Finding holiday gifts for unemployed no easy task for shoppers
With 1.9 million people unemployed, there's a good chance a job seeker is on your list. Thousands have found the perfect gift on ElsePage.com.
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A website from ElsePage.com: Could it be the perfect gift for those unemployed this holiday season?
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(PR NewsChannel) / December 22, 2010 /
STUDIO CITY, Calif. / As she continues to brave the days of rain, Ruth Schmidt in Studio City, Calif. says there's one person on her list she still hasn't found a present for. Her nephew Mitch is unemployed. And finding a gift for him is proving to be difficult.
"What do you get someone who only wants a job," she asks. "I wish I could get him that."
Ask the 1.9 million people unemployed what gift they want for the holidays, just about all of them would say employment. The holidays are tough for those who are jobless. They may not feel like celebrating.
"Your laid-off friends and family members don't need cheesy platitudes. Nor do they need a cheery, new holiday sweater," writes Michelle Goodman, a freelance journalist and author in a column on ABCNews.com. "They need work, and they need it now, before their unemployment benefits run out and the debt collectors come calling."
Goodman, author of 'The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube' and 'My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire' suggests: "Give the pink-slipped people you know something they can put to good use in their quest for gainful employment, and they'll be eternally grateful."
Pefect gift for unemployed?
Remember the Cabbage Patch doll? Just like they were the runaway hit for kids once upon a time, in 2010 the perfect gift for those unemployed may just be ElsePage.com (www.elsepage.com), the creation of a French entrepreneur several years in the making.
ElsePage.com officially launched this week and just in time for Christmas. It's a website that enables anyone to easily gift a friend, loved-one or colleague a fully interactive and professional website for less than $30. That includes buying the URL, hosting for one year and a WYSIWYG design platform that anyone, and we mean anyone, can easily navigate.
And the website is designed to bring together the giftee's personal and professional lives and social networking pages. It could literally be the homepage that serves as homebase for a job search. It can be a valuable tool to help them network and land what they really want: a job for the holidays.
"There are so many reasons why people are buying a website for someone else," says Cyril Delencre, the French entrepreneur, who's in New York City for the launch. "A good number of people are finding that the website is perfect gift for someone who is unemployed and seeking a job."
Delencre has always believed in his project. And so have the U.S. and French investors who funded it. But even they may have underestimated its popularity in the age of Facebook and Twitter.
ElsePage.com had so much traffic earlier this week, the website experienced some "issues," which have since been corrected.
"It would not have been our preference to have these slowdowns but it speaks to the demand for gifting a website and that's a good thing," says Delencre.
The gifted website from ElsePage.com arrives virtually gift-wrapped in the email box of the recipient. And would have no problem getting there in time for Christmas.
Ruth Schmidt from California has decided to get the ElsePage.com website for her nephew.
"I can't wait for him to open it," says Schmidt. "I think he's going to be really surprised and pleased. I'm thrilled and now I am officially done shopping!"
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