Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Today let’s talk about the types of objectives you should have in your communications plan. Objectives are the SMART steps you take to achieve a strategy, and at Nonprofit Marketing Guide, we prefer to define SMART as Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Resourced, and Time-Bound. That said, SMART is not really enough guidance on what a nonprofit communications team should consider an objective. Ideally, you are using multiple tools or channels to achieve an objective.

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A Small Change

JUNE 2, 2011

I’m hosting the Nonprofit Blog Carnival for the month of June featuring links and summaries of the top posts from around the blogosphere around handling objections. Every nonprofit professional has a list of objections they hear regularly.

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A Small Change

JUNE 29, 2011

I am hosting this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival featuring common objections. The question I asked was, “What are common objections you hear at your organization and how do you respond to them?&#.

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A Small Change

OCTOBER 20, 2010

What kinds of objections do you have at your organization? Each organization seems to have the classic question with which it has to deal. At a community college it was, “Why should I give you money when you are a government funded organization?” I imagine a number of government related organizations and advocacy groups get the, “I pay my taxes isn’t that enough speech.” Or, an arts organization might hear, “I like to give to social services for feeding and clothing people.”.

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Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

One of the exercises involved overcoming objections…even before they come up. They then wrote down the scariest objections - one objection per post-it note Next, they put all of their post-it notes on the wall. Use the answers to objections in your cultivation!

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Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

One of the exercises involved overcoming objections…even before they come up. They then wrote down the scariest objections - one objection per post-it note Next, they put all of their post-it notes on the wall. Use the answers to objections in your cultivation!

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Ann Green

MAY 2, 2016

But that bright shiny object may not be the answer you’re looking for. So, beware of bright shiny objects and focus on more personal communication and building relationships. It can be tempting to jump on the latest craze and try something new.

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Social Marketing and Social Change

JULY 1, 2013

SMART objectives may be appropriate for short-term planning, research and evaluation activities. I believe that there is a group of you who want to take the chance of aspiring to RISKY objectives and not settle for the SMART box. What are your RISKY objectives?

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Selfish Giving

JULY 27, 2010

My name is Joe and I have Shiny Object Addiction. I write about these new shiny objects with gusto, but I feel Estrella’s anxiety and pain. Like alcohol, shiny objects are an addiction that need their own step program. Step 1: I am powerless to shiny objects.

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ImpactMax

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

I just read a Trendwatching report about the not-too-distant future when Search transcends Google and spreads to everyday objects. Hold onto your hats!

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Wild Woman Fundraising

MARCH 31, 2010

Tags: Grants Measuring Effectiveness fundraising barbara ehrenreich camilla nevill chris hedges disgust donors empire of illusion foundations funders illusion of happiness jenny holzer medicalization of emotions new philanthropy capital blog qualitative or quantative subjective or objective trying to be happy

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Social Marketing and Social Change

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Social marketing was included among the 10-year national health objectives for the US that were announced yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services. For over two years, I’ve been involved in the Health Communication and Health Information Technology workgroup that was charged with developing national objectives in this topic area. The social marketing objectives are: HC/HIT-13: (Developmental) Increase social marketing in health promotion and disease prevention.

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Fundraising Coach

JULY 14, 2009

If you’re going to ask people for money, you’ve got to learn to love objections. Working on a session for the APRA conference in Boston, I’m relearning how fun objections can be. Seriously, if there were no objections, we wouldn’t be needed. Here are Zig Ziglar’s five reasons to like objections: Objections show interest. Many sales trainers refer to objections as the beginning of the sales process. But not so with objections.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 28, 2014

How to Overcome Objections in Scheduling Your Fundraising Solicitation Meetings. The objections people give you over the phone call when you call to schedule a meeting are a small, natural part of the process. Here are some typical set-up-the-meeting phone call objections.

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Social Marketing and Social Change

MARCH 18, 2010

In a process that began more than 15 months ago , the US national health objectives are beginning to take final form. Yesterday, the Federal Interagency Workgroup (FIW) approved 13 objectives for the Health Communication and Health Information Technology area. The social marketing objectives are: Increase social marketing in health promotion and disease prevention.

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Fundraising Coach

JULY 14, 2009

If you’re going to ask people for money, you’ve got to learn to love objections. Working on a session for the APRA conference in Boston, I’m relearning how fun objections can be. Seriously, if there were no objections, we wouldn’t be needed. Here are Zig Ziglar’s five reasons to like objections: Objections show interest. Many sales trainers refer to objections as the beginning of the sales process. But not so with objections.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

MARCH 2, 2016

Establishing SMART objectives will give you that road map. Specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and time-bound objectives will help you measure progress towards goals, and to hold you and your team accountable for each small step along the way.

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Social Marketing and Social Change

JULY 2, 2009

One arena in which social marketing could 'be at the table' are the Health People 2020 objectives - the national health priorities for the decade. For those new to the process, these objectives help guide the development of Federal programs, how grants and contracts are crafted and dispersed, and when the question is asked 'What are the priorities?' - where many people go to for the answers.

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Mission Paradox Blog

JULY 7, 2009

As an art marketer, I'm paid to be objective.   The closer you are to a situation and the more confident you are about your abilities in a particular situation, the harder it is to be objective. So I had to develop some tools to help me be a more objective marketer.  That honesty is the key to objectivity. Selling anything well requires a bit of detachment. a little bit of distance.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

JULY 8, 2014

2) Choose objectives for the Twitter campaign. How will you know that you achieved your objectives? Social Media Strategy Analytics goal setting Goals metrics objectives social media measurement value vanity metrics photo credit: venspired via photopin cc.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Being a data nerd with a serious focus on getting ROI (return on investment) for my clients, I want to hear from you about the thrills, chills, and challenges in creating SMART objectives, to accompany your big-picture lofty goals (and resolutions). Happy February!

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Wild Woman Fundraising

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Henri Poincare, an oft-overlooked philosopher of science, had a Three Object theory (arising from Newton), which stated that after you introduce a third object into a universe of two objects, it will be impossible to predict the movement of these objects.

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Public Sector Marketing 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2011

Rather than saying something abstract (albeit true) such as “the ROI of social media engagement is that your organization will still exist in 5 years&# , I usually prefer to throw the ball back in the question issuers court: What are your objectives? Lot’s of education left to be done across all sectors… Insight Rant goals investment objectives resources ROI Social Media telephone

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Uncategorized Business plan goals and objectives Current target market Defining public relations Public relation strategiesWith the holiday season in full swing, it might not seem like you have enough time to add one thing to your to-do list.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Fundraising best fundraising tactics charity blog cultivation for major gifts cultivation for planned giving donor cultivation fundraising goals fundraising objectives examples fundraising strategies pdf fundraising strategy plan fundraising strategy sample fundraising tips most effective fundraising strategies nonprofit fundraising strategy template Philanthropy StrategyFundraisers have more competitors now than ever before. Your competition is global.

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Public Sector Marketing 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2009

I asked a senior government communications employee for their communications objectives the other day. Tags: Rant communications Google google analytics google insights marketing newspapers objectives search Their response was &# to be on the cover of The Globe & Mail&# (our national Canadian newspaper). A few weeks ago another client gave me a similar response: “To have an article written about us in the Ottawa Citizen&# (our nation’s capital newspaper).

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Fundraising Coach

JUNE 4, 2015

Love (Stewardship) Board Members Objections donor stewardship red cross transparency"Why can’t you tell us where you spent the money and what your expenses were? You obviously have that information. Why can’t the public see it?". NPR's Laura Sullivan to Red Cross' David Meltzer.

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Fundraising Coach

JUNE 29, 2015

Ask Fundraising Secrets ObjectionsIn his recent post, Jeff Brooks agreed with my “ Donor Fatigue ” video. And he went a step further. Like a newly minted Paul Harvey, he tells “the rest of the story.”. Fundraiser Fatigue. I love his concept of “ fundraiser fatigue ”!

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Marketing for Nonprofits

MARCH 9, 2009

If you get a chance, check out the first 4 minutes of this video. It's an overview of social media for the National Park Service by Geoff Livingston, Principal, Livingston Communication. Geoff does a nice job of putting social media into perspective, i.e. reminding us that blogs and Twitter and all the sundry social media tools out here are just tools, i.e. they are a means to an end, not the end itself.

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SocialButterfly

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Tags: Web Communications Amazon community Community-Based content e-commerce facebook focus informational interactive online strategy transactional web Web objective Web site Web site building Web strategy Wikipedia

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Fundraising Coach

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Love (Stewardship) Board Members Book Review Objections board members I love finding practical tools that can help nonprofits thrive. The new book Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money is just that. Crisis with nonprofit boards.

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Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

How to answer the relief effort objection. Ask Objections major gift fundraising Congratulations to Facebook and the Red Cross for making it ridiculously easy to support those devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines!

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J Campbell Social Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2019

4) Break down your big goals into actionable objectives. Now you take these big goals and break them down into actionable objectives that can be measured and evaluated. Actionable Objectives: Start a Social Media Ambassador Program.

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Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

If a donor keeps coming up with questions or objections, you can easily say, “If I can answer this to your satisfaction, is it the only thing standing in between you and making a gift?”. Ask Objections donor stewardship

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 3, 2019

In previous posts, we’ve shared the most common marketing and communications goals , strategies , and objectives for nonprofits. Tactics are the tools you use to pursue the objectives associated with your strategy. — to implement a strategy and to achieve your objectives and ultimately your goals. Today, let’s complete the list by talking about tactics.

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Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 24, 2012

ObjectionsToday’s news is reporting Lance Armstrong’s decision to not fight the doping charges. Many are saying he’s basically admitting he’s guilty. Herein lies one of the biggest challenges for nonprofits that are branded around a personality.

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Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 28, 2012

Ask Objections ask ask without fear nonprofit fundraising nonprofit leadership[Warning: rant in progress]. Stop it with the excuses. The timing is never perfect. There are always reasons to put off asking people to support your nonprofit. And that is a sure way to get your nonprofit bankrupt.

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Public Sector Marketing 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Noting the above, I always firmly emphasize that it’s impossible to measure performance at any level without setting proper goals and objectives in the first place. The social media performance evaluation then simply becomes a report against the objectives.

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Fundraising Coach

JUNE 26, 2010

Love (Stewardship) Book Review Objections Stories nonprofit marketing I’m surprised by how many nonprofit professionals see “marketing&# as a bad word, a practice that is somehow beneath them.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 10, 2019

Odds are extremely low that they will come up with the right measurements on their own — you really need to step up on this one and suggest some communications objectives and measures. It’s a management maxim: We measure what we care about, and we care about what we measure. So if you want your executive management team and/or board to care more about marketing and communications, are you doing your part by suggesting how they measure your communications work ?

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Public Sector Marketing 2.0

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

“The Internet of Things (IoT) is a computing concept that describes a future where everyday physical objects will be connected to the Internet and will be able to identify themselves to other devices. When many objects act in unison, they are referred to as having ambient intelligence.”

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J Campbell Social Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2018

POST stands for People, Objectives, Strategies, and Tools. O – Objectives – What does success look like? Write down 2-3 main objectives for your Digital Content Strategy. . Don’t spread yourself too thin by writing down more than 3 objectives. .

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 4, 2019

Nonprofit Training Opportunities for You January 8 & 10: Communications Planning That Works: Getting Your Goals, Strategies, Objectives and Tactics Right in 2019 Learn how to create an effective communications plan for 2019. Happy New Year!

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