So many of you have asked me this vital question, that I want to share my recommendation beyond a personal email. This is a vital issue for you to spend some time on—the challenge level of your nonprofit marketing goals has a huge impact on whether you get there or not.
I believe strongly that you have to hit a middle ground, a balance, and have seen this work time and time again.
The best goals are ambitious, so you push yourself and your colleagues to respond on an ongoing basis to the ever-changing world in which your organization works, and the ever-changing wants of your prospects and supporters (a must for relevance, and moving your mission forward).
But there’s more.
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Nancy Schwartz on April 2, 2013 in Planning and Evaluation
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Clarity here is a must for right-things, right-now marketing that advances your issue or cause a.s.a.p.
Goals are what you want to achieve. Complete the sentence: “We want to . . .”
Organizational goals (a max of three at a time) are the steps (look one year ahead) that will take your organization to closer to achieving your mission.
Marketing goals (three tops here too, for that same year) are the best ways to focus your marketing (message development, audience research, e.g. the whole enchilada, not just the communications part) to achieve those organization goals.
Here are a few examples…
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Nancy Schwartz on March 14, 2013 in Planning and Evaluation
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Please take a minute right now (literally, this is a 1-2 question survey) to tell me how you select your marketing activities.
Your answers will guide me to create the guidance you need to save time, money and anguish in that process.
Please answer these 2 questions right now
Thanks, in advance, for your input. You’re the best!
P.S. Can you do this right now, while it’s on your mind? I’d appreciate it.
Nancy Schwartz on January 30, 2013 in Planning and Evaluation
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Register now, seats are limited. Webinar is Feb. 5 but sign up even if you can’t make it live. You’ll get the recording.
What’s the right way to connect with supporters, and motivate them to act?
And how do I know if I’m doing the right things?
These are the questions you ask most frequently, and tell me that not knowing the answers leads to self-doubt, paralysis or, worse, just doing what you’ve always done, regardless of the impact it may (or may not) have.
But there’s a better way…
Wouldn’t it feel great to know you’re making the right choices, backed by real-time research, sound thinking and true strategy?
I’ll guide you there via this practical and enlightening webinar (kindly sponsored by Guidestar), leading you through the steps to a game-changing marketing plan that activates your supporters. Register now to grab your spot for the Feb 5 webinar (sign up even if you can’t make it live, you’ll get the recording)
You’ll learn how to:
- Escape from the muddy messages and impossible to-do lists that deflate your marketing impact
- Approach marketing as a system, rather than a series of one-offs
- Identify the right priorities
- Implement them in a way that generates the greatest results.
You’ll finish the webinar energized, confident and with a clear understanding of what to do next. Please join me!
Get your spot now—seats are limited. Register even if you can’t make the live session—you’ll get the recording.
Nancy Schwartz on January 17, 2013 in Planning and Evaluation
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I’m a devoted participant in Anne Holland’s blog, Which Test Won. Participant rather than reader because each week Anne offers up a challenge, asking marketing geeks like us to vote on which version of the landing page design, e-news subscription form or donate here pop-up worked best: A vs. B. These are real-life marketing case studies!
This week’s test pinpoints the best way to design the search box on your nonprofit’s website. Which do you think works best, A vs. B?
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Nancy Schwartz on March 20, 2012 in Planning and Evaluation
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This is the time to propel your organization’s marketing forward with a smart plan! And I can help you do that in a single day — October 12, in New York City.
I’m partnering with one of the best nonprofit marketers I know, Kivi Leroux Miller of NonprofitMarketingGuide.com, to offer you a way to transform your tangle of marketing to-do lists and conflicting priorities into a clear, practical and doable plan.
Join us for the Total Focus Marketing Plan Workshop, October 12 in New York City. But don’t wait: This is the final Total Focus Workshop we’ll be giving in 2011, and seats are filling fast!
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Nancy Schwartz on July 21, 2011 in Planning and Evaluation
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Tags:kivi leroux miller, nonprofit branding, Nonprofit Communications, nonprofit marketing, Total Focus Marketing Plan Workshop, training
I recently received this Ask Nancy query and was eager to respond ASAP, as this is a question I hear frequently from nonprofit communicators like you…
Dear Nancy,
Colleagues at two other organizations in our county are in the middle of communications audits. I’m interested, but don’t know what that process would mean for our organization.
What is a communications audit, and what value does it deliver? We’re overloaded as it is and it’s hard to even consider taking on even one more thing!
Thanks much,
Denise Harris, Project Director
Human Services Coalition
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Nancy Schwartz on July 18, 2011 in Planning and Evaluation
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Welcome to our newest guest blogger, Rebecca Leaman. Rebecca (@rjleaman) is a writer and editor who helps small community-based nonprofits and individuals tell their stories. Her driving passions are technology, local history and dogs.
Running a small nonprofit has never been easy, but there used to be few challenges that a larger marketing budget couldn’t solve.
Now, however, with all the possibilities offered by low-cost, fast-changing technology tools and social media, ”overwhelm” can be as big a roadblock as budget constraints. Where do you even start?
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Guest Blogger on July 11, 2011 in Planning and Evaluation
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