How To Pave The Way For a Successful #GivingTuesday

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How To Pave The Way For a Successful

#GivingTuesday

8/11/16 1pm Eastern

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Our guest presenter »Dana Ostomel

• Vice President of Nonprofit Industry Development at Firespring

• Founder of Deposit a Gift, a popular crowdfunding platform

• Over a decade developing integrated marketing solutions for numerous nationally-known brands such as Snapple, MasterCard and DIRECTV

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications from UCLA

• Sought-after speaker on the topics of crowdfunding and nonprofit marketing

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Sponsored by:

Dana Ostomel Pave the Way for a Successful

#GivingTuesday:Mastering Nonprofit

Crowdfunding

August 11, 2016

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A copy of today’s presentation will be made available after the session.

TODAY’S SESSIONWelcome!

If you’re tweeting abouttoday’s session, use

#depositagift#GivingTuesday

@dostomel

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THE BIG NEWS:Deposit a Gift and Firespring

have joined forces.

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FirespringPower of 3

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Why are we here today?

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Picture thelong-term impact.

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Devin ThorpeFUNDRAISING AND

SOCIAL GOOD EXPERT

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Right now …

TIME IS ON

YOURSIDE.

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It’s all aboutBUILDING

SOLID

for lasting success.

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Your focus for thenext four months?

Invest in your network.

You need people to:

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The goal of your efforts is to …

LURKER SUPPORTER ADVOCATE

So you have more people to spread the word

about the campaign!

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Ways to Create anEmpathetic, Engagedand ResponsiveCommunity10

THE PEOPLE PART:

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Get to know your donors.1#WAYS TO CREATE AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY

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Get to know your donors.1#WAYS TO CREATE AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY

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Strategy:

Focus:

Tactical Ideas:•

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Cultivate your network.2#WAYS TO CREATE AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY

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Cultivate your network.2#WAYS TO CREATE AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY

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Strategy:

Focus:

Tactical Ideas:•

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Be social and communicative …on the regular!

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Be social and communicative …on the regular!

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Jay LoveBLOOMERANG CEO

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Strategy:

Focus:

Tactical Ideas:•

Be social and communicative …on the regular!

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Create a moreengaged community.

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Strategy:

Focus:

Tactical Ideas:•

Create a moreengaged community.

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Humanize the organization.5#WAYS TO CREATE AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY

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Strategy:

Focus: People help those they like.

Tactical Ideas:•

Humanize the organization.

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Incite action through commitment.

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Strategy:

Focus:

Tactical Ideas:•

Incite action through commitment.

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Generate loyalty through appreciation.

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Strategy:

Focus:

Tactical Ideas:•

Generate loyalty through appreciation.

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Create a senseof indebtedness.

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Strategy:

Focus:

Tactical Ideas:•

Create a senseof indebtedness.

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Raise your social profile.9#WAYS TO CREATE AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY

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Strategy:

Focus:

Tactical Ideas:•

Raise your social profile.

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Create empathy.10#WAYS TO CREATE AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY

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Strategy:

Focus:

Tactical Ideas:•

Create empathy.10#

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To sum it up …

It’s all about:This is where you

want to spend the majority of your

time, but you also need to work on

actionable elements for the campaign itself.

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Campaign Setupand Marketing

THE BUSINESS PART:

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DEVELOPTHE CAMPAIGN IDEA

AND DETAILS

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Make sure you have:

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Establish goals.

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Give yourself license to be creative!

CROWDFUNDING MARKETING PROCESSING

CROWDFUNDING is a platform for

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Devise an incentive!

You need a motivator and something with an excuse to report back:

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Set up the site.

Have engaging visuals.

Have brief, well-organized text.

Make a clear, compelling case.

Include a suggestion

donation amount.

Set a realisticfundraising goal.

Communicateurgency.

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ESTABLISHTHE MARKETING

STRATEGY

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You can’t just put it up and pray!

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Plant seeds in early fall.

Establish a team of advocates:•

Let people peak behind the curtain:•

Manage expectations:•

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Recruit. Recruit. Recruit.

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Create a Marketing Plan

Key Influencers vs. Mass Audience

Email, social media, offline communication, events, PR, phone, text, etc.

Create excuses to share and unique messaging opportunities.

Plot communication strategy, frequency and milestones.

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NOWWHAT?

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IMMEDIATE NEXT STEP

Have a “Kumbaya” with yourself to evaluate bandwidth and solidify action items:

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Make this doable.

HOMEWORK

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82% of donors visit

a nonprofit’s website before giving.

One final detailto consider

as you prepare for#GIVINGTUESDAY …

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Images & headlines that tell your story

Navigationoptions

Deep, diversecontent

1. Structure2. Design3. Content4. Functionality5. Vitality

Your website is the center of your universe and must compel supporters to engage.

Functional tools that engage visitors

Weekly updated news/events

5 ELEMENTS OF AN ENGAGING

WEBSITE

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DONATE

BLOG

FACEBOOK

OPT IN

VOLUNTEER TWITTER

EVENT REGISTRATION LINKEDIN

Most nonprofits send visitors away to engage instead of keeping them on their website.

YOUR WEBSITE

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YOUR WEBSITE

BOARDMEMBER WEBSITE

SEARCHENGINE

PRINTED NEWSLETTER

EMAIL MARKETING

NEWS ARTICLE

SOCIAL MEDIAPOST

APPEALLETTER

COMMUNITYEVENT

Invite them in andkeep them there.

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Q&A

Let’s connect on LinkedIn.

@dostomel

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THANK YOU

Dana OstomelVICE PRESIDENT, NONPROFITINDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT

[email protected] toll free

We’d love to support your next crowdfunding campaign!depositagift.com & firespring.org

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