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Agitator Cliff Notes: “Hacking Marketing”

The Agitator

This time, I’m going with a non-fundraising book: Hacking Marketing by Scott Brinker of Chief Marketing Technologist fame. The idea is how to take the lessons from the agile software development movement and apply them to more traditional marketing. Intimate customer tribes over impersonal mass markets.

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4 Tips to Find the Right Audience for Your Nonprofit’s Event

Nonprofit Megaphone

Answer: Knowing your audience and targeting the right people to attend your fundraising event is the first step to donor engagement. This means not only knowing the needs, passions, and motivations of your donors, but also matching them to the needs, program, and format of your event. Create a contact strategy. Occupation.

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Donor Stewardship: Expert Tips to Build Strong Relationships

Bloomerang

Follow up with each donor by sending messages that describe how their donation is being used and the impact it’s having. In these messages, you should invite donors to continue engaging with your mission in other ways. You can do this by encouraging them to participate in a volunteer opportunity or attend one of your events.

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Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers: Don’t Run. Dash!

The Agitator

That’s because authors Katrina VanHuss and Otis Fulton provide a fascinating, road-tested tour of donor motivation, donor recognition and donor incentives—good and bad—and the behavioral science principles that undergird them. Market Relationships. And you can order Donor Dash right here.

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

International Review of Public and Nonprofit Marketing, 15 (3), 393-411. [16] In absence of money: a field experiment on volunteer work motivation. Journal of Marketing, 67 (3), 47-62. [24] International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 5 (4), 365-372. [28] 15] James, R. Experimental Economics , 1-33.

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The 4-step guide to turning one-time event participants into lasting donors

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Did you know that the average participant in your fundraising races or walks recruits three to four donors for your cause? Their guide outlines a four-step process for identifying, engaging, qualifying, cultivating and converting event donors. Are you doing all you could to embrace these friends of friends? Be sure to: 1.

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The 4-step guide to turning one-time event participants into lasting donors

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Did you know that the average participant in your fundraising races or walks recruits three to four donors for your cause? Their guide outlines a four-step process for identifying, engaging, qualifying, cultivating and converting event donors. Are you doing all you could to embrace these friends of friends? Be sure to: 1.