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6 Easy Ways to Create Consistent Nonprofit Branding
We must always think of our own nonprofits from the outside first. Build your empathy muscle for what your donors, volunteers, and visitors see, hear, and feel when they interact with your organization. If someone went to your website, visited you at an event, and...
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4 Ways to Explain to Your Board Members That Content is Key
You’d be lucky to have a board member who is on the cutting edge of marketing and media. Unfortunately, most of you aren’t that fortunate. Explaining an email newsletter might even be a hard task for some, let alone the intricacies of digital content marketing. Here...
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5 Tips to Write Engaging Nonprofit Articles – TCN005
The Creative Nonprofit Podcast Episode 005 Subscribe on: iTunes | Stitcher What are we writing articles for? Your time is so precious in a nonprofit. Is it worthwhile to write articles? Regardless if there are only a handful or there are hundreds or thousands reading...
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Use Email as the Core to Your Nonprofit Marketing – TCN004
The Creative Nonprofit Podcast Episode 004 Subscribe on: iTunes | Stitcher For many of you, emails are an afterthought. Or they’re just a monthly effort to get a couple people to come back and donate. But I want it to be so much more for you. I want you to use your...
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What’s This? – Announcing The Creative Nonprofit Podcast Ep 1
Download Episode Now Welcome to The Creative Nonprofit podcast! I’m so excited you’re here. I’ve been thinking about this for so long, and am thrilled to get it going. I know the power of podcasts very personally. It’s really how I got my start into marketing. I used...
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Who Wants to Meet Up in Vancouver?
I never thought I would be the person to attend a meetup with strangers, let alone start one myself. But as I’ve learned to come out of my introversion in the past couple of years, I’ve had some great experiences at meetups and can see so much value in people coming...
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Brainstorming Nonprofit Content Ideas So You Never Run Out – TCN003
The Creative Nonprofit Podcast Episode 003 Subscribe on: iTunes | Stitcher One of the biggest reasons nonprofits aren’t creating more content, is because they haven’t outlined it ahead of time. I know, I used to do this. If you’re tasked with “writing an article” or...
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3 Levels of Defining Your Nonprofit Audience – TCN002
The Creative Nonprofit Podcast Episode 002 Subscribe on: iTunes | Stitcher Every nonprofit has an audience. If you have donors, volunteers, or constituents, you have an audience. And that’s what I address in this episode of The Creative Nonprofit podcast - defining...
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What’s This? – Announcing The Creative Nonprofit Podcast Ep 1
Download Episode Now Welcome to The Creative Nonprofit podcast! I’m so excited you’re here. I’ve been thinking about this for so long, and am thrilled to get it going. I know the power of podcasts very personally. It’s really how I got my start into marketing. I used...
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6 Easy Ways to Create Consistent Nonprofit Branding
We must always think of our own nonprofits from the outside first. Build your empathy muscle for what your donors, volunteers, and visitors see, hear, and feel when they interact with your organization. If someone went to your website, visited you at an event, and...
read more
4 Ways to Explain to Your Board Members That Content is Key
You’d be lucky to have a board member who is on the cutting edge of marketing and media. Unfortunately, most of you aren’t that fortunate. Explaining an email newsletter might even be a hard task for some, let alone the intricacies of digital content marketing. Here...
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What Instagram TV Could Do For Your Nonprofit
It’s been just over 2 months now since Instagram unveiled their new feature, Instagram TV. This has been the biggest update the platform has seen since it’s introduction of Stories - a feature that has since taken over Snapchat altogether. So we’ve had a little bit of...
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How to Welcome Subscribers with Automated Emails in MailChimp
Whether it’s a donor, a volunteer, or just a new signup on your website that subscribed to your newsletter, you should ALWAYS have an automated welcome email. Think of your website as your home. A friend just walked up to your front door, you stood there chatting for...
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Social Media Overwhelm? Be Everywhere Without Losing Control
Most nonprofits are on Facebook, some have a Twitter account, you might even be playing around with Instagram. But do you feel guilty for not spending more time on all of them? Or being on the many others? Social media is a technology with some of the biggest upsides...
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Who Wants to Meet Up in Vancouver?
I never thought I would be the person to attend a meetup with strangers, let alone start one myself. But as I’ve learned to come out of my introversion in the past couple of years, I’ve had some great experiences at meetups and can see so much value in people coming...
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The Perfect Number of Nonprofit Email Campaigns to Send
I hate to say it, but the perfect number of nonprofit email campaigns doesn’t exist. I’m going to explain to you how we can get close, but there is no magic number. I asked a number of nonprofit communications professionals how many emails their organization sends. To...
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