Tim Forbes

Posts by Tim Forbes, VP of Products and Marketing

Free Salesforce Event Check-In App on AppExchange

Free Salesforce Event Check-In App

Welcome to the world's first and only Salesforce Lightning native check-in app - all for free and customizable to meet your needs!

Say goodbye to manic management of paper lists, spreadsheets, or other inefficient, inelegant day-of, on-site event attendee check-ins. Now it's easy to quickly check-in your event's visitors from any mobile phone, tablet, or computer using the Salesforce mobile app or web browser. With just a simple swipe, check-in attendees and have their attendance recorded in your Salesforce instance!

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Increasing Your Donation Page Conversion Rate: 9 Smart Tips

9 Smart Tips for Increasing Your Donation Page Conversion Rate

A critical way for nonprofits to boost fundraising is by increasing their donation page conversion rate. A higher conversion rate for your online fundraising pages means that a greater percentage of those visiting your page are submitting your donation form and giving you a gift.

But how do you successfully increase your donation page conversion rate? Here are nine tips you can use to increase the effectiveness of your online fundraising forms.

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Best Salesforce Apps for Nonprofits: 9 Essential Tools

The best Salesforce apps for nonprofits can take your operations to new levels of efficiency.

Salesforce has quickly become a leading CRM platform for both the business and nonprofit worlds. This popularity is largely due to one major benefit: its flexibility.

Salesforce gives its users the ability to easily customize the platform by installing integrated apps designed to serve specific functions.

The ability to quickly and easily add new integrated functions means that organizations can fine-tune their CRM toolkits in a way that was previously only possible through complicated and often expensive integration projects.

For nonprofit organizations, building out a set of highly effective Salesforce apps can be a game-changer. After all, nonprofits rely on a particularly wide variety of tools to plan, manage, and track their operations. The fact that Salesforce can serve as a central hub in which you can build additional functions is a major plus for organizations that have made the move to the platform.

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Boost Your Revenue with These Matching Gifts Tips and Tricks

Have you ever wished that you could wave a magic wand and increase your donations? That’s basically how it works when you leverage Double the Donation’s 360MatchPro, Soapbox Engage’s new partner in matching gifts.

What are matching gifts, you ask? A matching gift is a donation made by a company to a nonprofit that an employee of said company has already donated to. So instead of one donation, your organization gets two!

In this article we are going to teach you:

  1. All about matching gifts

  2. How to market matching gifts

  3. How to revolutionize your matching gift efforts


Let’s get started!

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Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack: 27 Optimization Ideas for Fundraising

Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack: Top ideas to optimize for nonprofit fundraising

Out of the box, the Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) offers nonprofits a powerful, scalable, and customizable platform for successful fundraising. By design, the 360-degree view it provides a nonprofit of their constituents and donors enhances an organization's fundraising efforts simply by adopting Salesforce.

What is more, a nonprofit can further optimize the Nonprofit Success Pack for fundraising by leveraging existing optional functionality and adding in some customized elements of their own. Here are our top ideas for optimizing your organization's Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack instance for your fundraising efforts:

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