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The latest Quick Pledge improvements:

Sustaining Membership Template

We created a special sustaining membership template.  The pledge levels on this form are listed in Monthly amounts, so donors choose an ongoing monthly amount instead of choosing the Annual total. This will make it clearer to see the ongoing monthly donation amount, without confusing it with the annual total.

Form UI

Improved premium selection, state drop down defaults to your state, new submit graphics, and more!

PI and Public Media Metrics have joined forces in The Pledge Improvement Project.

This multi-phase endeavor tests the overall effectiveness of various types of pledge forms.  The goal?  Find and deliver best practices that will enable stations to significantly improve the performance of their online pledge forms.

For more information about PIP, visit
http://publicmediametrics.org/sections/5/projects

For more information about Quick Pledge®, contact Marketing and Sales Manager Joe Orlando, at jorlando@publicinteractive.com or 888-729-8809.

In response to your feedback, we have added couple of new features to Quick Pledge that allow you to
further customize the look and feel of your pledge forms.

Custom Buttons

In addition to custom form header image, you can now customize the “Continue“, “Submit Pledge” and “Edit Your
Information” buttons that appear on the Pledge Form and
Preview Page.

This setting can be customized per form, so you can upload
different images for each form. For example, you could test different
button sizes and colors to see which perform the best and yield better
completion rates.

To modify the buttons:

• Log into your Quick Pledge Administrative Tools
• Click on Pledge Form Manager
• Click Edit next to the form you want to edit
• Click on Form Settings and scroll down to the Custom Images section
• Click Browse to upload your images

For a limited time, Public Interactive is offering a 50 percent discount on the set-up fees for Pulse™ and Quick Pledge™ to stations that sign up for both by June 1st.

• Quick Pledge is a fast, simple and secure system for managing your online pledge activities.
• Pulse is an intuitive and feature-rich, integrated email marketing system.

The two products are built to integrate seamlessly, and together they give stations a 360 degree view of how their e-marketing activities directly affect the number and amount of donations they receive.  Using Pulse and Quick Pledge in tandem, stations can see how much money a particular e-campaign brought in, down the dollar amount of each gift.

If your station is interested in saving 50 percent on the set-up fees of the Marketing Bundle, contact Marketing and Sales Manager Joe Orlando, at jorlando@publicinteractive.com or 888-729-8809.

Quick Pledge Fundraising Stats

Thought you might be interested to know that in the last year, from: 4/2009 to 4/2010, stations raised $20 million online using Quick Pledge, with an average gift of $100.

• Total Quick Pledge transactions: 199,500
• Total Amount raised using Quick Pledge: $20 million
• Average Quick Pledge Amount: $100

Congratulations to all our stations!

We have improved the Pledge Email Notification message based on requests by several Quick Pledge stations.

In the past, the email notification contained only few pieces of information: donation amount, time of pledge, pledge ID, and premium ID. The email now includes the full donation details, with the exception of credit card information.

This detailed notification email can be used to read donor names on-air as they come in, or easily print out individual donations without having to run a search in the admin tools.

You will still receive the full donation information in the encrypted daily batch time (or real time encrypted email) as in the past, this change will only affect the optional Email Notifications.

As a reminder, to turn the Email Notification on or off:

• Log into your Quick Pledge Administrative Tools
• Click on Pledge Form Manager

The spring pledge drive season is almost upon us!

Here’s a quick review of some handy Quick Pledge™ features to keep in mind as you prepare for your spring fund drives.  Additional tips are available online. Please contact us with additional questions.

Hope your drive goes well!

We have added more options to edit and customize your automated email receipt that is sent to the donor after they complete a Quick Pledge transaction.

Email subject line
You can now customize the default subject line of “Thank you for your contribution” for the email receipt for each of your forms.

To edit the email subject line:
• In your Quick Pledge administrative tools, go to Manage Pledge Forms.
• Click to Edit the form you want to modify.
• Then click the ‘Email Receipt’ link and you’ll see an editable text field for the email subject line where you can edit the copy.

Turn off the email receipt:
Quick Pledge that allows you to turn off the automated email receipt that is sent to the donor. This feature was requested by several Quick Pledge stations that use the back office form to enter phone donations, and don’t want to send an email receipt for these transactions.

We have added a new feature in Quick Pledge that allows you to turn off the automated email receipt that is sent to the donor. This feature was requested by several Quick Pledge stations that use the back office form to enter phone donations, and don’t want to send an email receipt for these transactions.

While in general we recommend leaving the automated email receipt turned on for most of your web pledge forms, the back office form can be different.

To turn off the automated email receipt:

• In your Quick Pledge administrative tools, go to Manage Pledge Forms.
• Click to Edit your back office form.
• Then click the ‘Email Receipt’ link and you’ll see a Yes/No radio button asking whether you want to send out a receipt for this particular pledge form. Choose accordingly.

We’ve made some recent updates in Pulse and Quick Pledge based on your feedback!

Pulse: Improved Newsletter Saving
In the Pulse Newsletter Manager, we have added “Save” buttons on each page of the edit process so you can save your work after each step. This makes it much less likely that you’ll lose your work if you spend a long time editing different content areas, or run into computer connection issues while editing. When adding multiple content pieces, click “save” after each, and continue working on the newsletter without having to exit and log back in.

Quick Pledge

Installment Payment Options Expanded
You can now turn off installment payments only for Credit Card transactions, allowing them for Bill Me, EFT or University Payroll Deduction only. Or alternatively, you can choose to allow installment option only for non credit card transactions. Modify this setting in the Pledge Form Wizard under Installments section.