
What we see: our future is about Making It Count. We plan to
collect exercise activities from all kinds of devices, indoors and out,
from hand-entered to GPS to pedometers, treadmills, and cell phones,
building up a partner network of Sponsors and Causes so we can all work
together towards that great Win/Win/Win: Fitness + Community +
Advocacy.
But Why Plus 3? Why not Plus 4 or Plus 11?
Well, like a good name for a rock band, there are many answers,
some true, and some a yarn. Stick with us and we'll unveil a few. For
Spinal Tap fans, we are just "One Louder" than plain old 3...
Meanwhile, let's Rock!
