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How to Develop a Data-Driven Marketing Strategy for Your Nonprofit

How to Develop a Data-Driven Marketing Strategy for Your Nonprofit What is data-driven marketing? Data-driven marketing uses audience and third-party data to gain insight into donor motivations, preferences and behaviors. These insights allow organizations to develop customized marketing strategies that drive the greatest return on investment (ROI). How is data-driven marketing different...

Debunking Misconceptions and Unlocking Success with a Marketing Agency

Debunking Misconceptions and Unlocking Success with a Marketing Agency Marketing empowers organizations and nonprofits to stand out in a highly competitive and crowded landscape. However, common misconceptions surrounding nonprofit marketing can hinder an organization’s ability to accomplish their goals. This blog post aims to debunk these myths and shed light on the significant value marketing...

Ways to Increase the Longevity of Your Evergreen Content

Ways to Increase the Longevity of Your Evergreen Content Let’s consider your blog page your closet. Some blog posts, while helpful at their publishing, lose relevancy (and value) over time. These blogs are the closet equivalent of purple velvet bell-bottoms. On the other hand, some content is like the little black dress that always seems to stay in style. Evergreen content is that little black...

Ways to Celebrate Female Entrepreneurs During Women’s Small Business Month

Ways to Celebrate Female Entrepreneurs During Women’s Small Business Month October is Women’s Small Business Month! As one of the over 12 million women-owned businesses in the United States, we are a part of a community that is strong, capable, and a driving force of the American economy. Don’t believe us? Here are some stats that back that up: US women-owned businesses generate 1.8 trillion...

The Resurgence of QR Codes

The Resurgence of QR Codes Do you recall how several years ago quick response (QR) codes were on everything? You know what I’m talking about: those square black and white symbols that you could scan using your Blackberry smartphone to learn more about a product? Then they kind of “died” and marketers moved on! That’s how it seems to go with many overhyped trends and technologies. But this marketing...

Lobster: The New Comic Sans?

Lobster: The New Comic Sans? Lobster. We have all seen it. We have noticed it because Lobster is a beautiful font, with its neat details, strong personality, and a large number of ligatures, carefully designed by Pablo Impallari. The font was created in 2010 and introduced to the Google font library. It started popping up on websites, on packaging, in logos and ads. No one could resist it— just...

Lessons in Brand Sentiment and Adaptation: Sherwin-Williams

Lessons in Brand Sentiment and Adaptation: Sherwin-Williams Last year my spouse and I bought a real fixer-upper of a house, and one aspect of the fixing-up process involves coating every square inch in a fresh layer of paint. So every other weekend we make a trip to Sherwin-Williams for supplies, and every other weekend as we pull past the sign and into the lot I think: what the heck is going...

Leveraging LinkedIn for Universities

Leveraging LinkedIn for Universities Did you know that LinkedIn has a page dedicated to resources for Higher Education? You do now! As a university, you should be utilizing LinkedIn to engage prospects, current students, staff, and alumni. From the LinkedIn for Higher Education page itself, here are the ways you can utilize LinkedIn for your community. Gain a competitive advantage: leverage...

Step-By-Step Guide to managing online negative reviews

Step-By-Step Guide to managing online negative reviews I don’t know about you, but every time I go to purchase a product or service, I check out the online reviews. One bad Amazon review can easily stop me from purchasing a product. After putting so much care and effort into your organization, a bad review can be a disappointing sight to see. The question is – how do we handle negative reviews? If...

Leveraging LinkedIn for Nonprofits

Leveraging LinkedIn for Nonprofits LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network on the internet. You may use it to search for jobs, connect with professionals, or check in on friends’ job statuses. But are you utilizing LinkedIn for your nonprofit organization? Coming straight from the LinkedIn for Nonprofit page itself, LinkedIn can power your nonprofit in the following ways. Hire – Find...

Best Practices for an Engaging Annual Report

Best Practices for an Engaging Annual Report It’s that time of year again. The dust has settled from your holiday marketing campaigns and it’s time to reflect and report on last year’s activities. As you probably know, both for-profit and non-profit organizations produce annual reports. An annual report is a formal financial statement sent to shareholders and other interested parties. It’s a comprehensive...

7 Key Website Metrics to Track in 2022

7 Key Website Metrics to Track in 2022 Your organization relies on your website. You take into consideration functionality, appearance, coding integrity, all to create a user-friendly website. With all of the metrics available to track, what key stats should you pay attention to in 2022? We’re here to tell you 7 key metrics you should be tracking in the upcoming year. Traffic Sources Where are...