Let’s start at the beginning. Almost 10 years ago, when MarketSmart was a marketing agency for private sector businesses and I first offered to help …

$410 billion. Hooray! Right? Not so fast! Lots of folks are not so happy. So today I’m going to tell you what they are missing that makes them all wrong …

I came across this very interesting article a couple of weeks ago and thought I’d share it since it led me to a terrific new study you might want to …

Each year we round up the most popular blog posts from the prior year to create a book for our readers. I’m excited to share that the 2017 digest is …

Are any of these scores valuable? I’m not sure. So I hope you’ll help me ‘take the pulse of the sector’ by completing this quick, 2-minute survey. If you …

You can, indeed, email your supporters every single day. I realize you and your communications team members probably just fell out of your chairs …

I was asked to lead a roundtable discussion at a conference recently. So I did. And afterward one of the attendees approached me as I got a cup of coffee …

I taught my kids to avoid using the words job, work and can’t. To me a job is what some people get so they can work to get money; and if they fail to …

It’s all about them and their organization. I guess they figure they’ll ‘wow’ donor prospects into giving because they and their organization are so …

Sadly, I’ve witnessed all of these but I truly believe #1 is the worst. Here are my top 10 traits of terrible fundraisers that drive major donors away …