2. This is what we’ll talk about
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3. This is what we’ll talk about
• How (sadly) digital fundraising isn’t magic
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4. This is what we’ll talk about
• How (sadly) digital fundraising isn’t magic
• The digital consumer
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5. This is what we’ll talk about
• How (sadly) digital fundraising isn’t magic
• The digital consumer
• How digital marketing is like traditional direct marketing
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6. This is what we’ll talk about
• How (sadly) digital fundraising isn’t magic
• The digital consumer
• How digital marketing is like traditional direct marketing
• ..and how it really isn’t
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7. This is what we’ll talk about
• How (sadly) digital fundraising isn’t magic
• The digital consumer
• How digital marketing is like traditional direct marketing
• ..and how it really isn’t
• What it’s all about
@BeateSorum http://about.me/beatesorum
8. This is what we’ll talk about
• How (sadly) digital fundraising isn’t magic
• The digital consumer
• How digital marketing is like traditional direct marketing
• ..and how it really isn’t
• What it’s all about
• I’ll yell at you about conversions
@BeateSorum http://about.me/beatesorum
9. This is what we’ll talk about
• How (sadly) digital fundraising isn’t magic
• The digital consumer
• How digital marketing is like traditional direct marketing
• ..and how it really isn’t
• What it’s all about
• I’ll yell at you about conversions
• Easy pointers for some channels
@BeateSorum http://about.me/beatesorum
10. This is what we’ll talk about
• How (sadly) digital fundraising isn’t magic
• The digital consumer
• How digital marketing is like traditional direct marketing
• ..and how it really isn’t
• What it’s all about
• I’ll yell at you about conversions
• Easy pointers for some channels
• My top 10 tips for digital fundraising success
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11. VIDEO-SLIDE
You can find the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=x0EnhXn5boM
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14. Have you ever heard, or said, the following:
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15. Have you ever heard, or said, the following:
«We haven’t found the key to fundraising on facebook yet»
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16. Have you ever heard, or said, the following:
«We haven’t found the key to fundraising on facebook yet»
«Yes, we’re on facebook, but it’s not for fundraising»
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20. 59 % have never raised revenue directly
through facebook or twitter
40 % list budget / resources as main reason
* according to IFC fundraiser survey 2011
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21. 59 % have never raised revenue directly
through facebook or twitter
40 % list budget / resources as main reason
* according to IFC fundraiser survey 2011
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23. Raise your right hand
I, [name], do solemnly swear to never ever again believe
that social media is a Magic Faucet of Free Cash.
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24. Raise your right hand
I, [name], do solemnly swear to never ever again believe
that social media is a Magic Faucet of Free Cash.
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25. Raise your right hand
I, [name], do solemnly swear to never ever again believe
that social media is a Magic Faucet of Free Cash.
(I also swear to inform my boss
of this unfortunate truth.)
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26. Who’s the digital consumer?
• Impatient
• High maintenance - customer service
• Demands love
• Will tell their friends. All 1.000 of them.
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38. «EVERYTHING ON THE
INTERNET IS
ACCELRATED DIRECT
MARKETTING»
- quote from unknown smartie, picked up from twitter
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39. What makes a good DM?
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40. What makes a good DM?
• The ask
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41. What makes a good DM?
• The ask
• Frequency
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42. What makes a good DM?
• The ask
• Frequency
• Target demographic
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43. What makes a good DM?
• The ask
• Frequency
• Target demographic
• Emotions
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44. What makes a good DM?
• The ask
• Frequency
• Target demographic
• Emotions
• Being the solution to a defined problem
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45. Too much space
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/6725985751/in/ @BeateSorum http://about.me/beatesorum
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46. Too much space
..so we forget
to prioritize, we forget
to ask,
and we forget to
rigidly monitor
and analyze.
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47. The ask
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48. What makes a good DM?
✓ The ask
• Frequency
• Target demographic
• Emotions
• Being the solution to a defined problem
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49. Frequency
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51. Frequency
• How often do you send out a DM?
• How often do you ask in an e-mail?
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52. Frequency
• How often do you send out a DM?
• How often do you ask in an e-mail?
• How often on facebook?
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53. Frequency
• How often do you send out a DM?
• How often do you ask in an e-mail?
• How often on facebook?
• How often on twitter?
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54. Frequency
• How often do you send out a DM?
• How often do you ask in an e-mail?
• How often on facebook?
• How often on twitter?
• ..and do you know who gets what anymore?
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55. "users [on facebook] were annoyed by non-profits that
tried to push products or donations, or tried to get them
to sign up for other things like e-newsletters"
Jacob Nielsen
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/nonprofit-donations.html
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56. What makes a good DM?
✓ The ask
✓ Frequency
• Target demographic
• Emotions
• Being the solution to a defined problem
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57. Target demographic
Are your online donors the same
as your «regular» ones?
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58. Do we know who we’re talking to?
2011:
• 9 000 customers in our webshop
• 1 200 were in our database
= 13,3% «old donors»
= 86,7% new!
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59. Do we know who we’re talking to?
2011:
• 9 000 customers in our webshop
• 1 200 were in our database
= 13,3% «old donors»
= 86,7% new!
Who are these people?
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64. Erlend here is a nerd
He wanted to do something
for the starving people on the
Horn of Africa
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65. Results:
• 8 weeks
• only 26 days to reach goal
• 1289 donations
• Avg. donation: $ 148,5
• Total: € 191 570
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66. What makes a good DM?
✓ The ask
✓ Frequency
✓ Target demographic
• Emotions
• Being the solution to a defined problem
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71. VIDEO-SLIDE:
Link to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=xgOyTNtsWyY
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72. What makes a good DM?
✓ The ask
✓ Frequency
✓ Target demographic
✓ Emotions
• Being the solution to a defined problem
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73. A $14 donation = 2 Christmas Dinners
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75. A $14 donation = 2 Christmas Dinners
if you never say «this is our
Results:
goal» - you can never say
25.000 texts -
«look! We reached it
= $350.000
thanks to you guys!»
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78. So digital fundraising is about
• Sharing
• Relations
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79. So digital fundraising is about
• Sharing
• Relations
• Old techniques
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80. So digital fundraising is about
• Sharing
• Relations
• Old techniques
• Creativity
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81. So digital fundraising is about
• Sharing
• Relations
• Old techniques
• Creativity
• Presence
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82. So digital fundraising is about
• Sharing
• Relations
• Old techniques
• Creativity
• Presence
• Storytelling
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83. So digital fundraising is about
• Sharing
• Relations
• Old techniques
• Creativity
• Presence
• Storytelling
• Conversions!!!!!
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84. «It's harder to give money away
than it is to spend money buying
stuff»
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/nonprofit-donations.html
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85. omg:-|
I feel so cheap donating my $50 :C
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87. For more:
http://baddonationforms.tumblr.com/
wut?
Seriously?!
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88. Do we need ALL the data
- all the time?
VIDEO SLIDE:
Link to video: http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=MvcQiVuEqfs
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91. What works on facebook
• Lighten up - even if your cause is serious, you’re allowed to
have fun.
• You’re a part of peoples everyday-life now
• - delight them!
• Love them - if you love your community you will
automatically do most things right.
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92. What works on facebook
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93. What works on facebook
• Lighten up - even if your cause is serious, you’re allowed to
have fun.
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94. What works on facebook
• Lighten up - even if your cause is serious, you’re allowed to
have fun.
• You’re a part of peoples everyday-life now
@BeateSorum http://about.me/beatesorum
95. What works on facebook
• Lighten up - even if your cause is serious, you’re allowed to
have fun.
• You’re a part of peoples everyday-life now
• - delight them!
@BeateSorum http://about.me/beatesorum
96. What works on facebook
• Lighten up - even if your cause is serious, you’re allowed to
have fun.
• You’re a part of peoples everyday-life now
• - delight them!
• Love them - if you love your community you will
automatically do most things right.
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107. Twitter
• Microdonations - microgoals
• Great for advocacy
• Identify key players and ask for help
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108. Twitter
• Microdonations - microgoals
• Great for advocacy
• Identify key players and ask for help
• Short, intense «drives»
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109. Twitter
• Microdonations - microgoals
• Great for advocacy
• Identify key players and ask for help
• Short, intense «drives»
• Make sure you have a good landing page and #hashtag.
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110. Twitter
• Microdonations - microgoals
• Great for advocacy
• Identify key players and ask for help
• Short, intense «drives»
• Make sure you have a good landing page and #hashtag.
• Great for weird and unusual demographics
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112. Working with bloggers
• For the love of [insert your deity] - do your research.
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113. Working with bloggers
• For the love of [insert your deity] - do your research.
• Wrong blogger = PR disaster
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114. Working with bloggers
• For the love of [insert your deity] - do your research.
• Wrong blogger = PR disaster
• Wrong approach = PR disaster
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115. Working with bloggers
• For the love of [insert your deity] - do your research.
• Wrong blogger = PR disaster
• Wrong approach = PR disaster
• Picking right networker = PR gold
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116. Working with bloggers
• For the love of [insert your deity] - do your research.
• Wrong blogger = PR disaster
• Wrong approach = PR disaster
• Picking right networker = PR gold
• Providing right networker with exclusive content and
feeling of being special = best supporter ever.
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117. What may the future hold?
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118. What may the future hold?
• Charity:Water, Kony2012, Tom’s shoes
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119. What may the future hold?
• Charity:Water, Kony2012, Tom’s shoes
• «Micro-problems»
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120. What may the future hold?
• Charity:Water, Kony2012, Tom’s shoes
• «Micro-problems»
• Increased competition
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121. What may the future hold?
• Charity:Water, Kony2012, Tom’s shoes
• «Micro-problems»
• Increased competition
• Permission marketing
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122. What may the future hold?
• Charity:Water, Kony2012, Tom’s shoes
• «Micro-problems»
• Increased competition
• Permission marketing
• Micro texts - every word counts!
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123. What may the future hold?
• Charity:Water, Kony2012, Tom’s shoes
• «Micro-problems»
• Increased competition
• Permission marketing
• Micro texts - every word counts!
• Microdonations
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124. What may the future hold?
• Charity:Water, Kony2012, Tom’s shoes
• «Micro-problems»
• Increased competition
• Permission marketing
• Micro texts - every word counts!
• Microdonations
• Early adapters / driving forces hit the wall
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125. What may the future hold?
• Charity:Water, Kony2012, Tom’s shoes
• «Micro-problems»
• Increased competition
• Permission marketing
• Micro texts - every word counts!
• Microdonations
• Early adapters / driving forces hit the wall
• Beware of shiny toys
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126. VIDEO SLIDE:
Link to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=V2rVYvylvZc
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127. VIDEO SLIDE:
Link to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=V2rVYvylvZc
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128. My top 10 tips
1. Good landing pages
2.Invest in conversion rates
3.Measure social traffic
• What is effective? What effect? What is your end goal? Is it
reached?
4.Good social presence
5. Good, effective and relevant sharing
• Your supporters will tell your stories if you ask them
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129. My top 10 tips
6.Be specific. Dare to define success.
7.Do your research
8.Communicate visually
9.Lighten up!
10. Say please and thank you
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Now, I am one of the halleluja-people. I LOVE social media. I adore digital communication. I absolutely believe that the effect of the internet, and social connectivity will make a better humankind. After all, when you can hear and speak directly to the people affected by the worlds injustices - how can you then not care? How can you then not help? You can’t. And the internet connects those who want to help to one another. So you see, I am an evangelist. I feel like the frikkin lion king after that video, gives me goosebumps and chills. But that makes me one of these people [slide]. We need to tether ourselves back to the real world. Figure out how to DO all that stuff.\n
Now, I am one of the halleluja-people. I LOVE social media. I adore digital communication. I absolutely believe that the effect of the internet, and social connectivity will make a better humankind. After all, when you can hear and speak directly to the people affected by the worlds injustices - how can you then not care? How can you then not help? You can’t. And the internet connects those who want to help to one another. So you see, I am an evangelist. I feel like the frikkin lion king after that video, gives me goosebumps and chills. But that makes me one of these people [slide]. We need to tether ourselves back to the real world. Figure out how to DO all that stuff.\n
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Can anyone spot the grave error in this tweet? \n
Can anyone spot the grave error in this tweet? \n
Can anyone spot the grave error in this tweet? \n
Can anyone spot the grave error in this tweet? \n
Can anyone spot the grave error in this tweet? \n
Can anyone spot the grave error in this tweet? \n
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The attention bit - still magic (yay:D)\n The getting money bit - not so much (boo!)\n Your 100 K facebook fans are nothing worth if you don’t know how to ask them\n I think we just need to learn how to do this\n
The attention bit - still magic (yay:D)\n The getting money bit - not so much (boo!)\n Your 100 K facebook fans are nothing worth if you don’t know how to ask them\n I think we just need to learn how to do this\n
The attention bit - still magic (yay:D)\n The getting money bit - not so much (boo!)\n Your 100 K facebook fans are nothing worth if you don’t know how to ask them\n I think we just need to learn how to do this\n
The attention bit - still magic (yay:D)\n The getting money bit - not so much (boo!)\n Your 100 K facebook fans are nothing worth if you don’t know how to ask them\n I think we just need to learn how to do this\n
The attention bit - still magic (yay:D)\n The getting money bit - not so much (boo!)\n Your 100 K facebook fans are nothing worth if you don’t know how to ask them\n I think we just need to learn how to do this\n
The attention bit - still magic (yay:D)\n The getting money bit - not so much (boo!)\n Your 100 K facebook fans are nothing worth if you don’t know how to ask them\n I think we just need to learn how to do this\n
The attention bit - still magic (yay:D)\n The getting money bit - not so much (boo!)\n Your 100 K facebook fans are nothing worth if you don’t know how to ask them\n I think we just need to learn how to do this\n
- 4 seconds to load and 25% will have left your page\n- a 1 second delay decreases customer satisfaction by 16 % http://blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/\n
Make sure your language is clear, your navigation uncluttered, and your check out process as short as possible. \n\n
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90% of those who got a thank you retweeted the thank you. Great brand value, and great to be able to thank the supporters that directly and REALLY care about them\n
Eventbrite, tickets - march this year\n\n
Eventbrite, tickets - march this year\n\n
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We know how to do this, so it shouldn’t be hard. And yet, we just can seem to do it. And why is that? \n
We know how to do this, so it shouldn’t be hard. And yet, we just can seem to do it. And why is that? \n
We know how to do this, so it shouldn’t be hard. And yet, we just can seem to do it. And why is that? \n
We know how to do this, so it shouldn’t be hard. And yet, we just can seem to do it. And why is that? \n
We know how to do this, so it shouldn’t be hard. And yet, we just can seem to do it. And why is that? \n
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You’d never send out a mailpack without an ask\n Not just donations, or volunteers\n Ask them to share donations\n Ask them to answer your questions\n Ask them to suggest your next product?\n
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The most important thing you can do for fundraising through facebook, is to sometimes not fundraise on facebook. Now, I know this sounds contradictory to what I just said about asking, but it’s a matter of how and when. While you might not ask on facebook, you might share a story - that has an ask at the bottom. \nI also find that this varies greatly within different charities and the type of people on your page. On the pink ribbon-page, i can be very commercial and push products. On the cancer society main page i cannot. \n
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If I don’t know who these people are - how do we communicate with them? We need to gain insight. We need to know when are they logged on to fb? When do they respond? Monday or friday? Am or Pm? Do they like to be adressed via photo, video, link or status? You need to measure this and find out. \n
This means that these are likely to be different people. We don’t really know much about them. And the trouble is; the term demographic in a traditional sense doesn’t really help us anymore. It is nice to know that we are reaching people 20 years earlier, that they might be loyal donors ten years longer - but we don’t know the context of why they are here. \n
demographic in terms of age, gender and geographical location. I would be single 30 year old woman, Oslo Norway. You can no longer define me thus. I am public speaker - identifying with 50 year old men who are public speakers. I am techie, identifying with severe geeks. I am a passionate super-aunt, identifying with mommy-bloggers. I am a politician, identifying with people of the same political views. I am a traveler. I am a commuter. I am a daughter. I am a fundraiser. I like the band Foo Fighters. All of this defines me. Do not treat me as woman, 30.\n\n
They love wordplay and by god they are willing to pay to join the fun. \n\nSimpsons story. \n
The only thing these people have in common is identifying as nerds. Nothing else. But he was able to tap this demographic. They played nerdy, nerdy games\n
Look at what your supporters have in common. Could you tap into any demographic? Could any of your supporters? \n
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..We’ve perfected this for years - how did we let the average business get better than us at evoking emotion?\n
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If this wasn’t a phone company - could we imagine the exact same ad for a charity?\n\nCould any charities do this? Why doesn’t the red cross make me feel like THIS - and THEN ask me to reunite refugees with their families? \n
If this wasn’t a phone company - could we imagine the exact same ad for a charity?\n\nCould any charities do this? Why doesn’t the red cross make me feel like THIS - and THEN ask me to reunite refugees with their families? \n
Raw, human emotion people. Trumps marketing anytime\n
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This is being the solution to a problem. This is really showing how Charity:Water makes a difference as a charity. And how you as a donor make a difference. \n\nYou can be spesific as a cancer charity too, you just have to think harder. LiveStrong asked me to help fund just ONE extra communicty class. That’s spesific. \n\nThe thing is; if you never say «this is our goal» - you can never say «look! We reached it - thanks to you guys!» Being the solution is about daring to define success\n
This is being the solution to a problem. This is really showing how Charity:Water makes a difference as a charity. And how you as a donor make a difference. \n\nYou can be spesific as a cancer charity too, you just have to think harder. LiveStrong asked me to help fund just ONE extra communicty class. That’s spesific. \n\nThe thing is; if you never say «this is our goal» - you can never say «look! We reached it - thanks to you guys!» Being the solution is about daring to define success\n
And oh yes, conversions, And now we get to the bit where I shall have to be a bit cross with you. Seriously,.\n
And oh yes, conversions, And now we get to the bit where I shall have to be a bit cross with you. Seriously,.\n
And oh yes, conversions, And now we get to the bit where I shall have to be a bit cross with you. Seriously,.\n
And oh yes, conversions, And now we get to the bit where I shall have to be a bit cross with you. Seriously,.\n
And oh yes, conversions, And now we get to the bit where I shall have to be a bit cross with you. Seriously,.\n
And oh yes, conversions, And now we get to the bit where I shall have to be a bit cross with you. Seriously,.\n
And oh yes, conversions, And now we get to the bit where I shall have to be a bit cross with you. Seriously,.\n
«Giving money on charity websites is 7% harder than spending money on e-commerce sites. Donating physical items is even harder. For non-profit websites, social media is secondary; the top priority is to write clearer content.»\n\n
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SOMETIMES we can skip our want for all your data. Sometimes. PLEASE, if you take anything away from today, let it be that you go home and fix your donation forms. Think of it as a check out process and deliver an outstanding performance.\n