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Tips, tricks, and best practices
Tips, tricks, and best practices
Tips and tricks for any user level.
17 articles in this collection
Written by
Alex Simoes-McArtor,
Flore,
and
Jay Godfrey
How to make a newsletter email blast
Learn how to make your own engaging email newsletter, using one of our mobile-responsive email themes, and a simple one column layout.
Written by
Alex Simoes-McArtor
Updated over a week ago
Tips and tricks
Text message strategies - Building conversation trees
Conversation trees in NationBuilder allow having fully automatic conversations with your community via text.
Written by
Flore
Updated over a week ago
Hosting a digital event
Can't meet in person? We have tips to help you set up a successful virtual event on NationBuilder.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Improve your website accessibility
Here are some tips you can use to make your website more accessible.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Add a Facebook post/email forward option to the social share message
Add a Facebook/Email share option on the default social share prompt supporters see after taking action on your site.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Create a .pdf repository of email blasts
Create a place on your website to store .pdfs of past newsletters for download.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Create a newsletter style email without using code
If you're not comfortable with code, here's a work around to create a newsletter style email!
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Make a newsletter in NationBuilder out of a Google template
This will help give you a basis for a newsletter similar to a Google template in NationBuilder.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Use recruiter ID links to advance your fundraising goals
Peer to peer (P2P) fundraising is one of the most powerful ways to engage a community in helping to achieve your organization’s goal.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Social media influencers
Social media has become a powerful tool to boost the success of organizations, teams, and campaigns.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Use social capital points to find and reach out to your most engaged supporters
Social Capital allows you to track, rank, and follow your supporters' engagement through an automated point system.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Assign people or due dates to your paths to create clarity amongst your team
Using paths will allow you to track the engagement between your control panel users and your supporters over time.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Use path values to analyze your fundraising pipeline in path view
To help teams and volunteers stay on target, turn on path values in path settings to add a monetary value field to a given path.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Clean up your tag library to keep your database organized
A tag is only useful if you and your staff remember it and use it periodically on multiple profiles.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Gauge how effective your events are with tracking codes
Events and tracking codes may not seem to be connected when looked at from afar, but up close you’ll realize how linked the two truly are.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago
Best practices
What paths should I set up in my nation?
The possibilities with paths are endless and here are the most common paths used by our customers, to get you inspired!
Written by
Flore
Updated over a week ago
NationBuilder's payment processor FAQ
Implementing a new payment processor can seem daunting. We’ve aggregated some considerations & best practices to help simplify it for you.
Written by
Jay Godfrey
Updated over a week ago