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Data hoarding: Does the term apply to your donor data?

3rd Sector Labs

Do development directors have to sift through duplicate records … or worse yet, conflicting records? Have you been blocked for sending out spam because too many of your emails go to bad addresses? So we studied the problem, then created custom scripts to clean and de-dupe based on reasonable best practices.

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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

M+R

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter.

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[VIDEO] The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

I like to joke that I have had every job that is a Rubik’s cube in the nonprofit world, staff member, board member, founder, executive director. ” Write your phone ask scripts and plan your list of who you’re going to call and what you’re going to ask for. No spam here. ” I love it.

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