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How to Attract More People to Your Fundraising Event’s Website

By Jim Wilson

When trying to attract people to your fundraising event’s website, you need to start with the event and the website for it. Once that is set, you...

The Best Online Marketing Software for Nonprofits

By Jim Wilson

Do you have a spreadsheet with hundreds of user names and passwords for online systems you’re actually using as well as for those you’ve tried and...

How Success Is Measured for Nonprofits on HubSpot

By Jim Wilson

Success and measurement go hand-in-hand. Unless you’re measuring every aspect of your organization, you can’t possibly know if you’re succeeding or...

How to Create a Donor Persona

By Jim Wilson

Creating and developing donor personas is a huge step in building your fundraising effectiveness and driving results. On a broader level it’s called...

Why Donors Give

By Jim Wilson

Time, Talent, Treasure. Those are the three big things we have to give in this world. We give them to others, we give them to organizations, and we...

The Best Time of Year for a Membership Drive Campaign

By Jim Wilson

As you’re looking over your calendar for the year, you will naturally be pulled in the direction of recruiting new members. After all, members are at...

5 Tried and True Association Marketing Ideas

By Jim Wilson

For associations, marketing is generally all about growing membership. Of course, you also need to market your programs, your meetings, and your...

Year-End Fundraisers – Make the Most of #GivingTuesday

By Jim Wilson

In my previous post on year-end fundraising, I examined how spectacular December can be — with 30% of annual donations falling within the month,...

RSVPs Hard to Come By? Make Your Association Events and Communication More Awesome

By Jim Wilson

Is one of your recurring nightmares the hashtag #YourEventSucks? Or is your nightmare that no one will be around to generate tweets about your event,...

The State of Association Membership Growth and Retention

By Jim Wilson

Membership is at the heart of all associations—after all, by definition members are why associations exist. So, what's happening with association...

Leveraging Social Media to Support Your Cause

By Jim Wilson

Search Engine Journal has generated a superb infographic on the Growth of Social Media. The numbers are pretty awesome. Facebook now has well over 1...

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