We recently came across a service that would be valuable for anyone selling online or through craigslist. This service is called PrivatePhone and its actually really cool. Essentially you can get a free, anonymous phone number, which would go well with transacting online or via auction/classified sites (especially if you’re worried about giving out your personal number). I even went ahead, signed up, and created an anonymous phone number - you can go ahead and give me a call at 949-468-5624 (it’ll go straight to a voicemail, so leave a message).

As a result, we went ahead and set up a partnership with PrivatePhone. Once our phone number search is active again, the PrivatePhone number could be used to search for a corresponding Rapleaf profile (where you would then, rate that person on that transaction). Check out PrivatePhone!

Biblio is doing its best to encourage its sellers to be ethical … they are making it more profitable to be ethical by promoting Rapleaf.

check out Better World Books on Biblio and see BWB’s prominent (and very impressive) Rapleaf badge.

BetterWorld Books rock! They’re a bookseller with a mission that supports and promotes literacy worldwide.

Co-founded by Xavier Helgesen, BWB raised over $1.3M for ~70 non-profits focused on literacy and education. They even donated more than 500,000 books to several literacy and book programs.

This social entrepreneurship venture has even adopted Rapleaf’s rating system. Just look at their stellar Rapleaf rating (BWB unofficially has the highest Rapleaf rating thus far):

So buy some books from BWB. Not only will you stimulate a few million neurons, but you’ll help fund literacy worldwide. Now that’s what I call creating a BetterWorld!

And when they rate you, be sure to rate them back