In this issue:

• QAS Improves Fundraising...
  at the University of British Columbia
• FREE Webinar:
  Optimize the Effectiveness of Your School’s Self-Service Application with Address Verification
• Attention Batch Customers!
  Mandatory Software Update to Accommodate New USPS® CASS™ Standards
• Improve Your Marketing Communications:
  QAS Featured in University Business Magazine
• QAS Quiz!
  Win a Sirius Satellite Radio and Three-Month Subscription

QAS Improves Fundraising at the University of British Columbia

The UBC Annual Giving Phone Program was having trouble with consistency and accuracy of the addresses taken over the phone by student workers. Incorrect addresses led to wasted mailings and hampered the ability of students to find missing alumni using their tracer program.

To solve these problems, UBC adopted QuickAddress Pro, which validates addresses against official Canada Post and U.S. Postal Service® data in real time to use with their RuffaloCODY CAMPUSCALL™ phone automation software.

"Having accurate addresses is critical to our mailings," John Foster, Development Officer with Annual Giving, said. "Every department that sends out a piece to an alum benefits from the quality of addresses Phone Programs is producing with the help of QAS."

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Webinar: Optimize the Effectiveness of Your School’s Self-Service Application with Address Verification

How accurate is the address information entered through your self-service portal? Have you hesitated to deploy a student or alumni self-service application for fear of compromised address data? You may not be able to control how address data is provided but you can correct it before it reaches your database!

Register for our FREE webinar and learn how Northern Michigan University is ensuring address quality.

Hear Brian Larson of NMU talk about his experiences using address verification to validate and standardize address information entered by students via NMU’s Banner self-service portal. Brian will also discuss how NMU leverages QuickAddress to enhance operations in the alumni and admissions department.

Webinar details:

Date:		Tuesday, April 17th
Time:		2:00pm ET (11:00am PT)
Duration:		60 minutes

We hope you will join us!

Register now

Attention Batch Customers! Mandatory Software Update to Accommodate New USPS® CASS™ Standards

The annual CASS™ certification cycle is coming up and the USPS® is implementing new rules for assigning a ZIP + 4® in order to qualify for postal automation discounts.

For the new cycle, addresses must be confirmed through the use of Delivery Point Validation (DPV™) before a ZIP + 4 can be appended. Only addresses that include the ZIP + 4 will be eligible for postal automation discounts.

QAS will ship the product with the new functionality in May 2007 and you must install it by the end of June 2007. Please contact your QAS Account Manager with any questions.

For product assistance, please visit our support site

Improve Your Marketing Communications: QAS Featured in University Business Magazine

QAS' new Chief Operating Officer, Joel Curry, was recently featured in University Business Magazine.

Curry's article, "Simple Yet Sophisticated Strategies for Achieving Full Lifetime Value from Your Alumni," explores issues faced by alumni relations offices nationwide. Universities struggle to keep in contact with alumni because of incorrect addresses, which often leads to lost mail and broken relationships.

Curry notes, "Lost letters equal lower response rates, which is a key factor in determining the success of your campaign." In an effort to reduce lost alumni communications, Curry suggests the implementation of a self-service portal on alumni websites along with record cleaning and user-friendly address data entry software.

Read the full article

QAS Quiz: Win a Sirius Satellite Radio and Three-Month Subscription

If you're tasked with cleaning and de-duplicating an existing database, which combination of QAS products should you consider?

1. Pro and Names
2. Names and matchIT
3. Batch and Pro
4. Batch and matchIT

The first person to email us the correct answer will win a Sirius satellite radio and a three-month subscription!

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