Emails like this don’t get read:   Email blurbs like this do: By using blurbs, your newsletter will be: Easier to read Quicker to read Fun to read Here’s how you do it: 1. Write the long description of what happened like you normally would. Using blurbs in your email newsletter is not about getting… Read more
1. Share the exact same information you shared somewhere else (direct mail piece and facebook update come to mind). 2. Do not include a way to interact with you further online (for example, clickable links to a blog post, flickr photo, facebook photo album, or YouTube video). 3. Include an attachment that they must download… Read more
My 17-second Prayer Card for November We want to be campus ministers who fundraise in reality. Here’s what I mean: Your donors are busy. Your ministry is not exactly at the forefront of their minds. They don’t open your email newsletters. If they do, they skim. They love you and what you’re doing, but that… Read more
June, the month many ministries end their financial year, just finished, and that might have left many of you making fundraising phone calls more than ever before. If so, this video is a little late, but at least the memory of those calls is fresh in your mind. Fundraising coach Marc Pitman of fundraisingcoach.com has… Read more
Brian Barela has always understood that images and videos capture students’ attention. He’s long been an advocate of foregoing long articles and chunks of text in favor of quick images, quotes, and sound- and video-clips. He’s written recently on Images, Streams, Attention, and Influence at his personal blog. If you’re trying to use the Internet… Read more
five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It’s that simple.–source If you are a part of a large ministry organization this may be impossible. You can however commit to five sentences as a personal challenge, blog about it, tweet it out, etc…. Read more
We posted a basic guide introducing you to podcasting, but if you want to really get involved in podcasting, you’ll want to check out MetaFilter’s founder’s post “Everything I’ve learned about casual podcasting.” He’s been at it for quite a while, and has some tips that go above the usual “just-buy-this-software” instructions. (via Lifehacker)
It’s becoming more and more common knowledge that any email address that is displayed openly to the Internet can be scraped by spammers, added to their databases, and automatically emailed. So, how can you protect your email address from spammers? We got a few suggestions emailed in from our readers, but we also want to… Read more
All of this week Staffhacker contributor Brian Sun is going to tell you how to get your inbox in order, from developing healthy mindsets to reaching Inbox Zero and using the Trusted Trio system. After moving inbox emails that need further attention to my follow up folder, transferring emails I want to store to my… Read more
All of this week Staffhacker contributor Brian Sun is going to tell you how to get your inbox in order, from developing healthy mindsets to reaching Inbox Zero and using the Trusted Trio system. It’s time to get the 1,863 unread emails in your inbox under control. There are two methods to get this done…. Read more
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Brian Barela, Brian Chang, Gordon Govier, Micheal Hickerson, Adam Jeske, Barney Lin, Berry Long, Dave Paladino, Brian Sun, Steve Tamayo