Many university Alumni Relations departments don’t interact with former students with anything more than the occasional solicitation email or fundraiser invitation. But alumni are more than a revenue stream. Engaged alumni will give much of their time, talent and...
Making your customers feel special is necessary for building stronger relationships and increasing advocacy. And that doesn’t come just from building moments of delight into your product (although that’s important). We’re talking about taking time out of your day to...
So you’ve just launched an advocacy program to help regularly engage your customers. Congratulations! Your advocates have signed up, you’ve started them off with some interesting activities, your manager congratulates you, and then… …you panic. But why?...
Membership organizations and nonprofits always walk on a knife’s edge. On the one hand, you need to be able to regularly gather enough funds to be able to operate. On the other, soliciting too aggressively can drive potential donors away. This is because organizations...
When setting up an advocacy program, new practitioners often confuse knowing basic information about their advocates (like birthday, age, industry) with having enough knowledge to build a powerful advocacy program. For example, most marketers know an advocate’s job...
Your alumni aren’t answering your emails. Your alumni aren’t motivated to participate in events after your dial campaign. Your alumni are looking to connect with each other—but they use private social networks to broker those relationships, not your institution. Sound...