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Your Guide to Winning with the 80/20 Rule

September 1, 2025

Jeff Brooks

Double your income! This post is part of a series on specific steps you can take to meaningfully increase your fundraising revenue. This is part 1. You’ve heard about spending more to get more. But you probably don’t have extra…

How to Increase Direct Mail Open Rates using Mystery

August 25, 2025

Jeff Brooks

Digital Fundraising, Direct Mail

Curiosity is one of the most human traits. When we don’t know what’s going on, we feel compelled to find out. Think monkeys. Or kittens: We perk up and pay a lot more attention when we don’t know what something…

10 Design Tips for Stronger Direct Mail Fundraising

August 18, 2025

John Lepp

Direct Mail, Donor Love

There’s a reason I’ve spent more than 25 years peering into donor mailboxes. The truth is: most of what shows up in there is easy to ignore. Perfectly branded. Polished. Bland. It’s mail that’s trying to be liked by the…

The Art of Fundraising Interviews: How to Capture Stories That Inspire Giving

August 11, 2025

Jeff Brooks

Storytelling

One of the challenges of storytelling is finding stories in the real world in the first place. It’s not that stories are rare. They’re happening everywhere, all the time. But they don’t seem like stories while they happen. It’s just…

4 Storytelling Power-Ups for Your Fundraising

August 4, 2025

Jeff Brooks

Storytelling

Stories are hard. Hard to find. Hard to tell well. And especially hard to keep on task. It’s that last one – keeping your story “on task” that so often trips up fundraisers. Because the purpose of telling a story…

A Game-Changing Fundraising Timeline for Winning Appeals

July 28, 2025

Jeff Brooks

Workplace

This happened to me. Tell me if you’ve had a similar experience: I wrote a year-end appeal for a social services agency that focused on addiction recovery. I had an incredible story to work with: it was about one of…

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Your Guide to Winning with the 80/20 Rule

How to Increase Direct Mail Open Rates using Mystery

10 Design Tips for Stronger Direct Mail Fundraising

The Art of Fundraising Interviews: How to Capture Stories That Inspire Giving

4 Storytelling Power-Ups for Your Fundraising

A Game-Changing Fundraising Timeline for Winning Appeals

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Jeff Brooks’ Webinar: Your Roadmap to Record-Smashing Direct Mail This Year End

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Your Guide to Winning with the 80/20 Rule

How to Increase Direct Mail Open Rates using Mystery

10 Design Tips for Stronger Direct Mail Fundraising

The Art of Fundraising Interviews: How to Capture Stories That Inspire Giving

4 Storytelling Power-Ups for Your Fundraising

A Game-Changing Fundraising Timeline for Winning Appeals

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