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Giving USA 2021 Key Findings: How to Retain and Upgrade Nonprofit Donors Before Year’s End

Bloomerang

Arts, culture, and humanities fell 7.5% (-8.6% Pay attention: Every donor deserves thoughtful responsiveness. If you pay attention only to fueling up, leaving the leaking hole in your gas tank unattended, you’ll run dry. Similarly, if you pay attention only to major donors, pretty soon your donor pipeline will run dry. .

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How to Nail the Soft Skills of Fundraising: The Face-to-Face Ask

Connection Cafe

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. The great news is you can use your body language to intentionally project confidence. Pretend you are a cultural archaeologist. That is a lot happening at once! Listening More than Talking. Strong and Effective Body Language.

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10 Soft Skills to Nail the Ask

BoardAssist

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. The great news is you can use your body language to intentionally project confidence. Pretend you are a cultural archaeologist. That is a lot happening at once! Jerry Panas recommends your visit should be 25% talking and 75% listening.

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How to Nail the Soft Skills of Fundraising: The Face-to-Face Ask

Connection Cafe

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. The great news is you can use your body language to intentionally project confidence. Pretend you are a cultural archaeologist. That is a lot happening at once! Avoid eye contact and you give the impression of being untrustworthy.

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How To Tap Into The Hidden Wisdom Of People Around You

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Ask Approach™ is neither a cookbook recipe nor a script to follow blindly. For many, ditching the distractions will be challenging simply because of the culture we live in. Recent research suggests that most of us now have attention spans of less than a minute. It's decide what to do with what we hear."

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

Bloomerang

So we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage. ” I want you to be paying attention. Should I be paying attention to that? You believe that this is the only time that you’re going to get these people’s attention.

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

So, remember, you want to listen attentively. And so I’ll do like a script with them. And so that’s great that you want to do a script, but then, once you have that script down, you have to throw it away and you have to really gauge how the conversation is going by the person that you’re speaking with.

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