How do you attract the best donors to your nonprofit organization? The right donor can help an organization change the world. The wrong donor can cost you valuable time, resources, and reputation. Here’s why I’m qualified to share a key donor development system. I’ve spent the last 25 years working…
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How to Share Your Way to Social Media Success
If you’re a nonprofit and you are not using social media, you may be missing a key ingredient to developing stronger relationships with your key stakeholders. It might seem obvious to you, my reader of my blog, that social media is critical to your organization’s long term success in sharing…
Continue Reading....Three Keys to More Successful Fundraising
This week, we start talking about fundraising and how you maximize your effectiveness being a fundraiser. I’ve been fortunate enough to know many great people who are highly effective at fundraising. What’s really interesting is when you first meet them, you find they have very little in common. They don’t…
Continue Reading....Hulk Will Smash and Other Great Marketing Secrets!!
The recent success of The Avengers has got me thinking about what elements we might use to help our writing get and keep our stakeholders engaged in our causes and, ultimately, our organizations. I will share what Stan Lee’s been doing to engage his readers and viewers for over 50…
Continue Reading....Does Your Nonprofit Marketing Need Heroes?
In my last posting, I talked about how Stan Lee can help you create better stories by adding drama to your storytelling style. In this posting I’ll share with you how Stan Lee has created many modern heroes with his writing. How did Stan Lee and his artistic teams keep…
Continue Reading....Avengers Assemble The Storytelling Secrets of Stan Lee Revealed
If you don’t read today’s blog from puny human, Tripp Braden, Hulk will smash!! Now you know the pressure I was under to produce a great blog sharing some of the secrets that Stan Lee has used to keep people involved in his heroes and their stories for over 50…
Continue Reading....Happy Birthday, Pops
Today my father would have been 83. He lost sight in one eye in Korea. He never complained and never explained. He was a man who taught me the meaning of being a serving leader. He taught me so many life lessons I could fill blogs from here to eternity…
Continue Reading....Three Keys for Getting the Right People on Your Team
The number one secret of success in a nonprofit is their ability to have the right people doing the right things in their organization. I’ve seen statistics that state over 50% of effective leaders believed they have hired the wrong person in their careers. With this number being so high,…
Continue Reading....What’s Your Lasting Leadership Legacy?
How do you make a difference in the world today? It seems like we’re always being challenged to become better leaders. But at a time where we can all impact the world in our own ways, why do we strive to be more like everyone else we know? I try…
Continue Reading....How Good are Your People?
As we talked last week about how passionate you are about your nonprofit’s mission, vision, values, did you find yourself reenergized about your organization’s potential? If you are a leader in your organization, it’s very easy to share your story with others with similar interests and values. I find this…
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