Happy Holidays! We love our readers and think you deserve some goodies. This week, we are highlighting free downloads and resources from Nonprofit Marketing Guide that are all FREE. Earlier this month I held a webinar that gave attendees a sneak peek at the 2013 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report that we will release in January. Now,…
I hope you’ve had a good week and will get to take some time off next week. If you are paying attention to work-related stuff, we will have a special week of freebies for you, so stay tuned. For now, here are your Mixed Links… In the wake of last Friday’s horrific tragedy, do you think automated…
Yesterday I shared our Top Ten Blog Posts from 2012, and today I want to share the Top Ten Articles for 2012 on NonprofitMarketingGuide.com, our main website, in case you missed them. These are the top article pages we added in 2012, not the top pages overall. We usually send out new articles like these…
In case you missed any of these, here are our Top Ten blog posts from 2012, along with some commentary on why I think they made the Top Ten. 1. The Accidental Rebranding of Komen for the Cure. This obviously turned into a huge story, but since I was one of the first to blog…
Jeff Brooks at Future Fundraising Now blogged today about some email fundraising lessons from the Obama campaign shared in Bloomberg Businessweek, one of which is that ugly emails work better than pretty ones. Quoting here: “Every time something really ugly won, it would shock me: giant-size fonts for links, plain-text links vs. pretty ‘Donate’ buttons. Eventually…
Happy Friday! Here are your Mixed Links for this week. First off, a reminder that you can save $100 on our Annual All-Access Pass until December 31st. For only $365 you’ll get training your nonprofit needs for the entire year. And next year, you’ll have access to even more training as All-Access Pass Holders can…
If you were one of the 1400+ nonprofits who took my annual communications trends survey, THANK YOU! We are compiling the results now, and will be hosting a free webinar next Wednesday, December 12th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. Pacific) to share the preliminary results of the 2013 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. We won’t…
The survey for our 2013 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report will close tonight! Please add your voice if you aren’t one of the more than 1,300 nonprofit communicators participating in the survey so far! Here is your last sneak peak at the early data, before we provide the preliminary release during our free webinar on December 12. The report…
Here’s the map of the nonprofits that we’ve heard from in the 2013 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report Survey. Is your state represented well? If not, get your nonprofit friends to take the survey before midnight Eastern time on Friday, November 30, 2012! Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013trends Or you can use the short code: http://kivilm.com/2013…
This may have been the “Year of the Thank You Video” – lots of really great stuff arrived in my inbox in the last week. So much so that even the well-written Thanksgiving messages without videos seemed a little boring and dated to me. The ones with video felt so much more alive and real.…
NTEN and CharityDynamics have released a new report called “Nonprofit Donor Engagement Benchmark Study: Insights into Donor Engagement Behavior and Preferences.” It includes a number of fun facts: — The vast number of people who give to charity give to multiple charities. — It pays to become a donor’s “favorite” charity, because individuals give 67%…
Here’s another little taste of preliminary data from our 2013 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report . . . We’ve heard from about 900 nonprofits, and want to make that at least 1,200 before we shut it down on November 30. So please take the survey and share this link with your nonprofit friends: http://kivilm.com/2013 So far,…
