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Challenge To Agitator Readers

Attention all you fundraisers out there! We’re looking for some savvy folks who have "solved" any of the key challenges — or should we say opportunities — we see presently out there in the nonprofit fundraising world. Here are the challenges: 1. You have improved you first year renewal rate in the last twelve months […]

Learn More August 15, 2008

Resources Required To Social Network

Want to give your nonprofit an presence on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, etc, etc, etc? Just find yourself a nerdy young intern? No way, says nonprofit marketing consultant Michael Puican in this article from the Philanthropy Journal. Here’s what he says you need, human resource-wise, if you’re serious … Two hours a day (10 hours […]

Learn More August 14, 2008

Online Fundraising – Trick Question

I love this article on online fundraising by direct mail fundraising maven Mal Warwick. He begins with this question: Question: Which one of the following statements is true? * The most important thing for raising money online is the capacity to accept donations on your Web site. * E-mail costs so much less than direct […]

Learn More August 13, 2008

Disruptive Technologies and the Innovator’s Dilemma

In 1995 Clayton Christensen coined the terms “disruptive technology” and “disruptive innovations” to describe technological innovations, products or services that use a “disruptive” strategy rather than “revolutionary” or “sustaining” strategies to overturn dominant or status quo products in a market. “Disruptive innovations” can occasionally come to dominate an existing market, either by filling a role […]

Learn More August 12, 2008

The Value Of Volunteers

Today’s post is by Guest Agitator Bob Roth. He’s trying to figure out a way to encourage volunteerism, in part by being more systematic in the way we place value on the work volunteers do. Bob fell into the world of internet marketing in the mid-1990s when the sole job requirement was being a hard-working, […]

Learn More August 11, 2008

Why You (We All) Need To Understand SEO

Look at these latest figures on internet activities from the Pew Internet Poject. Search is the fastest growing online "app" … and the second most common activity (49% do it; after only email, 60% do it) in a typical web user’s day. Rounding out the top three activities is checking the news, at 39%. Search […]

Learn More August 7, 2008