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Advice On Boosting Email Response

Here from Email Insider is some practical advice on improving response to marketing emails. These examples are from the commercial sector, but the advice applies to online fundraising as well: 1. Make the journey creatively seamless. 2. Understand that your respondents will be viewing on devices with different usage patterns — computers, tablets, smartphones — […]

Learn More April 11, 2012

Brand Trumps Fundraising…

A few weeks ago we wrote a post, “Fundraisers are brand marketers and vice versa”, making the case for how fundraising and branding support each other. Perhaps what we should have written about is how brand is everything and if organizations were smart they’d view statements like the following (from a well read blog in […]

Learn More April 10, 2012

Business Fails At Customer Retention Too

The Agitator is rather passionate on the subject of donor retention. [Just ‘Search’ that term on our website!] So we were gratified to see this article — Keep ’em Comin’ Back — from the Center for Media Research discussing an Acxiom/Loyalty 360 study of customer retention in the commercial space. If it’s any consolation, businesses […]

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US Hispanics’ Identity

The Pew Hispanic Center has published an excellent report … When Labels Don’t Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity. It’s a comprehensive survey of US Hispanics’ attitudes toward language, religion, political/social issues, self-identity, and satisfaction with life in the US. Want to start with the very basics? Most respondents (51%)have no preference between the […]

Learn More April 9, 2012

In Defense Of Serious Fundraising Dialogue

You’ll recall that yesterday I did a post on the NTEN conference. The purpose of the post was NOT to draw attention to the conference itself, but to the research released around it that might be helpful to FUNDRAISERS. A number of Tweets signaled that we’d hit a nerve, but for the life of me […]

Learn More April 6, 2012

Wake Me When NTEN’s Over

As a matter of principle Tom and I don’t usually cover conferences, conventions or most industry events. The 2012 NTEN Conference that closes today in San Francisco is no exception. The word diagram below, produced by Rally, quickly (or confusingly, depending on your point of view) tells why we don’t. […]

Learn More April 5, 2012