WidgetMakr's Spring Update
WidgetMakr, our online fundraising form tool is less than a year old is getting its most feature packed update yet!Since WidgetMakr's release in August its usage has been growing consistently by 500% a month. Our hockey stick growth numbers are pretty crazy exponential numbers for a brand new product. WidgetMakr has become THE online tool of choice for major senatorial & congressional campaigns around the country.WidgetMakr's rapid success is really based on 3 factors:
Total control over the look, feel & content of your donation page. WidgetMakr makes it easy to make your donation forms match the messaging, look and feel of your site. Don't get stuck with a cookie cutter donation form from folks that don't understand your supporters. You can even add your own custom fields.
- Your donations go straight into your account. Don't wait while someone else sits on your money for weeks at a time. WidgetMakr directs your funds directly into your bank account as fast as the credit card processors can process the donation.
- Complete integration with America's leading political fundraising platform, Crimson. As soon as a donation is processed in WidetMakr, a record is created in Crimson. Clean online political donation data makes your state and federal election committee filings a snap!
Whats New?
The latest version WidgetMakr really ups the bar for online fundraising. New features include:
Personal Fundraising Pages - Your supporters want to help you. Make it easy by allowing supporters to create their own personal fundraising pages. With personal donation pages a supporter can tell their own story about what your organization means to them and why their friends should support you.
- Social Sharing - When your supporters are making a donation, this is the moment they are feeling the most love for your organization. WidgetMakr makes it easy for your supporters to show the world their love. Once a donor completes a donation, they now have the opportunity to promote your organization among their social networks.
Mobile Optimized Donation Forms - WidgetMakr forms have been optimized for the mobile world which we now live. Donations via iPhone, iPad, Android phones & pads are a piece of cake with WidgetMakr.
- Google Analytics & Cookies - Do you love Google Analytics? So do we. WidgetMakr now allows you to embed tracking scripts like Google Analytics or JavaScript based cookies so you can tract the performance of your donation forms. This gives you the ability to create lots of different forms and track each forms performance to see which appeal is most effective.
Custom Form Fields - Collect whatever information you need, survey questions, event planing, market research, feedback, yard sign requests... any thing you could possiblely need to know from your supporters, you can create a field for it.
- Custom CSS - Don't be scared. You don't need to be able to write a lick of code to use WidgetMakr. But... if you have the tech chops and really want to get crazy, you can right your own custom CSS to take total control over your donation form.
Dashboards, dashboards and more dashboards - Once you release your donation forms into the wild, the new WidgetMakr dashboards live data streaming make it easy for you to track all your initiatives and all your supporters personal donation pages.
- Facebook Login - Who needs yet another user name & password in their lives? Simplify your life and use your Facebook Login credentials for WidgetMakr.
It doesn't end here. There are lots more cool tweaks and features. Learn more at our shinny new WidgetMakr website. Some of our beta testers claim that WidgetMakr even makes them better looking but we haven't been able to confirm these reports. If you find that using WidgetMakr makes you better looking, please let us know right away.