Piero needed to know how many people would be up for it and how many villas to rent. He set up an invite on Wigadoo asking people to pledge £100 each and said it would only happen if at least 15 people signed up.
After e-mailing it out, 36 people signed up within 24 hours. Because everyone could see who else was definitely going the event gained real momentum. By the deadline 45 people had signed up!
Even better, because everyone gave their card details and pledged when they signed up, Piero knew they were definitely in and wouldn't back out.
Knowing how many people were coming, Piero worked out that it would be slightly cheaper per head than he thought and so he only needed to collect £90 of the £100 pledged. To collect the money from his friends all Piero needed to do was hit a button.
After the money was collected it went into an online event account which came with its own virtual prepaid MasterCard®. Piero transferred the funds to his own bank account and paid for the weekend by cheque.
With the rest of the money he bought more food and drink than you can imagine and they all had an amazing time eating and drinking under the Tuscan sun!
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