Making a Referral

It is not often that you can recommend one client to all the rest of your clients, and all your prospects, and all your blog readers and all your newsletter recipients. But, we have that privilege at Dog Star Media. This month, we are formulating some new strategies for a client we have had from some of their earliest days: School Spirit Pays. While we are known for our work in the cosmetic surgery and cosmetic dental markets, Dog Star also has clients in other fields. In the case of School Spirit Pays, we are working with a company that is one of the most rapidly developing companies in credit card processing. But that is not what makes School Spirit Pays different.School Spirit Pays is different because the company is built as a living tribute to two educators who gave freely all their lives to their students and, who died tragically aboard American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001. The founders of School Spirit Pays thus committed to finding a way to benefit local public schools on a mass scale as recognition and tribute to the impact teachers make in all our lives. You see, the teachers who perished in the 9/11 tragedy were their parents. So a company was formed with the sole purpose of creating a new income source for schools. Someone had to give to make it happen and School Spirit Pays was built to make that gift.How do they do it? School Spirit Pays processes credit cards, which generates fees. Partnering with local school foundations, School Spirit Pays donates 25% of their portion of the processing fee to local schools. School Spirit Pays matches your current rates, so you or your customers do not feel the donation. School Spirit Pays makes the donation. It’s what why they do what they do.So, if you are a business processing your credit cards with School Spirit Pays, you can designate where your contribution goes. So, let’s say you are dentist who processes $1M/year in credit cards. You can designate the approximately $2100 you will generate in a School Spirit Pays donation to your child’s local school. A surgical practice processing $3M/year can create a donation of about $6300/year. Sound like an easier way to help than selling Christmas wrapping paper, peanut brittle or raffle tickets to support the school fundraising? It is. Now just think what could be done if many local businesses used School Spirit Pays…We are proud to be on the marketing team for School Spirit Pays. Watch their web site and blog to see the impact of our work for them in the coming months. And, think about this: every charge payment you collect now can be helping your local schools but they are not. Contact us or School Spirit Pays directly to change all that.