Greater Giving Updates

Greater Giving has released new features in Event Software Online 5.0. We’re excited to see these changes increase efficiency for our clients and their events this fall! For these updates and more news you can use, check out our July eNews, hot off the press.

Improvements to managing and tracking admissions gives you a detailed, 360° view of each ticket purchase, including multiple tickets, sponsorships, auction purchases, and donations. You will now be able to view, track, and report on multiple tickets purchased by a single supporter and the individual using a ticket purchased by another guest the same way you can view, track, and report on donations, sponsorships, and auction purchases. This improvement helps you to identify “who’s who” at check-in, speeding guests into the auction to start bidding. And it will give you a far more accurate view of your most significant donors’ investment in your event and your mission to help you with your donor and sponsor cultivation efforts.

Easier management and tracking of table guests. Do you sell tables for your gala event via an online registration page? Event Software Online 5.0 makes it easier to for a table host to register individual table guests online. Table hosts can quickly manage their table seating by visiting your event webpages after purchasing the table and adding to or amending contact information for table guests. This improvement makes it much easier at check-in to match guests with the appropriate table (this feature available when using Event Software Online and Online Payments.)

Sponsorship dashboard helps you to better focus on recruiting and retaining sponsors. Event Software Online 5.0’s sponsor dashboard tells you at a glance how your sponsor committee is performing, so you can stay apprised on progress and appropriately motivate sponsor committee members. Easy-to-read gauges track achievement of sponsor revenue goals, number of sponsorships sold by committee member, and sponsor pipeline, plus “Top 5” sponsors, “Top 5” committee members by number of solicited sponsorships, and what’s needed to achieve sponsorship goals.

Easier management of online campaign images. Event Software Online 5.0’s new consolidated image repository lets you use the same image file for all your online fundraising campaigns. Instead of relying on each member of your event team to store and maintain event-related images, Event Software Online 5.0 will store images in a centralized system so that everyone can use an image in multiple online fundraising campaigns without uploading the image every time.

Event Planning Summer Intern

Event Planning Intern

Duration:
4 - 8 hours per week June – September

Compensation:
This is an unpaid training opportunity

Job Description:
Educational summer internship available in the events industry. This summer internship will provide you with an opportunity to meet other industry professionals, support event planning, and research event resources. The position is an admin position that will report to the event director.

Projects:

Admin Support & Research for Samantha Swaim Fundraising, LLC.
• Collect specs on local venues for an event site catalog
• Research for client projects
• Provide prep support for on-going classes and workshops

On-site Event Support
• Provide support at events during set up and event execution.

Support and involvement in ISES Events
• Support Samantha Swaim Fundraising, LLC’s involvement in the planning and execution of monthly ISES events through administrative and research functions

To Apply:
Email letter of interest & resume to Kelsey Pine, Event Director, at Kelsey@samanthaswaim.com.

The Effects of Social Media

Social media is all the rage these days, and for good reason: RESULTS. If you’re not engaging your audience where they live—Facebook, Twitter, and the like—you could be missing a great opportunity to get them to your event.

A client of ours honed in on Facebook as a resource to promote their spring fundraising event. They identified where their audience spends time and talked to them the way they engage with the world. As a result of their efforts, our client saw a 65% increase in attendance from the previous year!

Not only is social media effective in this day and age, it’s FREE. And with limited resources, that can offer you huge potential in selling your event.

This is just one of the topics we’ll be covering in our NEW class offering:

January 19, 2011 (9AM-12PM)
Marketing Your Spring Event
Increase Visibility & Sell More Tickets
at Planned Parenthood, 3727 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

We will cover:
• Getting creative on a tight marketing budget
• Guerilla marketing
• Social networking
• Press & Media
• Web tools
• Invites, posters, and other collateral

Space is limited, so register today!

Marketing Your Spring Event Workshop

The holidays may barely be over, but it’s time to start thinking about your spring fundraising events. Join us for a great morning class on how to effectively and creatively market your spring event. Are you maximizing the opportunity to increase awareness and visibility for your organization? Are you selling out to your event? Is everyone in town buzzing about your event? This workshop will cover the best tactics to marketing your event, and all before lunch!

January 19, 2011 (9AM-12PM)
Marketing Your Spring Event
Increase Visibility & Sell More Tickets
at Planned Parenthood, 3727 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

We will cover:
• Getting creative on a tight marketing budget
• Guerilla marketing
• Social networking
• Press & Media
• Web tools
• Invites, posters, and other collateral

Space is limited, so register today