Promote Your Cause
Experience True Buying Power.
Buy4 is a great fundraising tool. But, you must tell your supporters, friends, and family about it to make it a powerful fundraising asset. Remind them about Buy4 regularly in your emails, newsletters, church bulletins, sermons, and websites so they will make using Buy4 a habit.
Be Social about buying for your cause.
Follow Buy4 on the web through the following sites:
Write about Buy4 on blogs and message boards
This is one of the best ways to get the word out to all of your friends and supporters. Here's an example of what other bloggers have written that you can feel free to customize and share with others:
Here's a new easy way to raise money for your favorite cause.
You can shop at thousands of top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will go to the cause of your choice. You pay the same price as you normally would, but a donation goes to your cause!
Send an email to your family and friends
The more people that Buy4 your cause, the more money it will raise! A simple email to spread the word can go a long way! Please feel free to customize the following message:
Subject: [YOUR CAUSE} Needs Your Help!
I support [YOUR CAUSE} and I want to share with you a great new way for you to help support this organization or any other cause that you care about.
Buy4.com is a great fundraising tool that lets you donate to [YOUR CAUSE} every time you shop online at hundreds of participating stores including Apple, Best Buy, Expedia, 1-800-Flowers, etc. Plus, it won't cost you any more than buying direct from these stores!
Please tell 10 friends about Buy4 today. Visit http://www.buy4.com .
Email your organization's supporters
Tell fellow supporters how they can raise additional money just by using Buy4.com.
What if [YOUR CAUSE} earned a donation every time you shopped on the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can!
Buy4.com is a powerful fundraising tool that donates up to 30 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Apple, Best Buy, Expedia, 1-800-Flowers 1-800-Pet-Meds, etc. have teamed up with Buy4 and every time you place an order, you'll be supporting your favorite cause.
Add a footer to your emails
One of the best ways to promote Buy4 (and your cause) is to add a message to the bottom of your outgoing emails. Here are directions on how to set this up so that it happens automatically.
Yahoo Mail:
- Login to your Yahoo! Mail account.
- Select Mail Options from navigation bar.
- Follow the Signature link (under Personalization).
- Enter the desired message in the text field. We recommend:
Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by shopping online with Buy4.com
- Check the box Add Signature to All Outgoing Messages.
- Click Save.
- Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.
HotMail:
- Login to your HotMail account.
- Go to the Mail category.
- Click on Options.
- Follow the Personal Signature link.
- Type the desired message in the text field. We recommend:
Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by shopping online with Buy4.com
- Click OK.
- Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.
Outlook Express:
- Launch Outlook Express.
- Select Tools, then select Options.
- Click the Signatures tab.
- Click the New button to add a new message.
- Click in the Edit Signature text field and type the desired signature text. We recommend:
Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by shopping online with Buy4.com
- If you would like to automatically add the new signature to all outgoing messages, check the option for Add Signatures to All outgoing messages.
- Click OK to return to the message list.
- Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.
Outlook:
- Launch Outlook.
- Select Tools, then select Options.
- Click the Mail Format tab.
- Click the Signatures.
- Click the New button to add a new message.
- Click in the Edit Signature text field and type the desired signature text. We recommend:
Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by shopping online with Buy4.com
- Click OK.
- Click on the name of your new message to Signature for New Messages and Signatures for Replies and Forwards boxes.
- Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.
America Online 9.0:
- From the AOL menu select Mail, then click Set Mail Signatures.
- In the Set up Signatures window, click Create.
- In the Signature Name box, type a name for this signature.
- Type your message. We recommend:
Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by shopping online with Buy4.com
- Click OK.
- Click the X to close the Set up Signatures window.
- Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.
America Online AIM Web Mail:
- Log into your AOL AIM account.
- Click on Settings.
- Enter you message. We recommend:
Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by shopping online with Buy4.com
- Check the box: Add this signature to messages sent using AIM Mail on the Web.
- Click Save.
- Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.
That's it! Now Buy4 will be on your e-mail signature.
Add a Buy4 logo, button or banner to your website, blog or profile
Help good causes earn money by linking to Buy4 on your website, blog or profile! Use the following instructions to select a banner:
- Choose a graphic below.
- Highlight the code under the graphic.
- Copy the code (usually Ctrl+C).
- Open your page with any text editor.
- Paste the code into your page (usually Ctrl+V).
- Save your page.
Buy4 Logos
300x172 Logo - Cut and paste code below.
300x172 Logo - Cut and paste code below.
150x86 Logo - Cut and paste code below.
150x86 Logo - Cut and paste code below.
At this time we are currently developing custom publications to help your organization. If you need custom pieces please feel free to contact us and we will be glad to put something together for you.
Bookmark Buy4
Buy4 will be on your bookmark bar and easy for you to remember to use when shopping online for your cause.
Make Buy4 your homepage
This way every time you start your web browser Buy4 will automatically load and be the first site you see. Plus, no matter where you are on the web, you can always click your browser's home button and return to Buy4 instantly.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Users:
- Select Tools | Internet Options.
- Select the General tab.
- In the Address textbox, type http://www.buy4.com.
- Click OK.
Firefox Users:
- Select Tools | Options.
- Select the General tab.
- In the Location textbox, type http://www.buy4.com.
- Click OK.
Safari Users:
- Open a Safari browser window.
- In the toolbar at the top of the window, click Safari > Preferences.
- In the Preferences window, click the General tab.
- In the "Home page" field, type http://www.buy4.com.
- Click the red Close button.
Google Chrome Users:
- Go to the upper right hand corner of the screen and click on the Tools Icon.
- Select Options.
- Under the basics tab and under the Home Page section, choose "Open this page".
- Add http://www.buy4.com to the URL box and click close.
That's it! Now Buy4 will be your browser's homepage.
At this time we are currently developing custom widgets to help your organization. If you need custom pieces please feel free to contact us and we will be glad to put something together for you.
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