NextAfter had a great webinar today that inspired me to immediately share some ideas with you right now for thanking your donors!
The bar has been set by one non-profit that sent 9 thank you’s in the first 90 days for one gift! Wow!
Wonder how and what they did? Watch and see.
Your new thank you ‘best-practice’ should be 3 thank you’s for each gift! Your new continuum of thanking! www.nextafter.com
Would you believe that a single thank you note to a group of donors brought in an extra $450,000 to FOOD FOR THE POOR?
Watch now and see how Executive Director, Angel Aloma, did it!
Blockbuster Fundraising offers this as the first great 2017 Fundraising Tip for YOU! Watch this video and then read 20 QUESTIONS, THE DONOR COMMUNICATIONS TEST for more great tips and “AHA” moments!
http://www.aherncomm.com/20-questions-free-downloadable-test-re-best-practices-donor-communications/
Dec 30th! Today we review an exemplary 2016 year-end email and remind ourselves that a call to donors about the last chance IRA 2016 deduction could be important! Hope your emails are year-end asks are having fabulous results! Join us tomorrow for a live New Years Eve celebration with resolutions and trends for 2017.
With these Blockbuster Fundraising Tips plus bonus tips borrowed from John Haydon, you’re ready for 3 biggest days for fundraising! http://www.johnhaydon.com/thank-you-page-best-practices-nonprofit/
Just gotta love The NONPROFIT MARKETING BLOG and their “7 Musts for Last-MInute Fundraising Appeals”. These 7 tips are dazzling best-practices that will give you “striking and spiking” power for 2016 year-end!
3 tips you can use for your last 4 days of 2016 emails! Important Tips for 2016 year-end success!
After viewing this Daily Tip and reading John Haydon’s blog (http://www.johnhaydon.com/email-subject-line-examples/) you will be thinking about sending out more than one email on Dec 31st as well as revamping your subject lines! Keep It going because these last 9 days of 2016 fundraising are tremendously important and you can tweak your emails for super success! No Kidding!
The Final 12 Days of Fundraising are now upon us and here are the final 6 email secrets that will pull-off sizzling year-end email results for you!
Here is the link to Blockbuster blog with all 12 tips included in case you missed yesterday’s video. http://blockbusterfundraising.com/12-steps-for-year-end-email-success/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys1IAT5YGO4
One more positive thing we can do now! Print out your lapsed donor list, any donor who has yet to give this year in 2016, and get ready for action!
Action steps and letter (or call script) included! Also a couple great links to more information!
Loving lapsed donors back into the fold | Simple, brilliant and oh so swipe-able!
With only 19 days left to fundraise and meet those 2016 goals, What Can You Do Now to Make A Difference?
Let’s analyze this together and keep it going!
https://smartannualgiving.com/year-end-annual-fund-analysis/
