Itchy. Twitching. More than slightly uneasy. That seems to be how leaders and their teams at some nonprofits still react to the word “brand.” Reacting to the questions “are we really aligned internally and externally?” or “what do our members think about our brand?” For some, the default is to think about logos and taglines. These are important […]
Love is in the air
February 12, 2014 by
Anyone who pays attention to marketing has heard about the pipeline and the funnel, those venerableimages of the pathway consumers take to brand loyalty. Tim Halloran, writing a blog for the Harvard Business Journal, has a slightly new take: The brand as love-object. Or even more than love-object, really, “someone” with whom you have a […]
Content, distribution strategy: Marry them young
May 25, 2010 by
Reading along the other day (magazine of the International Association of Business Communicators) and this snippet caught my eye: “…they believe they are only responsible for producing content. It’s someone else’s job to distribute it.” This is the tip of a classic iceberg, often found floating around nonprofits: “If we write it, they’ll read it, […]
Seth Godin jabs nonprofit marketing
September 16, 2009 by
It’s a good thing when a great marketing mind takes a look at nonprofit marketing. In his post yesterday, The Problem with Non, Seth Godin got actively upset about nonprofit marketing. In a general way, I’m with him: The social-good sector has to change the way it thinks about marketing. In the specific, it seems Seth […]