Direct Mail

If you have a holiday card on your direct mail schedule, I highly recommend to include your monthly donors this time of the year.

Now that your calendar year-end appeal has gone out in the mail, what is left to do?

When nonprofits create direct mail appeal letters, the remittance envelope is often an afterthought.

Welcome back to #NPPTrendingNow. Here's what we've got going on for you this week: understanding the effects of print and direct mail on the human brain, being a woman in philanthropy and learning about giving circles.

Your donors and audience respond to different messages and different styles of marketing — not everyone will open your direct mail and not everyone will read your posts on Facebook.

With monthly giving, it’s all about consistency. It’s about a continued and committed focus. It’s about finding ways to build in a monthly giving ask wherever you possibly can. If you’re sending appeals in the mail and you’ve not already done so, consider adding a simple tick box to your appeal. 

Direct mail has a very, very specific job to do for nonprofits in 2019. Its job is to stick around until the recipient delivers a strong donation. Here’s why.

For nonprofits, the concept of “telling your story” is just as natural as getting a cup of coffee in the morning. With the zillions of media channels your nonprofit has at its disposal to communicate with its audience, the question of which moves them is a source of constant debate...

Does nonprofit direct mail still work? It’s a question that marketing teams in many industries ask themselves, as they try to come up with new and fresh ways to share a message with their audience. Though direct mail may feel outdated with all of the high-tech marketing campaigns you can create online, it is still a great way to reach your audience...

Traditionally, recipients have always been able to respond directly to a direct mail fundraising appeal using the tear-off sheet at the bottom of the appeal letter. With today’s rise in technology and a shift in focus to omnichannel marketing, prospective donors often look for ways to donate online as well...