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Digital Marketing

How often are you sending bulk emails?

The frequency of your email blasts has a huge impact on the success of your email program. Send too little and be forgotten, send too much and become spam.

May 5, 2011 | 3 min Read

Annual Giving

Re-engaging Donors: The Time is Now!!

Like many of you I spent the first quarter of the year getting ready for April 15th. As I was [...]

May 3, 2011 | 2 min Read

Data Insights

Keys to Following Up with Disaster Response Donors

I’ve been following the fundraising response to Japan very closely and so I was very pleased to be able to sit down with Katie Beth DeSchepper of StrategicOne earlier today. Convio acquired StrategicOne earlier this year, and they have done significant analytics on disaster donations with some hefty data sets to look at, so Katie Beth had some excellent suggestions. [...]

March 30, 2011 | 4 min Read

Donor Management

It Takes Two to Table

Don’t tell anyone, but there was a time in my life when I didn’t know what “tabling” was. I was [...]

March 30, 2011 | 3 min Read

Data Insights

Professional Development, Budgets, and Goals – Part I

I just recently finished speaking at the CASE District VII Conference and I was thrilled to be asked and like [...]

March 22, 2011 | 3 min Read

Professional Development

How Did I Get Here?

Last month my colleague, Laura Worcester, posted about her career path and posed the question of whether or not a [...]

March 8, 2011 | 3 min Read

Advocacy

Advocates Seven Times More Likely to Donate Money to a Cause

Did you know advocates are seven-times more likely to give as compared to non-advocates? If you’re looking for ways to [...]

March 3, 2011 | < 1 min Read

Donor Stewardship

AFP’s Advancing Philanthropy Magazine Focuses on Prospect Research

The latest edition of Association of Fundraising Professional’s magazine, Advancing Philanthropy, contains a series of articles on prospect research. The [...]

January 20, 2011 | 2 min Read

Alumni Engagement

Moving From Happy Students to Engaged Alums

Fond memories, warm and fuzzy feeling, deep love and connection, keeping that magical feeling alive throughout your life – These [...]

December 14, 2010 | 2 min Read

Digital Marketing

Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

Did you notice something toony about Facebook last weekend? In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of [...]

December 6, 2010 | 3 min Read