Communicate In The Purple Zone

November 3, 2015      Tom Belford

Yesterday, in The Most Sinister Word In Fundraising, Roger wrote about effective fundraising copywriting and — citing our esteemed colleague, Jeff Brooks — the pernicious ‘I’ word.

As he wrote: “This evil word has the negative power to transform your message into one that should be about the donor to one about you and your organization.”

Much is written about donor-centric fundraising (the only kind that works) as a philosophy and attitude, and also regarding the nitty gritty of how to communicate properly with donors.

Search The Agitator website for ‘donor-centric’ for our 73 items on the subject.

But I don’t think I’ve seen anyone present the communications aspect of being donor-centric better than Mark Phillips does in this simple graphic:

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Well done, Mark … you get an Agitator raise.

Tom

3 responses to “Communicate In The Purple Zone”

  1. Thank you sir (and to Roger). And thank you for everything you do. Together we are all stronger.

  2. Lisa Sargent says:

    For people who don’t follow Mark’s blog, his post today is equally superb: http://www.queerideas.co.uk/my_weblog/2015/11/who-will-the-fundraising-preference-service-protect-and-who-will-actually-use-it.html. He generously shares a link to the slide deck of his IoF presentation. Food for thought for all of us, UK, US, or otherwise.

  3. Lisa Swayze says:

    This is just perfect! I’m going to print and hang on my wall!