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April 26, 2014
Mark your calendars ... eventually
2014: Ahern speaks to TX Symphonies in BBQ cap Tyler
This will be TASO's 47th annual conference. Encore!!! I'll be doing three workshops that day: on donor-centricity, on newsletters, on marketing bequests.
05/17/13
Latest e-news....!!!!!
6 good reasons why you don't need a newsletter
Just kidding: there's no excuse.
Donor communications follow a simple cyclical path: you ask, you thank, you report. Skip a step ... and your retention plummets. Let's deal once and for all with the phantoms that scare you away from doing a successful donor newsletter. Read.
05/09/13
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Confessions of a donor - PART 2!
Read. More intimate, even embarrassingly private, reasons why we've left most of our estate to our community foundation.
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13.07 The charity newsletter: Friend or foe?
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13.02 Know thy customer ... Who's buying you?
Customer satisfaction. Customer knowledge. Serious marketers obsess over them. But not fundraisers.
13.03 Want to deepen your "culture of philanthropy"? That requires adding so-called "social information" to your messaging stew.
Social Information = Donor Growth Hormone
13.04 Bequests: The other white meat?
"Planned giving" might well be a major marketing misstep....
 
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