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6 Surefire Tips for Asking for Donations Over the Phone

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Making donation appeals over the phone is an interesting middle ground between asking for donations in person and making appeals through more anonymous methods like email or on your website. This makes asking for donations over the phone somewhat tricky. Make a genuine appeal during your phone call. Let’s get started!

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How To Avoid Becoming Addicted To Your Mobile Phone

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rosen’s research has found that the average person checks their phone every 15 minutes or less and that approximately 50% of the time there isn’t a notification beckoning them to do so. According to Rosen, we check our phones to reduce anxiety. How are you avoiding getting addicted to your mobile phone? This is a Ludic Loop!

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Does This Deserve My Attention?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, this tweet from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart got my attention! It is a simple, elegant way to train your attention while working online to keep mindful how you are spending your time. As he says in his book, your attention is one of your most available assets. ” (Note: I created a list.ly

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Break Your Mobile Phone Addiction: There’s An App for That and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Having trouble getting that mobile phone out of your hands and checking it when you need to focus on work? There’s an app that can help you break your mobile phone addiction and it makes it fun. The app is called Forest that turns putting down your phone into a game. Here’s how it works.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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Yes, you can get people to put down their phones and pay attention. Circulate articles and information on best practices and trends in finance. But a poor web design won’t get anyone on the bad side of the law whereas ignoring those important statements might. So how do you make the financial report a bingeable presentation?

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Attention nonprofits: We don’t know our donor data!

3rd Sector Labs

We move, take new jobs, change phone plans, change email accounts, marry, divorce, raise families, change religions, develop new interests, attend new events, and get involved in new activities. The post Attention nonprofits: We don’t know our donor data! Because donors are people, and people’s lives change.

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3 Top Learning Strategies You Need To Change The World

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Consider the hours of time you spend reading articles and books, attending webinars, conferences and meetings, watching videos, and whatever else you generally do to explore and develop new skills. We tried all sorts of things to get attention and see how far we could push the boundaries. via article, book, webinar, meeting, etc.)