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• 01 August 2008

  Does Your Nonprofit Need an Email Newsletter Service?  

  Why would your organization want to pay for an email marketing service, instead of simply using Outlook and your regular email server to contact your members? There are a number of compelling reasons why even a small e-newsletter subscription list might best be handled by a dedicated email marketing service, starting — first and foremost — with reliable delivery. Read More... Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 7:27 PM by Rebecca | 7 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Marketing, E-mail marketing, Non-profit Communications, membership

• 25 February 2008

  Clean-Up Strategies for a High Quality Mailing List 

  Cleaning up a mailing list is never quite as easy as it should be. To purge an inactive address from your database can feel like you're letting go of something that could "come in handy" someday — even if it's not useful now, and hasn't been productive for quite some time. Just like spring-cleaning your home, however, a good clean-up on your mailing list will pay off in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, and make it easier to manage. It's a matter of trading in the quantity of contact addresses Read More... Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 2:49 PM by Rebecca | 2 Comments Filed under: General non-profit interest, nptech, Best practices, E-mail marketing, membership, database

• 08 February 2008

  Data Collection Made Easier with Google Forms and Spreadsheets 

  The more you know about your members, the better your organization can serve them. As we've mentioned, a variety of free tools for online polls are available to answer the simple questions -- but sometimes you need more detailed information from your members. Would you like to be able to track each individual's response, instead of seeing only the simple percentages for each answer choice? That could certainly be very useful. And what if you also had an easy way to collect those responses in a spreadsheet? Read More... Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 5:28 PM by Rebecca | 6 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, E-mail marketing, Google, membership, database, surveys