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Getting Started on Tumblr

What is Tumblr?

Tips for Conducting Stakeholder Interviews

Stakeholder interviews are an extremely useful process for your nonprofit and can be used in a variety of situations.

How to Choose the Right Marketing Channels

Deciding which marketing channels you want to focus on and what you want to present on those channels can be challenging. Many organizations and companies try to “do it all” and find that they are not getting the results they had hoped for.  If you’re feeling overwelmed with all the information out there about multi-channel…

How To Revitalize Your Brand

Revitalizing your brand is not often easy and means assessing where you came from, where you are now, and where you want to go from here. It can often feel like you are starting your branding process over from the beginning, and though it will be a lot faster this time around (there is a…

4 Tips For Visual Consistency: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Unifying Your Marketing Materials

Maintaining a consistent visual presence is hard. Creating a quick brand guide can help you ensure everyone in your organization is maintaining a consistency in all of your marketing materials. Here’s how to get started in 4 simple steps! 1. Pick 1-2 fonts You do not need to be a typographic guru to know what…

Mood Board Your Brand or Vision: A How to Guide

A mood or vision board can be a lot of things, but the most successful are small collages that end up feeling a little like an art therapy exercise.  Building a brand is hard. Mood boarding is a great way to help you and your team build a visual language that both communicates clearly and…

Why Story-Telling Works

Educating…I mean Engaging Your Community We throw around this idea of using stories to engage your community, audience, and site users a lot. I would say, most people take for granted that this is true and that it works to keep people interested in what you are talking about, but do you know why?

How to Figure Out Your Target Market: Simple Steps to Getting it Right

Not everyone is in your target market and that is ok…actually, that is good. How are you supposed to create authentic messaging (written or visual) if you are trying to talk to everyone at once? 

Video Tutorial: Adding Links to YouTube Videos

YouTube videos are an effective way to get your supporters to act. However, until recently, it was hard to get those supporters to do anything after watching a video. Now with YouTube cards, you can drive users to any place on your website or completed donation transactions directly on your YouTube page.

Empathy, Identity and Community

Outrospective Marketing in the 21st Century