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Reduce Your Direct Mail Fundraising Costs and Attrition Rates with NCOA

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE What would you do if I broke into your office at midnight, sat down at your computer, and jumbled the mailing addresses of 1,200 of your current donors so they became...

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Is Your Returned Mail Costing You $481 a Piece?

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE You have a costly problem with returned mail. All non-profit organizations do. You mail perfectly nice letters to donors who have supported your cause for years, and then, one day,...

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Why You Will Lose Donors Today, Guaranteed

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE What does your charity have to do to guarantee that some of your donors will stop giving today? Nothing. You are going to lose donors today whatever you do. Or don’t do. Donor...

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How to Get a Second Gift from a New Direct Mail Donor

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE If your charity is at all typical, you will lose 65% of the donors you acquire by direct mail in the first year alone. In other words, only 35% of the donors you acquire through...

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Answer the Only Question Donors Have and You’ll Raise More Money Fundraising

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE Your donors have only one question that bothers them. If you want to acquire more donors, you have to answer it. If you want to raise more net revenue, you need to answer it. And...

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How Angry Are Your Donors With You? Take this Quiz and Find Out.

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE Have you upset one of your donors recently? Just how mad do you suppose they are at you, on a scale of 1 to 10? Take this quiz and find out. 1. Your major gift officer met a donor...

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The Art and Science of Keeping a Direct Mail Donor

By Billy Sharma The art lies in building and fostering a strong bond with your supporters. This is best achieved through compelling communications and quick responses to their generosity. Your appeal...

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How to Create Compelling Direct Mail Fundraising Envelopes

By Billy Sharma One of the hardest things to do in direct marketing is to get the recipient to open your direct mail package, therefore, the outer envelope is of prime importance. Its function is more...

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Get Paid for Your Fundraising Expertise by Writing for Expert Fundraiser

Want to get paid twice for being a fundraiser? Write for Expert Fundraiser. Alan Sharpe, our publisher, is ready to pay you a one-time flat fee or an ongoing royalty for putting your knowledge of...

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Register for these 10 Fundraising Telephone Seminars in May 2012

Expert Fundraiser is offering 10 telephone seminars during the last week of May, 2012.Each session is 90 minutes and includes time for questions. You canparticipate from anywhere in the world that has...

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How to design your fundraising letter for maximum response

In the last newsletter we extolled the virtues of long copy. This newsletter will go over a few design guidelines that will help ensure your long copy gets read. And that in a nutshell is the sole...

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11 more design tips for maximum response

Last time we looked at how to design your fundraising letter for maximum response. This time we’ll look at a few other aspects of design in the fundraising package that will help you achieve maximum...

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The answer is “the list, the list and the list”. Can you guess the question?

If you said: “What are the three most important things in fundraising” you are correct! In real estate it’s location, location, location. In fundraising it’s list, list, list. You can have brilliant...

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Why You Will Lose Donors Today, Guaranteed

By Alan Sharpe, CFREWhat does your charity have to do to guarantee that some of your donors will stop giving today? Nothing. You are going to lose donors today whatever you do. Or don’t do. Donor...

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How to Get a Second Gift from a New Direct Mail Donor

By Alan Sharpe, CFREIf your charity is at all typical, you will lose 65% of the donors you acquire by direct mail in the first year alone. In other words, only 35% of the donors you acquire through...

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Answer the Only Question Donors Have and You’ll Raise More Money Fundraising

By Alan Sharpe, CFREYour donors have only one question that bothers them. If you want to acquire more donors, you have to answer it. If you want to raise more net revenue, you need to answer it. And if...

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How Angry Are Your Donors With You? Take this Quiz and Find Out.

By Alan Sharpe, CFREHave you upset one of your donors recently? Just how mad do you suppose they are at you, on a scale of 1 to 10? Take this quiz and find out. 1. Your major gift officer met a donor...

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The Art and Science of Keeping a Direct Mail Donor

By Billy Sharma The art lies in building and fostering a strong bond with your supporters. This is best achieved through compelling communications and quick responses to their generosity. Your appeal...

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How to Create Compelling Direct Mail Fundraising Envelopes

By Billy Sharma One of the hardest things to do in direct marketing is to get the recipient to open your direct mail package, therefore, the outer envelope is of prime importance. Its function is more...

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Why Mail and the Telephone Still Rule

The electronic world offers tremendous opportunity, but let’s not forget about the basics . . . There is no doubt – email, web sites, social media and all the other tools of the electronic world have...

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