Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Practical Tips for Donor Engagement Strategies As a fundraiser, you probably have a good feel for how your donors want to engage with you, whether it’s on social media, through email, over the phone, or face-to-face. You can use similar questions to start conversations with donors over the phone or during face-to-face meetings, too.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s Time to Kick It Up a Notch The good news is that you only need three things to successfully identify, engage, and convert those elusive brand-new donors, and I’ll bet you already have them on hand: data, content, and technology. You have high-performing content that many potential donors haven’t seen. You have heaps of data.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It seemed just another Tuesday—just Apple’s version of a mobile phone that not everyone had or even wanted. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques. We didn’t ask.

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Everyaction

JUNE 11, 2018

M+R Benchmarks Report , 40% of nonprofit website visitors in the year 2017 were using a mobile phone - a 9% increase from the year prior. And it's not just websites that are affected by the trend toward mobile - more and more communication now happens through cell phones.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Text-to-give is a powerful donation tool that offers donors a way to easily give to their favorite nonprofits right from their phones. However, in general, the text-to-give process looks like the following: With your text-to-give platform, you’ll set up a shortened phone number, known as a shortcode.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

There is a technique that you can use for nearly any type of campaign that will help you achieve the best results and the lowest cost per result: it’s all about targeting broadly, having lots of creative variations and giving Facebook time to learn. . 1) Forget about organic, focus on ads. 6) Your Facebook campaigns need time to learn.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The bonus is that it mashes up a variety of spammer techniques, starting with a list of 3-letter words running from "act" to "dry". Content-Type: text/plain. Tired of the Tradtionial Phone System? Tired of the Tradtionial Phone System? Then a VOIP Phone System is for You. Another newbie spammer playing with a toy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Here’s some examples.

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Socialbrite

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The average smartphone user is one their phone for more than 4 hours a day. With the importance of mobile marketing in mind, consider these fundraising techniques using a smartphone. 3 Even if your organization has an app, it’s important to make sure that your website and social media content are mobile-friendly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. Most real selling still happens in those face-to-face meetings with the buyer or over the phone. That’s marketing, not sales.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. Most real selling still happens in those face-to-face meetings with the buyer or over the phone. That’s marketing, not sales.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As the 2018 midterm elections near, it’s likely hard to ignore the ads, phone calls, mail pieces, and emails from political campaigns in your area reminding you to vote. Video storytelling If you own a TV, you’re no stranger to election-related advertisements. You’ll also see video ads on social media and video streaming services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time! For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. Most likely, there will be some content delivery you share during your workshop.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The migration is not like updating an iPhone from iOS 15 to 16: it’s more like switching from an iPhone to an Android phone (or vice versa). Moving toward providing more do-it-yourself tools for reporting, “Explorations” in GA4 is a collection of advanced reporting techniques that help you uncover insights about your customers’ behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. The second session used a conferencing software that allowed the whole group to break into small group discussions on the phone line. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Three Ways to Think About Content. Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert. Think Beyond Presenters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

An AI-powered tool can accomplish it in minutes—and doesn’t get interrupted for meetings or a phone call or a birthday party for Toby the newish office manager who just turned 27. We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Personalized content could include different email series for alumni based on how recently they graduated, what they majored in, the field that they currently work in, and more. Personalized content shows alumni that they are valued as part of the college community, and will increase their sense of connection.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Personalized content could include different email series for alumni based on how recently they graduated, what they majored in, the field that they currently work in, and more. Personalized content shows alumni that they are valued as part of the college community, and will increase their sense of connection.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Immediacy and response are key, even as short-form content proliferates. Elements to include when studying techniques that inspire immediate action and applying those lessons: Analyze effective ad appeals – what motivates rapid response? Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Check it out on your mobile phone. We learned that we have to be in this space and be very strategic about the content we deliver,” says McCrehan. Condom use campaign: (check that out on your phone. forms are really easy to fill out on a phone). Build lists and collect cell phone numbers. Requires strategy.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Combining both content marketing techniques and digital advertising tools has delivered value to nonprofits. While social media platforms are in constant evolution, nonprofits are learning to innovate and experiment with engagement techniques for advocacy and fundraising. Using an out of date email list. High Complaints.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

They’ll share your content. This technique helped me grow my first monthly giving program very quickly, adding a couple of dozen donors in just a few weeks. You can start with a letter or email, but the phone is your friend if you want to upgrade your monthly donors. As a donor, I don’t like this strategy. Special Ask event.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. Most real selling still happens in those face-to-face meetings with the buyer or over the phone. That’s marketing, not sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions come from the Internet if you have email, Twitter, or mobile phone beeping at you. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? Most of our work as social media nonprofit professionals is to be present on our online communities, listen, engage, and manage content.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2009

This project in Avesta, Sweden, in which visitors use special flashlights to explore a historic site and reveal interpretative content of interest, is an elegant example of how museums can innovative the label experience. First, a little explanation about "pull" content techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2015

We focus more capturing the sunset on our mobile phone to share on Facebook , than simply enjoying it. Over the years, I’ve been writing and teaching workshops on these topics – how to manage your attention online , how to avoid being content fried , and balancing connectivity with solitude. It can drain your passion.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I also encrypt my Android phone. "My favorite browser security extensions are WOT (Web of Trust) , which filters out fishy content based on user feedback, and HTTPs Everywhere , which automatically switches thousands of sites from insecure http to secure https." In fact my bank recently enforced it on.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. Most real selling still happens in those face-to-face meetings with the buyer or over the phone. That’s marketing, not sales.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. Most real selling still happens in those face-to-face meetings with the buyer or over the phone. That’s marketing, not sales.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! By integrating your fundraising tools and your CRM system, your communications team can use accurate donor data to individualize email content. Phone calls. Understand the Giver’s Journey. Personalized emails. Direct mail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Stop twittering from your cell phone in the bathroom and use that time to think about how you could be more efficient using a particular social media tool. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. What are our successes and challenges? What needs to change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I view it as a focus group that offers content ideas for blog posts as well as to provide another conversation channel to share insights about social media. That statement guides how I engage and what content I share. This is multi-step process looking at your web site content, events, and social media properties. Unsubscribes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I use a technique I learned from Jay Dedman called “Moment Capture&# where you get the most enlightening snippet. I usually reserve video capture for a special story or moment that absolutely can’t be told with text. It’s much easier now with smart phones and the flip cameras. Sharing the Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. In a face-to-face training, I might do an exercise with sticky notes where I get participants to write down answers to a question or two related to the content on sticky notes.

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