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 It's scorching hot here in the Southwest (training office is in Arizona), and the monsoon rains just haven't been as heavy or as often as we'd like to cool things down or build the water table up. This is the time of the year when many of us become lethargic and just don't want to do much more than sit and think. And I was thinking of the impending deadline most all of our users have in the near future. It's just around the corner: the deadline for getting the best upgrade pricing for Client / Server. And some folks may be wondering how much change this will make in their use of the program. Most of us are used to routines in entering data, creating reports, sending thank you letters, and so on, and ANY change can be a bit intimidating.
How much will you need to re-learn once you've upgraded to the Client / Server version?
NOTHING.
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Tags: nonprofit fundraising, tech tip, fundraising, upgrade, updates, announcements, add ons, product news
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 I am going to go out on a limb here-- I believe that in order to enjoy life you have to really get into it, and sometimes that includes taking risks. If you are like me, you may like to take them slowly, a step at a time, with thoughtful pauses. Or you may just sprint ahead. One way or another, you may find yourself out on the proverbial limb: even though it is holding you up at the moment, you aren't quite sure if it will continue to hold you, or where the next step is.
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Tags: product news, upgrade
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The past few years I’ve noticed that clothing just doesn’t fit the way it once did. I’ve become less active (read “lazy”) and my physical mass has begun to shift around on my body. I’ve always been an “off-the-rack” shopper, boringly average in run-of-the-mill sizes, until recently. Last weekend, while having some tires replaced at one of our local malls, my wife and I were browsing the stores and happened on a great sale at one of the stores we rarely shop. I followed her advice and tried on some jeans, and was pleasantly surprised to find some that fit perfectly, shifted mass and all. I bought two pairs, at 20% of their original list price, feeling like a million bucks.
I got to thinking about this in relation to our latest product offering: FundRaiser Spark. One size doesn’t fit all in the world of software, and sometimes extra features impede the use of a product, rather than promoting it. This can be especially true in software when the people using it are not necessarily computer “geeks”, like myself, and don’t have the time, inclination, etc., to fully explore all the functionality of a program. And the reverse side of this coin is software that doesn’t do quite enough.
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Tags: , upgrade, look and feel, announcements, product news
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When someone makes their first online donation to your organization, do you automatically add their name to your email contact list? Someone in the TechSoup forum asked this question, which led to an interesting discussion about best practices on gathering email addresses from first time online donors. First, consider that the reasons for an opt-in or a double opt-in on an email list:
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Tags: nonprofit fundraising, social media, fundraising letters, fundraising, look and feel, product news, features, general, word processor
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I live in Arizona (not Missouri, where our home office is located) and sparks are not normally welcome at this time of year, due to dry conditions and fire hazards that, each year, cost millions of dollars in loss of habitat and homes. So when our CEO, Autumn Shirley, told me about a new product we’re releasing, called “Spark”, with a tag-line of “Start something big”, my first thoughts were of some rather large wildfires that we’ve had here in the West.Well, I came to grips with my regionalized knee-jerk reactions, and took a look at this new arrival, and now I see what all the hoopla is about.
Many FundRaiser users are with organizations that have modest database needs, and a tight budget. That is, after all, why we released FundRaiser Basic (www.fundraiserbasic.com), originally: to have an “entry-level” offering that would help small nonprofits grow to a level that allows them to step up to FundRaiser Select or Professional (www.fundraisersoftware.com) when Basic’s abilities are no longer enough. And it’s that same thinking that prompted us to a modular approach, allowing customers to start with Select, for instance, and add modules for functionality as needed (like Pledge, Membership, and Volunteer management modules).
Over the years, one of the problems we found with that approach was that the cost of even Select was too much more than that of Basic. It was just too big a step for growing organizations to make all at once. And, for some, even Select has more functionality than necessary, like too many codes, too many data fields, too many options, etc.
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Tags: tech tip, fundraising letters, fundraising, support, upgrade, look and feel, announcements, product news, features, general, nonprofit fundraising
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