12 Easy Ways to Build Your Nonprofit’s Email List List churn — the drops in your list size as people change email addresses without telling you or unsubscribe from your list — is inevitable. Many nonprofits lose 20-30% of their lists each year to this natural turn-over. How can you combat the churn and keep…
This week’s edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is now available over at Fundraising Breakthroughs. You’ll find some YouTube, some campaigns, and some solid tips, all with great ideas and lessons on online fundraising for small and medium-sized nonprofits. Next week the Carnival will be hosted by SocialButterfly.
Last Friday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the National Capital Gift Planning Council’s Annual “Planned Giving Days” conference in Washington DC. Planned giving refers to philanthropy in estate planning, like leaving money to a charity in your will or setting up a charitable gift annuity. My friend Rob Blizard, who was coordinating the…
This week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is up at Giving in a Digital World. The theme is online fundraising and you’ll find posts on optimizing your website to raise more money, as well as using email and social networking more effectively. Thanks to Bryan for another great edition of the Carnival! My apologies for posting…
My “blog about this” folder overfloweth with great stuff to share with you. Here are a few of the more recent items: The Chronicle of Philanthropy did an online chat Q&A with Seth Godin yesterday. As to be expected, he didn’t disappoint. My favorite quote: “Obsessing about the basics is far more effective than managing…
Update: This afternoon I answered several nonprofit marketing questions on my blog during live “office hours.” You can click on the box below to see the transcript. (If you reading this post in email or in a reader, you’ll probably need to click over to the blog to see the chat transcript.)
See how several bloggers complete this sentence in this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, hosted by Rosetta Thurman at Perspectives from the Pipeline. Next week the Carnival flies over to London, where Bryan Miller will host at Giving in a Digital World. Bryan is looking for posts with insights, tips and tricks for online fundraising.…
I’ll be answering your nonprofit marketing/communications questions live here on the blog tomorrow, Tuesday 5/20/08 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Simply visit the blog homepage and you’ll see the live chat going on. You’ll be able to type in your questions and I’ll answer as many as I can.
Photo by RaeA If you’ve been waiting for me to make the recordings from the Nonprofit Marketing Guide webinar series available, wait no more. The following titles are now all available when you purchase an All-Access Pass. For $97, you’ll get to view all of these webinars and any I add in the next twelve…
I’m going to try something new next week – instead of a weekly webinar, I’ll be hosting live “office hours” on Tuesday, May 20th, from 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern, right here on my blog. Using a service called CoverItLive, I’ll be taking your questions and answering them in a live chat format. You don’t…
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at a conference in Nashville for Neighborhood Networks, a HUD program that supports nonprofits who run technology centers in and around public housing projects. The session was on nonprofit marketing, and I gave my talk on nonprofit website basics. On the panel with me was David Zermeno, executive…
In preparation for tomorrow’s webinar on how to write your nonprofit’s stories (registration is open until 1:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday 5/14/08), I’ve been updating my list of good storytelling examples on nonprofit websites and thought you’d enjoy reading them too. I mentioned some of these in my earlier post on Five Questions Nonprofits Should…
