Elaine Fogel

Nonprofit

Make it a Smart Marketing Year with a SWOT

Marketing your smaller business, startup, nonprofit, or personal brand takes smarts and strategy. Developing and implementing a marketing and branding plan is pivotol to its success. So, let me help you get started by working on your SWOT analysis.

In my new book, Beyond Your Logo: 7 Brand Ideas That Matter Most For Small Business Success, the last chapter is devoted entirely to creating a marketing and branding plan that includes:

I. Market & Situation Analysis – your current marketplace and business position
II. Marketing & Branding Strategy – your business objectives and how to reach them
III. Marketing & Branding Tactics – your business actions to reach strategic objectives
IV. Metrics – measurement methods to determine which tactics are working or not

A SWOT analysis falls within #I (Market & Situation Analysis) and helps identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to your organization. Continue reading

My Birthday Wish For You

birthday-wishToday is my birthday and I have a wish for you! Unusual, maybe, but it’s heartfelt.

I wish that you and your colleagues will develop, or improve upon, your organization’s customer orientation and brand-centric mindset. Why?

Because I want you to succeed. These are not the words of a marketer who has ulterior motives to gain your business or sell my new book.

Frankly, if you never call me or read my blog ever again, please… just focus on your nonprofit or business mission, putting customers at the center of every action and decision. Spread the customer passion like an evangelical sermon. Put some joy and fun into your everyday operations and watch the transformation.

Can I blow out the candles now? 

 

How Far Would You Go to Get Donors to Give More?

donors-oxytocinOK, fundraisers and nonprofit folk… how far would you go to get your donors to give more? Would you consider using modern marketing techniques that many retailers use?

What if you had the option of using Aroma, Touch and Words to stimulate giving? Curious?

According to a recent article in The Nonprofit Times, Russell James, III, Ph.D., a professor of personal financial planning at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, tested the effects of aroma, touch, and specific words on charitable giving. His findings are surely fascinating.  Continue reading

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