Award Winning Blog - Agitator

I Can’t Beat Him!

At least not so far. Seth Godin lays down a great challenge that will make you think … Can you define great marketing in a fewer or better four words than his formulation? Make big promises; overdeliver! I know this is a winning approach to attracting and retaining major gift donors. And it sure can’t […]

Learn More May 8, 2008

More On Trust

In a lot of things I’m reading lately, the "trust" issue keeps popping up. Here’s a piece on trust and brands. Your nonprofit is a brand. If you’re fortunate, it’s a brand your target audience has heard of. The Agitator’s DonorTrends survey recently asked donors for their perceptions of 100+ national nonprofit brands. The results […]

Learn More May 7, 2008

UNICEF Case Study – Read By May 7

Here is a great case study from Marketing Sherpa on UNICEF’s experimentation with social media. Lots of practical info here. So far, heaps of awareness (i.e., "friends" and friends’ activity), but no discernible dollar payback. Seems like that’s the story with social media at this stage of the game. So don’t kid yourself or your […]

Learn More May 6, 2008

How Trustworthy Are You?

Nothing much gets done when trust is absent. Certainly no fundraising. So how trustworthy are you? Here’s a self-evaluation survey concocted by Charles Green, co-author of The Trusted Advisor, and a blogger on the role of trust in marketing, sales and business in general. If you take the quiz you’ll find your trustworthiness ranked against […]

Learn More May 4, 2008

Logos On The Left, Please

I wish I had more time to read research on brain functioning. I just love this stuff! Here’s a piece on how the brain processes images, and what the implications are for effective design of ads, etc. Turns out that images are processed mostly by the right frontal lobe, which gets its input from the […]

Learn More May 2, 2008

YES Or NO?

Two important articles for email marketers. The first gives cause for worry. More and more emails winding up in spam piles … nearly one out of every five permission-based e-mail messages sent to US-based ISPs lands in the junk mail folder. The second suggests how to keep your e-list clean and responsive. You don’t want […]

Learn More May 1, 2008