Empowering Your Team with a Marketing Bank

by Kivi Leroux Miller on February 16, 2012

in Marketing Team,Nonprofit Communications

Earlier this afternoon, I hosted this month’s free webinar, Helping Your Staff and Board Become Great Nonprofit Marketers. We will add the recording to our Freebies Page this evening if you want to sign up to watch the recording.

During the webinar, I talked a lot about giving other staff members and your board the tools they need to effectively help you, and to feel empowered as marketers for your organization. The central repository for these tools is what I call the Marketing Bank. It’s the place where everyone should know to look for things like logos, boilerplate, FAQs, editorial and design style guides, and more.

I asked the 300 or so webinar attendees what elements were currently in their marketing banks, and here is what they said:

What are you sharing with staff and board

What’s in your Marketing Bank and what else could you add so that you could “delegate” more marketing tasks to program staff and board members with confidence?

 

  • http://twitter.com/karenluttrell Karen Luttrell

    Great post Kivi. I like to have clients build an image bank and a story bank too. These could become elements of your larger marketing bank. The image bank keeps event photographs, speaker headshots, and photos from the non-profits programs all organized in one spot – along with the corresponding permission/release forms. The story bank is where they keep the stories of people helped and profiles of donors and volunteers who shared their reasons for supporting the organization. Theses days your story bank should ideally include video as well as text.

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