In this edition:

Forms due
Managing your Money
Email Marketing
Get Creative
Event Guides
Pay Pal

Forms due to the home office:

Sponsorship Contracts

Lake Rental Agreements

Print out your Event Contract Spreadsheet and send in the post dated checks for the marketing fee, insurance, and bow insurance.

Managing your money

We are in a time of financial difficulty, it will be very important that you manage your money this summer and use Mr. Judge and the budge form to balance your budge.

What to do if you get in financial trouble this summer:

- Call us right after the event and lets discuss how you can save money or earn more money.

- Make payment plans

- Cut out things that aren’t necessary

Email Marketing

Have you sent out your event schedule and a note to your participants? Every time we send out an email, we receive Membership payments and “click throughs” to our website.

Are any of your sponsors having sales or specials? Show them what their sponsorship money is paying for.

Have you emphasized the importance of using the INT email marketing plan? Your Gold sponsors receive 6 email marketing campaigns per season. Send your sponsors a quick email about our email marketing program. Email marketing is an innovative and inexpensive way to reach directly into the home and offices of potential customers.

Email Marketing Request Form

Get Creative

We are a grassroots organization, lets think out of the box this season to bring in new recreational skiers and riders. Have an idea, please email us and we’ll share it with the other state coordinators.

- Contact local ski clubs and ask them to send out your schedule

- Add all ski clubs, collegiate teams, potential sponsors, local dealers, facebook friends, etc to your email database.

- Contact local snow ski clubs and shops, send them your schedule and partner with them.

- Contact other local activity groups, add them to your email database, and send them your schedule.

Event Guides

Hopefully you have all taken a look at the event guide templates and tried them out. I also put a local sponsorship proposal online to work with the 4 page event guide. Please check out www.intleague.com/i for event guide and sponsorship proposal information. You are required to use these template pages this year.

Pay Pal

Please let me know when you pay pal page is complete and I will add the link to this page: http://www.intleague.com/event-registration/

This way people will be able to access your registration straight from the INT home page.

- Boat shows

- Spreading fliers, posters and events guides all over

- Using your sponsors email database

- Send out email marketing

- Contact local ski/wakeboard clubs and collegiate teams

Sponsorship - If you are having trouble selling sponsorship call Rick

- “Now is the time to keep your business in the spotlight”

US Championships- Push for participation.

- Include USC in your event schedule

Website

- Word Press Dashboard www.intleague.com/wp-admin

- Resources pages www.intleague.com/i (there is a link to this from the dashboard for your convenience)

- If you are not familiar with these things, you should be.

Newsletters- We can tell when you don’t read them

- We put the information you NEED to know in there so that you don’t have to scroll through dozens of emails

- Easy links to all the things you need to take care of

Forms- Will all be posted online at www.intleague.com/i

2009 Marketing Fees will be enforced

Mr. Judge- If you have not downloaded it, wait one more week. Jon has a few more changes. A new Mr. Judge Handbook is coming out soon.

Insurance Payments- Due Date is 30 days prior to the event. Check date the 1st of the month.

- If your event is in May, your check date will need to be April 1st. All checks need to be dated for the 1st. This will make INT’s banking much simpler.

- If your event is July 25 & 26, then the check needs to be dated June 1st.

- INT cannot float you the money this year, if you’re checks are not in, you will not be having an event.

Get your pay pal done- This way you will have cash flow to send in your insurance and marketing fee checks.

Last Chance for making changes to the rule book. We are going to PRINT on March 1st.

Confused about the event guide… stay up to date online

Pay pal has some cool new tools available this year. Get your banking information together and spend an hour or so putting together your account. It takes 3-5 business days before you can actually add “buy now” buttons to your website, so give yourself enough time before you want to accept online payments. It is really not as hard as you may think, it is as simple as following the set up steps. Unfortunately this is not something we can do for you, but we promise it will increase your participation and cash flow this summer.

This is mandatory for this year! So please do it early and call the office for help.

1. Go to www.paypal.com
2. New to Pay Pal -Sign Up
3. Select Business Account
4. Website Payments Standard
5. Follow the steps

Standard Payments

Onsite and Pre-Reg Options
What we do in Washington is create two word press pages for online . One with Pre-Reg Prices and one with On-site prices. We Post the pre-reg page until the week before the event, then unpublished it and publish the On-site reg page. This way we get our extra $10 bucks from people who don’t sign up early. If you don’t remember how to set up a new word press page, give us a call and we’ll walk you through the steps.

How to Write the Pay Pal Code

1. Open a “Notepad” document on your computer. Typically found under Accessories on the Start menu.

We use notepad because it is an easy place to keep the code organized and doesn’t add any unnecessary formatting. Type in the headings you want. See Notepad image below.

2. Log-in to Word Press and open you “Event Registration Page”

3. Log-in to your pay pal business account: Once you start this process, it is time sensitive. You must have everything is order.

* Click on the images to make them bigger

Select the tab at the top for Merchant Services
Select the Add to Cart Button

1. You can do it a few different ways ( less work)

i.      Title the Button “Event Registration”
ii.      Title the text field “Stop #”

1. Or you can do a drop down menu for each stop ( more work, but you’ll get more information)

i.      Title the Button ” Stop 1 - Winlock waters
ii.      Title the text field “Name” or “Division”

Look at the Washington Event Registration Page as another example of how to set up your payments.

Follow steps 1-3 (You can skip step 2)

After Cancellation: http://www.intleague.com

After Successful Transaction: http://www.intleague.com/thank-you/

At the bottom select, create button, or save changes.

Creating the Code

It will take you to a window with code in it.
Select and copy the code.

Go over to your notepad document and paste the code.

NotePad

Once you have all the code and headings in place. Save this note pad document.

Go to your “Event Registration” page in word press.
On your event registration page, select the html tab. You never want to work on the “Visual” tab.
Copy the text from your Notepad, and paste it in html text box.
You can link the first steps to the survey and the membership page using the “link” tool.

Then push save.

Your word press “Event Registration” page may not be published yet, be sure to set the Publish Status to Publish.

Your done!

Rope and Handles Request: Due Feb. 10th
State Coordinator Form: Due Feb. 15th if you want your schedule in the Rule Book

In this Issue

1. State Coordinator Event Contract
2. INT Insider
3. Event Guides
4. Rope and Handles from Straightline
5. 2008 Partner Report
6. How to put together a great tour team
7. Mr. Judge
8. Banners
9. Updates Website Directions
10. Proud Sponsor of the INT League
11. Other Stuff

State Coordinator Event Contract

Type in date: 1-3-09 the date will automatically format

This is simple, please send it back as soon as possible. We need your schedule for the Rule Book by Feb. 15th.

INT Insider

Going to print March 1st. Please make sure you schedule is in! It will feature articles, state coordinator contact info, a reg. form, scholarship info, contest info, etc. So that you won’t have to have all that in your event guide.

Event Guides

We have put together an 11×17 Event Guide (4 pages). There is space for your schedule and sponsor ads. This will be something that you can slide into the INT Insider. If you need more pages for local sponsor ads, we will send you the template for an additional 4 pages. We are doing this to make it easier for coordinators and streamline our marketing material. Look for that on the forms directory this month.

Contact Rob about putting your event guide online at rob@studio8productions.net. He can also help you formulate sponsors ads for a fee.

Ropes and Handles from Straightline

Look at the Matrix of product you received last year, check what product you have and what you need. We don’t want to abuse our sponsorship, so if your ropes and handles are in good shape, please use them for another season. If not, let me know and I’ll get you what you need. Email me what you need for 2009, must be completed by February 10th!

Please Read: 2008 Partner Report!

This report went out to all of our National Sponsors. We published this report because we want them to know how hard you are working for them. No slacking this season! They will be working with you on a grassroots level and taking full advantage of their sponsorship. Make sure your website it up to date, your banners are up and straight, and you are playing the PA announcements (new announcements for 09 coming soon).

How to Put Together a Great Tour Team

1. Some states offer a discount on skiing and riding, others offer one free division.

2. Have a preseason meeting, even if it is just the Friday before your first event.

3. Make “Tour Team” t-shirts. Some states create a special shirt. Last year in Washington, I went to office depot and got some special paper. I printed out “Tour Team” and ironed them onto our existing INT shirts. This is a really inexpensive option that makes people feel good, and is pretty easy.

4. Hand out the tour team packet so that your expectations are clear. Tour Team Packet

5. We often do practice for the tour team on Fridays before the event, free of charge, after set up is complete. Then…if we have time, we pull practice for the participants and charge them.

6. We often take our tour team out for pizza or Mexican on Sunday after tear down.

BEWARE: Only do these things if you have it in the budget. Don’t stretch yourself thin just to please your team. You can often reward them with positive praise and that will be enough. Managing volunteers can be a tough job, set up clear expectations and be gentle with people and they will work hard for you.

Tips on Managing Volunteers:

- Target Volunteers. The most effective style of volunteer recruitment is “targeted recruitment.” This method is based on identifying a needed volunteer job and then targeting an individual or group(s) of individuals who should have the skills or interests necessary to fulfill the job’s responsibilities.

- Encourage a team approach. Many hands make light work.

- Train your volunteers. Take the time to explain to them exactly what you are looking for. Be especially clear when training your wakeboard judges and recorders. Take your drivers out and show them exactly what path you want them to take. Explain to the dock starter and registration person what you would like to have them do. This is why it is great to have a pre-season meeting. You will have less problems if your expectations are clear.

-Understand why your tour team works hard for you. Unlike paid staff, volunteers are not dependent upon the organization for pay, and in fact are not motivated by pay. Their sources of motivation are often different from paid staff, they gain different benefits. All supervisors need to understand the dynamics of working with unpaid staff, and understand why volunteers donate their time and talents to the work of the organization. The Independent Sector (1997) lists eight primary reasons given by adults in the United States for their volunteer service:

* A chance to make a difference
* A chance to use a skill or talent
* To develop professional experience or contacts
* A way to express a religious faith
* An avenue to a more balanced life
* An opportunity to give something back
* An opportunity to meet new people
* An opportunity for personal growth and self-esteem

- Be delicate when dealing with problem tour team members. “Eckles, Carmichael, and Sarchet (1983) recommend a first warning that clearly communicates the consequences of a second incident. If a second incident occurs, disciplinary action should be immediate, consistent, and impersonal… Releasing a volunteer from a position is one of the most difficult tasks in volunteer administration. To prevent negative and unfortunate situations from developing, it is necessary to have a sound system of recruitment, screening, selection, orientation, training, placement and supervision.” (Fisher and Cole, 1993)

- Delegation. Volunteers are motivated when given encouragement from coordinators and delegated responsibility with authority. Delegation is defined as empowering one person to act for another, which is how we enable volunteers to do their work. Delegation is one of the most critical elements in the management of nearly all organizations and programmes. When delegation is successful all members in the group are involved in activities.

-Proper placement is a key to productive volunteers. Place volunteers in jobs they want to do and are good at. Be sure to give them breaks, and time to get realy before them compete.

Volunteers remain active and engaged when they:

* Feel appreciated
* See their presence makes a difference
* Have opportunities for personal growth
* Receive public/private recognition
* Have a sense of belonging and teamwork
* Are involved in problem solving, decision-making, etc.
* Feel capable of handling the tasks
* See that something is happening
* Feel their personal needs are being met

Volunteers lose interest and leave when they:

* Find discrepancies between expectations and reality
* Do not feel they are making a difference
* Do not receive praise or reward
* Have no variety and the work is too routine
* Lack support from co-workers
* Do not have opportunities for personal growth
* Are not meeting personal needs
* Believe there is little opportunity for initiative or creativity
* Experience tension among co-workers

More Information on Managing Volunteers

Mr. Judge is Now Available for Download

Download this early, test it out!

You should be entering all of you Sponsorship Sales and Lake Rental Agreements. You can also put in your prospect list from the Boat Shows.

Banners

Go through your banners and find out what additional banners you need. We will contact the national sponsors and have them shipped to you. Required Banners

Website Directions

Seriously, the website is SO easy to keep updated. You can do it from anywhere you have web access. Take the time to do it! I updated the website directions and included pictures. If you have a question, it is probably answered in the directions. YOU CAN DO IT!

Proud Sponsor of the INT League

Rob put together some awesome logos that your sponsors can use in their marketing material and websites. You may wish to share this with them when you are signing your 09 sponsors. Take a look…

Other Stuff

I have not made this into a PDF…If you would like it on a word doc. just copy the text to word. (ctrl A, ctrl C, go to word doc., ctrl V)

Not one of you has contacted me for help with Paypal! Coooome On!

Thanks, Jac

-Rick Stocks

January Marketing Tip: How to Get More Email Addresses at the Boat Show

Get more names at the boat show by giving away a free entry fee or seasons pass. People are more likely to sign up if they think that they could get something for free. This way you will get a new member and they will probably bring friends and family to compete as well.
Online Drawing

We can set up a sign up form on your website if you would like to do an online drawing for a free entry fee or season’s pass. Your sponsors may also be interested in donating product to give away to help grow your numbers and advertise for their company.

Wakeboard Division Chart

We are still in the process of clarifying our wakeboard rules, but I wanted to get some feedback on the wakeboard chart that Kathy and I have been working on.

If you think it needs something else, let me know. It is meant to be a quick reference guide like the one we have for slalom. It is not finished yet and there are something that the committee needs to finalize so please don’t forward it on to any. Once it is complete we will post it on the website.

Thanks, Nanette Stocks

Website

Be sure to go onto your site on your Event Schedule page and either change it to your new schedule or add “2009 Schedule coming soon…” If you want to leave the 2008 schedule that is fine, it give people an idea about where the events might be held.

We’ve noticed that many of our state home pages do not have a nice opening paragraph that explains what your state tour is all about. Now is an especially important time to tell your sponsors and potential participants about your events.  You may wish to say something like:
Welcome to Washington INT League

We offer divisions for all ages and abilities, fun for the entire family, awards and door prizes, camping, potluck dinners and good times with new and old friends. Come and play all weekend with the INT Amateur Tour.
Review Website Directions

Get your pal pal account set up NOW

Pay pal has some cool new tools available this year. Get your banking information together and spend an hour or so putting together your account. It takes 3-5 business days before you can actually add “buy now” buttons to your website, so give yourself enough time before you want to accept online payments. It is really not as hard as you may think, it is as simple as following the set up steps. Unfortunately this is not something we can do for you, but we promise it will increase your participation and cash flow this summer.

This is mandatory for this year! So please do it early and call the office for help.

1. Go to www.paypal.com
2. New to Pay Pal -Sign Up
3. Select Business Account
4. Website Payments Standard
5. Follow the steps

Onsite and Pre-Reg Options
What we do in Washington is create two word press pages for online . One with Pre-Reg Prices and one with On-site prices. We Post the pre-reg page until the week before the event, then unpublished it and publish the On-site reg page. This way we get our extra $10 bucks from people who don’t sign up early. If you don’t remember how to set up a new word press page, give us a call and we’ll walk you through the steps.

Another option: checkout.google.com/

The 411 on Wireless PA
by Craig Phillips

Here is the 411 on wireless PA: Set up your announcer just like always with mic and music. The signal goes from your MIXER (line level NOT speaker level) > wireless transmitter which sends the signal across the lake > wireless receiver>compressor>amplifier>speakers. The pieces are simple and cheap. <http://www.nadypro.com/pd_encore_ii1.cfm> for the transmitter. Be sure you get the “instrument” version.

The compressor I use is <http://www.samedaymusic.com/product–JOETHREEQ> It goes between the receiver and your amp. It lets you balance the signal level for better sound and most importantly protects your amp and speakers from bad juju signals which blow them up. Another good compressor is <http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Behringer-AUTOCOM-PROXL-MDX1600-Compressor?sku=182472>

I have had best luck putting 6 speakers in the back of an enclosed cargo trailer and aiming it at the shoreline. Your announcer will run into some latency which is the measure of time delay from the time a voice speaks into the mic until the sound is heard. Kind of like an echo. Get used to it, it is not correctable. If you have speakers across the lake and speakers near the announcer this will be very obvious at which point a digital delay unit is required. Simple answer is to just use speakers on one side of the lake. Good luck. Give me a call if you need more. 253-732-8423
Boat Show POP

How to Get Your POPs for the Boat Show

We are doing our best to cut cost for every one and one of the ways that we thought would save us both time and money would be to send you each the boat show file.

1. Send the text of what you want on the boat show poster to Nanette and she will place the information on the poster for you.

2. She will send it back to you and you can have it printed at your local office depot.

3. If you need more tablets, let us know and we will mail you some.

The size would be 11x 17 so the cost shouldn’t be very much. You can print as many as you need and they will look professional.  We have 3 main goals with this poster. We wanted to keep it simple, give basic information and drive people to our website.
Video for Boat Show

We are shipping out the US Championships video to use as a tool to sell sponsorship and at the boat shows. Unfortunately we were not really happy with it, but it will work for now. We are also sending a copy of the video that the young man from Japan made.  It is a must see. He sent the dvd  to “A very handsome Mr. Rick!” It is funny and shows just how much fun everyone has at that event. You should have those in the next week or so.

To Do List for January and February

January

- Set up tentative schedule for magazines and send it to INT ASAP so it can be printed in waterski and wakeboard magazine, wakeworld, etc.

- Send Jac the schedule to be put on the INT Website Calender.

- Start communicating with your sponsors and potential sponsors. Get sponsorship contracts signed and post their information on the webpage. See the resources page for 2009 local sponsorship contracts.

- Prepare marketing materials for the boat shows, i.e. posters, address cards and boxes.

- Email notices - Email your participants with Boat Show and Sponsor Information

- Keep the website updated with Boat show information and schedule information.

- Email Jac new sponsor logos to put on the left bar of your state pages. Please also send web addresses, so that the logos can be linked.

February (Boat Show Season)

- Finalize event schedule and lakes

- Contact your sponsors to find out what their booth space will be at the boat show, post that information on your website

-  Email your participants and post on your web page the boat show information, and sponsors booth space numbers.

- Email your tentative schedule to your participants.

- Attend boat shows and visit sponsors

- Set up your Pay Pal Account

Lake Contracts

Now it is time to track down all your lake owners or city/state municipality and get that lake contract signed. It is mandatory that you send a contract to the home office for each event, if you do not INT has the right to cancel the event. As we always say, “A hand shake is not a hand shake anymore.” So get everything is writing. Be explicit about all expectations including porta-potties, dogs on site, camping, rental fee, dates, etc. The contracts and instructions are in your handbook and on the resources website.

Hospitals

It is the middle of winter. Now is a good time to spend some time on the Internet gathering directions from your sites to the nearest hospital. Put these in your portable file box for the summer.

More Winter Reminders

- Your last stop must be before September 1st or Labor Day weekend. Keep this in mind when you are putting together your schedule.

- Talk to your neighboring states about Sponsorship prices, if you want to raise prices, be sure you let other states know so they can do the same.

- Let INT know if you are not getting the dealer support you need so they can speak with the manufactures.

- Contact your local clubs and ask them to put your schedule on their website and in their newsletters.

- Contact your local collegiate teams, ask the captain to forward your schedule onto the rest of the team.

Mr. Judge Prospect List

As you are collecting prospect competitor information at boat shows, etc., be sure to enter that information into Mr. Judge in the prospect section. Enter email addresses so that you can email them information about your events. The home office needs email addresses to send out national messages. If one of the prospects comes to the event, it is easy to just transfer their information into the registration form in Mr. Judge.

To get onto World Press and the back side of the webpages:

http://www.intleague.com/wp-admin
Username: state
Password: we will email these to you

Pay Pal Directions

To Edit Your State WebPages:

Manage Your Pages Drop Down Menu - Select Your State

Click on the title of the page you wish you edit

You will only have access to edit the pages for your state.

Type the information you want into the text box called Page Content.
* Never change the title of your pages

Use the tools on the top on the Text Box, as you scroll your mouse over them, they will reveal their function
* You may not be able to see all of your tools if you don’t have the “kitchen sink” button clicked. It is the button on the far right on the tool bar.

Click on this image to see it full size:

Copying from Word or Plain text box:

On the right hand side of the text box there is a tool called “Advanced Tool Bar or Kitchen Sink”
Click that button.
A secondary tool bar will appear
Use the “Paste from Word” button (W).

We recommend you copy everything into Notebook and then into the website. Copying from Word adds weird code to our website.

Copying from a webpage, or any other text:

On the right hand side of the text box there is a tool called “Advanced Tool Bar or Kitchen Sink”, click that button.
A secondary tool bar will appear
Use the “Paste as Plain Text” button (T).

Change the font style and size: Use the “Format” drop down menu
For most text use the Paragraph function - white font
For most headings use Heading 4 - Orange and bigger font

Creating New Pages

Write
Pages
Create a new page
Title it - Make sure you are consistant with the other state. You can see the list of pages you are suppose to have by looking at the Washington site.
On the right hand side of the page, click the Published button under Page Status
Page Parent- Select Your State
Page Template- States
Page Author- Select Your State
Page Order- Home:0
Getting Started:1
Event Schedule: 2
Stop Standings: 3
Tour Standings:4
Sponsors:5
Information:6
Photos: 7
Newsletter: 8
Past Events: 9
Contact Us: 10
etc…

Upload a Picture:

Above the text box there is a Add Media button.
Select Add an Image
Browse for the picture or logo on your computer that you want on your website.
Do Not Title the images.
Select Full Size or Medium depending on what you want.
Then Send to Editor. The image will appear in the text box.

If you want to delete an image, you can select it and delete it. But be sure to go back into the Media Gallery and delete the file from the INT server.

Linking words or pictures to a website:

Highlight the words or image you wish to hyperlink. Click the button on the tool bar that looks like a chain.
That will bring up a screen where you can enter the complete web address.
Select Open in a New Window, and title the page you wish to link to. Insert.

If you are copying and pasting links, check to make sure that they work and are correct.

To undo a hyperlink, highlight the words or image and click the button next to the chain that looks like a broken chain.

News Flash:

A news flash appears on each of the pages on the upper left hand side. If you would like to announce an event or something on the national pages, we can put that up for you.

Editing Shortcut:

As long as you are logged into World Press, a button will appear on the bottom of each of your pages that says Edit This Entry. If you click that it will take you to work press where you can quickly edit the page and save.

Page Content

We want to be as consistent as possible in our placement of information. Please put the appropriate content on the page designed for that particular information.

Home Page:

Introduction
Sponsor News
Upcoming Events
Boat Show Information

Event Schedule:

You can copy the table from the old website right into the event schedule text box.
Or you can format the schedule in the following format

Stop #
Date:
Site:
Address/ Directions:
Registration Start Time:
Wakeboard Registration Start Time:
Event Start:
Other Details:

Information:

Please include information about:
Registration Fees
Membership required for participation. Get your membership today online! Or mail in your a membership registration form.
INT Membership $50
After purchasing 2 regular memberships, immediate family members can purchase membership for less! $25
Non Competitive Memberships $25
Collegiate Membership INT (With a valid college student ID card. $40

Pro Divisions
INT will offer the new Pro Divisions at all tour stops this season.

Equipment
Bring your ski and/or board, vest, we will provide the boat, rope, handle and hot coffee in the morning.

Camping
All sites have primitive camping. No camping available at Greenlake. All other events, campers are welcome Friday evenings.

Potluck
Saturday Night BBQ/Potluck and Bon Fire. Bring a side dish to share and we’ll bring the big wood burning BBQ.

Getting Started: This page has been done for you. Feel free to add to it, but please lets just leave it alone for now. If you have a better idea please let us know.

Sponsors:

Your sponsors should be listed in alphabetical order, or in order of Sponsorship Level, ex: Gold, Silver, Bronze. You should include their Name, Web Address, Phone Number, and Physical address.

Write a short description of each sponsor, include the products that they offer.

Logos- Email Jac the company logo and the logo can be formatted into a white box to be put on your state pages.

Newsletter:

This section is reserved for a subscriber form

Tips

- Remember Most people only click 3 times while in a website, so be short and concise. Make sure the content is easy to read and understand.
- Don’t be too wordy
- Pages should be kept to an average screen size, people don’t always scroll down they leave the page

Spacing

Having problems with too much space between your lines? Try holding the shift key while you hit enter. This will single space your lines.

How to put your Local Sponsors Logos on the Left -

Create New Page- Name it: Kansas Sponsors

Make sure these setting are correct:

Published

Template - Sponsors

Author- Kansas

Parent- Main (no parent)

Then you can upload your sponsor logos and they will appear on the left of all of your pages.

Putting the Logos in a Box

A white box is attached, use a graphic editor to import your logos into the template, save and put them on the website. We use Macromedia Fireworks, you can download a free trial of that or you can use Photoshop.

If you are using Fireworks: Open the template in Fireworks.
Select File, Import, Browse and find the sponsor logo, Open.
Put your curser in the box and hold right click on your mouse, and drag the image until it is the right size.
You can use your arrows to center the image.
When it looks right. File, Save as- Save the new image.
File, Export. Rename sponsorname.gif. And your done.
Now all you have to do it upload it to the website. - See the directions below

If you are not savy with graphic editing, send Jac sponsor logos and she will format them for you.

Misbehaving Fonts and Colors

To get the text to behave after it starts changing fonts and colors on you , you can copy and cut the entire body of text (or the portion that is misbehaving plus a few lines above it), and paste it into the program called “notepad,” to clean it up. Notepad takes the formatting out of the text. Then recopy and paste it back into your body of text. You’ll have to redo a few formatting things like bold and italics.  The formatting code is usually above the text so you have to cut text far enough back to get that code.

Sponsor Logos on Sponsor Page and Text

To get the text to line up next to the image, click on the existing image and then click the “right align” button usually used for aligning text. After I clicked “right align” the text wrapped around the image. Then I clicked “left align” to get the image to line up, back on the left side.

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