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Are you forgetting the ING in your fundraising writing?

The simple -ING verb technique that makes your fundraising stories feel like 'you are there'

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Is your "Johnson Box" talking to the wrong person?

 Lead your fundraising message with what YOUR reader can do, not what other donors have done.

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3 words for your fundraising dictionary

Learn Aristotle's 3 persuasion words--pathos, ethos, logos--for fundraising that really works.

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Lead with heart in your fundraising writing

A simple shift in your writing will have a big impact on how your donors feel and respond...

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Fundraisers should— MOO, interrupting cow! 🐮

Learn when — and how — to strategically interrupt your fundraising stories for better results.

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Jeff Brooks: "Keep asking recent donors" (VIDEO)

Should you exclude donors who just gave from your next appeal? Jeff Brooks says absolutely not....

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How white space can help you frame your fundraising appeal...

With your appeals, you no doubt work hard to paint word pictures that bring to life your stor

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You should be an "ask dropper" ... (Part 2)

Reminder: In our parlance, "ask dropping" means skillfully dropping asks in an appeal. (Hesitat...

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"Homemade" fundraising as charming as Halloween costumes...

Did you ever have a homemade Halloween costume?

If you did, I bet you remember it well.

Homem...

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You should be an "ask dropper" ... (Part 1)

Dropping things is bad, right?

Depends on what you're dropping.

Bad things to drop include: c...

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You can't get donors to FEEL it if you don't feel it first...

"Don't put that in there!" 

This is how Julie replied to my beloved first idea for a subject l...

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Make your fundraising offer the cliffhanger...

I love a good cliffhanger – don't you?

Question: are you using cliffhangers in your fundraisin...

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