It’s here! The 2020 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report has both good news and bad news to share, compiled from the answers of 625 nonprofit communications professionals who took our annual survey in November 2019. It’s free to download. I am also presenting a free webinar on Thursday, January 30 on the Trends Report results. During…
We’ve closed the 2020 Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey and are pouring through the answers of the 600+ nonprofit professionals who took the survey. Here are a few preliminary tidbits we’ve pulled already: Most Comms Directors Feel Valued and Respected. If You Don’t, Get Out. Your Favorite and Least Favorite Projects This Year [Word Clouds] Stand…
Nonprofits raised nearly $2 billion on GivingTuesday in 2019. And yet, we hear a lot of complaints every year about how it doesn’t work. If you aren’t getting the return you want, Julia Campbell joins us today to encourage you to assess your approach to Giving Tuesday. (Did your GivingTuesday go well? See Julia’s top…
Doormats get walked on all day long. You don’t want to be a doormat. And yet, all too often, we see nonprofit communications staff behaving in ways that reinforce these “let me wipe my dirty feet all over you” bad behaviors in others. You might be a doormat — or at a minimum, sending doormat…
An explainer video explains who you are and what you do in simple and clear yet engaging language. Explainers can also cover concepts, problems and programs. I recommend one of two different approaches to explainer videos when organizations are trying to explain their missions: The Problem and Solution. In this type of explainer, you lay…
This week I’ve spent several days working over our marketing metrics here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide, especially related to email engagement. Our CRM tells us who is engaged and who isn’t according to a basic test: If they have opened or clicked any email or filled out a web form in the past 90 days, they…
Half of the battle with successful email marketing is getting your emails opened, period. The decision to open an email is made in a split second (actually less than that). It comes down to two pieces of information that our brains process nearly instantaneously: Who is this from, and am I generally interested in what…
Here’s what’s happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide… Online Training: You can attend all of our training webinars below with an All-Access Pass. You also get exclusive online courses and downloads, access to our Private Facebook Group and more for 365 days. Learn more and get your All-Access Pass. September 10 & 12: Mastering…
This question came up recently in the Communications Director Mentoring Program: “I’ve been asked to start attracting new groups of people as volunteers and donors who are different than our current volunteers and donors. How do I do that without losing the ones we have?” This question comes up A LOT, especially in the context…
You can get our Annual All-Access Pass for only $499. Sale ends July 3rd, 2019. We know many nonprofits are on a summer fiscal year, and you might need to use this year’s money in the next few days. Or . . . you might have a new budget starting on July 1. Or .…
When communications directors are lobbying their executive directors to approve their enrollment in our Communications Director Mentoring Program, we will occasionally get questions like this: Will participating in this program guarantee this, that or the other? Executive directors who don’t really understand communications, marketing and fundraising Of course, the answer is No. Mind you, there…
Based on the research for the annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Reports (get the 2019 report here), communications team effectiveness increases dramatically once you hit three FTE (full-time equivalents). To learn more about how big your team should be, check out this quick video and our 2019 Trends Report. Can’t see the video player? Watch it…
