As many candidates and non-profits have discovered, Campaign Advantage not only provides award-winning websites, but our other online campaigning tools are at the forefront of online campaigning. Our Online Campaign Suite provides everything offered by more expensive all-in-one solutions, but at a fraction of the cost. After 15 years in business, most of our clients come from word-of-mouth referrals from satisfied customers, so we do not need a big marketing and administrative staff.
Our Online Campaign Suite has four components:
These modules are customized to fit your current situation, while allowing you to plan for the future as well. When you sign up with Campaign Advantage, we will help you with every aspect of your online activities, from hosting, to emails, to databases. If you are like most of our clients and have contact lists or other things you want to integrate into your new Online Campaign Suite, we will do our best to make your transition headache-free.
Once we have set up your Online Campaign Suite, your staff will be trained in every aspect of its operation, and you will soon be doing your own content updates, checking your own website statistics, contacting your own volunteers, and counting the money that falls into an account controlled completely by you.
Other services that distinguish us are the ability to produce websites in Spanish and Portuguese, staff members who are experts in all aspects of offline as well as online communications, and 24/7 service that responds with real people, not just emails. Whether you want a blog, a webcast, or a fancy Flash introduction to your organization, you will be starting with a strategic website created by an award-winning team of website developers.
Here are details about each of the four modules:
Our Campaign Advantage fundraising tool is a stand-alone fundraising system that keeps your money safe and separate from the accounts of other campaigns and causes. Unlike the pooled merchant solutions offered by some vendors, where you can start fundraising in an hour, our solution takes a few days to set up because it is YOUR tool and the monies are not commingled. Better still, the names of your donors are not put in a database that the vendor jointly owns with you. And, when you are ready to file your quarterly reports, your accountant can call and receive assistance from a staff that has participated in painless state and federal filings for many clients over the years.
Our fundraising tool allows you to track donations, create reports, solicit recurring donations, and perform the many tasks candidates have required in the many local, state, and federal races in which we have participated.
If our fundraising tool is a leader in the field, you may ask, then why do we continue to charge zero percent (0%) of our client's online contributions? Our philosophy, which is influenced by the philosophy of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, is that fundraising professionals shall not accept a percentage of the fees of a client. We accept compensation for the work we do, and then, if the campaign does a good job, they should be rewarded with all of the contributions they have received.
Updating press releases, calendars, and Home page messages is a breeze with our user-friendly Content Management tools. No knowledge of HTML is required, and one-touch posting is the rule. Press releases are automatically archived by month, and a News page contains links to Clips, Releases, and Events. Pages can be set up to create dynamically-generated content based on geography, interest groups, or issues.
Search, sort, download, and export email addresses to your offline email client using our Campaign Advantage Email Manager. Search your database for all the people interested in environmental issues, for example, or search by topic and region to find the environmentalists in three geographic regions. Then compose a message to them and prepare it for delivery from your desktop or commercial email house.
Volunteer and Subscriber lists are the lifeblood of any organization, and our tools help you to track and use this information in all the ways necessary for a vibrant campaign. Data input is easy, and generating reports is also very intuitive. Best of all, the data resides in one database, where you can access it to generate fundraising email lists or mobilize supporters during a Get-Out-The-Vote drive.
