justgiving's top 10 fundraising tips - marathon edition
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If you're running the London Marathon this year, here are the top 10 tips as compiled by the JustGiving community.TRANSCRIPT
JustGiving’s Top 10 fundraising tips(London Marathon edition)
Jonathan WaddinghamDigital Strategist
[email protected]/jon_bedford
Worried about reaching your target?
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Top 10 tips:
1. Think about your personal message
2. Put a video and extra photos on your page
3. Talk to your charity.
4. Email people in groups and personalise your message
5. Put your page address in your email signature
6. Promote your page with social media
7. Give out your page address on cards - like Moo minicards
8. Get your page featured in the local press
9. Send fun reminder emails asking people to donate
10.Thank people
1) Think about your personal message
Why are you running the marathon?
Why are you running the marathon for your charity?
How much effort are you putting in?
How long is 26.2 miles?
Is your personal message like this?
Or is it like this?
www.justgiving.com/CharlieSimpson-HAITI
Are you telling your story?
Are you telling people why they should donate?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goddess-arts/2929672944
2) A picture speaks a thousand words…
and a video speaks even more!
Spot the difference…
Main photo
Regularly updated
Photos
www.justgiving.com/no-whey
3) Talk to your charity
Find out how your money will help them and explainthat to your friends and family
Explain how the money will help on your page
Write about the charity
www.justgiving.com/billymckay
4) Don’t email the same message to everyone at once
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrtopf/1541527579/
Email people in groups – parents first?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unclebumpy/108780542/
Send a different one to friends…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nubui/2373999868/
Use Facebook friend lists…
Oh, and think of when pay day is…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superrabbit/319538167
5) Put your page address in your email signature
I’m running the London Marathon! Please
sponsor me at www.justgiving.com/yay
…or link to your page with a Justgiving badge
See www.justgiving.com/help
So every email you send encourages people to donate!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbarefoot/1814873464
6) Aha! Social media…
Try our Facebook app:
Over 400,000
people have!
http://apps.facebook.com/justgiving
Try Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27717319@N06/2581829969/
Try Twitter…
http://twitter.com/bekibutton/statuses/1073997779
http://twitter.com/nickellison/statuses/1130745394
http://twitter.com/iwooty/statuses/1139569610
Try our widget!
www.justgiving.com/widget
Widget in the wild… (and a great blog too)
http://www.marathonmitch.com
7) Give out your page address on cards
Moo.com lets you put your own photos on the back…
…like this:
http://flickr.com/photos/fstorr/2202454676/
http://www.justgiving.com/francisstorr
Or, if you’re feeling skint…
…Print your page address on A4 paper and cut out slips!
8) Get your page featured in the local press
• Use our press release template: www.justgiving.com/tips
• Include your page address
• Add interesting facts – tell your story!
- Where are you from?
- What do you do?
- Is it your first marathon?
- Why are you running?
- Who are you running for?
…and on your local radio station too
9) Send fun reminder emails
• Say even a small donation helps
• Include a photo or video
• Make them laugh with training stories
• Tell them what you’re looking forward to
• …and what you’re not!
Keep fundraising after the marathon! Your page stays open for 3 months
and 20% of donations come in after people finish their event!
10) Manners cost nothing*… so say thank you
*as my Mum says
On your page…
On your blog…
On
Just by email…
(or by snail mail!)
On
And anyway else you can…
We’ve made a video to recap… Video http://icanhaz.com/JGtipsvideo
London Marathon blog www.justgiving.com/londonmarathon
JustGiving blog www.justgiving.com/blog
Follow us: twitter.com/justgiving
Good luck!