Fundraising: Donor-based Strategies

Lessons from Network Marketing Your friends and associates are your most fruitful group of investors. You comfort, ability, and engagement of this group can yield a sustainable funding base. Most of my clients are floored to understand the difference between friends and donors in order to connect with them as a funding source. The similarity […]

Building a Brand: Branching Out

Branching out is a phrase meant to encapsulate your need to diversify the product line of the central brand concept. Along with this diversification, you will want to expand the media presence of the brand. Finally, in this second implementation, you will want to develop partnerships that demonstrate the utility of the product line. Diversity: […]

Building a Brand: 3 Foundational Components

Ever notice how the “how to build a brand” tutorials never tell you how to build a brand. They begin with esoteric and philosophical perspectives. They end with an explanation of how each brand is different, and must be handled with skill–skills that they neglected to impart. You are in luck. Today, you are reading […]

Have a Website? Why you should Discontinue Your Newsletter

Obviously, if you do not have a website at this point in your organization’s history, we should talk about that first. More often, I encounter organizational clients who are not sure how to best utilize the resources they have. This includes their website. My first presentation is to let them know that they have been […]

Social Media Resistance: The Consultant’s Appeal

In my life as a consultant and my experience as a 40 something, I have experienced the inner conflict. On one hand, innovation tells me to explore and quickly adopt (or figure out how to adapt) new technologies like social media tools. On the other hand, especially when observing how some have misused social media, […]

Constructing the Narrative with Balance of Bias

A key for any writer be they novelist, journalist, copywriter, screen writer, or blogger is to construct the narrative. What does it mean to construct the narrative? The narrative is a justification for the state of the world AND a personal explanation for choices made. It is the WHY and the articulated meaning. Depending on […]

Writing for Blogs: Expertise as a Lens on Current Events

Expertise is important to the continuous production and posting of content on a blog. You cannot keep up the pace of multi-weekly posts if you do not have a sense of your own expertise. Yet, this is not the only requirement. Expertise also does not alone equal rankings and readership in today’s social media-fueled and […]

2013 NACSW Conference: Social Justice, Social Media and Paul?

My presentation this morning at the North American Association of Christians in Social Work (NACSW) details the philosophical origins of the COACH Live! site. In addition to the origination, a workshop session outlines some of the tools and techniques for implementing the COACH Live! intervention. From the proposal: Workshop Abstract: The conversion of Saul on […]