Online Express Community Tip-Off! Share Knowledge & Earn Points

Holly Herbert · June 2017

June is a beautiful month for summer vacations, picnics, and sharing your favorite Online Express tips!

This month we are hosting a "Tip-Off" in the Online Express Community (learn more about Tip-Offs here). Here's how it works:

Read the weekly post with details on that week's tip-off topic.
Respond to that post with your tip or trick. (Make sure to follow these guidelines!)
Earn bonus community points for each tip you share (up to 5 tips).
Read through other member posts, and click “Like” if it was especially helpful. This counts as 1 vote.
Each week, we’ll tally the votes and the top 10 tips & tricks will be compiled into a blog post for Online Express.
If your tip was picked for the blog post, you’ll receive an additional 100 community points and a shiny new badge for your Profile page.

So, without further ado, this week's Tip-Off topic is:

Share your favorite tip or trick for running a recurring gift campaign in Online Express.

Good luck, Online Express Mind Hive! Let the Tip-Off begin!

Sunshine Reinken Watson · June 2017

Oh boy, I hope there are some good tips here! We are going to do our first one soon.

Steph Williams · June 2017

Sunshine Watson:
Oh boy, I hope there are some good tips here! We are going to do our first one soon.

Ditto! I'm building our first sustaining donor page now!

Karen Stuhlfeier · June 2017

I think that one of the best tools in OLX for making a successful case to a donor for making a recurring gift is the ability to easily make a donation form that is targeted to a specific constituent group. In OLX you can make as many forms as you want and they are very easy to put together. For our general online donation form we have rather large suggested gift amounts that make sense for our usual donors making a gift once a year. We also only give the option to give to our annual funds. When we are making the case for making a recurring gift we can tailor those gift amounts to a specific group like our younger alumni and can also give them the option of givng to a specific fund that has meaning for them. We can also put this form in an email to them or as a link in a social media post. OLX forms are easy to see and use on any device which is another key to our online giving success. We add more and more recurring gifts each year. I think that showing people how easy it is to make one is a key to our success. OLX donation forms are easy to create and easy to use.

Ryan Futral · June 2017

Karen Stuhlfeier:

I think that one of the best tools in OLX for making a successful case to a donor for making a recurring gift is the ability to easily make a donation form that is targeted to a specific constituent group. In OLX you can make as many forms as you want and they are very easy to put together. For our general online donation form we have rather large suggested gift amounts that make sense for our usual donors making a gift once a year. We also only give the option to give to our annual funds. When we are making the case for making a recurring gift we can tailor those gift amounts to a specific group like our younger alumni and can also give them the option of givng to a specific fund that has meaning for them. We can also put this form in an email to them or as a link in a social media post. OLX forms are easy to see and use on any device which is another key to our online giving success. We add more and more recurring gifts each year. I think that showing people how easy it is to make one is a key to our success. OLX donation forms are easy to create and easy to use.

Karen,

I am in the process of now re-creating all of our old Net Community forms and putting them into OLX, and I actually didn't know they were unlimited. So, while that wasn't the main point you were making, it just helped me out tremendously! The rest of your post has given me great confidence that this will be a much more effective system than was previously set up in Net Community before my recent arrival to the team. Thanks for sharing!

Gloria Litwinowicz · June 2017

Karen Stuhlfeier:

I think that one of the best tools in OLX for making a successful case to a donor for making a recurring gift is the ability to easily make a donation form that is targeted to a specific constituent group. In OLX you can make as many forms as you want and they are very easy to put together. For our general online donation form we have rather large suggested gift amounts that make sense for our usual donors making a gift once a year. We also only give the option to give to our annual funds. When we are making the case for making a recurring gift we can tailor those gift amounts to a specific group like our younger alumni and can also give them the option of givng to a specific fund that has meaning for them. We can also put this form in an email to them or as a link in a social media post. OLX forms are easy to see and use on any device which is another key to our online giving success. We add more and more recurring gifts each year. I think that showing people how easy it is to make one is a key to our success. OLX donation forms are easy to create and easy to use.

LOTS of great stuff in this one paragraph. Thanks so much Karen.

Holly Herbert · June 2017

So, without further ado, this week's Tip-Off topic is:

Share your favorite tip or trick for running a recurring gift campaign in Online Express.

Good luck, Online Express Mind Hive! Let the Tip-Off begin!

I'm going to let this question stand as our Tip-Off question for another week - love the tips that Karen shared here (Thanks, Karen!!).

We also had a post started in our Best Practices area about Recurring Gifts that might help you formulate a tip for this thread. Take a look!

To repeat, our Tip-Off Question is:
Share your favorite tip or trick for running a recurring gift campaign in Online Express.

Online Express Community Tip-Off! Share Knowledge & Earn Points

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