2019 will be here before you know it. Are you ready for it? We have A LOT already planned for 2019 and we want you to come along on what will be a wild but wonderful ride. Do you want tips and best practices to help you get your work done? Got it! What about…
Here’s what’s happening at Nonprofit Marketing Guide this month: Online Training: Save $200 on the Annual All-Access Pass Get access to all of our training webinars, online courses, Private Facebook Group and more for 365 days! The All-Access Pass is on sale for $499. That’s $200 off the regular price. Sale ends January 4, 2019.…
Happy Friday, friends! Once again I have found the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising to share you with good people. Find out how this year’s #GivingTuesday went, what you should NOT do on social media, and what you should do when giving bad news. It’s time for Mixed…
Nonprofits face an uphill battle when they pitch stories to the media. Today’s reporters get bombarded by a constant array of pitches from organizations that are competing for their limited attention and time. Many of these pitches are legitimately interesting — but these reporters only have the time and space to cover a fraction of…
You have to publish an annual report – it’s a nonprofit best practice. But you DO NOT have to publish a 30+ page report that takes over 100 hours to create. Who is really going to read that? Save your nonprofit huge amounts of time and money and create something people will actually look at…
If you are on Instagram or Pinterest at all, you can’t help but run into a lot of hygge-inspired photography. (The photo at the top of this post isn’t mine, but the smaller ones below are.) Hygge is the Danish concept of coziness, comfort, warmth, and charm that gets Danes through the long, cold, dark winters. It’s…
Relevant messaging is the difference between successful content marketing and background noise in your reader’s inbox. If your readers don’t care about what you are publishing or understand why it should be important to them, then you are wasting everyone’s time – including your own. You can’t have the impact you want if you aren’t…
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US. I am so thankful for you, I have put together the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising. This week’s edition is a little more fundraising-focused with Giving Tuesday next week kicking off year-end campaigns. It’s time for Mixed Links… We…
Of course you are! I would love to get our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator off to a great start for 2019 which means I need to hear from you! This series is a fun way to help us better understand our community’s needs and to also let other nonprofit communicators know…
Baby, it’s cold outside! Let’s warm up with the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising. I am bringing the heat with posts on video, a plea to take our trends survey, tips on #GivingTuesday and year-end fundraising as well as writing better calls to action on social media. It’s…
Thanksgiving may be next week, but year-end is a great time to thank your supporters. If you don’t think you can pull together a thank-you video quickly, Emily Roush-Bobolz, Communications Manager at the Hemophilia Federation of America shares how she did just that. ~Kristina Guest Post by Emily Roush-Bobolz It was that time of year to send…
How annoying is it that department stores skip over Thanksgiving and go right to Christmas? This year we didn’t even make it through Halloween before you could see decorations for sale, toys being stocked, and Christmas music playing…poor Thanksgiving doesn’t stand a chance. I get it. After all, Christmas time is make-or-break for retailers and,…
