Step 5: Explore Shareable Templates
Share to Inspire and show Gratitude
Sharing your business’ impacts creates an amazing ripple effect of positive outcomes for your brand, employees, customers and the community.
Explore B1G1’s social media templates and Gratitude Certificates which you can customize in your own branding and share with others too.
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Gratitude Certificates in B1G1 are messages, emails or letters that you can send out to your customers, business partners, employees, your family or whoever else you would like to thank. They can come in any size, shape, or form. Your B1G1 account also includes a Gratitude Certificate creator with templates available for A4 printable certificates.
Watch this really quick video tutorial to get started, or read on for step-by-step instructions.
CREATING A GRATITUDE CERTIFICATE
Note: This feature is only available after you have completed your first giving.
Follow these steps to create your own Gratitude Certificate in your B1G1 account.
1 . Head to your account and click on Share > Gratitude Certificate in the top navigation bar.
2 . Choose one of the four templates to start with by hovering over the template and clicking ' Use Template'
3 . Personalise your Gratitude Certificate by editing the 7 pieces of information. When you're done, click on Save Template.
- Photo - Either upload your own image or use a project image from one of the projects you've given to.
- Title
- Receiver's name
- Main text
- Photo of your signature
- Name and title to accompany the signature
- Your company logo
Tip:Click on each item to edit it. The panel on the right (highlighted in blue) will change as you select a different item to edit.
AFTER EDITING
SHARING YOUR GRATITUDE CERTIFICATES
Now that you have your beautiful Gratitude Certificate created, it's time to share it with the world! You can save your certificate as a PDF file then send share it in any way you like. To do that,
1 . Head to your account and click on Share > Gratitude Certificate in the top navigation bar.
2 . Click on ' My Templates', choose the one you want to share then click ' Edit'.
3 . Click on the red 'View as PDF' button and this will save your certificate automatically as a PDF file.
4 . Send it out!
EXTRAORDINARY EXAMPLES
Don't limit your gratitude to the certificates in your B1G1 account! Share the giving spirit through existing opportunities for communication in your business. Aside from creating gratitude certificates for clients and teams for the special moments, you can also subtly embed moments of gratitude into your regular day-to-day communications, or even into your physical location where your clients can connect with you. It creates a pleasant surprise for your recipient in an unexpected way.
COMMON QUESTIONS
My customer's name or main description text is too long and doesn't fit.
To preserve the aesthetics of the certificate template, there are character limits of 20 characters for the name, and 540 characters for the main text. If you would like to further customize your own certificate, why not try our Canva downloadable templates?
I want to customize it even further. How can I download this template?
While these particular templates are not downloadable, our Canva templates are!
SHARE RIGHT AFTER GIVING
After each giving transaction, you will see a 'Thank You' page highlighting the impact that you made. It's always exciting to be able to share these impacts which you can easily share on social media by clicking the icon of your preferred platform.
It will then redirect as an editable post. Feel free to add more inspiring details in your post! When you're ready simply click the 'Post', 'Tweet' or 'Share' button depending on the platform selected. Here's an example on how it will look like when shared on Twitter:
SHARE YOUR GIVING STORIES
Another great way of showcasing your impacts on social media is by sharing Giving Stories.
Note: Make sure you have already created a giving story.
1 . Head to the Giving Stories tab in your top navigation bar.
2 . Hover over the menu ... of your Giving Story and a few options will show. Then, click on Share.
Here, you will be able to share within the following social media platforms:
COMMON QUESTIONS
Why is the image that appears on the post different from the project I gave to?
Social media posts only allow links to be embedded, and not images. The image that you see is a preview of the B1G1 website. If you would like to change this, you can replace it with an image from our beautiful pool of images made available for you in the Media Kit.
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