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How Many Did You Lose?

With our US readers celebrating Memorial Day on Monday, the majority of Agitator readers won’t be reading this post until Tuesday morning. But do I get a day off?! [If Roger wasn’t such a slavedriver (insisting: “You live in New Zealand, you have no right to be celebrating US holidays!”), I’d be watching the French […]

Learn More May 25, 2015

I Hate To Rain On Your Parade, But …

Our US readers are heading off today for a well-deserved three-day weekend, with the celebration of it’s-almost-summer Memorial Day. A major parade day when I was a kid in small town New Jersey … we kids got to march in our Scout uniforms or sport team uniforms. I had a choice, since I was both […]

Learn More May 22, 2015

Bad Week For Brits. Worse For The Yanks. Terrible For Us All.

If, following last week’s death of Olive Cooke, fundraisers in the UK face an image problem involving over-zealous solicitations, their problem pales in comparison to this week’s American version. On Tuesday the U.S. government’s Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general in all 50 states and the District of Columbia filed suit against 4 cancer charities […]

Learn More May 21, 2015

Smartphones: Part 2, Marketing Advice

OK, so you’ve heard plenty of stats by now regarding mobile phone usage. And if you haven’t, just check out yesterday’s Agitator post — Smartphones: Part 1, The Data — featuring comprehensive data from Pew Research. But just to underscore once more the importance of mobile, here are some stats via the Center for Media […]

Learn More May 20, 2015

Smartphones: Part 1, The Data

Today is the first of two overview articles on smartphones, marketing and fundraising. This first article deals with smartphone ownership and usage in the US. [I would expect similar patterns in the other countries where Agitator readers tend to congregate.] Tomorrow I’ll turn to marketing implications, featuring two or three ‘guide’ resources I think fundraisers will […]

Learn More May 19, 2015

REPEAT! Take This To Your Board & CEO Today!

“Here’s your disturbing wake-up call for Monday, September 17th …” That’s how The Agitator started its week nearly 3 years ago. That post — Take This to Your Board & CEO Today! — warned of the tsunami-like wave of major media stories spotlighting questionable fundraising practices and alerted readers that great damage was in store […]

Learn More May 18, 2015