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Marketing with Purpose — 244 episodes

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Responding to Board Members "Good Intentions"

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What to Put on Your Services Pages (So People Actually Contact You)

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Is Blogging Still Worth It? (Blogging Didn't Die, But Your Strategy Might Have)

4

AI & Search: What It Actually Means for Your Website

5

The Future of Online Ads with Guest RJ Hubert

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State of the Internet 2026

7

Tricks to Fix and STOP Website Spam

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How to tell your boss that part of your job sucks.

9

Home Page Design Tips

10

Last-Minute Nonprofit Year-End Giving Website Checklist

11

How to Make an ADA Complaint PDF (And WHY?!?)

12

Why Is My WordPress Site So Slow (and Tricks to Fix It)

13

20 Years of Lessons Learned from the MayeCreate Team

14

How to Write Website Copy with AI - A Step-by-Step Workshop

15

Breaking Down the New ADA Title II Web Rules & Exceptions

16

Battling Bots: Website Security Essentials for 2025

17

4 Day Work Week Update

18

From Table Top to Backdrops: Trade Show Booth Display Ideas For Small Budgets

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2024 Web Trends that Predict the Future

20

Website Navigation Best Practices & Examples

21

Light and Easy Marketing + Mindset with Guest Shelley Niehaus

22

Best Poster Making and Brochure Design Software from Beginner to Expert

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User Generated Content Playbook with Guest Lorraine Ball

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Useful (and Mega Cool) Google Chrome Extensions We Can't Live Without

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Maximizing your Google Business Profile with Guest Marilyn Jenkins

26

Year-End Fundraising Email Study Results - How Many Emails to Send

27

How to Create a QR Code for Your Business Card and Pretty Much Anything Else

28

Marketing From Your Own Magnetism with Guest Andrea Johnson

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What to Put on a Business Card and Tips to Design It

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Doing Less Better with Lazy Marketer Donna Dube

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What to Blog About – Post Ideas to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

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Purpose = Remarkable with Guest Ian Chamandy

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Blogging Q & A - Is it Dead? How Often Should You Blog? Do you have to? And More!

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Hyper Local Marketing: Selling Happiness, Nostalgia and Peaches with Guest Shannon Houchin

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11 Strategies to Boost Nonprofit Board Engagement With Marketing

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Color Chronicles: Exploring Good Logo Colors & Best Combinations

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Color Theory for Brands - What Your Colors Really Say About You

38

The 4C Content Marketing Method That Won't Take Up All Your Time with Guest Sarah Block

39

Good to Great: MayeCreate's Top WordPress Plugin Picks

40

Creating a Sales Page That Sells - 5 Levers to Pull for Major Conversions with Guest Tiff Carey

41

Podcasting 101 Part 2 - Podcast Startup Tech Talk

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Podcasting 101 Part 1 - Getting Started Checklist

43

SEO Fundamentals & 2024 Forecast With Guest Nina Gibson

44

What’s the Difference Between Domain, Hosting and Website

45

Paving the Way: Insights from Three Generations of Success with Guest Chris West

46

How Work from Home with Your Spouse and Not Go Nuts With Guests Tyler & Christi Ernst

47

Podcasting Lessons from Khalil (Compelling Content, Guest Tips, ROI & More!)

48

How One Co-Working Space Markets Through Great Customer Service With Owner Chris Galloway

49

Saying NO. In a nice way and feeling OK about it.

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The Power of Persistence - From Tax Consulting to Triumph with Guest Paden Squires

51

We Totally Revamped Our 18 Year Process and it Rocks.

52

What Does the Chamber of Commerce Do and Why Join? With Guest K.C. Cloke

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Small Business Tech Stack #3: Business Management Tools

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Small Business Tech Stack #2: Online Marketing & Cyber Security Tools

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Small Business Tech Stack #1: Communication & Efficiency Tools

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Website Refresh vs Redesign: When to Walk Away from Your Website

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Mistakes in Web Design: 11 Sure Fire Ways to Break Your Site

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Who Should Use Wordpress?

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Digital Wellness & Balance: Mindful Tech Usage With Guest Teah Hopper

60

Advice on Hiring a Virtual Assistant with Guest Sarah Luebbert

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How to Improve Your Mindset in Messaging

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Business Coaching: What Is It and Why You Need It With Guest Kimber Zatkovich

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Working Smarter, Not Longer: An Update on Our 4 Day Work Week Experiment

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Knowing Your Own Worth with Guest Jon Michael Perry

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Embracing Pura Vida: Lessons from My Costa Rica Work and Travel Holiday

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Guerrilla Marketing Tactics for Small Business Owners with Guest Jay Smith

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Practical Tips for Nonprofit Transparency with Bloomerang's James Goalder

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Peer to Peer Marketing Brings Instruments & Joy - Celebrating Band of Angels

69

Finding More Joy in Your Social Media (aka not hate it) with Guest Teah Hopper

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Paralysis by Analysis

71

How SEO Can Build Your Business with Guest Rachel Lindteigen

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Before You Set Up Your Ecommerce Site - Do This.

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Email Segmentation Hacks

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Creating A Single Brand Video That Will Build Trust Faster with Guest Mariana Henninger

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Branding from a Psychological Perspective with Guest Patrick Sesko

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Grow Your Email List - 6 Tricks that Work

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Getting Organized in Canva with Guest Brenda Cadman

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Collaborating for Dignity and Cultural Change One Period Kit at a Time with Guest Geoff Davis

79

Growing Through the Law of Attraction with Guest Lisa Kentner

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Branding for Startups with Guest Barbara Caniero

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Two Weird Yet Must Ask Interview Questions

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Using ChatGPT for blog ideas, outlines, keywords and SEO with Guest Andrea Thomas

83

Our Journey to a Four-Day Work Week

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Virtual Assistants - A Unicorn Solution for Marketing Tasks with Guest Emily Reagan

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Using AI to Save Time in Your Business with Guest Paul Pruitt

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Keep Your Light Bright: Make Different Decisions

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Is a Podcast Right for Your Organization?

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Logo Planning Tips - 6 Decisions You Need to Make

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You Are Right Where You Need to Be

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The Best, Least Expensive Way We've Found to Get a Great Logo

91

Website ADA Compliance Crash Course

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Web Design Company Interview Guide

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Picking the Right Computer for Your Marketing with Guest Jamie Cote

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Getting Great Marketing Photos Using Your Phone

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All About Google Workspace with Guest Travis Schumacher

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What Really Happens When You Don't Refresh That Dinosaur of a Website

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The Dos and Don’ts of Writing for Your Website

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Do You Have What it Takes to Build Your Own Website?

99

The Hidden and Recurring Costs of Building a Website

100

Time-Saving Tips for a Website Redo

101

Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, WordPress – What’s the Difference?

102

Rebranding Nonprofit Marketing with Purpose Announcement

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Picking the Right WordPress Theme

104

7 Website Myths That Are Total Crap (and holding you back)

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Ways to Take Donations on Your Website

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5 Decisions You Need to Make Before You Build Your New Website

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QUIZ: Do you even need a website?

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Mastering Story-Based Content with Guest Kasey Hammock

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11 True Tales from the Crypt: Website Horror Stories

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Creative Ways to Promote GivingTuesday

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Democratizing Fundraising Through Social Giving with Guest Nick Black

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How to Pick a Domain Name That Doesn't Suck

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Creating a Year-End Ask That Sticks with Guest Heather Stewart

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Asking for Donations to Add a New Staff Member or Raise Money for Admin Costs with Guest Jaime Friedrichs

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The Future of Fundraising with Network For Good's Kimberly O'Donnell

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Year End Giving Success Story: Missouri Disability Empowerment Foundation

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Bloomerang from a User Perspective with Guest Wende Wagner

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Network for Good from a User Perspective with Guest Billy Polansky

119

Tech-Easy Online Fundraising Event Ideas

120

Google Analytics 4 – The Time to Freak Out is Nigh

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Using Square to Manage Donor Data with Guest Enola White

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#1 Way to Protect Your Website from Hackers

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Why Do Hackers Hack?

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10 Intern Management Tips From My Former Interns

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Hiring a Marketing Intern - What they're good for and where to find them

126

10 Social Posts Every Fundraiser or Event Needs

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Facebook Changed Pages - What That Means For You

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Year End Giving Prep Starting Now & Volunteer Cultivation with Guest Carol Bennis

129

The 7 Types of Web Designers

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What's Not Included in Your Web Design

131

Mailchimp Vs Mailerlite

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Fast Loading Website Formula (and Why You Should Care)

133

Learn How Our Community Raised $1.8M in One Month - with John Baker & Stacy Brockmeier

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Cool Website Integrations (That Save You Time... Which Saves You Money)

135

How One Woman Does the Work of 10 – Celebrating Central Missouri Community Action

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Nonprofit Marketing Inventory Checklist - Making the Most of What You Have

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6 Design Tools & Libraries to Get Your Creative On

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If you're new, have tons of ideas and don't know where to focus - start here.

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9 Free & Cheap Marketing Tools to Boost Productivity

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8 Tips to Save Time & Boost Marketing Productivity

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Nonprofit Marketing Benchmark Series: Social

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Nonprofit Marketing Benchmark Series: Email

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8 Hidden Things Every Website Needs

144

Artfully Organized and Growing a Year End Giving Campaign Year After Year - Celebrating the Columbia Art League with Guest Kesley Hammond

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Year-End Giving Emails Q & A

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Year End Giving Social Media Q & A with Monica and Elizabeth

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All Volunteer and All Awesome - Celebrating The Wardrobe & Audubon Society with Guest Jacky Gingrich & Guests Jan Mees

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Multi Color Hair & Personalizing Peer to Peer Fundraising - With Guest and Rag Tag Volunteer Stacie Pottinger

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Myth Buster - Embracing “No Premium” Fundraising with expert guest Jaime Freidrichs

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Year-End Giving: Achieving Big Results with Limited Resources

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All Volunteer and All Awesome - Celebrating The Wardrobe & Audubon Society with Guest Jacky Gingrich & Guests Jan Mees

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What We Learned from Our 900+Response Donor Survey - with Expert Guest John Baker

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Setting the Stage for Great Video with Bruce Bishop

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Do's and Don'ts of an Event Section

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Who Should be Doing Your Social Media?

156

Dating Your Donors - 5 Steps to Prepare your Donors for Multi-Figure Asks

157

Google Ad Grants with Expert Guest Grant Hensel

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How to Tell What People are Doing on Your Website

159

Secrets to PedNet’s Year End Giving Success

160

Launching a Successful 5K with RJ Huebert

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What to Put On Your Home Page - Website Planning Series Part 3

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Building Your Instagram Audience with Julia Campbell

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3 Common Website Scams & How to Spot Them

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Nonprofit Website Building Checklist - Website Planning Series Part 2

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How Understanding Autism Improves Communication

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10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Building That New Website - Website Planning Series Part 1

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Connecting Outside the Show Using Social Media Groups

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Fundraising Tools to Make Raising Money for Your Organization Easy

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Using Educational Webinars to Grow Your Nonprofit's Audience

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7 Tricks to Save Time & Perfect Performance

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How to Tell if Your Blog is Working

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$1.6M Online Giving Campaign Debrief - Celebrating CoMoGives 2020

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3 Things All Donors Need to Hear with Guest Peggy Kirpatrick

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DISC is the Secret Sauce to Improving Communication - Celebrating Our Community Listens

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3 Reasons You Need to Know Why Your Donors Donate with Guest Jaime Friedrichs

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Getting Your Board on Board with a Marketing Calendar - Celebrating Stop Human Trafficking Coalition of Central Missouri

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How Purposeful Planning Lead to Record Fundraising Success - Celebrating City of Refuge

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Time Saving Tips - Zero to Marketing Super Hero - Part 3

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Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Success - Celebrating Unchained Melodies Dog Rescue

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Marketing On a Dime - Zero to Marketing Super Hero - Part 2

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5 Tips for Volunteer Management with Guest Amy Choi-Won

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Where to Start - Zero to Marketing Super Hero - Part 1

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What's Working on Social Media Right Now for Nonprofits

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Handling Social Media for Multiple Audiences

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I interviewed my kids about nonprofits. You'll love what they have to say.

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What Shark Bites Can Teach Us About Telling A Story Through Statistics

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5 Tips (With Examples) for Using Statistics to Tell a Story

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Don't Make this Mistake in Your Marketing or Fundraising Events

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When to send your year end giving emails.

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Is your giving ask too long or just right? Here's how to tell.

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Marketing Q&A With GivingTuesday's Kathleen Murphy Toms

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Asking for Donations Because COVID Cancelled Your Event

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3 Part Recipe to Craft Your Year End Fundraising Ask

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Where to Start With Marketing Your Year End Fundraising Campaign

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51. End-of-Year Website Reconnaissance Mission

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50. Marketing or Selling a Solution with Guest Rick Biermann

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49. What to Focus on Right Now in Your Marketing to Handle Whatever 2021 Brings

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48. Should your nonprofit be blogging?

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47. 6 Problems Your Website Can't Fix

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46. Choosing the Perfect Images for Your Website

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45. Behind the Scenes of Boone History's over $40,000 1-Day Peer Ask Fundraiser with Mary Ellen Lohmann

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44. Getting Started & Supporting Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers with Robin Peeples

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43. Managing Board & Volunteers for a Successful Year End Giving Campaign with Debbie DiVirgilio

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42. 6 Tips for Running Your Year-End Fundraising Campaigns for Small (but Mighty) Nonprofits with Jaime Freidrichs

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41. Our System for Getting Amazing Testimonials

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40. Myth Busted: Why Fundraising Events are Not a Marketing (or a Development) Plan with Heather Dimitt-Fletcher

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39. 7 Must-Haves for Your Nonprofit Website

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38. Behind the Scenes: How We Plan the Marketing for our Almost Million Dollar Fundraising Campaign

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37. Do you really know your donors?

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36. The Secret to Writing Content to Make and Maintain Donors

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35. Nonprofit Content Ideas for your Blog, Newsletter, and Social Media

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34. Aha Moments from Bumpy Situations Managing a Million Dollar Online Fundraiser

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33. 8 Time Saving Tips for Communication

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32. How to Choose the Right Online Fundraising Event Platform

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31. How to Ask for Donations in Writing Using Email & Social Media

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30. Tips to Run an Online Fundraiser on a Super Low Budget

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29. Ways to Collect Donations Online - Donation Tools and When to Use Them

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28. Investing in an Online Fundraiser Right now is Investing in the Future

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27. Online Event Sign Up Application Evaluation Checklist

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26. What to Expect from Your Online Fundraiser with Guest John Baker

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25. Online Event Registration Solutions - From Simple to Robust

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24. How one nonprofit shifted gears and moved their fundraiser online - earning 3x money than they did the previous year!

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23. Time Saving Tips for Promoting & Running Your Online Event

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22. Digging into Data Part 3 - Reviewing Email Data

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21. Tool Tip Tuesday 1: Canva

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20. 6 Things You Can Learn About SEO from a Recipe Blogger

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19. Basic Website Must Haves for 2020

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18. Digging into Data Part 2 - Reviewing Social Media Data

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17. How Google Ranks Sites #1

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16. Digging into Data Part 1 – Reviewing Website Data

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15. How Much Does a Website Cost?

232

14. What We've Learned So Far About Podcasting

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13. How to Get an Email With Your Company Name

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12. How to Manage Your Email Efficiently

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11. How to Extend the Life of Your Website

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10. What makes a good construction website?

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9. Digital Marketing Strategies So Good You'll Want Seconds

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7. How the Coronavirus Impacts Marketing

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5. 6 Tips for Crafting a Killer Email

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6. How to Break Up with Your Web Designer

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4. How to Create a Marketing Plan

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3. Blogging. The Good, the OK and the Ugly.

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2. Why Email Marketing is Important

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