Organization
Ep 233 | Reflecting on 2023 to Plan for 2024 with Julie Boll
When you reflect you remind yourself about what was amazing, what you want to do more of, and what you'll let go of. Walk through the exercises in this episode for yourself AND with your team as you plan for 2024. Then, create this as a practice throughout the year to...
Ep 231 | Creating a Sales Strategy for 2024 with Harry Spaight
When you think about sales how does it make you feel? For most people they feel icky and greasy. Sales doesn't have to be that way. You can implement a sales strategy into your fundraising approach so that you have a constant stream of people coming into your network...
Ep 224 | My Favorite Copywriting Tools
Copywriting tools can help you with the confidence to hit publish on all the incredible content you're creating. Especially if you have a small team! Using these tools can help you streamline your process and ensure it stays within you voice and style. What you'll...
Ep 215 | Create Your Social Media Publishing Schedule
Do you get frustrated trying to figure out what to post each day? Putting together a quick and easy template can help you get more consistent and connect with your audience. Grab the quick and easy template to come up with what to post on social media whether you're...
Ep 199 | How to Build a Monthly Program Your Donors Want with Tiffany King
How do you know what your audience wants when it comes to a monthly giving program? It can be easy to be in our own heads. Today's guest is Tiffany King and she's bringing her perspective of creating value for her business members to her Chamber of Commerce. While a...
Ep 192 | How Listening Can Help You With Your Marketing
What can we learn when we listen? When we show up to conversations it is so tempting to talk all about ourselves and the incredible things we do. That might not get us the results we want because we aren't learning about how our organization could benefit the person...
Ep 185 | Take Back Your time in 2023 with Chelsey Newmyer
It's a new year. You might be thinking about resolutions and changes you want to make in your personal and professional life. One thing I'm always working on improving is my productivity. I love my job and the work I do, but finding success doesn't mean spinning my...
Ep 184 | Getting Back to Basics with My Marketing in 2023
2023 is all about getting back to basics. When the foundation of your business is strong, your business will grow. We tend to get sidetracked by all the pretty new things. I'm pushing them to the side and focusing on the things that I know will help me reach my goals....
Ep 183 | Finding the Right Employees with Rachel Carey-McElwaney
Workforce issues are still here and figuring out the right people to have on your team is critical. In our last episode we talked with Karin Davis about how to build creativity into your team and how that relates to retention and collaboration and finding the right...
Ep 182 | Building Creativity into your Organization for More Growth with Karin Davis
Creativity isn't just about arts and crafts and singing and dancing. It's about how you think about the problems you're solving and creating new solutions. By doing this work, you'll have even more opportunities to make an impact on your community and the cause you're...
Ep 178 | Creating More Mindfulness Around Technology with Rob Krecak
Do you have a healthy relationship with technology? This isn't something that people necessarily think about when it comes to tech and work. Afterall, you have to use it to get things done! Technology is critical in automating, our ability to communicate, setting up...
Ep 177 | Creating your 2023 Big Picture Strategy
I love to start my strategic planning by planting my big rocks and non negotiables. This is both personal and professional, because I want to have that healthy balance. I'm walking you through the simple steps I do each year to help me set big goals and figure out my...
Ep 175 | Choosing Which Tasks to Automate with Michelle Nedelec
Are there tasks that you find yourself doing over and over again? Or things that you know could just be a bit simpler? Michelle Nedelec is here to share how to think about automating tasks so that you can free up more time in your day and your teams day! What you'll...
Ep 174 | How to Track Content for Repurposing and Increased Engagement
Keeping your content organized can help you with knowing how to share the resources with your donors and community, but also help you with how you repurpose your content! Learn how to use this amazing template, then grab it and start organizing and reusing your...
Ep 172 | How to Build Your Board's Marketing Team with Sabrina Walker Hernandez
Marketing is a task that is ongoing for the sustainability of your organization. It helps to bring in donors, volunteers, board members, and awareness to the community you serve. Setting up your marketing committee for success can not only help kep the board...
Ep 170 | 5 Ways You Didn't Think You Could Use Your Project Management Tool with Jamie Hawk
A project management tool can be a game changer for the efficiency of your business. It keeps you're entire team on task and allows you to have eyes. on what everyone is working on. andhwere they're at with tasks. But there are other ways you can utilize a project...
Ep 160 | Survey Your Audience to Increase Engagement with Peter Schafer
Surveying your audience is a great way to learn more about them and inform your marketing decisions. You can learn more about what your donors really care about, how they think you're doing and what would help them be more engaged. You can learn more about your...
Ep 159 | How to Use Downtime to Be More Productive Long-term
When things are a little slower, like in the summer, we can go into panic mode. Instead, we can look at it as a way to get back to basics and clean up house. It helps to bring things back so that you can be more effective all the time. What you'll learn: → how to...
Ep 157 | Build Better Relationships with Networking
Wouldn't it feel amazing to not have anxiety when you show up to a networking event or a conference? There are so many things that come into our heads when we show up but a few simple mind flips can really help with creating a better experience for you. Brendan has...
Ep 155 | Tasks You Can Batch For More Efficiency
When you put similar tasks together you get more done in less time. This is because you're not wasting brain energy on thinking about different tasks and switching between the resources to get them done. You might be wondering what that means as far as types of tasks...
Ep 154 | My Updated Morning Routine
A morning routine is nothing new, but since January our schedules have changed and with it my morning routine. It's been a while since I've shared what my mornings look like so I thought why not now! What you'll learn: → why a morning routine helps productivity.→ my...
Ep 153 | Streamlining Your Team and Getting More Done
Finding employees right now can be difficult. So how can we streamline what we're doing and make the most of the employees we have. It comes to thinking outside of the box when it comes to job roles and thinking about who does what. What you'll learn: → how to...
Ep 152 | Building Your Brand Message with Ashlee Sang
Hopefully you've done the work to determine who you're talking to and how to find where they are so you can reach them. Now it's time to make sure that everything you putting out there matches up with who you have determined as your ideal donor and customer. It starts...
Ep 151 | What I've Learned in 5 Years In Business
I recently just celebrated my fifth year in business! I can't believe it's already been that long! There are a few lessons I learned the hard way as I've grown my business so I'm sharing them with you incase the resonate with where you're at in the growth of your...
Ep 141 | Taking Control of Your Calendar
It's time to take back control of your calendar. You've made it through the holidays. We're a couple months into the new year. It's time to get back on a schedule and routine so you can get more of the important work done! I'm sharing some ways I control my calendar...
Ep 135 | Staying True to Your Vision and Mission…And When Not To
I think that having a vision that you keep at the front and center of your work is a wonderful thing to do from kind of an operational and making sure that you're headed in the right direction standpoint. But when you're actually doing the day to day work, those...
Ep 134 | Setting Goals for 2022
Are you someone who makes new year’s resolutions or not? In this episode, we discuss consistency, showing up, balanced work life, and how you can set your goals for the year. In addition, we look at professional and financial goals, how you can achieve them and focus...
Ep 131 | Embracing the Intrapreneur with RJ Grimshaw
Intrapreneurship from a pure definition perspective is just really a person that takes a entrepreneurial attitude and utilizes that within a company. So an example of that is I'm currently the CEO President for an equipment finance company based in Ann Arbor,...
Ep 129 | Avoiding Burnout with Katie Matusky
Fundraising is, its kind of like sales. You know what I mean? It really is the same thing. It's just that instead of selling a product or service, you're just raising funds to be able to offer it. But I think that you need a good process for qualifying quote, unquote,...
Ep 127 | 5 Lessons I Learned from my Entrepreneurial Family
Being an entrepreneur is difficult. All the things happen and it’s an emotional rollercoaster. In this episode, I share with you the five lessons I learned from my entrepreneurial family. What you will hear in this episode: → My backstory→ Networking→Think outside...
