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Use the power of your personal Page to attract and engage
supporters.
Create
a Personal Page - Inspire
and encourage friends to give, using the power of the page to do so. Select
the Personal Page icon/link in
the header of the Participant Center to start. Choose a sample layout
and modify it to your taste.
Tell
your story through meaningful text, illustrate it (with photos you can
upload). All
visitors need to do is click to donate, and click to join! The
links will be on your page.
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Compile
Address Book of contacts you will communicate with
Easily add and upload addresses of friends
and family from your e-mail client for
an address book that you can access at any time to send e-mail invites,
thank you's and so on. Select
the Address Book icon/link to start. Compile
e-mail addresses of friends and family using the Address book. Add
contacts or upload addresses from Outlook, Outlook Express, AOL or Yahoo.
This ensures
a ready-to-use database of e-mail addresses that you can send messages
to with a single click!
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Send Solicitation and Recruitment messages to friends
and family! Ask
for their active support!
Send out choice e-mails to solicit donations,
and to get others to join your team.
Select
the Email icon/link to start.
Thank you messages will have been sent automatically from the site but
you may wish to send a more personal thank you. Use
the sample message provided or craft your own.
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Stay abreast of your endeavors. How
are you doing? How
is your team doing? How
much have you raised. Look
at Progress reports for a quick tally!
Check your progress - Select
My Progress icon/link
to review. Who
has given on your behalf? How
many gifts have been made? Do
you know how much you have raised as an individual participant? Review
the progress bar! Any
off-line gifts you need to factor in? Some
may have given by check or cash. Your
progress chart will reflect these changes.
Check
your Team's progress - how is your
team doing as a whole? Select
Team Progress to check. Check
the Team Roster to see how much individual members have raised. Also
find an overview: How much raised? How
many gifts? By
whom?
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Keep the lines of communication buzzing! Follow
up with Thank You's for gifts made, Reminders to potential donors. It's
not too late!
Best Practices to Follow up -
Click on Follow ups
to see what remains to be done, your list of 'To
Do's'.
How
many gifts need to be acknowledged? Any
Thank you's, to be sent?
Send out follow-up reminder messages -
tell supporters that you have already sent solicitation e-mail messages
to, that the campaign is still ongoing - that you need their support!
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