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One of the hardest-working but most underrated pages of any nonprofit website is the "Contact Us" page. It hangs in the background, behind more glamorous pages, ready to offer the most basic but essential of information about an organization What makes an effective Contact Us page It should answer two key questions: How people can contact your nonprofit and why they should want to contact your nonprofit. MORE
For major donors and most loyal supporters, your donor database software should give your team the ability to track all of the information that they’ll need to remember about each donor - from detailed contact history to the contact information for their family members and financial planners. MORE
Otherwise, you’ll alienate these valuable contacts. So many organizations I follow or work with have become strong and savvy communicators. It’s thrilling to see nonprofits like yours put communications to work effectively despite time, talent, and budget constraints. . MORE
Here’s yet another study from the commercial world that delivers the refrain: Make contact with your customers! Yeah, the study was conducted by Harris Interactive for InContact, a vested interest provider of contact center software. But dismiss these findings, which I believe apply to donors, at your peril … More than a third (68%) of consumers said that companies who have no other means of contact other than a toll-free number seem outdated. [We MORE
Another example of keeping it simple is Care4Kids , a program Constant Contact , the company I use for my email newsletter (which you can sign up for in the top right!). It’s no coincidence that Constant Contact’s Care4Kids program is for charities that help kids. MORE
A broad range of healthcare focused organizations depend on member and donor database software to manage relationships with supporters. MORE
As we've been approaching the end of year, my coaching clients are asking me to help them prioritize their major gift fundraising contacts. Individual contacts, not spray-and-pray! Photo courtesy of Willy D on Flickr. Some rights reserved. MORE
Thought you might be interested in the results of a survey ConstantContact did recently on nonprofits Here's the text: Constant Contact Nonprofit Pulse Survey: Attracting New Supporters Keeps Nonprofits Up at Night Majority of nonprofits see potential of social media marketing to help with engaging supporters WALTHAM, Mass. social communications Email Constant Contact website social media marketing Small nonprofit small business survey MORE
For major donors and most loyal supporters, your donor database software should give your team the ability to track all of the information that they’ll need to remember about each donor - from detailed contact history to the contact information for their family members and financial planners. MORE
Also worth considering: your software should provide easily-browsed and highly-sortable donation history for each contact. MORE
I am adapting some of the tools from a book that I’m reading called “Make your Contacts Count&# by Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon. First off, if you haven’t read the first part of this post yet, I would go there. This shit will make a LOT more sense if you do. MORE
Constant Contact. Tags: Cause Tools analytics pro apps cause marketing constant contact dropbox evernote iphone read it later remember the milk wordpress app Anyone who knows me knows how important my iPhone is to me, especially now that I have the super-fast 4G! MORE
Before, only Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles were matched to an individual's contact record. Now, 97 different social networks are matched daily , and also provide social media biographies to be integrated into a contact record. Understanding your supporters and meeting them where they are is an increasingly important part of any outreach campaign. MORE
Constant Contact Sucks Workshops are Sales Pitches. And then I went to a conference in Philly and AGAIN Constant Contact was there with a purported workshop about social media, but ACTUALLY it was about how you should use their newsletter software. You know what I hate? MORE
was invited to a local presentation on email marketing from Constant Contact, the Waltham, Massachusetts email marketing outfit whose target market is small businesses and nonprofits.They offer a cause-related marketing campaign called Care4Kids meant to. Tags: Constant Contact Email Marketing OK, not pimping really. More like a gentle noodge to nonprofits and the companies that love them that it’s time to start email marketing.I MORE
The main challenge with the donors that come in via Facebook Fundraisers is that many of them don’t elect to share their contact information with you. If you have their contact info , send these donors a special email thanking them specifically for giving via Facebook on Giving Tuesday. . MORE
You absolutely need to include contact information in your emails (and other forms of communication). But lots of times the only contact information you have is an email address. Contact your ESP if you are unsure how to find the default and change it. MORE
There’s nothing wrong with that - after all, these are your supporters - but they can only give so much every year, so you’ll also want to find ways to connect with new people who support your mission but aren’t in your general contact base. MORE
Non-donors don’t.) • Belief—Probably (but he needs to confirm this, which he can begin at Google or Dogpile for bios and community involvement and continue with further personal contact with the people). One of my clients met some people at an annual conference peripherally related to his organization’s cause. They hit it off. During the weekend, they talked a little about his work, and he believes they might be sympathetic. MORE
For fundraisers, the clarity of each donor contact record matters. A clean and complete contact record saves time and provides fundraisers with the full picture. It finds the right contact(s) based on the email address used in the To and CC of the message. MORE
The post How many LinkedIn contacts do you have? Fundraising Lead Generation strategy charitable giving communication and engagement LinkedIn contacts LinkedIN marketing tips LinkedIN profiles Nonprofit nonprofit social media marketing Outreach on LinkedIn MORE
Your List is Reaching Thousands of Contacts. Yet, there's also an inverse relationship between the size of a list and your knowledge of its contacts. You're Struggling to Engage Contacts. MORE
When I first went to the website to register for access to the weekend-long festival, I didn’t even have to type my contact information into the form - thanks to EveryAction’s Action Profiles, my information was pre-filled and all I had to do was click “submit” to complete my registration. MORE
organizing voter contactFor nonprofits which engage in advocacy around civic engagement or political issues, voter registration drives are a great tool for activating your volunteer base, deepening relationships within your community, and increasing local democratic participation. MORE
The post To Build Trust, Make Sure Your Photos Make Eye Contact With Your Donors appeared first on MarketSmart. MORE
The new functionality provides the option to indicate which contact records were targeted for the ads, allowing users to measure results of how those ads increase supporter participation and engagement. Here’s how it works: Users first create a list of contacts in EveryAction that they want to target. MORE
Constant Contact Sucks Workshops are Sales Pitches. And then I went to a conference in Philly and AGAIN Constant Contact was there with a purported workshop about social media, but ACTUALLY it was about how you should use their newsletter software. You know what I hate? MORE
The relational organizing approach entails mobilizing a campaign’s supporters to contact their friends and family, asking them to volunteer, vote, or donate. MORE
Planned Giving programs are unique in the world of nonprofit fundraising because of the length of time involved in the gift process, and the fact that multiple contacts beyond the donor themselves are often involved, such as lawyers, estate planners, and other beneficiaries. MORE
Contact information. Assuring access paths to your online content and personnel contact information are current is essential for timely updates, responses and for others to contact your organization with any questions or inquiries they may have about your work. Contact Methods. MORE
For major donors and most loyal supporters, your donor database software should give your team the ability to track all of the information that they’ll need to remember about each donor - from detailed contact history to the contact information for their family members and financial planners. MORE
“We regret to inform you that as of January 1, 2017 nonprofits will not be permitted to contact their donors without the express written consent of each donor.” Once you’ve picked yourself off the floor with the fear you can’t meet next year’s goal, exactly what action steps will you take to prepare for what the majority of fundraisers would consider a disaster of immense dimension? MORE
higher education organizing voter contactFor universities searching for ways to both grow students' engagement on campus and develop their education and participation as active citizens, voter registration programs have become an increasingly popular activity. MORE
At EveryAction, we know that major gifts officers and other development professionals need to have as much information as possible about their prospective donors in order to fine-tune their "fundraising asks.". With that in mind, we've built a powerful new integration with WealthEngine to provide nonprofit fundraising pros with that information, ultimately helping them raise more money. What is WealthEngine? MORE
When Jen Billow shared with her fellow Communications Director Mentoring Program participants that her organization, the Park City Education Foundation, had received accolades from Constant Contact for their awesome email engagement rates, everyone wanted to know how. MORE
organizer community advocacy webinar organizing voter contactNon-partisan civic engagement efforts are so important to the health of our democracy, but how do you protect your canvassers from the record-breaking summer heat? Here are five tips for keeping you and your canvassers safe while they're engaging voters and knocking doors. Stay hydrated. Make sure that you and your canvassers have access to plenty of cold water. The key is to drink as soon as you become thirsty. MORE
Provide your volunteers with a sense of stability by making sure that they have a point of contact at your organization. If you work at a nonprofit, you know what it feels like to have too much on your plate. You are eager to be as effective as possible, but you can’t do it all by yourself. MORE
The page should include information about the organization, the event agenda, and a form to gather contact details from RSVPs. The event page's form should feed contact data into a CRM (Contact Relationship Management system) or event management software. MORE
Heather is a Constant Contact and digital & email marketing expert. With Jillian Vorce at #AOC2014. The 2014 Agents of Change Conference was packed with insightful, useful information that I cannot wait to fully digest and use! MORE
Your mid-level giving manager should be the primary point of contact for these donors. Email signatures should encourage donors to reach out to the point of contact. MORE
EveryAction's organizing toolset is trusted by major labor unions and advocacy groups - providing them with access to SmartVAN, the gold standard in voter contact technology. #10. Match your contact records to nearly 100 social networks. MORE
Does it allow contacts to book directly on your calendar or request a booking time? Can you get your own customized booking URL to offer contacts? Share your availability and let contacts book straight into your calendar. Scheduling a meeting shouldn’t be hard. MORE
It’s called “Make your Contacts Count&# by Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon. Hey, ever wondered how to get more donors for your cause? What have you done about that? MORE
They’ll be thrilled to get emails that don’t just ask for more money, but also provide them ways to get involved, such tools to contact their elected officials or share your content on social media. MORE
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OCTOBER 3, 2016
The post How many LinkedIn contacts do you have? Fundraising Lead Generation strategy charitable giving communication and engagement LinkedIn contacts LinkedIN marketing tips LinkedIN profiles Nonprofit nonprofit social media marketing Outreach on LinkedIn
EveryAction
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
For fundraisers, the clarity of each donor contact record matters. A clean and complete contact record saves time and provides fundraisers with the full picture. It finds the right contact(s) based on the email address used in the To and CC of the message.
The Agitator
MARCH 26, 2013
Here’s yet another study from the commercial world that delivers the refrain: Make contact with your customers! Yeah, the study was conducted by Harris Interactive for InContact, a vested interest provider of contact center software. But dismiss these findings, which I believe apply to donors, at your peril … More than a third (68%) of consumers said that companies who have no other means of contact other than a toll-free number seem outdated. [We
Cause Related Marketing
OCTOBER 23, 2007
was invited to a local presentation on email marketing from Constant Contact, the Waltham, Massachusetts email marketing outfit whose target market is small businesses and nonprofits.They offer a cause-related marketing campaign called Care4Kids meant to. Tags: Constant Contact Email Marketing OK, not pimping really. More like a gentle noodge to nonprofits and the companies that love them that it’s time to start email marketing.I
iMarketSmart
APRIL 17, 2014
The post To Build Trust, Make Sure Your Photos Make Eye Contact With Your Donors appeared first on MarketSmart.
Fundraising 123
MARCH 12, 2008
One of the hardest-working but most underrated pages of any nonprofit website is the "Contact Us" page. It hangs in the background, behind more glamorous pages, ready to offer the most basic but essential of information about an organization What makes an effective Contact Us page It should answer two key questions: How people can contact your nonprofit and why they should want to contact your nonprofit.
EveryAction
OCTOBER 2, 2018
organizing voter contactFor nonprofits which engage in advocacy around civic engagement or political issues, voter registration drives are a great tool for activating your volunteer base, deepening relationships within your community, and increasing local democratic participation.
Fundraising Coach
DECEMBER 15, 2015
As we've been approaching the end of year, my coaching clients are asking me to help them prioritize their major gift fundraising contacts. Individual contacts, not spray-and-pray! Photo courtesy of Willy D on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
EveryAction
JULY 18, 2018
organizer community advocacy webinar organizing voter contactNon-partisan civic engagement efforts are so important to the health of our democracy, but how do you protect your canvassers from the record-breaking summer heat? Here are five tips for keeping you and your canvassers safe while they're engaging voters and knocking doors. Stay hydrated. Make sure that you and your canvassers have access to plenty of cold water. The key is to drink as soon as you become thirsty.
EveryAction
MAY 14, 2018
higher education organizing voter contactFor universities searching for ways to both grow students' engagement on campus and develop their education and participation as active citizens, voter registration programs have become an increasingly popular activity.
Fundraising Breakthroughs
AUGUST 20, 2005
Non-donors don’t.) • Belief—Probably (but he needs to confirm this, which he can begin at Google or Dogpile for bios and community involvement and continue with further personal contact with the people). One of my clients met some people at an annual conference peripherally related to his organization’s cause. They hit it off. During the weekend, they talked a little about his work, and he believes they might be sympathetic.
J Campbell Social Marketing
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Heather is a Constant Contact and digital & email marketing expert. With Jillian Vorce at #AOC2014. The 2014 Agents of Change Conference was packed with insightful, useful information that I cannot wait to fully digest and use!
Social Media Bird Brain
AUGUST 7, 2012
Thought you might be interested in the results of a survey ConstantContact did recently on nonprofits Here's the text: Constant Contact Nonprofit Pulse Survey: Attracting New Supporters Keeps Nonprofits Up at Night Majority of nonprofits see potential of social media marketing to help with engaging supporters WALTHAM, Mass. social communications Email Constant Contact website social media marketing Small nonprofit small business survey
Wild Woman Fundraising
MAY 2, 2011
It’s called “Make your Contacts Count&# by Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon. Hey, ever wondered how to get more donors for your cause? What have you done about that?
Wild Woman Fundraising
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Constant Contact Sucks Workshops are Sales Pitches. And then I went to a conference in Philly and AGAIN Constant Contact was there with a purported workshop about social media, but ACTUALLY it was about how you should use their newsletter software. You know what I hate?
Wild Woman Fundraising
MAY 3, 2011
I am adapting some of the tools from a book that I’m reading called “Make your Contacts Count&# by Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon. First off, if you haven’t read the first part of this post yet, I would go there. This shit will make a LOT more sense if you do.
Wild Woman Fundraising
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Constant Contact Sucks Workshops are Sales Pitches. And then I went to a conference in Philly and AGAIN Constant Contact was there with a purported workshop about social media, but ACTUALLY it was about how you should use their newsletter software. You know what I hate?
Selfish Giving
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Another example of keeping it simple is Care4Kids , a program Constant Contact , the company I use for my email newsletter (which you can sign up for in the top right!). It’s no coincidence that Constant Contact’s Care4Kids program is for charities that help kids.
Selfish Giving
JULY 5, 2010
Constant Contact. Tags: Cause Tools analytics pro apps cause marketing constant contact dropbox evernote iphone read it later remember the milk wordpress app Anyone who knows me knows how important my iPhone is to me, especially now that I have the super-fast 4G!
EveryAction
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Your List is Reaching Thousands of Contacts. Yet, there's also an inverse relationship between the size of a list and your knowledge of its contacts. You're Struggling to Engage Contacts.
EveryAction
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
EveryAction's organizing toolset is trusted by major labor unions and advocacy groups - providing them with access to SmartVAN, the gold standard in voter contact technology. #10. Match your contact records to nearly 100 social networks.
EveryAction
MAY 11, 2017
Before, only Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles were matched to an individual's contact record. Now, 97 different social networks are matched daily , and also provide social media biographies to be integrated into a contact record. Understanding your supporters and meeting them where they are is an increasingly important part of any outreach campaign.
J Campbell Social Marketing
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
The main challenge with the donors that come in via Facebook Fundraisers is that many of them don’t elect to share their contact information with you. If you have their contact info , send these donors a special email thanking them specifically for giving via Facebook on Giving Tuesday. .
EveryAction
JULY 5, 2018
For major donors and most loyal supporters, your donor database software should give your team the ability to track all of the information that they’ll need to remember about each donor - from detailed contact history to the contact information for their family members and financial planners.
EveryAction
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Provide your volunteers with a sense of stability by making sure that they have a point of contact at your organization. If you work at a nonprofit, you know what it feels like to have too much on your plate. You are eager to be as effective as possible, but you can’t do it all by yourself.
EveryAction
JULY 9, 2018
For major donors and most loyal supporters, your donor database software should give your team the ability to track all of the information that they’ll need to remember about each donor - from detailed contact history to the contact information for their family members and financial planners.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Does it allow contacts to book directly on your calendar or request a booking time? Can you get your own customized booking URL to offer contacts? Share your availability and let contacts book straight into your calendar. Scheduling a meeting shouldn’t be hard.
EveryAction
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Your mid-level giving manager should be the primary point of contact for these donors. Email signatures should encourage donors to reach out to the point of contact.
EveryAction
JULY 12, 2018
When I first went to the website to register for access to the weekend-long festival, I didn’t even have to type my contact information into the form - thanks to EveryAction’s Action Profiles, my information was pre-filled and all I had to do was click “submit” to complete my registration.
EveryAction
OCTOBER 18, 2018
The relational organizing approach entails mobilizing a campaign’s supporters to contact their friends and family, asking them to volunteer, vote, or donate.
EveryAction
JULY 16, 2018
For major donors and most loyal supporters, your donor database software should give your team the ability to track all of the information that they’ll need to remember about each donor - from detailed contact history to the contact information for their family members and financial planners.
EveryAction
AUGUST 28, 2018
The page should include information about the organization, the event agenda, and a form to gather contact details from RSVPs. The event page's form should feed contact data into a CRM (Contact Relationship Management system) or event management software.
EveryAction
APRIL 9, 2018
They’ll be thrilled to get emails that don’t just ask for more money, but also provide them ways to get involved, such tools to contact their elected officials or share your content on social media.
EveryAction
JUNE 15, 2017
The new functionality provides the option to indicate which contact records were targeted for the ads, allowing users to measure results of how those ads increase supporter participation and engagement. Here’s how it works: Users first create a list of contacts in EveryAction that they want to target.
EveryAction
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Also worth considering: your software should provide easily-browsed and highly-sortable donation history for each contact.
Getting Attention
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Otherwise, you’ll alienate these valuable contacts. So many organizations I follow or work with have become strong and savvy communicators. It’s thrilling to see nonprofits like yours put communications to work effectively despite time, talent, and budget constraints. .
EveryAction
MAY 9, 2018
Planned Giving programs are unique in the world of nonprofit fundraising because of the length of time involved in the gift process, and the fact that multiple contacts beyond the donor themselves are often involved, such as lawyers, estate planners, and other beneficiaries.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
APRIL 10, 2018
When Jen Billow shared with her fellow Communications Director Mentoring Program participants that her organization, the Park City Education Foundation, had received accolades from Constant Contact for their awesome email engagement rates, everyone wanted to know how.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Contact information. Assuring access paths to your online content and personnel contact information are current is essential for timely updates, responses and for others to contact your organization with any questions or inquiries they may have about your work. Contact Methods.
EveryAction
JUNE 28, 2018
A broad range of healthcare focused organizations depend on member and donor database software to manage relationships with supporters.
EveryAction
JANUARY 22, 2018
At EveryAction, we know that major gifts officers and other development professionals need to have as much information as possible about their prospective donors in order to fine-tune their "fundraising asks.". With that in mind, we've built a powerful new integration with WealthEngine to provide nonprofit fundraising pros with that information, ultimately helping them raise more money. What is WealthEngine?
EveryAction
JUNE 13, 2018
There’s nothing wrong with that - after all, these are your supporters - but they can only give so much every year, so you’ll also want to find ways to connect with new people who support your mission but aren’t in your general contact base.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
AUGUST 26, 2015
You absolutely need to include contact information in your emails (and other forms of communication). But lots of times the only contact information you have is an email address. Contact your ESP if you are unsure how to find the default and change it.
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