Tangibilitize Your Ask

So by now you’ve made your own gift and have been practicing asking for money (“would you consider a gift of $___”). Today let’s look at something many of us forget: tangibilitizing the ask. While you probably won’t find tangibilitize in...

Ask Yourself!

We’re still in the midst of exploring the “ask”step in the Get R.E.A.L. asking for money process. Last time we’ve seen the importance of asking a specific amount and asking for a repeated gift next year. How are your solicitations going? Are...

Keep Asking!

“I’d like to ask you to consider a gift of $5,000 to the campaign.” Did you practice the question? Is it rolling off your tongue? Keep on practicing. Then try adding higher dollar amounts. I was just speaking with a new colleague who told me a cool...

Ask!

All fall, we’ve been working through the basics of asking people for money with the simple four-step formula: R.E.A.L. Research, Engage, Ask, and Love ’em. Now we begin focusing on “ask.” Some of you may be wondering why it’s taken so...

The Basics are Extreme

I. FUNDRAISING BASICS: Introduction II. RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT: aweber.com I. FUNDRAISING BASICS: Introduction I’ve been publishing the Extreme Fundraising Ezine since 2003. How time flies! All that time, I’ve wondered when someone would ask me, “Marc, what’s so ’xtreme’...