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Table of Cotets Why Use Olie Fudraisig Tools... 2 Participat Ceter... 3 Guide to Olie Fudraisig... 3 Edit Persoal Page... 5 Address Book... 7 Email Messages... 8 Follow-Ups... 9 My Progress... 10 1 Bike MS: 2015 Participat Ceter Guide
Why use Olie Fudraisig Tools? USING ONLINE TOOLS MAKES FUNDRAISING EASIER Participats who use persoal pages raise more moey! Bike MS $883 v. $468 Walk MS $473 v. $232 GUIDE TO ONLINE FUNDRAISING Each doatio you collect brigs us closer to a world free of MS. Your fudraisig success is limited oly by your imagiatio. Is there ay greater feelig tha kowig you have made a impact o the lives of those livig with MS ad their families? ONLINE SECURITY The Natioal MS Society has made every effort to protect your iformatio ad the iformatio of your doors. We use idustry stadard SSL ecryptio techiques to make sure credit card iformatio, password ad persoal iformatio travel securely over the Iteret. bikems.org 2
Participat Ceter A customizable Participat Ceter is available to each registered participat. You ca access the Participat Ceter by loggig i through the Logi to my Accout box with your userame ad password at the top of the scree. PARTICIPANT CENTER FEATURES Add or import cotacts to your Address Book. Sed emails to family, frieds, co-workers or ayoe else you would like to ask to sposor you for Bike MS. We ve eve provided sample emails that you ca use. Sed thak you emails to those who have doated to your fudraisig efforts. Moitor your fudraisig progress receive email otificatios whe someoe has doated to your fudraisig efforts. Update your persoal page iclude your story ad explai why you decided to participate i Bike MS. If you have a coectio to MS, share it ad tell others why they should Joi the Movemet. Update your Fudraisig Goal. Lear what to do ext this box chages with suggestios to help you with your fudraisig ad get the most out of your Participat Ceter. Istall the Fudraise with Facebook app It allows your etire Facebook etwork to doate directly to you. USERNAMES/PASSWORDS If you participated i a previous evet or are a ewly registered participat, you created a userame ad password. If you have forgotte your userame or password, please click the lik or call us at 1-800-344-4867. 3 Bike MS: 2015 Participat Ceter Guide
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Edit Persoal Page Your Persoal Page is a uique web page askig frieds ad family to joi your team or support you by makig a doatio. Customize your page to share your story about why you are ridig to create a world free of MS. Choose a layout for your persoal page. Create a persoalized/vaity URL shortcut for easy referece by clickig edit. Upload pictures or video to make your story more powerful. Eable a water bottle thermometer showig dollars raised towards your persoal fudraisig goal. Choose how you would like your doors to be listed o your page by door ame oly or ame ad amout of doatios received. Eable the blog feature to post updates about your fudraisig success ad evet experiece. 5 Bike MS: 2015 Participat Ceter Guide
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Address Book Keep it simple by uploadig your existig address book from your persoal email accout. Click o Import Cotacts to import cotacts from aother email applicatio you use. THE SOCIETY S ONLINE FUNDRAISING TOOLS SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING: Outlook/Outlook Express AOL Yahoo! Mail Gmail Geeric CSV You ca also upload a.csv file exported from aother email cliet. Add cotacts maually by choosig Add a cotact ad typig i each cotact ame ad e-mail address. 7 Bike MS: 2015 Participat Ceter Guide
Email The email sectio allows you to sed messages to your frieds, family ad co-workers to ask for doatios i support of your participatio. EMAIL OPTIONS Thak those who have made a doatio Recruit team members Solicit doatios Other Correspodig messagig is available for each Email Optio. There is also evet statioery ad a blak template. Note: If you would rather email from your persoal email accout, you ca copy ad paste ay of the cotet ito a email ad sed. bikems.org 8
Follow-ups This sectio allows you to maage your cotact list by moitorig emails you have set ad by sortig ad filterig various groups withi your list. FILTERING OPTIONS By Door Status have or have ot doated By Team Status curret team members By Past Team Members Status past team members that have ot joied your team By Never Emailed Status have ot cotacted By Needs Follow-Up Status eed to sed a email, a follow-up email By Uthaked Doors Status eed to sed a thak you message 9 Bike MS: 2015 Participat Ceter Guide
My Progress The My Progress sectio allows you to moitor your persoal fudraisig progress based o the compoets chose. MY PROGRESS FEATURES View your mothly progress with a chart showig your fudraisig success Track the umber of gifts you have received View your gift history Chage your fudraisig goal Eter a ew gift checks & cash that you receive from doors bikems.org 10
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