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Re: Meta Andromeda: What It Means for Your Ad Strategy

Scott Paley — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:27:44 -0000

I'm curious about the level of budget required to make Andromeda work well.

Re: How I Grew to 10,000 TikTok Followers in Under 6 Months

Scott Paley — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:54:26 -0000

Nice job Jon. Do you have a sense of what impact this is having on your business so far?

Re: The Nonprofit Sector is the Biggest Source of Leadership in the World

Scott Paley — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:00:43 -0000

Thanks Sarah. We have made this correction.

Re: 5 Questions to Ask Before You Join a Board

Scott Paley — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:45:10 -0000

It just means that you're worried about whether you'll have enough cash on hand to fully fund your payroll.

Re: An Easy Way to Build Your Email List

Scott Paley — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:56:18 -0000

So how did this end up going for you?

Re: Your First 30 Days as a Nonprofit Executive Director

Scott Paley — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:03:02 -0000

If you're on Facebook, you should check out the "Thriving Nonprofit" group. Really helpful conversations with nonprofit folks. Makes you realize you're hardly alone. :) The link to the group is here: https://www.facebook.com/gr...

Re: The Right Way to Run Meetings

Scott Paley — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:45:59 -0000

Thank you for bringing this to our attention! Ugh!!!

Re: How Nonprofits Should React to the New Tax Law

Scott Paley — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:26:01 -0000

Sounds like a good plan. The situation is what it is. We can all debate about the impact, but only time will tell. The important thing is to consider strategies for fundraising that we can all implement, regardless of the tax situation.

Re: How to Write a Good Board Report

Scott Paley — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:35:45 -0000

Were you able to submit your email address? If yes, did you get an email back with the link to the template?

Re: How Nonprofits Should React to the New Tax Law

Scott Paley — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:42:36 -0000

Thanks for the thoughts, Ralph! Have a great 2018!

Re: 3 Tools Every Remote Staff or Board Member Needs

Scott Paley — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:54:19 -0000

That's absolutely right. If nobody uses it, it's worthless.

Re: 3 Tools Every Remote Staff or Board Member Needs

Scott Paley — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:53:48 -0000

I've used Trello in the past but found that once you're dealing with a lot of projects at once it got unwieldy (for me). Perhaps there's a better workflow than how I used it? I find Asana pretty different (though it does have a tile view like Trello's).

Re: A Definitive Review of the Top 6 Email Marketing Services (2017)

Scott Paley — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:47:33 -0000

Would love to see how Ontraport stacks up. :)

Re: Why Can’t We All Get Along?

Scott Paley — Thu, 11 May 2017 16:54:47 -0000

Joanna - well that's no good! Can you tell me which link you had trouble with? Where was it (we have lots of links pointing to the workshop registration.)

Thanks!

In the meantime, you can register at http://thrivingnonprofit.org

Re: 3 Ways to Overcome Fundraising Anxiety

Scott Paley — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:30:58 -0000

You mean under "listen to a fundraising podcast" in the post? There's a link to the podcast "The Art and Science of Asking for Money" here: http://www.joangarry.com/ep...

Or did you mean something else?

Re: The “Recruit New Board Members Fast!” Checklist

Scott Paley — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:43:32 -0000

Frustrating. Unfortunately, that sample matrix is no longer online. We removed the link (for now) to avoid confusion.

Re: Terry Collins Names Candidate For Final Two Bullpen

Scott Paley — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:27:23 -0000

Wait... there will only be 6 in the bullpen this season? That seems low, no?

Re: 8 Nonprofit Podcasts You Need on Your Radar

Scott Paley — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 11:16:41 -0000

Can't forget about Joan Garry's podcast - "Nonprofits Are Messy" at http://www.joangarry.com/no.... It's consistently one of the top ranked nonprofit podcasts on iTunes and she's had some really terrific guests.

Re: My Book is Finally Done! Now What?

Scott Paley — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:09:31 -0000

Congratulations Joan! This is wonderful!

Re: A Template For A Great Board Orientation

Scott Paley — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:26:05 -0000

Hi Amber and Auriel. Thank you for letting us know the old link no longer worked. We have found a replacement and updated the article accordingly. I hope this helps!

Re: Ep 25: Year End In T-Minus 30… (with Seth Rosen)

Scott Paley — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:06:17 -0000

Ack! There was a technical glitch which we've now fixed. Thank you for pointing this out!

Re: How to Deal With Difficult People

Scott Paley — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 11:02:20 -0000

Kyle - apologies on that. It wasn't intentional. There's some sort of bug going on and we just disabled the dialog box entirely for everyone until we can figure out a solution. Thanks for reading the blog!

Re: An Easy Way to Build Your Email List

Scott Paley — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 12:22:00 -0000

Well it all depends on whom you're trying to attract? Is it donors? Service recipients?

If donors, think about why they donate. What motivates them? What can you provide for them that they would care about? Remember to make it about them, not you. Look at this from their POV.

Any ideas come to mind from that?

Re: Should Your Executive Director Blog?

Scott Paley — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:24:39 -0000

Does the current blog get significant traffic? If yes, jump on board. But make sure there's a way to filter posts by author (or if not, then tag the post with your name.) You want to have a unique URL to send people to for your blog.

Good luck! And please share the link once you're up and running.

Re: Should Your Executive Director Blog?

Scott Paley — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:41:31 -0000

Great advice, Elaine!

I think you can have a ghost writer, but they really need to write with your voice. Not every leader is a great writer, but that's OK. But communications departments tend to get a little to polished.

As for frequency, even once a month has benefit. Do it as often as you have something interesting to say (though that should be most of the time.) The harder part is staying motivated, but it helps to understand the benefits brought by being consistent about it.