As a rule, I don’t enable images in emails. And I’ve blogged about how annoying it is to get blank emails from businesses and nonprofits I’m interested in. The solution obviously is to send emails in both text and HTML. But that doesn’t look as...
The “100 Donors in 90 Days” program works. There are some pretty incredible results. Even nonprofits that only do half of the ideas in the program have seen over 100 new donors! Start the year strong To help you get a jump-start on 2013, we’re...
As we start 2013, I thought I’d share with you an idea from the beginning of my latest book, Fundraising Kick: how you can create an additional month of fundraising this year. Sounds over the top, doesn’t it? But if you devote 1 hour a day for each work day to...
I am working with the folks that created the 100 Donors in 90 Days program on a new product that will be released in the first few months of 2013. Labeled “The Donor Retention Project,” we’re interviewing a dozen experts to give very practical insider information,...
Are you looking at the next 3 weeks as time wasted for fundraising? Are excuses like “Everyone is going to a holiday party” and “No one will want to hear from me” filling your mind and mouth? Stop it. A recent seven year analysis of online...
A couple weeks ago, I got to lead a storytelling training with presidents of community colleges from around the country and their board chairs. They were a refreshingly lively group! As these board presidents shared, many of them told stories of students who’d...
