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What’s Your Attitude For 2017?

Of course Roger and I wish you all the best for 2017. Have a great year! But the festivities are over (unless you live in New Zealand, where we tend to chill out for the entire month of January). Time to get down to business. And I wonder what attitude you are bringing to your […]

Learn More January 3, 2017

Best of 2016: Would You Approve This Campaign?

We’ve been sifting through our posts for a few ‘must-reads’ from 2016. Here’s one that is mostly in praise of someone’s else’s excellent work. Being the Agitators that we are, we’ll have plenty of advice and opinion on offer in 2017. But for now, to close out 2016, we simply urge you in the year ahead: […]

Learn More December 30, 2016

Best of 2016: More Gold For The Lapsed Donor Mine

We sifted through our posts for a few of the ‘most-read’ of 2016. Perhaps as the year closes, you’re regretting losing as many donors as you did. Can they be retrieved? Here are two posts (including the article linked to in the first sentence below), with very useful supporting links and comments, that provide a […]

Learn More December 29, 2016

Best of 2016: What’s Next?

We’ve sifted through our files for a few of our most-read posts of 2016. Here’s the advice Roger gave fundraisers the day after the US Presidential election went to Donald Trump. What’s Next? We all woke up on this post-election morning to uncertainty and turmoil. What does the election of Donald Trump mean? Of course, […]

Learn More December 28, 2016

Please Don’t Eat The Poinsettia

I thought a holiday motif would be appropriate to remind us of the many myths we take for gospel. Some are true, some are not. As in: “Feed a cold, starve a fever.” [True] … “Don’t sit too close to the television you’ll hurt your eyes.” [Not true] … “Don’t swallow your gum; it stays […]

Learn More December 27, 2016

If You’ve Had A Great Year, Be Thankful. If Not … Try To Hit The High Notes In 2017!

After ten years of Agitator Christmases, we’ve never been able to improve upon this holiday message. With all your online solicitation programs firing away like an AK-47 on auto-pilot until January 1, fundraisers probably aren’t doing much heavy lifting today … unless it’s carrying in the booze for the office party. But maybe — over some spiked […]

Learn More December 23, 2016