If you aren’t reporting your communications results regularly to your management and board, you need to start. Below I’m sharing a quick video with some stats from our 2019 Trends Report, but I think you’ll also find these resources helpful too: Not sure what you should measure? Start the discussion with these five questions. One…
What software is everyone else using for an editorial calendar? I answer in this quick video. Can’t see the video player? You can watch it on Facebook here. Download your free copy of the 2019 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report too.
Just when and how your nonprofit communications team should grow depends on lots of factors. But one of them is the overall size of your organization. Learn how communications team size correlates with overall organization budget size in this video and in the 2019 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. Can’t see the video player? Go here.…
You make a lot of content. That’s what communications staff do. But are you using that content well? Are you fully implementing a content marketing strategy? To go from plain ol’ content to content marketing, you need to do two things: First, put that content into a format that people will find attractive and relevant.…
Curious if your salary as a nonprofit communications director is in line with what others are making? There’s a huge range depending on the size of your nonprofit and where you live. Check out the salary data for U.S. nonprofit communications directors in the 2019 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. We asked for salary data from…
Editorial calendars are essential tools for nonprofit communications staff, and we’ve got answers to your questions about them. What Should Go in My Editorial Calendar? At its most basic level, you need the content you are creating, when you are publishing or sending it, and in what communications channel. But you can add a lot…
Got nonprofit email newsletter questions? We’ve got answers! Do I have to do a nonprofit email newsletter? Probably. Here’s how to figure out if it’s needed and how to make it worth it. Give Your Newsletter a Reason to Live Are You Pretending that People Really Want Your E-Newsletter? Do I Have to Keep Producing This…
An editorial calendar is an essential tool for all nonprofit communications directors. We know that the most effective nonprofits use one consistently and that 80% of nonprofits use some sort of editorial calendar. If you aren’t using an editorial calendar or not using one as effectively as you could, odds are you are hung up on which…
The 2019 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report found that the most successful nonprofit communicators were putting significantly more emphasis on content marketing than less effective organizations. For the most effective nonprofits, 24% consider content marketing an essential strategy, with only 5% saying it’s a low priority. That compares to a mere 11% of the less effective…
For the ninth edition of the Nonprofit Communications Trends Report, I wanted to go deeper into the communications goals and strategies nonprofits were using. I assumed that organizations with fewer high priority goals and strategies would be more effective. My educated guess was wrong. The most effective organizations reported what I originally thought was a…
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It’s a management maxim: We measure what we care about, and we care about what we measure. So if you want your executive management team and/or board to care more about marketing and communications, are you doing your part by suggesting how they measure your communications work? Odds are extremely low that they will come…
