Do You Have Quick, No Nonsense Set of Directions For Starting Online Fundraising?

If you are the type of person who wants the "short form" and very prescriptive set of directions about how to use Run to Remember to fundraise online, here it is.

1. Click on the "Register Now" button on the RTR website to sign up for the Run to Remember program. It is FREE to sign up!
2. Once you have registered you will receive an email confirming your enrollment in the Run to Remember program. The subject line for this e-mail is usually Registration Confirmation. Then you will receive a another email, confirming that you have established a user account with Active. Its subject line will be Welcome to Active.com. If you get these two e-mails, which you will, everything you need is set. You do not have do anything with either of them.
3. Then you will receive a third e-mail—THE IMPORTANT ONE. Its subject line will be Your Online Fundraising Page Has Been Created. Open this one and log into your personal fundraising page with the user name and password you selected when you registered.
4. Click on the link at the top of the page to customize your fundraising page. It’s easy and fun. When you are finished, save your page and be sure to note its URL. Send out the link to your page to friends and family members and ask them to make a contribution on this personal fundraising page.

There are two ways you can send out this link: 1) simply cut and paste or type out the link to the personal fundraising page into e-mails—whatever e-mail system you use (hotmail, yahoo, outlook, etc.) and send out the link that way, or 2) use the "Invite Others to Contribute" function. The Invite others to Contribute button appears on your personal fundraising page. So, when you click on the "Invite others to Contribute", you fill in e-mail addresses in the spaces provided and the link to your fundraising page will automatically be included with the e-mails.