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by Marc A. Pitman | Jan 3, 2020 | 3. Ask, Guest Posts
Changing the way you think about money is a vital key to becoming successful at fundraising. In this guest post, Andrea Waltz points out an important area for us to address. Andrea is the author of "Go for No! Yes is the destination, No is how you get there" - an...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 13, 2019 | Book Review
One of the joys of being a speaker and executive coach is that people send me their books. I have such a long reading list, that I usually take a l-o-n-g time reading the ones that are sent to me. I'm glad I didn't wait to read Jim Eskin's. (It definitely helped that...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 6, 2019 | Fundraising Secrets, Personal Leadership
Improving fundraising is a never-ending quest for nonprofit leaders. But recent research shows a startling discovery on how to make your fundraising better. In "The Wake Up Call," researchers Dr. Adrian Sargeant and Harriet Day researched leadership styles and their...
by Marc A. Pitman | Nov 19, 2019 | 3. Ask
I recently tweeted "your discomfort with asking is getting in the way of a donor's joy in giving. So get out of the way!" (Click here to tweet that.) Since then, I've been getting a lot of questions about how to get over the discomfort! How to politely ask for money...
by Marc A. Pitman | Oct 22, 2019 | 3. Ask, Fundraising Secrets
Today I was honored to give a webinar with CiviCore on data and impactful stories. I shared one researcher's experience with stumbling on to a form of a story. Then look at studies about using statistics in fundraising versus not using any statistics. We saw images...
