Building brand awareness can be a challenge for many but, if you’ve read Part 1 – The Secret to Building Brand Awareness and done your homework, you’re already running smoothly and ready to advance your brand by developing your messaging strategy. Branding can be even more effective in the nonprofit sector than the for-profit sector […]
Storytelling
Buzz word: “user experience design”
Innovation, disruption, transformation… these are the new buzz words of business today. Leading companies in all sectors are those that are succeeding at one or more of those things (although I would argue that those are all synonyms for the same thing). Last week I was at the Sandbox Project conference and in his keynote […]
Nonprofit Ideas on a Budget
Lately, I’ve had the opportunity to sit in on a few seminars where the presenters made consorted efforts to discuss successful yet low-budget (or shall we say “cost efficient”) marketing/communications initiatives for non-profit causes, reinforcing that it is possible to do a lot with a little. At the bottom of this article, I’ve included screenshots and […]
The Value Question
I’d like to begin with some questions: In this world of instant transmission and easy access to information, are we engaging more, or are we more easily distracted? When I say “we,” I mean it in the grandest sense of the term: we as businesses and organizations, we as marketers and consumers, and we as […]
Content in Context
The word “content” has become a catchall for anything you write, create, or curate, and share on the internet. but what does it mean to produce content as a business or organization? and how can you do it without annoying or over-saturating your audience?
Relevance: The Key to Conversions
I participated in a conference this week (a big thank you to our friends at Blackbaud) and while each of the presenters got up and spoke to their specific area of expertise (design, email, website strategy, marketing automation, or technology) there was a resonating theme that jumped out (well for me anyway) and that was […]
5 signs you have a strong brand image
With the popularity and responses to our article on brand filters, I thought I would delve a little more into the topic of branding and specifically your brand positioning and image. Here are a few benchmarks for assessing the strength of your brand position/image: 1) Common understanding (of your positioning): this boils down to how […]
Find More Money: Partnerships that “Pay”
You’ve got great insight as to where you need to push the needle to further your impact; You probably also have great ideas about what and how to do it. But there is just not enough time, resources, or bottom line money to make it happen in order to see the results you imagine. You […]
Make Better Brand Decisions: 5 Guidelines for Brand Filters
How does your brand behave? What values influence or inform its actions? How do we make decisions that are “on brand”, and how do we communicate consistently?
Idea Swap: Shared Advice for Nonprofit Marketers
We’re putting it to the test! A video storytelling campaign by Crescent for the not-for-profit community.
Stories told through video have more impact and new tools are available to help build higher levels of brand engagement by aggregating user-generated video content. A curated series of videos asks not-for-profit marketers to share advice for each other. Click “Add Your Story” to contribute.