Relief is here!

Join us at “Ask Without Fear!” LIVE! We’ll help you take the fear out of asking so you won’t have to feel guilty anymore!

“[Marc] is very knowledgeable and energetic, engaging audience members and helping them understand specific things they can do to be successful in their positions…I highly recommend him…”

Rachel Hutchisson
Director of Marketing Programs and Events
Blackbaud, Inc., Charleston, SC

This seminar is perfect of nonprofit employees, board members, and volunteers! Some of the fundraising things you’ll learn include:

RESEARCH

• how to research both your fundraising goal and your prospects
• components of an effective case statement
• free tools for finding out about people
• how to build your donor list

“Thanks so much for all you are sharing with me! I am actually enjoying learning about fundraising! I didn’t think that was possible.”

Cami Foerster
Chairperson of the Board of Directors
The Boston Project Ministries

ENGAGE

• why fundraising is like dating
• practical tools of engagement
• ways to get out from behind your desk
• specific questions to ask donors to learn about them
• actual conversations and tips of using the phone and email
• ideas for fundraising on Facebook, Twitter, Ning–social media/Web 2.0–and how these can protect you from seeing people as merely wallets
• how to quantify your engagement work for your boss or board chair
• why this step significantly takes the stress out of asking for money

“Great energy and knowledge. Really showed that fundraising can be fun and rewarding career.”

Conference attendee, Montreal

ASK

• an in-depth look at simple tool to help asks be more effective
• how a person’s tendencies lead you in asking and thanking them afterwards
• ways to gauge the ask and how to flex to match a person’s personality type
• actual gift planning table and how to use it in an ask
• the importance of silence in asking
• how props can reduce fear–for both the asker and the one being asked
• why “asking” is not changing your relationship with a prospective donor
• how many options to offer
• specific phrasing for getting the appointment
• why objections are good
• how to handle objections effectively

The day after an Ask Without Fear! LIVE, one participant emailed me to say:

I enjoyed your seminar so much, as did Danielle. We walked away very excited, and have already increase the number of people that will be at our next meeting, as well as more businesses coming on board to add to our fund raising. We have incredible things going on, and now adding what we have learned from your seminar has just motivated us even more.

Thank you so much for the gift you have given to us.

Now, you can listen to this entire fundraising seminar from the comfort of your desk! You’ll can purchase each three 90-minute webinars individually, or get them packaged together with a bonus workbook. Find out more about getting the fundraising webinar Ask Without Fear! EXPANDED.