Spark Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

We’re at the midpoint of the Top 10 All-Time Spark blog posts, with #5: 10 Tips for Creating an Effective Marketing Piece. The original piece was written in response to a conference presentation I’ve given a handful of times, where I ask participants to submit their marketing pieces ahead of time, I work with the sponsoring organization to mount them on foamboard and place them around the room on easels in advance, and then after sharing the 10 Tips, I hand the attendees markers and

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PROPEL

AUGUST 3, 2022

More and more leaders are becoming very intentional about culture, and we LOVE that. They are not settling for generic core values—they are defining specific pillars that define their culture, which are rooted in clear behavior expectations. They’re not letting their culture drift and evolve randomly. Instead, they’re intentionally shaping it to fit today’s “new normal.” All of that, however.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 3, 2022

With live conferences’ comeback, event organizers need to make complex decisions about how to incorporate digital product extensions into their business model. Based on our research, we estimate that there’s an even split between conference owners who are including synchronous or asynchronous hybrid options and those who aren’t. The half who is pursuing hybrid knows that they can’t just go back to what worked in 2019 despite the return of in-person events.

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Membership Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2022

Here are some of our top findings on what drives membership growth from the 2022 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. You can download the full report detailing these and other activities that correlate with membership growth. Adding more new members is one of the top drivers of total membership growth. Associations reporting increases in their one-year and five-year membership numbers are significantly more likely to report increases in new member acquisition.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Effective Database

AUGUST 3, 2022

Training and testing I've written before that the best form of training follows this process: Tell them what you're going to do, tell them what you're doing, tell them what you did.

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