Setting up a successful Google AdWords campaign is more of an art than a science, but a well-thought-out campaign can be an incredible catalyst to bringing increased donations to your organization and traffic through your website. AdWords can be especially effective when you’re trying to promote a particular event or fundraiser and it’s always a [...]
And I hope you do too. . . Because I am an intermittent blogger at best, I end up accruing a large number of interesting gems from the Interwebs and elsewhere that I intend to share or reference later in my blog and then sometimes get lost in the shuffle. I always think I’m going [...]
Shameless Promotional Blog Post Ahead. . . So, we took last week off blogging to work on other relevant items here and now are back with a vengeance . . . or at least to write a semi-salsey blog post about how educational institutions and government organizations can use our service. Here’s the deal: our [...]
Detroit is Pretty Awesome, You Guys Well, it’s been a light week for the blog, because I am vacationing (and very successfully, thankyouverymuch) in Detroit, to help ring in my best friends brand new masters degree in graphic design. Since I’ve already written a bit on the topic of web design this week, I thought, [...]
That 404 error makes me want to go ape s–t. I’ve been thinking this week about the merging of form and function. We generally don’t think about websites as works of art; they’re far too utilitarian and work-horsey. Most websites can perform a variety of tasks- you can spend or receive money, interact with all [...]
Take Your Victory Lap with Pride, Marketers Welcome to the third and final chapter in our basics-of-email-marketing tutorial; you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll come to terms. At this point, you’ve written a carefully worded, engaging, attractive, compelling email and sent it out to your email list. Now what? Part 3 1. Tracking and Collecting Metrics [...]
Take Two. Introducing the New, Improved DonationPay Yes, I know, I totally lied when I said we’d resume regular posting in February. What I meant to say, though I didn’t know it at the time, was that Mastercard would radically change their convenience-fee regulations, rendering our entire service unusable. This whole event was quite complicated [...]
DonationPay is Live!! The radio silence here on the blog has been because of our push to launch DonationPay out of beta (boo!) and into live mode (yay!!)- now that it’s up and running, we’ll be resuming regular posting. We’re so excited to have our site ready to accept visitors; we hope your non-profit or [...]
Get it while it’s hot, folks DonationPay is looking for additional test accounts while we are in beta testing. If you run a non-profit that needs or wants free credit card processing, please contact us pronto! You’ll get a full Donation Pay account, plus the benefit of working with us one-on-one to help us further [...]
Say goodnight to the Oughts! As the decade comes to a slow close and DonationPay heads into it’s first full year of business, Noah and I have done a lot of thinking about New Years Resolutions. We’re clear on what we love about our work: helping non-profits, working together, the joy of seeing a labor [...]
