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5 Nonprofit Email Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

NonProfit Hub

Gone are the days when people were restricted to their laptops for checking out emails. Buying mailing lists. When it comes to email marketing, most nonprofits rely on buying mailing lists, and it has its own pros and cons. Pose a question. Overlooking mobile users. Now, mobile phones are used to check emails.

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What to Do When Your Fundraising Methods Fall Flat

Get Fully Funded

It’s time to ask some hard questions. Or maybe you sent your mailing out at a time when people are distracted with something else like vacations or elections or major holidays. In fact, do you openly invite their questions? Just from reading those questions, you probably already know what you need to fix.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

When you receive a gift by check, you should print and mail a personalized letter of appreciation that serves as the receipt. Subject lines with questions have higher open rates. If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Personalized salutation.

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Hosting Hybrid Auctions: A How-To for Nonprofits

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This gives your guests the option to either bid from their phones, which will likely be the preferred option for in-person guests, or to bid from their laptops or computers, which many of your virtual bidders at home might prefer. It’s best to find a platform that supports both mobile and web-based bidding.

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What’s in your data management plan?

3rd Sector Labs

Our question “What’s in your data management plan?”, Furthermore, the typical nonprofit cleans data reactively, once problems are discovered or direct mail pieces are returned to the office. The need for the Data Management Plan. ”, assumes you have one. If you don’t, you have plenty of company.

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Marketing for Every Moment of the Student Engagement Lifecycle

Connection Cafe

If your site still requires someone to sit in front of a laptop for the best experience, you’ll shed all but the most motivated mobile phone users. Follow up with mail. Direct mail is still a closer. While mail is expensive and old-school, it has earned its continued place in your admissions strategy.

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

Bloomerang

If you put your question in there, it might have a little bit more visibility. But no matter where you ask that question, we’ll see it, and we will try to get to it before the 4:00 Eastern hour here. You can also tweet us those questions and comments, we’d love to hear from you there. It’s not a question.

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