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Managing your brand in a digital world

I went to a very enjoyable breakfast seminar by CharityComms about managing risk and reputation.

Pushing the fundraising boat out

This week’s blog is dedicated to a small group of charities who are trying different things to raise awareness and money.  We’ve talked a lot on these pages about the lack of a ‘success guarantee’ when trying something new but I find myself appreciating these three initiatives for the same reasons:

A data protection issue we can’t afford to ignore

At the risk of scaremongering, I am – to say the least – extremely concerned about the potential impact that the proposed EU legislation changes on data protection will have f

The Summit has great news for small charities

The Summit - Giles Pegram CBE at The Bishopsgate Institute, London

Admit it. Sometimes you feel discouraged and maybe even a little annoyed when a big charity shares their latest fundraising innovation.

12 Tips of Christmas... part 3

 

Here’s the third instalment of our 12 tips of Christmas for fundraisers and charity marketing folks.  Lovingly deliberated over and shared by Kevin Baughen of Bottom Line Ideas and the Fundraising Detective, Craig Linton.

7.  Brands don’t belong to the marketing or communications teams!

Our 12 Tips of Christmas - part 2

 

Put together by Craig Linton, the Fundraising Detective, here are the next few tips in our 12 Tips of christmas feature (you can read the first three tips here, in case you missed them):

 4. Review your processes to make sure they are donor focussed

Retention Song - the fundraiser's anthem

I heard Gangnam Style just a few too many times in sessions at this year's International Fundraising Congress.

Audience Segmentation: how personalised can your fundraising get?

Are you segmenting your audience types thoroughly in order to communicate with them in a truly personalised way?

Big Data is a pipe dream

I’ve been investigating “Big Data” of late. Specifically, how this emerging field can offer opportunities to charities to make their fundraising more effective.

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