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Simple Strategies for Making the Most of Winter for a Candidate

Winter and end of the year holidays are an unforgiving time for candidates and campaigns. Time and money, the backbone...

Year-End Fundraisers – Make the Most of #GivingTuesday

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

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

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

How to set up a fundraising campaign for your small-dollar donors

When you have to raise a lot of money to run for office, it can be easy to focus solely on major donors… those donors...

Common Recruiting and Retention Problems for Even the Best Organizations

You may have seen my post on the Changing Dynamics of Associations and my earlier post on Three Business Strategies...

How to Better Understand Your Voters

Have you ever given a campaign speech and felt the response was a little...off? Then you know how important avoiding...

The State of Association Membership Growth and Retention

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

Is Personalizing Direct Mail Really Worth It?

End of year is the best time to wage donor renewal and retention campaigns and is the absolute best time for donor...

The 4 Best Strategies for Raising More Money for Your Next Election Campaign

Over the years, I’ve worked with hundreds of candidates for public office. The one thing these candidates all have in...

Current Marketing Trends are Pointing to Organizing

Imagine this. You’ve devoted 60% of your marketing budget to developing a flashy new ad campaign. When it finally...

You Aren't Asking Your Donors One Very Important Question

Most non-profits know that great donor cultivation is the key to long-term donor relationships. When donors feel like...

Tips for Using Direct Mail in Your Political Campaign

As you know, direct mail marketing is only one of many impression mediums that are essential to running a successful...