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Mastering your charity’s marketing: Five top tips

Mastering your charity’s marketing: Five top tips

by Ned Wells | Aug 5, 2024 | Marketing strategy and planning

There’s an almost endless list of things for your charity to consider when developing or polishing up a strategic marketing plan. Here are five of the most important: 1. Who are your audiences? Everything in marketing and comms revolves around who you wish to engage...
Four lessons from supporting five social enterprises – simultaneously

Four lessons from supporting five social enterprises – simultaneously

by Jea Lopez | Mar 7, 2024 | Marketing strategy and planning

It’s been a brilliant experience. And I feel proud to have played a part in growing the impact these grass-roots organisations are making in locations across the country from Cornwall to Newcastle, and three stops in between. The project was commissioned through...
Five things I’ve learnt from running a webinar series

Five things I’ve learnt from running a webinar series

by Ned Wells | Nov 6, 2023 | Marketing strategy and planning

Earlier this year I decided to put on a series of webinars. I’d base it around the four-part marketing strategy framework I’ve developed for social enterprises (and charities that trade, and purposeful businesses). A lot of the content plus the overall...
Foregoing the fundraising: How can charities harness the power of marketing to increase their unrestricted revenue?

Foregoing the fundraising: How can charities harness the power of marketing to increase their unrestricted revenue?

by Ned Wells | Aug 4, 2023 | Marketing strategy and planning

It’s not a great time to be a charity. There it is. Not an easy thing to hear, but it’s probably not news to you either. The truth is that charities are living through an unprecedented fundraising crisis. More and more charities (roughly 600 year-on-year) are...
Three things I’ve just learnt about email marketing

Three things I’ve just learnt about email marketing

by Ned Wells | May 30, 2023 | Marketing strategy and planning

I’ve finally got cracking with my email marketing and thought I’d share some learnings. The back story is that I joined a coaching group for marketing agencies a few months ago. I needed someone to hold me accountable for getting my own marketing and website up...
Three brilliant ways to create a buyer persona

Three brilliant ways to create a buyer persona

by Ned Wells | May 8, 2023 | Articles, Marketing strategy and planning

First let’s be clear what this ‘buyer persona’ thing is because it goes by a few other names. A helpfully descriptive one is ‘ideal target customer’. You may also have heard them being called ‘customer personas’ and ‘ideal customer avatars’. Whatever you choose to...
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