Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

There is a variety of email marketing software available to help you create an effective and visually-appealing email template, but not everybody has a budget for this. Pay Attention to Your Subject Line and Headline. If readers open the email, the headline will make a large difference in whether they read the entire email or not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

The art of writing good teaser headlines is critical to getting more interaction. I had some privacy concerns and also it felt like it would require feeding another channel – why bother when I already had a brand page. I’ve changed my mind. Then, I found the wonderful cover image with the dog and the ocean!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

You’ll find it sprinkled throughout your social media feed and making headlines at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. This is increasingly important now, at a time when companies are being challenged to make tough choices and corporate social responsibility is top of mind. Take CVS Health.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

When we ask for it out of order, we create anxiety in the mind of the person on the other side of the screen. They have a good headline at the top of the page, and they use a three-column layout that mirrors their branding throughout the site. The same is true online. Getting the elements of your landing page in the right order.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Include an eye-catching image, interesting headline, details on how this particular form of involvement helps and then the form. They click “get involved” or something to that effect. Note the large image with interesting artwork that first grabs your attention. At this point they are still sitting atop the slide.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Include images of people. Along the way, we’ll review some examples of effective emotional appeals pulled from Kanopi’s roundup of best nonprofit websites. It’s much more effective to bring readers into the story through the protagonist’s feelings and actions, rather than summarizing what happened using exposition.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

Most website visitors who come to your donation page will not do so with their wallet in hand and their mind firmly made up. No images, logos, testimonials, statistics, or other supporting elements? Every assumption leaves a gap in the visitor’s mind. The visitor has already run this far—so surely they plan to finish, right?

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

Urgency is one of the essential elements of effective creative — and basically the entire ballgame here. <FirstName>, I don’t mind telling you I was nervous. Rip from the headlines The news is urgent, tangible, and real. TIME IS ALMOST UP! Click here to put your call to action in the very first sentence Be direct.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

Most website visitors who come to your donation page will not do so with their wallet in hand and their mind firmly made up. No images, logos, testimonials, statistics, or other supporting elements? Every assumption leaves a gap in the visitor’s mind. The visitor has already run this far—so surely they plan to finish, right?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Keep in mind that not everyone donates through the mail. Keep in mind that your readers are busy people and probably won’t read every word of your letter. They’ll skim through photos, images, and quotes that stand out. Keep in mind that you don’t have to use every grammatical suggestion that the tool offers.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When we ask for it out of order, we create anxiety in the mind of the person on the other side of the screen. They have a good headline at the top of the page, and they use a three-column layout that mirrors their branding throughout the site. Here are 5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Make Your Donation Page More Effective.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

The big takeaway is that: if your nonprofit has a website, and it would be valuable for you to reach people who are Googling topics related to your work, the Google Grant is one of the most cost-effective and powerful tools available to reach your audience. Effective conversion tracking is in place. A Real-Life Example. Mismanagement.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2023

Email marketing can be incredibly effective if you send the right message to the right donor by segmenting your database. Investing in fundraising CRM software allows you to inspire and motivate your supporters with beautiful, dynamic emails , and then evaluate their effectiveness with advanced analytics tools. Make a fundraising plan.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

It’s tempting to share several stories, but keep in mind that people have the attention of a goldfish (about 7 seconds) and they just won’t read a lot. So, it’s better to have one good story that demonstrates your effectiveness than several stories that overwhelm your reader. Good images. Less is definitely more. Save the date.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They can’t find any impact measurement statistics for your nonprofit , and the images featured on your homepage are awkwardly sized and don’t readily communicate how your organization is making a difference. Visuals: Photos, videos, and graphics can all have a powerful effect on your visitors.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 6, 2023

Building a Blog to Go Further If you want to repurpose your blogs, you should keep that in mind as you’re laying out your overall nonprofit content strategy. You include images of Ruby as well as a video from the news clip when she was rescued. Ideally, the blog would be longer and include multiple images and pieces of media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2014

As a content creator, one thing to keep in mind, that if you can create long-form by aggregating micro content or take the Lizzy Borden approach and chop up an existing long form content piece – either way if you create in this modular way you have both forms to publish. Flickr Image by theamarand. What is micro content anyway?

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

It’s direct, precise and effective. Facebook also drives some of the most effective online fundraising traffic , raising $45 million during Giving Tuesday in 2017. You don’t just have to send newsletters, or witty headlines to get your message across. Downloading transparent images. What We Can Learn.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2014

After all, a nonprofit website is tasked with quite a complex challenge – Reach the visitor’s heart and mind in a way that drives them to support you. The “ Results ” and “ Ask ” portions of the framework are a lot more effective if you have the right technology in place. A Simple Framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The focus has been to develop practice and share insights on networked effectiveness. What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? Crowds are powerful, but you must know how to effectively use them or it can be more work. What do you track?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

BUILD WITH SEO IN MIND. Architecting your site with your most important keywords in mind as well as filling the site with content relevant to those keywords will be the critical driving factor in dramatically improving performance. Alt tags for images. Search Engines' "Related Searches" Suggestions. Navigation (E.g.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2015

You can dress up your brand and image as much as you want, but what’s underneath it will always be the same. Never mind that they envisioned that lawyers were gone, but newspapers were still going strong (which as a newspaper journalist and lawyer, I find quite humorous). Except it isn’t dramatically different.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

For many, the first name that would come to mind would be the Red Cross. Visuals: Also include images that journalists can use in their pieces about your organization, like logos, key personnel photos, and event pictures. Headline: Create a clear, compelling headline that covers the most important aspect of your message.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

I see social enterprise as a kind of benign stopgap — an approach whereby people can contribute to the good of the world, find people of similar mind, and make a living. They’re informed on a headline level, but it’s at the expense of a depth of understanding that is crucial for being an effective social change advocate.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So kudos to those 28% of you, and like mind blown on the 2% of you that have already done it. And in case there’s someone wondering in the back of their mind what if I just do a little [clumping 00:40:33] here, and I just say, “If you already gave today, thanks a lot. You want to use the best photo image that you have.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Effective nonprofit web design matters more than ever before. Without in-person events and amid increased competition for attention online, being able to reach, engage, and convert new donors online effectively is critical. This is an extremely effective way to draw in readers. Streamlined eCommerce features.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So always keep that in mind. So the main part, the step three, after you have all this, you know, you have to set up how you’re going to interact with this new community, with this new audience, then use WhatsApp effectively. And here’s some headlines of some news I found. .” and I said, “No.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

There’s been a lot of talk about the results of the 2013 Fundraising Effectiveness Project Survey. Learn how to effectively use social media to inspire audience action in this post: How to Use Social Media for Nonprofit Crowdfunding. Donor retention rates are depressing. More than 7 out of 10 donors were lost.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The ads are text only, containing a headline and a few lines of text. They can’t contain images or videos. There are several points to keep in mind here: There are some search terms you can’t bid on, such as names of other organisations and most single words (other than your brand name). User sees your ad.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 31, 2022

More specifically, this process involves choosing layouts, colors, images, links, and other on-page elements. The goal of web design is to create a website that packages information in the most effective, engaging, and accessible way. You need a cost-effective way to set up a website in a short timeframe. Dynamic website layout.

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