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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.” For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), You are not going to be a very good storyteller if you don’t read stories. premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.),

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How To Build Community Using Social Media

CauseVox

Controversial and provocative topics, large international events, and clickbait news headlines always float to the top due to the amount of engagement they receive (positive and negative). Visuals are imperative on social media channels. employed powerful visuals to grab your attention and storytelling designed to keep you reading.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" So, does it make sense to roll your own network to appeal to those 85% of existing donors who do not participate on social networking sites, but may be engaged with the organization through other channels like email, face-to-face, or web site forums? Perhaps there is a lot to learn from headline writing skills.

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social channels are also used to continue to cultivate and engage with the donor to retain them. 2: Identify results, metrics, and mini goals for your campaign. What metrics will you use to measure success? If the answer to all those questions starts with a dollar sign, then you have your measurable metric. Objective.

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Taking Major Gifts Online: Tactics for Going Digital

Connection Cafe

Fast forward several years— more nonprofits are now using digital channels to engage with donors, but there is still resistance (or maybe it’s a lack of understanding) to incorporating and building a major gifts strategy online. Identify key milestones and metrics and have a plan to monitor those activities.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Like any other channel, social media is a means to an end, a way to engage with your supporters.

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