259. Create a Marketing Plan and Your Brand Voice for the “Off-Season” - Jordana Merkin

Meet Jordana. This nonprofit marketer is helping you create a marketing plan for the "off-season" between campaigns or events AND sweetening the deal by outlining steps to craft your organization's story. Tune in for messaging guidelines and building a brand voice from one of our favorite mission-based marketers🎧 EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSJordana’s story and journey to where she is today (4:00)Where to start when you're trying to create messaging for organizations (6:00)Brand voice and the importance of the way you choose your words (22:00)Key steps to building a marketing plan for the off season (28:00)Jordana’s lessons learned throughout her nonprofit marketing career (34:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Jordana’s life (36:00)Jordana’s One Good Thing: Keep learning. (40:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/259The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/helloAbout Our Sponsor VirtuousYou know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/About Our Sponsor FeathrAre you ready to take your digital engagement to the next level but feel stuck about where to start? Feathr is focused on making nonprofit outreach more impactful by connecting you to your audience - wherever they are online. Feathr offers great training, support, and campaign recipes based on goals specific to nonprofits. From fundraising to program awareness, they’ve got you covered.Learn more about their solutions for nonprofits at feathr.coJoin us at The Spread!Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.Learn more and save your free spot today. //Join the We Are For Good Community—completely free.Join fellow changemakers, share takeaways from this working session, and keep collaborating in a space built for connection, inspiration, and real impact: www.weareforgoodcommunity.comSay hi 👋LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter