Certain types of errors really shoot down your email fundraising — and those errors are startlingly common. M&R Research Labs has noticed this too, and offers some warnings at Email Writing: Top 5 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid:
- Forgetting the basics. (Like making the subject line and afterthought.)
- Omitting urgency.
- Writing like a robot.
- Writing to yourself.
- Forgetting to make your case.
If you’re involved in email fundraising, I urge you to keep this list at hand as a reminder.
Jeff Brooks has been serving the nonprofit community for more than 35 years and blogging about it since 2005. He considers fundraising the most noble of pursuits and hopes you’ll join him in that opinion. You can reach him at jeff [at] jeff-brooks [dot] com.
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