Welcome to Snowballfunds.com

Have you ever wanted to ask your friends and family for money, but didn't know how to go about doing it? Maybe it's been too long since you've talked, or there are just not enough hours in the day.

The new website Snowballfunds.com makes the process super simple for both you and your donors. It's a one-stop-shop that lets you create a profile and share how long your campaign will last, set benchmarks for donations at various milestones, then send out an easy link to anyone who wants to help out in person!

"Heading tags" don't work for introductions. I'm giving this a 3/10. The headline is decent, though.

What's even better is that the campaign itself becomes a conversation starter. You can share updates with your donors at any point, or answer any questions they may have about your project. Whether you want feedback on the logo for your t-shirt design, or just want to tell people how much closer you got towards your goal this week - it can all be done from one place!

Again, italicize only book titles and lyrics. Also, capitalize "that".

You can even use the site as a photo album to show what progress you've made on the project.

The whole platform is simple, straight forward and built to the user experience. No registration required - just download Snowballfunds.com and get started right away!

Our Vision: To be your one stop for all things fundraisers, we've designed our site to be easy-to-use and user friendly. When you're done helping out a friend or family member in need, you can always write a review or rate us at star-rating system in the upper corner of our site. We are always striving for 5 stars!

So why is there a rating system? Also, I'm noticing some run-on sentences up there. Please fix them.

If you are reading this, we thank you and hope that you enjoyed the site. Stay tuned over the course of the next year as we fine tune and continue to improve Snowballfunds.com to make it the perfect online fundraising experience!

The end! Thank you for putting up with me. As a reward, here's a picture from my second favorite movie ever: "Shreck", staring Christopher Walken as "the devil". (I understand that I stray from traditional grammar with this post. I had to make some sacrifices to keep the blog from being too serious, and as a result, some rules were broken. I hope you enjoyed it anyway!) Please don't hold my grammatical errors against me!

Thanks for reading--and good luck with your own campaigns!

In writing the post I was confronted with dozens of grammatical errors (though some were intentional) and areas that could be improved upon in a crowdfunding campaign's introduction. The editing process made me realize that there are many problems on this site that are not obvious to users who aren't familiar with grammar. I am aware that many sites have been created to help users become more informed about what their pages should say. However, I'm sure most of the people who are interested in doing this are unaware of the various aspects of grammar which could be improved upon. I will try to use this blog post to help others become more informed about how to make their fundraising campaign introductions sound better and more professional. It is not an easy task, but it can be done with a little understanding and effort on our parts. I hope you will enjoy reading about the many grammar mistakes I found on Snowballfunds.com and hope that this article will be helpful.

How to Use Title Case Properly In your first sentence, "[ARTICLE START]", in the very first line, capitalize "First" before it is a noun. It's a pretty easy mistake to make. The correct way to capitalize this phrase would be: "[ARTICLE START]" This is where I will admit that I am not an expert in English grammar and that some parts of what I'm going to say may seem idiotic or silly because of the lack of knowledge I have on this topic. But let me get out my research hat for a second and look up these tips. It looks like the way to write title case properly is to capitalize the first letter of all main words, along with all articles and prepositions. However, it's not as simple as that. In other words, you shouldn't just start hitting the caps lock key and expect a perfect article title. Some say that you should capitalize all nouns but not other parts of speech. In the case of "Welcome to Snowballfunds.com", I'm only going to capitalize "Welcome". Is it correct? Well no, but it doesn't look weird either. Another rule says that if an article or preposition is on a separate line from whatever noun it's intended for then that word should be capitalized. This leads to some pretty long sentences with a lot of capital letters. For example:

I think "that" is the article here. One other thing that I looked up about title case is that if a compound word starts with a lowercase letter then the first word should be capitalized. In other words, even if the first part of the compound doesn't start with an article or preposition, you should capitalize it anyways. An example would be "co-chair". In conclusion about title case, it's not as simple as just hitting caps lock and trying to format an article title (or any other part of speech) properly. I'm sure there are other grammar rules I missed or don't understand right now. And if you know of any, please tell me and I'll add them in later.

How to Properly Capitalize Names If a name is a proper noun then it should be capitalized. This is pretty obvious and there are no problems in this area at all. The only things that can possibly be capitalized are proper nouns. The problem occurs when you're trying to correctly capitalize a proper noun, but in the case of Snowballfunds, there aren't any book titles or songs that actually have proper nouns. Everything in the site is named after something, but they don't start with capital letters.

Conclusion

So there you have it. I hope this has been helpful for you and all of your future grammar issues. Don't forget that we value all feedback, so if you have any comments about this blog post (or grammatical advice) please send us an e-mail or leave a comment on our Facebook wall . Thank you, and I hope to hear from you soon. Disclosure: I don't necessarily believe in the evil of Snowballfunds.com (though it is an immoral venture). On top of that, it's not just one guy running the site--it's a big multidisciplinary team with many different areas being covered.