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Lapsed Donors Deliver

In case you missed it in Fundraising Success, this advice on how to re-engage lapsed donors from consultant Pamela Barden is sound and practical. I’m glad she’s not afraid to recommend telemarketing to these folks. And she’s right, predictive tools can help your ROI, especially with large files. A couple of further points … Re-soliciting […]

Learn More June 9, 2011

5 Stages Of Social Media Growth

Here is an interesting — and a bit amusing — depiction of social media evolution in large organizations, as seen by research firm Forrester. The process of ‘social maturation’ for social media utilization … 1. Dormant stage — one in five companies don’t use social media. 2. Small victories — baby steps and case studies. […]

Learn More June 8, 2011

Selling Nuts To Squirrels – II

Same lead as yesterday’s Agitator post … In Selling Nuts To Squirrels, Seth Godin argues that “most organizations shouldn’t try to change the worldview of the audience they’re marketing to.” What if he changed “organizations” to “consultants”?! ‘Worldview’ as interpreted by Godin affects three critical things in the marketing equation: “… attention, bias and vernacular. […]

Learn More June 7, 2011

Selling Nuts To Squirrels

Here’s a gem from marketing guru Seth Godin. In Selling Nuts To Squirrels, he argues that “most organizations shouldn’t try to change the worldview of the audience they’re marketing to.” ‘Worldview’ as interpreted by Godin affects three critical things in the marketing equation: “… attention, bias and vernacular. Attention, because we choose to pay attention […]

Learn More June 6, 2011

More on Blackbaud’s Online/Offline Fundraising

Roger was fairly strident in his Wednesday post commenting on Blackbaud’s latest Target Analytics benchmark report on online fundraising. His assessment is that fundraisers just don’t ‘get it’ — and maybe don’t even care — when it comes to the importance of integrating online and offline fundraising channels. Some of our responders talked about the […]

Learn More June 3, 2011

Legacy Gems

Today SOFII has made my life easy. Their latest update focuses on legacy giving and is full of splendid examples of approaches and materials. So I’m simply going to pass these items along … Ontario Nature — bridging the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ sides of legacy giving WWF — innovative communications University of Oxford — excellent […]

Learn More June 2, 2011