"The Humane Society of the United States (
HSUS) worked with
Factor 360 for our 2009 Spay Day Online Pet Photo Contest. Factor360 built the web framework for our system
http://photocontest.humanesociety.org, using their
360 Photo Contest service as a foundation. This was used as an online fundraising tool to support Spay Day – an annual campaign run by The HSUS and Humane Society International to inspire people to save animal lives by spaying or neutering pets and feral cats. The HSUS and HSI were fortunate enough to raise almost $550,000 during this year’s contest – with approximately half of this amount going to the more than 200 local shelters and organizations participating in Spay Day 2009.
This contest was a tremendous success, and Factor 360 did an outstanding job. They were extremely sensitive to the needs of The HSUS and HSI, delivering a product that exceeded our expectations, on time, and within budget. Factor 360 was flexible enough to accommodate changes to our campaign mid-stream, creating a social-networking application that enhanced the effectiveness of our efforts. They were always available if we had any questions or concerns, and helped us manage the most successful Spay Day Photo Contest to date.
Any organization that needs help on a web development project would be lucky to have Factor 360 on their team. We at The HSUS and HSI look forward to a long and productive relationship with Factor 360. "
-Jacquelyn Pyun
Online Producer, Online Communications
The Humane Society of the United States
"Factor 360 built a custom Calendar Contest piece to assist with on-line donations. Site visitors are able to submit photos and vote directly on our site. When the on-line contest was finished, they also provided graphic design talent by completing the calendar layout. The Calendar Contest has become our second largest fundraiser of the year, bringing in over $23,000.
It has been a pleasure working with Factor 360. They listen to customer needs, reach deadline goals and always exceed expectations. They are true professionals and are leading the way in e-marketing. I would highly recommend utilizing their talents to improve your market visibility and increase donations."
-Kori Baade
Executive Director
Sioux Falls Area Humane Society
"The Western PA Humane Society's 2009 on-line calendar contest was a huge hit—we raised over $25,000! We could not have done it without factor360. They made it possible for us to easily accept donations from voters and their software took care of ranking our contestants in real time so we didn't have to invest a lot of time in the project. Factor360's support team was very professional and answered all of my questions along the way! We are looking forward to working with factor360 again next year to raise even more money for our organization."
-Allison Sanders
Director of Development
Western PA Humane Society
"On
behalf of myself and Happy Tales Humane of Franklin, TN., I would like to
express my thanks and complete satisfaction for hosting our 2010 Dog-gone
Purrr-fect Calendar contest. Your organization set up the web site
quickly, the application ran almost flawlessly, you provided exceptional
support (even late into the evening) and the contest was a financial success
for my organization. I have every intention of continuing this business
relationship for future pet calendar contests and am considering in expanding
the relationship into other hosting opportunities.
I
would be pleased to serve as a reference to your other potential clientele."
-Tom
Doyle
Board
Member
Happy Tales Humane
Franklin,
TN.
“Factor360 provided a great
product and amazing support for our first Mutt Strut Poster Pooch photo
contest. Their
software allowed dog owners and
the public to submit photos of their dogs and vote on the photos quickly and
easily
with a user-friendly interface.
Factor360's team provided amazing and courteous support, and whenever we
had a
question, they were quick to
answer. They were very flexible with their product: we discovered some ways to
make the
contest even better, and the
team rapidly responded to and implemented some great new features.
We didn't know what to expect
with the contest - we imagined we might raise a few thousand dollars in entry
and vote
donations. But we ended up
bringing in more than $26,000 to help the homeless animals in our shelter! 281
dogs competed in the contest, hundreds of people voted, and we're confident
next year will be an even bigger success. We highly recommend Factor360's skilled,
professional and passionate team.”
-Tristan Schmid
Communications and
Marketing Manager
Humane Society of Indianapolis
"It’s our pleasure to recommend the services of factor360.com and acknowledge the professional services provided by their staff.
Our bulldog rescue program made successful use of factor360.com web host services for our 2010 Ador-A-Bulldog calendar contest during the fall of 2009.
Our Ador-A-Bulldog calendar contest was a nation wide contest, where contestants submitted their favorite pet bulldog photo and votes were cast by the public to help select the winning bulldogs selected for our fundraiser calendar.
We feel that factor360.com was instrumental in helping our rescue collect and kept tract 1,000 photo submissions submitted on-line, the recording of all photograph submissions and recording votes, which helped us reach our fund raising goals for the project in our planned time frame. With the help of their services, we are on schedule to print 3,000 calendars to be sold to support rescue and given as gifts to supporters.
There were several volunteers with in our rescue program put in charge of managing the contest and all found that working with 360.com staff to be a pleasure. The staff was both professional and fast to reply to any questions or problems that arose during the submission periods. There were minimal problems all with the website contest, and those that did arise were resolved in less than a day and sometimes in just a couple minutes.
We are already planning our contest for the 2011 and will be keeping in touch with factor360.com for their services.
Respectfully
Skip Van Der Marliere - Southern California Bulldog Rescue
Kara Gordon - Heavensent Bulldog Rescue
Karen Farrish - Love-a-Bul Bulldog Rescue