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How to Promote an Event on Instagram to Boost Attendance

Bloomerang

Build excitement through your Instagram event promotion by posting teasers about your event line-up, contests, and ticket deals. Whether you’re hosting a festival, 5K race, or gala, your pre-event promotion should hype up your event as the can’t-miss opportunity of the season. Host contests and giveaways to boost engagement.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In many towns, NPR and PBS stations are the only locally-owned media organizations, and their mission to serve the public demands that they develop new ways of engaging and strengthening those communities. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Crowdsourcing the Corporate/ Nonprofit Partnership.

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15+ Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas (and Expert Tips) for 2021

Qgiv

You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts. Team up with local news. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Try partnering with your local news station to increase the reach of your campaign. Host a concert.

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Event Fundraising Contests That Will Blow Your Mind!!

NetWits

We’ve touched on task-based event fundraising contest here before, but because this way of motivating your supporters is so effective we thought it was time to0 revisit the topic in more details. If we create contests to encourage these behaviors in all fundraisers, it can help raise incremental revenue. Belong to a team.

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Spring Fundraising Events: How to Plan a Fresh, Exciting Event

Qgiv

For example, one of our local clients, Volunteers in Service to the Elderly (VISTE), runs VISTEBall, a golf-themed event that combines the fun of a golf tournament with the convenience of an indoor event. Step 3: Engage the Hype Machine. And, when I say “hype machine,” I mean it. May the 4th Be With You Costume Contest.

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Guest Post: Top 40 Countdown at the Worcester City Museum

Museum 2.0

If you don’t watch Big Brother , The Apprentice , Dancing with the Stars or X factor you probably dismiss these shows because they revolve around people you don’t know in an environment you find uninteresting and over-hyped. The secret of reality TV’s success is the viewer’s involvement with the ‘journey’ of the contestants.

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