In my previous post, I covered the two basic types of donation processing available for non-profits. Once you’ve decided how you’d like to process donations, the question is: with who? There are lots of service providers in the market and all services are a little bit different; of course I’d love it if all non-profits [...]
The credit card and payment processing industry can seem needlessly complicated and impossible to navigate, especially to non-profit organizations, who generally have more important stuff on their minds. There are two basic types of payment processing your organization can do on your website and I thought it would be helpful to draw some clear distinctions [...]
2011 is history. (image from Jalopnik) Okay, so the holidays are over. Officially. You probably won’t be seeing the type of donation volume you had over November and December again until next year’s holiday, but that doesn’t mean you can’t turn your organization’s website into a lean, mean fundraising machine. Give your organization a fresh [...]
All photos taken from Chimp Haven’s website The DonationPay office can be an emotional bunch and we have been known to get . . . worked up, over the awesome work our clients are doing. We are moved, inspired and amazed at our clients great work, fortitude and brilliant fundraising strategies, every day. That [...]
As I was reading the industry news on AllTop today, I came across an article from November that I’d apparently missed. From Pamela’s Grantwriting Blog (which, if I’ve never mentioned it before, I love and read anytime I get a spare minute, which clearly at this time of year is once every six weeks), it’s [...]
Today, because I’m feeling lazy as sin, I’m going to put up another short video that shows how our social networking features work. Most of our clients are already including these on their DonationPay pages, but if you’re not and you’d like to, give us a holler! The demo is on the page of one [...]
Though this will be incredibly familiar material to anyone that’s already run through the Pre-Holiday Donation Page Workout, I thought a quick brush up on some best practices for donation page optimization might be in order. Many of our clients have asked about the most important concepts to keep in mind when designing a successful [...]
Okay, folks, it’s September. Every day from now until January is a day you should be thinking about how best to maximize your holiday fundraising season. Even though in most places it still feels like full summer (or worse- sorry, Texas), you should already be making serious efforts to get your donation page and process [...]
Reading the recent Convio white paper -produced from a round of intensive user testing on the donation pages of seven major domestic non-profits- I realized that it’s already time to talk donation page optimization for the holiday fundraising push. While there are some pretty obvious findings in the Convio report (like, a one page donation [...]
Zach Wales Just Blew Our Minds Zach Wales, the philanthropic/marketing strategy blogger from OnLine, over at Changing Our World, has written an article about DonationPay. Zach’s blog is terrific, informative and well-written, with detailed analyses of the challenges and joys of all things related to online philanthropy. We are so flattered and thrilled to be [...]
