Can anyone recommend any website developers who can build cheap, effective websites for fundraising and campaigns?

• Try http://www.ultimateweb.co.uk/ I've used them before to take my design on-line
• It would be worth dropping Frieze Design a quick email. They look after the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group website (among other charity sites) and would be able to give you a practical steer on the project for sure. enquiries@friezedesign.co.uk
•   http://tiger-fish.com/ would be worth checking out - we've worked with them on a few charity sites and they are really cost-effective.
• Take a look at http://wemakejam.org - a new Nominet-funded model for building highly cost-effective, audience focussed websites. I've just commissioned them on behalf of one of my clients - specifically to answer the brief to develop a website that delivers effective campaigns and supports fundraising. Good luck with your search...

Can anyone recommend an Online Voting System for Associations?

• Thomas Quinton of Halarose will sort you out with one -            01491 682 120       sales@halarose.co.uk Please let him know that I passed his details to you! Good luck.
• Have just used Ballotbin for an election. It's free, anonymous and you can send unique voting links. Obviously as it is free it lacks bells and whistles.
• I've used surveymonkey.com before. We then used

I'm looking for an online database solution. Please help

We are looking for an online database solution that is a little out of the box. We have a very large database of corporate sponsorship (people who provide sponsorship to the nfp sector) that we want our clients to be able to access via an online password protected portal. We would our clients to be able to: 

Automated texts

I am looking for recommendations (NOT sales stuff!) for solutions that send automated text reminders 

My client would only be looking at txt reminders for their service for current customers and we would be looking at fairly monthly volumes.

If anyone has any experiences they would like to share, good or bad, I'd be happy to hear it.

RECOMMENDATION - Try putting them in touch with Kate Mayfield at 70 Fathoms - she's an objective independent consultant on AMS (automated marketing systems) who many of my clients have trusted before.

How effective is telemarketing?

If you're using / have used telemarketing services, can you share your experience? 

Would you recommend it?

If used correctly. in my opinion it is definitely the most efficient way to run your business. We use it as the main source of marketing in our business and in the real world, you can sense that different people, in different positions of a company, react differently to it.  I thought this eGuide might be useful to you on The Death of Telemarketing: http://www.tomorrow-people.com/the-death-of-telemarketing

• Thanks Alistair for the eGuide, it was very useful. 
• thanks, I also had a look - very interesting! 

Email marketing systems - any advice or suggestions?

We use an eCommerce system to drive our websites. Like most such systems it has limited CRM and email capability. We want to plug an email marketing system into the eCommerce system to handle automated emails (e.g. open basket reactivation) and batched emails (e.g. seasonal offers), using customer data and email addresses from within the eCommerce system.

Does anyone have any recommendations of any email systems they have used? How easy was integration with the eCommerce system? Why are you a fan of your solution? 

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Company to verify B2B records

Can anyone recommend a company to cleanse and verify about 1.5k b2b records? My client is Cambs / Beds based and would rather use a local supplier but this is not essential. Many thanks.

·        Have you tried the guys over at BlueSheep?