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At the end of September, we redesigned our weekly email newsletter to include more white space and smaller blocks of text. After we sent the redesigned newsletter, we heard from several of our subscribers who liked the new look including Jeanine Marlow at Cornerstone Prep who mentioned her school had just recently redesigned their newsletter as well. We use MailChimp for all our newsletters. Here is their old newsletter: Email newsletter before the redesign. MORE
Interested in getting monthly ideas for social media, blog posts, or newsletter articles earlier? I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. The post Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for September appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Sign up for our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts. For example, I will email the prompts for October next week. Sign up now to get prompts emailed to you monthly. MORE
Unsure what to include in your newsletter? These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. MORE
Stumped for what you can tweet in December or say in your email newsletter? These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. MORE
Bring on the email newsletter! In this Facebook Live video replay, I’ll give you five quick ways to improve your nonprofit email newsletter with a lot of fancy tech or a big team. . Is your newsletter concise? MORE
When we recently asked several hundred executive directors which communications channel they most wanted to get right and master, the answer was email newsletters. In this video, I share the three essentials I am looking for when I review an email newsletter. ( E-Newsletters Nonprofit CommunicationsToday I’m sharing the fourth video in our new series from the Communications Coaching Program for Executive Directors (we call it the CoCoa Club for short.). MORE
Is the classic nonprofit newsletter still relevant? What changes have you made, or what changes are you seeing or recommending, in nonprofit newsletters — in print and online? Those and any other questions or issues related to producing nonprofit newsletters in 2012 and beyond are the focus of the upcoming Nonprofit Blog Carnival , which I’m hosting in August. E-Newsletters Nonprofit Communications Print Newsletters MORE
We have ideas for newsletter articles, blog posts, social media updates, and more. These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. MORE
Need some ideas for social media updates, blog posts, newsletter articles, or other content for October? These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. MORE
Earlier this summer, I suggested what to PUT in your newsletter — content that is Personal, Useful and Timely. How you think about your newsletter comes through to your supporters right there at the sign-up form on your website. Segmenting your supporters into groups with like interests and similar relationships with you is another great way to help you create newsletter content you can feel confident about. E-Newsletters MORE
Here are 7 Mistakes You Need to Avoid with Your Email Newsletter. Linking to a pdf version of your newsletter or attaching it to an email does not make that an e-newsletter. Your newsletter should reflect your readers’ interests, wants, and needs more than your staff’s. I’ve read your newsletter. Effective email newsletters focus primarily on your readers, what they care about, and how they can connect to you and your cause. MORE
You or your team are regularly producing content — in this case, an email newsletter — that you know isn’t any good. Yes, please, for everyone’s sake, stop producing your crappy newsletter. . What would a great newsletter look like? We’ll also talk other strategic questions about email newsletters and how to create really good ones during our two-part webinar series May 9 & 11, Creating Awesome Email Newsletters. MORE
These writing ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. You can use them for social media, blog posts, newsletter articles, and more. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. MORE
Take the fantastic e-newsletter produced by DC Central Kitchen (DCCK), the most vibrant, innovative food distribution and meal recycling program I know. How does your email newsletter to keep your people up-to-date, connected, and active? As you muscle through engaging donors and other supporters in the actions you need, it’s crucial to have your thank you and follow-up ready to roll. NOW is when you have their attention. MORE
Last week, I asked for your thoughts on how your newsletter has changed , including how your organization’s use of social media has affected your newsletter, whether print or online. the organization wasn’t using social media much or at all, the audiences for the newsletter and for social media were very different, or. The other two-thirds described several ways in which social media has changed their newsletters , mostly in positive ways. MORE
Too often planned giving newsletters are written by lawyers and the lawyers at nonprofits think they are just dandy. Your planned giving newsletter is designed to educate people about planned gifts, right? Most of the people to whom you send your newsletter probably did not opt-in to receive it. Let’s suppose you decided that 10,000 people should get your newsletter. The post Why hardly anyone reads your planned giving newsletter (and what you can do about it). MORE
Got nonprofit email newsletter questions? Do I have to do a nonprofit email newsletter? Give Your Newsletter a Reason to Live Are You Pretending that People Really Want Your E-Newsletter? Do I Have to Keep Producing This Crappy Newsletter? Should I send the email newsletter to our whole list? What to PUT in Your Newsletter Another Brilliant Marketing Idea You Can Steal What should an email newsletter look like? Nonprofit Email Newsletters MORE
If you need ideas for your newsletter articles or social media posts next month, then this post is for you! These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. MORE
These writing ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. You can use them for social media, blog posts, newsletter articles, and more. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. MORE
If you are looking to fill in your editorial calendar for September with social media updates, blog posts, newsletter articles, or more , w e have you covered. These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. MORE
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The following ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. Sign up now to get prompts emailed to you in advance monthly. MORE
Need writing ideas for social media, blog posts, newsletter articles, and more? These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. MORE
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Just ten years ago, nonprofit newsletters were the go-to channel for collecting donations. Here are six reasons why you should rethink your email newsletter. Because your donation button is getting buried in the rest of your newsletter links, people aren’t clicking on it, which means you’re not raising money. After all your hard work, it’s a bummer to know that not many people are even reading your newsletter in the first place. MORE
The following ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. The post Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for August 2021 appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide. MORE
I’ve just pulled some preliminary data about how often nonprofits say they will mail their newsletters, and of course, it depends on whether you talking print or email. Send Your Email Newsletter at Least Monthly. If you want to do what the majority of nonprofits are doing (61%), you should send your email newsletter at least monthly. Send Your Print Newsletter at Least Quarterly — Or Not at All. But 32% say they won’t send a print newsletter at all. MORE
When you register for this webinar, you will also receive our weekly e- newsletter with nonprofit marketing tips and insights. The post Free Webinar Tomorrow on How to Repurpose Your Content Between Newsletters, Social, and More appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide. MORE
Distributing a regular newsletter requires a lot: curation, content creation, and then there’s capturing the attention of your audience despite inbox overcrowding. Some organizations see a lot of supporter engagement with periodic newsletters: a recent study showed that over half of participants got news about their favorite organizations or causes from regular newsletters, and just under a quarter of respondents said they often forwarded on newsletters to family and friends. MORE
Turns out that the current name of the e-newsletter is . ”E-Newsletter.” I do have a ton of nonprofit e-newsletters in my inbox called “E-Newsletter” so it’s not like that’s a horrible thing. I don’t know what MetroWest Health Foundation should call its newsletter, but here is how I would work through the decision. Why do people want to get the newsletter in the first place? MORE
These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. The post Social Media, Blog, and Newsletter Ideas for July 2021 appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide. MORE
Yesterday, I hosted the August edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival on nonprofit newsletter trends. In my many varied internship experiences over the past year, I have become quite friendly with the non-profit newsletter. Part fundraising tool, part communications strategy, an organization’s newsletter tends to be one of the more contentious and problematic issues staff members will face. Personally, I would like to see the newsletter used as of a fundraising tool. MORE
We are getting ready for our next Nonprofit Marketing Accelerator – Updating Your Community: Integrating E-Newsletters and Social Media. But before we start integrating your email newsletter with your other communications channels, you first need to answer what is probably the most important question: Does your newsletter have a clear purpose. What’s Your Newsletter’s Purpose in Life? E-Newsletters MORE
Don’t rack your brain trying to think of clever ideas for your social media updates, blog posts, or newsletter articles. These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. MORE
Email newsletters consistently rank among the top 3 when we ask nonprofits what their most important communications channels in our annual trends report survey. You also spend more time on creating email newsletter articles than most other types of content. Unfortunately, a lot of nonprofit e-newsletters are neither visually appealing nor do they include anything supporters really want to read. Creating a better email newsletter starts with knowing what you want it to do. MORE
Thanks to all of you who took our survey this month on nonprofit newsletters. I’ve shared some of the results already in posts on how social media is influencing newsletters and how often you should send email newsletters to supporters. Print Newsletters. The most popular length for a print newsletter is four pages (33% of those publishing a print newsletter), followed by eight pages (23%). Email Newsletters. Newsletter Review Winners! MORE
Does your donor newsletter cost more to send than it brings in? That’s a pretty common trait among donor newsletters, but it’s not the idea of the donor newsletter that’s wrong – it’s how you’re approaching it that’s wrong. Is your donor newsletter longer than 4 pages? Tom was asked specifically about self-mailers during our popular training series Donor Newsletters That Raise More Money , and this was his reply: Logic? MORE
Puzzling over what makes really good newsletter content, especially in email? . Make your newsletter more Personal by. Make your newsletter more Useful by. Make your newsletter more Timely by. How do you make your newsletter more PUT: personal, useful and timely? E-Newsletters Print NewslettersIt’s really not that hard. People like email content that is P ersonal, U seful or T imely. or PUT. MORE
These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. Nonprofit Communications Nonprofit Writing e-newsletters social media MORE
When I first started working in nonprofit communications, the job was really all about the newsletter. The nonprofit newsletter, first in print and then in email, was the mainstay of communications between the nonprofit and its supporters. More than any other piece of communications, the newsletter consumed a lot of staff time and energy, not to mention the money spent on printing and mailing the print version. Is the nonprofit newsletter still all that? . MORE
I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. Nonprofit Writing e-newsletters social media writing promptsHappy Holidays to our awesome readers! Let’s kick off this week of free stuff with: Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts. MORE
These writing ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. You can use them for social media, blog posts, newsletter articles, and more. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. The post Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for November 2019 appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. MORE
These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. The post Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for June 2021 appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide. MORE
In theory, a newsletter can be a great way to engage with your donors. In reality, that often doesn’t happen because most donor newsletters can be used as a cure for insomnia. You can create an engaging newsletter your donors will want to read. MORE
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Don’t rack your brain trying to think of clever ideas for your social media updates, blog posts, or newsletter articles. These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*.
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We have ideas for newsletter articles, blog posts, social media updates, and more. These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month.
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These writing ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. You can use them for social media, blog posts, newsletter articles, and more. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month.
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When you register for this webinar, you will also receive our weekly e- newsletter with nonprofit marketing tips and insights. The post Free Webinar Tomorrow on How to Repurpose Your Content Between Newsletters, Social, and More appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide.
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These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. The post Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for June 2021 appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide.
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Unsure what to include in your newsletter? These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month.
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Need some ideas for social media updates, blog posts, newsletter articles, or other content for October? These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month.
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Here are 7 Mistakes You Need to Avoid with Your Email Newsletter. Linking to a pdf version of your newsletter or attaching it to an email does not make that an e-newsletter. Your newsletter should reflect your readers’ interests, wants, and needs more than your staff’s. I’ve read your newsletter. Effective email newsletters focus primarily on your readers, what they care about, and how they can connect to you and your cause.
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I’ve just pulled some preliminary data about how often nonprofits say they will mail their newsletters, and of course, it depends on whether you talking print or email. Send Your Email Newsletter at Least Monthly. If you want to do what the majority of nonprofits are doing (61%), you should send your email newsletter at least monthly. Send Your Print Newsletter at Least Quarterly — Or Not at All. But 32% say they won’t send a print newsletter at all.
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If you need ideas for your newsletter articles or social media posts next month, then this post is for you! These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month.
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Is the classic nonprofit newsletter still relevant? What changes have you made, or what changes are you seeing or recommending, in nonprofit newsletters — in print and online? Those and any other questions or issues related to producing nonprofit newsletters in 2012 and beyond are the focus of the upcoming Nonprofit Blog Carnival , which I’m hosting in August. E-Newsletters Nonprofit Communications Print Newsletters
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When we recently asked several hundred executive directors which communications channel they most wanted to get right and master, the answer was email newsletters. In this video, I share the three essentials I am looking for when I review an email newsletter. ( E-Newsletters Nonprofit CommunicationsToday I’m sharing the fourth video in our new series from the Communications Coaching Program for Executive Directors (we call it the CoCoa Club for short.).
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Email newsletters consistently rank among the top 3 when we ask nonprofits what their most important communications channels in our annual trends report survey. You also spend more time on creating email newsletter articles than most other types of content. Unfortunately, a lot of nonprofit e-newsletters are neither visually appealing nor do they include anything supporters really want to read. Creating a better email newsletter starts with knowing what you want it to do.
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We are getting ready for our next Nonprofit Marketing Accelerator – Updating Your Community: Integrating E-Newsletters and Social Media. But before we start integrating your email newsletter with your other communications channels, you first need to answer what is probably the most important question: Does your newsletter have a clear purpose. What’s Your Newsletter’s Purpose in Life? E-Newsletters
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If you are looking to fill in your editorial calendar for September with social media updates, blog posts, newsletter articles, or more , w e have you covered. These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*.
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Need writing ideas for social media, blog posts, newsletter articles, and more? These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter*. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month.
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Thanks to all of you who took our survey this month on nonprofit newsletters. I’ve shared some of the results already in posts on how social media is influencing newsletters and how often you should send email newsletters to supporters. Print Newsletters. The most popular length for a print newsletter is four pages (33% of those publishing a print newsletter), followed by eight pages (23%). Email Newsletters. Newsletter Review Winners!
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Puzzling over what makes really good newsletter content, especially in email? . Make your newsletter more Personal by. Make your newsletter more Useful by. Make your newsletter more Timely by. How do you make your newsletter more PUT: personal, useful and timely? E-Newsletters Print NewslettersIt’s really not that hard. People like email content that is P ersonal, U seful or T imely. or PUT.
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When I first started working in nonprofit communications, the job was really all about the newsletter. The nonprofit newsletter, first in print and then in email, was the mainstay of communications between the nonprofit and its supporters. More than any other piece of communications, the newsletter consumed a lot of staff time and energy, not to mention the money spent on printing and mailing the print version. Is the nonprofit newsletter still all that? .
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You or your team are regularly producing content — in this case, an email newsletter — that you know isn’t any good. Yes, please, for everyone’s sake, stop producing your crappy newsletter. . What would a great newsletter look like? We’ll also talk other strategic questions about email newsletters and how to create really good ones during our two-part webinar series May 9 & 11, Creating Awesome Email Newsletters.
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Earlier this summer, I suggested what to PUT in your newsletter — content that is Personal, Useful and Timely. How you think about your newsletter comes through to your supporters right there at the sign-up form on your website. Segmenting your supporters into groups with like interests and similar relationships with you is another great way to help you create newsletter content you can feel confident about. E-Newsletters
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Interested in getting monthly ideas for social media, blog posts, or newsletter articles earlier? I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. The post Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for September appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Sign up for our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts. For example, I will email the prompts for October next week. Sign up now to get prompts emailed to you monthly.
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Distributing a regular newsletter requires a lot: curation, content creation, and then there’s capturing the attention of your audience despite inbox overcrowding. Some organizations see a lot of supporter engagement with periodic newsletters: a recent study showed that over half of participants got news about their favorite organizations or causes from regular newsletters, and just under a quarter of respondents said they often forwarded on newsletters to family and friends.
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Yesterday, I hosted the August edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival on nonprofit newsletter trends. In my many varied internship experiences over the past year, I have become quite friendly with the non-profit newsletter. Part fundraising tool, part communications strategy, an organization’s newsletter tends to be one of the more contentious and problematic issues staff members will face. Personally, I would like to see the newsletter used as of a fundraising tool.
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I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. Nonprofit Writing e-newsletters social media writing promptsHappy Holidays to our awesome readers! Let’s kick off this week of free stuff with: Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts.
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Take the fantastic e-newsletter produced by DC Central Kitchen (DCCK), the most vibrant, innovative food distribution and meal recycling program I know. How does your email newsletter to keep your people up-to-date, connected, and active? As you muscle through engaging donors and other supporters in the actions you need, it’s crucial to have your thank you and follow-up ready to roll. NOW is when you have their attention.
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These writing ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. You can use them for social media, blog posts, newsletter articles, and more. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. The post Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for November 2019 appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog.
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In theory, a newsletter can be a great way to engage with your donors. In reality, that often doesn’t happen because most donor newsletters can be used as a cure for insomnia. You can create an engaging newsletter your donors will want to read.
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Last week, I asked for your thoughts on how your newsletter has changed , including how your organization’s use of social media has affected your newsletter, whether print or online. the organization wasn’t using social media much or at all, the audiences for the newsletter and for social media were very different, or. The other two-thirds described several ways in which social media has changed their newsletters , mostly in positive ways.
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Does your donor newsletter cost more to send than it brings in? That’s a pretty common trait among donor newsletters, but it’s not the idea of the donor newsletter that’s wrong – it’s how you’re approaching it that’s wrong. Is your donor newsletter longer than 4 pages? Tom was asked specifically about self-mailers during our popular training series Donor Newsletters That Raise More Money , and this was his reply: Logic?
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NOVEMBER 11, 2015
At the end of September, we redesigned our weekly email newsletter to include more white space and smaller blocks of text. After we sent the redesigned newsletter, we heard from several of our subscribers who liked the new look including Jeanine Marlow at Cornerstone Prep who mentioned her school had just recently redesigned their newsletter as well. We use MailChimp for all our newsletters. Here is their old newsletter: Email newsletter before the redesign.
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Too often planned giving newsletters are written by lawyers and the lawyers at nonprofits think they are just dandy. Your planned giving newsletter is designed to educate people about planned gifts, right? Most of the people to whom you send your newsletter probably did not opt-in to receive it. Let’s suppose you decided that 10,000 people should get your newsletter. The post Why hardly anyone reads your planned giving newsletter (and what you can do about it).
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Turns out that the current name of the e-newsletter is . ”E-Newsletter.” I do have a ton of nonprofit e-newsletters in my inbox called “E-Newsletter” so it’s not like that’s a horrible thing. I don’t know what MetroWest Health Foundation should call its newsletter, but here is how I would work through the decision. Why do people want to get the newsletter in the first place?
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Just ten years ago, nonprofit newsletters were the go-to channel for collecting donations. Here are six reasons why you should rethink your email newsletter. Because your donation button is getting buried in the rest of your newsletter links, people aren’t clicking on it, which means you’re not raising money. After all your hard work, it’s a bummer to know that not many people are even reading your newsletter in the first place.
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