Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We have a choice of where to invest those dollars – our time – and we want to invest them in the activities and tasks that produce the most returns. Try this simple trick to build a brilliant career: Forget about achieving “balance!” Look at your “Outlook equity” or “calendar equity” and see how you can adjust how you spend your time.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 17, 2014

You don’t want your stories to sound like obvious marketing pitches. Once you have a good group of passionate volunteers on board who are ready and willing to be active on social media, it’s up to you to post and tweet interesting and sharable content, and then let them share away. Build Your Street Cred. Above all, be likeable.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Build your campaign contact lists. Make sure you actively encourage viewers to make donations. You might even offer a small branded item, like a t-shirt or calendar for the coming year, to motivate your supporters to give. Encourage your supporters to plan fun activities, entertainment, and food for their parties.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

About De’Yonté Wilkinson: De’Yonté is the Director of Site Builds at Cornershop Creative. He’s spent the last three years specializing in WordPress and conversion optimization, and is an active proponent of coding guidelines. Some plugins may sound like they’re too good to be true, and they really might be!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2018

Here are three quick illustrations of how you can activate this dynamic duo: Integrate messaging: Marketing and fundraising communications should share a common agenda and voice. A mutual communication calendar can even facilitate logistics like consistent verbiage or timing of messages.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

Calendars & contacts were synced in what felt like seconds. No clunky calendar sync application. I like that I can set different sounds for each type of notification. I miss the ability to hold down on the microphone to activate voice dialing. 3 Gmail accounts, no problem. That, plus an external battery and SD card.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

In comparison, 10 years ago, these managers spent “only” 60 to 65 per cent of their time engaged in those activities. . A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Sound familiar? Establish Look Ahead Team Rituals .

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits? You could say, “That project sounds great, but my calendar is full and I don’t have the ability to commit to that right now.” A: Provide people with a space to build physical and mental health.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you want people from your social media to support your nonprofit’s activities, you need a nonprofit social media plan. AND, if you’re like most nonprofit leaders, you are doing one or all of these things: Spending quite a bit of time scrambling to keep your social presence active. Believe me, I hear you. But, don’t be fooled!

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

At the time, those ideas sounded like a tall order. He recommends building a promotional calendar that engages members at all points of their journeys, especially younger generations. “A With a little restructuring, your digital content calendar can become a revenue generator that will also attract diverse audiences.”

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You can also add new engagement activities of existing supporters to their constituent timelines. Make sure your staff members are always ready to talk to donors about the activities that matter most to them. Constituent search. The app has full access to your different projects and the “cards” (things to do) within that project.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sounds like you? Rather than expect the executive team to actively support and engage with your program, work on developing a strong relationship with one or two of the more accessible leaders. Before you create your annual campaign calendar or set fundraising goals, make sure you take time to assess, assess, assess.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had bad direct experiences with high-priced PR firms that are slaves to antiquated promotion calendars. I got so many emails over the past year from political and cause-based groups that are super-smart about how they build movements and inspire participation. but we didn't have anyone to get the museum involved in the followup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. Does a photo showing people doing an activity do better than people posing together? Here some tips on how to improve Facebook engagement with photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. To build your organization’s bank account and volunteer base, you need a flourishing community of supporters. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? Is there something like this you can try?

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? Some models are meant to be used as building blocks to help you assemble longer documents. Build A Bridge Fill gaps in your document by connecting two ideas.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

This is especially true during a period when people are feeling some burnout in regard to online activity. Ensure you have active, agreed-upon communication tools with your remote guest speakers, such as phone, instant messaging, or email. During this phase: Check audio to make sure speakers sound loud and clear.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

A website to build. You can customize a dashboard to show you at a glance how many donors you have, what your average donation amount is, and lots of other great information to help you manage and plan your fundraising activities. Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current. Systems to put in place.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 14, 2017

a last-minute addition to the season’s calendar). property and equipment): purchase of new lights and/or upgrading sound technology. a building, vehicle, or equipment) over time. Fixed asset additions (i.e., Debt repayment: paying back principal owed on the equipment loans. I have heard a lot about depreciation …What is it?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

We are here to talk about how to build your nonprofit’s engagement engine. Advomatic builds and supports websites for nonprofits and also works with a lot of great organizations, some of whom are in the room. ” And I think that’s a great way to embody what building mindshare can do for an organization.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 27, 2023

Don’t fall into this common temptation—build a social media strategy for your nonprofit instead! Set Up a Content Calendar A content calendar is a must-have piece of your nonprofit’s social media strategy. Set Up a Content Calendar A content calendar is a must-have piece of your nonprofit’s social media strategy.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Use phone, postcards, letters, emails and social media to build a series of appeals. If you use any pictures, be sure they are of people, not buildings. It’s what happens inside the buildings that counts. Make it sound like you sat down and wrote it to a friend. Set up a calendar of mailings and plan ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Or if you’re using a desktop client, disable the pop-up alerts and sound effects and close or minimize the application until you’re ready to focus on email. In other words, when I look at my calendar, do I actually have enough hours in a week to accomplish the priorities I’ve identified or am I’m trying to do too much at one time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

This has been narrowed to a focus on Twitter since that is where the most activity is concentrated at the moment. So, I suppose the moral is to have a profile, be active with updating and to be selective when building your feed. I'm not very good at being active or interacting, so I have to remind myself to do both.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

We’re looking at the specific mindset shifts that you need to make to build the confidence that you need to start raising more five and six-figure gifts without letting fear, intimidation, or imposter syndrome get in the way. Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

It's also significant that auscultation is non-invasive ; just as your doctor doesn't need to put you under the knife to see if you have a heart murmur, you don't have to disrupt the organization's day-to-day activities to see that there's a problem with its tech. Build up from the ground, not down from the sky.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

It's also significant that auscultation is non-invasive ; just as your doctor doesn't need to put you under the knife to see if you have a heart murmur, you don't have to disrupt the organization's day-to-day activities to see that there's a problem with its tech. Build up from the ground, not down from the sky.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

We’re looking at the specific mindset shifts that you need to make to build the confidence that you need to start raising more five and six-figure gifts without letting fear, intimidation, or imposter syndrome get in the way. Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But in order to leverage both of those methods, your campaign will need to include fundraising activities that go beyond the annual appeal letter. Build upon your annual appeal with other newer tools such as social media campaigns and more traditional methods like face-to-face asks (more on these tools later).

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Email Ideas Website Ideas Social Media Ideas Online Marketing Ideas Community Activity Ideas Digital Donor Acquisition Ideas Using Email If you’re looking to connect with online donors, email is going to be a powerful tool. You can always build out their profiles later on. This is a great element to build into your welcome emails!

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

In developing different revenue streams, you’re building a solid foundation that’ll ensure your nonprofit’s growth and success for many years. If so, you need to build up your other funding sources or maybe even create new ones. So, focus on building it. I like Excel for pie charts because it’s super easy to use. Get 10 grants.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

Resist the urge to focus on impressive-sounding statistics over individual stories. Create a content calendar that helps you plan and schedule posts. You can use some of these popular content calendar apps to help you! When done right, it can provide the jump start that any campaign needs to really build momentum.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

To help your nonprofit build a website that will continue to be useful as your nonprofit grows, this article will explore key elements you should know about and implement in your own design, including: Regularly Updated Content. As you build your website, engage visitors by including interactive media such as: Photo carousels.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

In our November/December edition, we explored how to build your 2015 marketing plan. It might not seem like much, but one marketing campaign, event or fundraiser can fill your calendar quickly. By organizing something each month, you can build momentum and work to coordinate your efforts year-round. An activism campaign?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

So it’s kind of like a Band-Aid fix every few years on the strategic planning process to make up for a marketing process that we really should be incorporating into our daily set of activities. . If you’re not sure where to focus, like, what’s the important program, which strategic relationships should you be building?

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Steven: You got a spot on the calendar every year. ” So let me build on these three things and show you what I mean. And what they should start doing was doing the activities that started attracting larger donors, attracting larger gifts that helped his organization lead donors to a deep understanding of what the need was.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

We’re going to be talking about how to leverage your authenticity as you’re building these relationships, and we’re going to talk about one of the things that gets in the way of so many fundraisers and being able to fundraise effectively, which is perfectionism, and I call myself a recovering perfectionist.

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