Lastly, creativity will help you stand out from the crowd. Charity: water is well-known for its Twitter-originated fundraising events (or Twestivals), but you won’t replicate its success by mimicking its campaigns — there are only so many Twestivals you can have. What made its campaign successful was the creativity, and it snowballed as a result. You can buy books about what works in direct mail, and you can even buy books about how to run e-mail campaigns, but social media is still in its frontier days, so there’s a chance to get seen and heard by doing something different.
Robin Fisk is a senior charity technology specialist at Alexandria, Va.-based nonprofit software provider Advanced Solutions International (ASI).
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