July 9, 2019
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…
July 2, 2019
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…
June 28, 2019
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…
June 24, 2019
Three Advancement Videos Any Fundraising Team Could Use
We talk a lot about engagement around here. How to track it, what to do with it, how it affects fundraising, all that good stuff! However, you’ve got to create it first and foremost. So it’s important to take a step back and think about how to that part, too.…
June 13, 2019
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,…
June 12, 2019
Three Ways to Better Manage Gift Officers
Want to increase your team's revenue by 48 percent? (That’d be a great way to get the trustees to name a building after you.) This secret to growing revenue is simple but takes hard work. According to the Harvard Business Review, good managers "contribute about 48% higher profit to their…
June 11, 2019
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…
June 6, 2019
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.)…
May 30, 2019
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…
