I hope everyone had a great week! Let’s end it with a bang by taking a look at the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising. I’ve got Snapchat tips, social media icons, ideas for bots, and even a little Harry Potter for you today. Yep, it’s time for…
It’s October – my favorite month! Let’s kick back with our favorite pumpkin spiced beverages and peruse the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising. Today’s post is brought to you by the number 7 and include tips on social media, storytelling, and segmenting lists. It’s time for Mixed…
If email engagement is the goal (see last week’s posts here and here on why that is) and snail mail keeps getting more expensive, it makes sense in both channels to more carefully manage who is on your mailing lists so you only send to people who may actually consume that content, right? That means…
Gather around and partake from the finest articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising. It’s time for Mixed Links… If you want to up your social media game this year, read 14 Exciting New Things to Try on Social Media in 2018. Kyle McClure talks about Letting Your Nonprofit Vision Statement Guide…
You should use every event and campaign as a learning experience. Today’s post gives you some ideas what to do after it’s all over. ~Kristina Guest Post by Gary Wohlfeill Your event or campaign is officially over and it was incredible. You hit your donation goals, spread awareness about your mission, recruited new fundraisers, and so…
If you’ve decided 2018 is the year your nonprofit is going to embrace mobile fundraising campaigns, Steve Page of MobileCause has some great tips and resources for you in today’s post. ~ Kristina Guest Post by Steve Page If your nonprofit is looking for a flexible and sustainable way for your supporters to donate, chances are you’ve considered…
We love to hear how it goes when you’ve used one of our tactics! Today’s post comes from Aubrey Brennan of Green Bay Botanical Garden who took our suggestions regarding finding engaged email subscribers and deleting everyone else. Find out how it worked for her organization. ~Kristina Guest Post by Aubrey Brennan Thanks to Nonprofit Marketing Guide, we…
EveryAction just released their annual Email Deliverability Study which answers that exact question. Let’s start with a few basics about email deliverability, and then we’ll break down the report. Email deliverability measures how successful an email is at making it into a recipient’s inbox. What determines your email deliverability? Many factors really, that are constantly changing, but…
John Killoran, CEO of @Pay, guest posts for us today on making sure you have a plan to cultivate relationships with your mobile donors. ~Kristina Guest Post by John Killoran With mobile donations becoming one of the most popular ways for donors to give, your nonprofit has to take a slightly different approach if you…
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If you’ve heard me on an annual reports webinar any time in the last decade, you’ve heard me say some version of this: It’s OK to go short and stop publishing the donor list. Seriously. Now that I am actively advocating for very short annual reports, I’m hearing that the donor list is the last…
Are all your email subscribers the same? Of course not! Some donate. Some volunteer. Some do both. And some have no CLUE how they got on your email list! If you send all your email subscribers the exact same fundraising emails for every campaign — year-end or any other time — you’ll never unlock their…
