Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

“Putting people first and delivering results are not two separate goals,” according to the new book, The Double Bottom Line. Rather, a strong focus on people drives strong results, creating the double bottom line,” adds author Donato Tramuto (with Tami Booth Corwin).

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 tearjerker circles around an orca named Tilikum, who was captured at two years old and held captive in various aquatic zoos until his death 25 years later. But a great documentary changes the course of our culture, economies and public policy. Take Blackfish.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 5, 2014

Designing or redesigning your nonprofit's website? Before you get started, check out these ten tips for creating engaging nonprofit websites from Firespring CEO, Jay Wilkinson. Wilkinson shared his web design wisdom in a recent TechSoup webinar. These were my top ten takeaways. Resist the "Do it Cheap" Syndrome.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2023

This hypothetical scenario begs the question: How can you inspire and captivate audiences, regardless of where they discover your organization? Moreover, an online search may take your prospective supporter to other platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and, of course, Candid.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

They captivate us, put things into perspective, shock us, and give everyone something to talk about at the coffee pot in the morning. Image courtesy of ok.gov. Let’s be honest, we’re all suckers for numbers. Nonprofit statistics seem to grow more positive with each passing day.

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Elevation

MARCH 23, 2020

Good storytelling leaves us wanting more, be it in the form of just one last bedtime story, the novel we can’t put down, the tale that captivates us as we huddle around a campfire, or the film we lose ourselves in while cuddled up on the couch.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Each day my grandchildren were captivated more by Simone’s spirit, care and challenges to their thought process. She captivated all of us, as she challenged us to learn and do. Right then and there the friendship grew by leaps and bounds. After they helped us settle into the house, we began five days of adventure and fun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2019

Monetize your social media channels by pairing captivating photos and heartfelt stories with donation – and crowdfunding forms when appropriate – that make it easy for your donors to support and share about causes that matter to them. Reach them through a text message. You can even use this platform for a text-to-give campaign.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Museums Test New Ways to Captivate Patrons—With and Without Technology | Nonprofit Quarterly : 'via Blog this'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2012

Three months into my first job out of college my boss brings me into the company cafeteria and tells me things just aren’t working out. He states a few things he likes about my work. Then, he details a longer list of what he doesn’t like. I’m surprised. Worried I’ll lose my first real job. And, scared.

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Association TV

MARCH 16, 2022

Inciting incident, hero’s journey, that utterly captivating climax and just when the audience is sitting on the edge of their seats… breathe in, breathe out, the conclusion that ties everything together. But you still have a jargon headline and a boring read. And if the writing sucks, who cares? Certainly not Kathy. Feels good, doesn't it?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 8, 2021

Mission moments” are a great time to deliver your organization’s strongest stories to a captive audience. I highly urge you to consider sharing meaningful videos, and in-person and online testimonials at your events — whether live, virtual or hybrid. Direct mail and newsletters.

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Greater Giving

JULY 19, 2021

It’s not every day you get access to a captive group of guests for several hours—take advantage of it! The more chances you offer guests to support nonprofit work, the more they’ll rise to the challenge and give, especially if they get something in return. An Auction ON and OFF the Green.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. Stumped for what leadership and business books to add to your winter reading list?

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Smaller nonprofits, and even larger ones, are constantly evolving as they find their captive audience and grow their voice. Can you trust the information in your CRM, and does it still ring true to your organization’s initiatives?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. Stumped for what business books to add to your fall reading list? Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager.

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Volunteer Hub

JULY 20, 2021

In order to be successful in 2021, your volunteer program needs to captivate, entice, and enrich the lives of volunteers and the community that benefits from your mission. Your organization’s volunteer management solution is a crucial component of your volunteer program.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. Stumped for what business books to add to your winter reading list? Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager.

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sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2023

You might use different social media to accomplish different goals: Instagram : Instagram is visual-centric, so use captivating images and videos here to capture your audience’s attention. Like and comment on supporters’ activity to show them that they’re noticed and appreciated by your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In the process of coming up with a nice design and captivating storytelling to capture potential supporters, you may be overlooking a few fundamental and truly effective steps to boost conversions on your online donation page. So why can’t you convert more of your web traffic into donors? 1) Make Giving Simple.

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Web Courseworks Associations

AUGUST 12, 2021

Adobe Captivate. Adobe Captivate is a robust course authoring solution created by the same well-known company behind Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Creative Cloud, and more. Though Adobe Flash compatibility was phased out at the tail end of 2020, Captivate is still available and able to publish courses as HTML-5 files. per month.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

While it’s important to captivate your audience as soon as they land on your homepage, you also don’t want to inundate them with too much information or on-page elements. Create a simple design Research suggests that a website’s homepage has 50 milliseconds (0.05 seconds) to convince visitors to stay on your homepage.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Even when your donors are a captive audience, design your stories for the very human experience of contributing to making the world a better place. Donors want to feel like their contribution is making an important difference, rather than perpetuating the status quo. The attention economy is a human economy.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

With captive audiences, a link to the creative, and consistent footfall, shops in museums have ample opportunity to maximise retail potential by offering products that appeal to visitors and have a clear connection to collections. . Museum shops can and should be more than just walls of collection postcards and bins of branded pencils.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Either way, it’s important to go into 2022 with a strong digital fundraising strategy to take advantage of an increasingly more captive online audience. . Maybe your nonprofit is still redefining their goals in light of changing social and professional environments.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 7, 2019

Find a captivating story. Show that your cause is directly making an impact on the lives of community members. This is especially important for nonprofits that are very rooted in their local communities. Find your story. Obviously, don’t bend the truth, but facts can only go so far to bring interest to your cause.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 9, 2017

To me, the words “content marketing” are a mouthful of sand for something that’s supposed to be so captivating and delicious. The heart of content marketing for any company or organization is to tell captivating stories and add value to the reader to relay the impact of your efforts.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2015

So how do you break through the noise and develop a captive diverse audience? Let’s face it: we are living in a world of followers, friends, and instant feedback. Nonprofits and for-profits alike are competing to be heard in a world that can’t stop screaming online. It’s as simple as 1-2-3.

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See3

JUNE 24, 2011

Change the world, one video at a time.The Cove trailer | 2:18 thecovemovie.com This captivating film follows activist Ric O’Barry (of Flipper fame) and a team of commando environmentalists as they heroically film the yearly slaughter of approximately 23,000 dolphins in a well-guarded cove in Taiji, Japan.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. Stumped for what business books to add to your fall reading list? Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 28, 2016

And it’s true, one of the most effective ways to captivate an audience is to tell a story worth hearing about your organization. Captivate interviews with awesome lighting, showing their “window to the soul.”. You’ve heard it a thousand times, “Tell stories to receive more donations.”

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

On your flyer, feature captivating graphics, incorporate your nonprofit’s unique branding, and explain the purpose behind your event so that people will feel emotionally connected to your cause and want to attend. . Kwala’s guide to fundraising flyers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Many groups wanted to focus on habitat preservation and threat management, while most scientists had come to believe that removing condors from the wild and breeding them in captivity was the only hope for saving them. Captive breeding at the zoos worked better than anyone could have hoped.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 12, 2019

Its design and copy need to be captivating or else people will ignore it. Follow these suggestions to step up your newsletter marketing game. Your pop-up matters. A newsletter popup is one of the first things your audience should see when visiting your website. pop up on a website?

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

How Can I Captivate? Sometimes captivating can be as simple as serving up beautiful imagery to go under your text. This San Francisco restaurant showcases its philosophy in under 30 seconds with a clear mission statement and video clips that bring it to life. Now comes the fun part. Here are some tricks of the iPhoneography trade.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 23, 2021

C = Captivate your audience. And it may help your response rate because you are mailing higher-quality potential donors. With that in mind though, keep in mind that adding selects on to compiled files is still probably not going to get you the response rate you are looking for. . You want it to stand out.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Newsletters can be used to send updates on projects and captivating stories so donors can see how they are directly impacting your organization. To keep in contact with attendees, send out a newsletter for your organization and interact with donors on social media.

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