by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 25, 2007 | Ask Without Fear! products
Thank you to all of you who voted (again) on the title of this book. I’m pleased to announce you’ve helped keep the great parts of the original title and give it more punch! The new title is Ask Without Fear! A Simple Guide to Connecting Donors with What...
by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 25, 2007 | Fundraising Secrets
I got pretty passionate about last week’s blog post about not getting “entitled.” I equally passionate about Fundraising Secret #4: you’re not begging! Let me repeat that: YOU’RE NOT BEGGING. Fundraisers are not panhandlers. Beggars take...
by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 16, 2007 | 3. Ask, Samples & Tools
Jeff Brooks at the Donor Powered Blog, lists these 7 surprising facts about direct-response fundraising. I use these factoids all the time in my thinking about mailings so I thought I’d list Jeff’s 7 here: Blank carrier envelopes usually out-perform...
by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 11, 2007 | 2. Engage, 4. Love (Stewardship), Fundraising Secrets
[Warning: rant in progress] Hang around me for any length of time and you’ll hear me rant about the awful tendency of those of us in nonprofits of getting entitled. Sit in the back office of just about any nonprofit, and you’ll here people slip into talk...
by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 7, 2007 | Ask Without Fear! products
Brian Tracy has graciously written this: This short, practical book gives you a series of step-by-step methods to raise more money, faster and easier than you ever thought possible. -Brian Tracy, Author The Psychology Of Selling I can’t wait to have this book in...
