Viken Mikaelian

Overkill Marketing
Planned Giving Marketing
Viken Mikaelian

Overkill Marketing

Overkill marketing is a simple way to get your prospects tune you out without trying. Don’t make that mistake. Here’s how to market the right way to keep your donors giving year in and year out.

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What Works and What Doesn’t in Planned Giving Marketing
Planned Giving Marketing
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What Works and What Doesn’t in Planned Giving Marketing

When you market planned gifts, you are trying to persuade people to do something that most of them don’t even want to think about – permanently transfer assets away from their control and that of their families. Here’s how to do planned giving marketing the right way!

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Planned Giving Website features
Planned Giving Marketing
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Top 8 Features of a Planned Giving Website

If you want your planned giving websites to do more than just take up space – if you want it to actually communicate with your prospects and motivate them to plan a gift – here are the features to look for, and the ones to avoid.

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What Does the Future Hold? A Bold Prediction.
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What Does the Fundraising Future Hold? A Bold Prediction.

As we settle into another month of staying indoors, a lot of people and so-called experts are making a lot of speculations about what’s next — for public health, for the economy, for our society as a whole. Here’s what we think the fundraising future holds…

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My Apple Tree
Self Improvement & Career
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My Apple Tree

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ~ Martin Luther

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Six Tough Planned Giving Marketing Facts.
Planned Giving Marketing
Viken Mikaelian

Six Tough Planned Giving Facts

These six planned giving facts may sound a bit harsh, but they’re the truth — and they’re crucial if you want to succeed in the field.

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The Gift of Attention
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The Gift of Attention

I called a longtime friend of mine and asked him out for coffee, and he said, in a very somber tone, “I’m so busy. I am so busy, I have so much going on.” This “busyness” is turning into an epidemic. Even children are now contracting this illness and developing anxiety in school. If you want to love your donors, give them the gift of attention.

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