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Posted by Kivi Leroux Miller on Dec 23, 2008 in
Online Courses
If you’ve been pondering an All-Access Pass to Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com, you only have 8 days left to get 16 weeks instead of the usual 12. Sign up for the pass now and you can attend live or watch recordings of all of these upcoming webinars in 2009 (a al carte registration for the first four webinars in January is now open too):
Email Newsletter Essentials for Nonprofits - From Start to Finish
How to Write a 4-Page Annual Report: The Crash Course Webinar
How to Position Your Nonprofit as an Expert Source
Friendraising: The Easy Way to Introduce Your Board Members to Fundraising
How to Write a Good Elevator Pitch
Online Marketing Basics: From Email to Social Media
Blogging for Nonprofits: Tips, Traps, and Tales
Creating Online Evangelists: How to Excite and Motivate Your Supporters (Featuring John Kenyon)
Getting the Media Interested in Covering You and Your Cause (Featuring Claire Meyerhoff)
Parties with a Purpose: Putting the Fun Back into Fundraising (Featuring Gail Perry and Claire Meyerhoff)
Best Practices in Nonprofit Communications
Nonprofit Marketing with Next to No Budget
Taking the Fear Out of Fundraising for You and Your Board (Featuring Gail Perry)
Storytelling for Nonprofits
Boasting Without Bravado: How to Share Your Success Stories
Get your All-Access Pass now (16 weeks = $97; Full Year = $330)
Tags: webinars
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The Nonprofit Marketing Guide weekly webinar series is continuing this fall, with some great new topics and a few encores of popular topics from earlier this year. As always, registration for each webinar is $35, which includes everyone in your office who can fit around one speakerphone and computer monitor.
Even better — get the All-Access Pass for just $97 and you can attend all of these sessions at no additional charge. It’s the recession-proof way to get the training you need so you can build support and raise money for your good cause!
Ten Captivating Ways to Start Fundraising Letters, Newsletter Articles & More
You’ll learn 10 different ways to start your fundraising letters and other marketing communications — all of which will engage your supporters and keep them reading. Leave writer’s block and boring letters behind forever! This Thursday, October 2, 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. Pacific).
Nonprofit Publicity 101: Great PR Ideas that Get Attention
Light a fire and watch the good news about your nonprofit’s work spread with the creative publicity ideas you’ll get during this webinar. Thursday, October 9, 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. Pacific).
Nonprofit Writing Stinks! Bring Your Writing Back to Life
During this webinar, you’ll learn how to write like the smart, passionate human being you are — instead of the dead-inside, jargon-loving droid you just might sound like now. Tuesday, October 14, 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. Pacific).
Forget the General Public! How to Define and Reach Your Target Audience
Stop wasting time and money trying to reach the general public. They don’t care (and they don’t really exist!). Instead, learn how to identify your target audience and to speak directly to them. Thursday, October 23, 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. Pacific).
Blogging for Nonprofits: Tips, Traps, and Tales
Everybody’s doing it - should you? Learn how other nonprofits are using blogs and how your organization could use a blog to build an online community. Wednesday, October 29, 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. Pacific).
How to Write a 4-Page Nonprofit Annual Report - A Crash Course Webinar
Learn how to write an annual report that highlights your accomplishments, explains your financials, and appeals to both hearts and minds — all in four pages. Thursday, November 6, 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. Pacific)
Online Writing: Dos and Don’ts of Writing for the Web and Email
Learn the key differences between writing for print and for pixels, including the top three characteristics of good online writing. Make your online writing more appealing and improve your website or email’s performance. Wednesday, November 12, 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. Pacific).
How to Write Moving Personal Profiles about Donors, Clients, and Other Supporters
Inspire others by telling great stories about the people you meet and work with everyday, including donors, volunteers, and clients. Escape the boring bio syndrome and write engaging, dramatic profiles. Thursday, November 20, 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. Pacific).
Like what you see? Get all of this training (and much more) for only $97, with the All-Access Pass.
Tags: training, webinars
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Posted by Kivi Leroux Miller on Jul 18, 2008 in
Online Courses
I thought this might happen, and sure enough, the Canadians want in on the free webinar upgrade program I announced yesterday for nonprofits in these eight U.S. states! So, I’ve gone back and checked the registration records and Googled the list of Canadian provinces and territories (how many can you U.S. citizens guess of the 13?).
It’s the same deal: If you live in one of the areas listed below, I will convert your $35 webinar registration fee into an All-Access Pass ($97), which gets you access to 12 weeks of live webinars, plus the webinar archive and our on-demand courses. All you have to do is register between today and July 31, 2008 for any webinar currently on our schedule.
This offers applies to nonprofits in the following areas of Canada:
- Saskatchewan
- New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- Prince Edward Island
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Yukon
- Nunavut
I’ve had attendees this year from nonprofits in Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Northwest Territories, so if you live there, this particular offer doesn’t apply to you.
Spread the word to your Canadian nonprofit friends!
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Posted by Kivi Leroux Miller on Jul 17, 2008 in
Nonprofit Communications,
Online Courses
I was just reviewing the registrations to date this year for the Nonprofit Marketing Guide webinar series. We are approaching 500 nonprofits participating, from 42 U.S. states, 6 Canadian territories/provinces, and a handful of other countries (Yes, you Aussies and Kiwis can register and view the recording the next day, so you don’t have to get up at 4:00 a.m.!)
I’d really like to be able to say that nonprofits in all 50 states have participated in our webinars, so that means I need nonprofits in these eight states to register:
- Delaware
- Hawaii
- New Hampshire
- North Dakota
- Rhode Island
- South Dakota
- West Virginia, and
- Wyoming
Here’s a big incentive: I will convert the $35 webinar registration of every nonprofit in these eight states into an All-Access Pass ($97), which gets you access to 12 weeks of live webinars, plus the webinar archive and our on-demand courses. All you have to do is register by July 31, 2008 for any webinar currently on our schedule.
Spread the word to your nonprofit friends in these eight states!
UPDATE: Now there’s a deal for Canadians too!
Tags: webinars
More Goodies: Get Kivi's Nonprofit Marketing Tips E-Newsletter (2-3 times per month)