Summer Checklist: Rethink Your Call Center
The dog days of summer are officially here. The office is a little quieter and the only thing filling up your inbox are Out of Office replies. It’s a great time to step back and tackle some bigger issues that usually sit on the back burner. Welcome to our Summer Checklist. The phone is dead. […]
Academia’s Misconceptions Can Hurt Your Bottom Line: New Episode of the RAISE Podcast
Episode 2: Academia’s Misconceptions Can Hurt Your Bottom Line Subscribe: iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify Brent is joined by Anna Schlia, Senior Director of Advancement at the Eastman School of Music. Not only is Anna an incredible fundraiser, she’s doing something you don’t see every day: Pursuing a PhD in fundraising. They talk about how that research is changing […]
Everyone’s a Fundraiser: Listen to The Newest Episode of the RAISE Podcast Now
Episode 3: Everyone’s a Fundraiser Subscribe: iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify On this episode of the RAISE Podcast we’ve got Chris Campbell, Senior Associate Vice President of Information Strategy at the Oklahoma State University Foundation. If we tried to count the reasons we invited Chris on we’d run out of fingers real quick. But we’ll list just a few […]
Summer Checklist: Check In On Your Pipeline
With the dog days of summer around the corner, the office is a little quiet and the inbox doesn’t fill up quite as quickly. It’s a great time to step back and tackle some bigger issues that are usually on the back burner. First up, some tips for everyone out there who managers gift officers. What’s […]
Summer Checklist: Rebuild Your Gift Officer One on Ones
With the dog days of summer around the corner, the office is a little quiet and the inbox doesn’t fill up quite as quickly. It’s a great time to step back and tackle some bigger issues that are usually on the back burner. First up, some tips for everyone out there who managers gift officers. Basically, […]
Summer Checklist: Review Trip Planning with the Rule of Two
With the dog days of summer around the corner, the office is a little quiet and the inbox doesn’t fill up quite as quickly. It’s a great time to step back and tackle some bigger issues that are usually on the back burner. First up, some tips for everyone out there who managers gift officers. […]
Could Content Strategy Really Be This Simple?
Content strategy, and content in general, can be a complicated thing. There are lots of moving parts, tons of personas to address and unlimited ways for things to take shape. When you’re really caught up in the weeds, you can sometimes lose sight of the end game. Thankfully Patrick Hewitt, Vice President for Advancement at […]
How Prospect Research Saved the Day at Oregon
There’s never a shortage of interesting challenges to take on in an advancement office. Alex Spady, a Prospect Analyst at the University of Oregon, knows this all too well. But it keeps him on his toes, which is part of the reason he loves his job. So when a frontline fundraiser approached him with the […]
Don’t Skip This Step When Planning Prospect Trips
To really nail your prospect trips, you’ve got to get off to the right start. And, yeah, upgrading that flight to business class definitely seems like it’d do just that, but it actually starts way before booking flights. (Make no mistake, though – upgrade that flight first chance you get.) Success starts during the planning […]
3 Marketing Lessons from Wayfair, PUMA and Drift
An e-commerce furniture company, a sneaker brand, and a disruptive marketing platform walk into a bar… Actually, there’s no punchline. Just a lot of good marketing lessons. Let’s learn ‘em. At RAISE 2018, Mike Nagel, our own Manager of Product and Customer Marketing, sat down on stage to talk with three marketing powerhouses: Courtney Lawrie […]
New Webinar Alert: Managing Development Officers
Managing any team is no easy task. You’ve got to juggle a million moving parts with one hand and a variety of different personalities with the other. And if you’re managing a team of gift officers? It adds a whole lot of other elements. Not only do you have to keep track of everyone’s travel […]
Digital Benchmarks: Time for a Gut Check
Digital this. Digital that. Digital everything. We know advancement shops coast to coast are working hard to figure out, harness and grow their digital footprint. How can you be sure that you’ve done a good job of spreading your social-media wings and are flying high into the digital sky? Examining your own internal metrics from […]
