Thanks to the 199 nonprofits who completed our most recent survey about what you’d like to see on the Nonprofit Marketing Guide webinar schedule for 2010. I promised to book the three most popular training topics on the list by the end of March, so here you go: Integrating Your Website, E-Newsletter, and Social Media…
Here are several announcements and links that I think you’ll find helpful. Fundraising . . . For this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival, Nancy Schwartz shares the path to year-end communications and fundraising success. Network for Good has published a free guide called “25 Steps to Fall and Holiday Fundraising Success.” America’s Giving Challenge is back…
This Thursday I’m teaching a webinar called “On-the-Spot E-Newsletter Makeovers: Get Your E-Newsletter into Better Shape.” You can join us to get plenty of tips on how to makeover your own newsletter. Here are the details on participating — after you register, you’ll get directions on how to volunteer your newsletter for a makeover during…
Last week I had the opportunity to chat with Politico’s managing editor, Bill Nichols, over a dinner hosted by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. (I was there to teach local and state school choice advocates how to develop nonprofit marketing strategies.) Bill gave a fascinating presentation about the start-up of Politico, emphasizing many of…
If you ask veterans of hard-fought political campaigns which matters most, what a person feels or what a person thinks about your candidate, without exception, they will tell you that heart overrules head in the voting booth. The same goes for the way we make purchasing decisions, the way people vote on juries, and whether…
This is what I call Mixed Links – an occasional tasty cocktail of great links for nonprofit communicators. Upcoming Webinars September 29: Fear v. Hope: Using Emotions in Your Nonprofit Communications Join me for this writing workshop via webinar, where we’ll explore how to make your writing more powerful by using emotions, both positive and…
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed Beth Ann Spiegel’s status update on Facebook: “Beth Ann Spiegel needs your help finding hip songs (rock/alternative/punk/indie/folk/bluegrass/reggae, etc) related to disability/ability, respect, achievement, dignity, friendship, etc. –basically a soundtrack for The Arc of Atlantic County — to play on Stockton’s radio station…we’ll be on 91.7 WLFR talking about…
If you’ve already started incorporating social media into your communications strategy and have done any research on it at all, you’ve come across the advice to LISTEN FIRST. What you are less likely to have found in your research is a practical list of what you can actually do with all of this new-found knowledge…
Print newsletters have been the default communications tactic for nonprofits forever. Even though I now believe the default should be an e-newsletter, and we are seeing more and more nonprofits drop their print newsletters in favor of email, print still remains an important tactic for many organizations. If you decide that sending a print newsletter…
I’m devoting a chapter in the upcoming “Nonprofit Marketing Guide” book (available Spring 2010) to time. One of my 10 realities of nonprofit marketing is that it takes more time than money to do it well. This particular chapter is only about half-written, so please help me finish it! What are some of your favorite…
As you may know, I am in the middle of writing the full-length, printed book version of Nonprofit Marketing Guide, to be published in Spring 2010 by Jossey-Bass. As I was writing various chapters on both strategy and tactics, I realized that I was making choices about what to include and what to leave out…
I need your advice on a question about this blog, which I’ve posted at the end, but first the good stuff . . . Heather Carpenter at Nonprofit Leadership 601 has posted the current edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival on nonprofit leadership issues. Check it out for posts on how nonprofit organizations are dealing…
