by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Apr 8, 2016 | Communication Preferences, Donor Choices | Caseloads, Donor Retention, Passions and Interests, Qualifying, Stewardship, Uncategorized
If you’ve been reading this series on Qualifying Donors, you now have gone through the mind-bending exercise of creating a caseload pool. Now you can begin qualifying donors for your caseload. At this point it is important to remember why you are doing this. Just...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Apr 4, 2016 | Donor Motivations, Wealth Indicators | Caseloads, Donor Attrition, Donor Retention, Moves Management, Qualifying, Uncategorized
In just the last day I have received four unwelcome offers: Attention: we are buying and selling laptops Try us for a month. No contracts. Great leads Discover our April edition… 300,000 businesses reveal their top reasons for using our service. You must experience...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Mar 30, 2016 | objections, Retention, Upgrading Donors | Discipline, Donor Retention, Major Gift Officers, Moves Management, Prospecting, Qualifying, Relationships, Uncategorized
“The donor won’t even return my call, and I am so frustrated!” said the MGO. When we checked to see why, it was not surprising to find that a majority of the donors on this MGO’s caseload did not want to connect. Why? Because the donors on this caseload (like...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Feb 29, 2016 | Analytics, Donor Experience, multi-channel, Service | Donor Retention, Major Gifts, Mid-level donors, Uncategorized
In my last post, I talked about what it meant to have a strong brand for a non-profit. It’s giving your donors a great experience. Not just when they become a new donor to your organization, but all through their relationship with you, to become major donors and...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Feb 26, 2016 | Branding, Donor Experience, Donor Pipeline | Donor Retention, Major Gifts, Management, Mid-level donors, Uncategorized
I was recently at a conference where my colleague, Jeff Nickel from TrueSense Marketing, was giving a presentation on what it means to have a strong donor brand and how that eventually leads to major and planned gifts. He started the presentation by asking “what is a...