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Peter ShankmanPeter Shankman is a well-known and often-quoted social media, marketing and public relations strategist. His latest book is “Zombie Loyalists.” He wants you to create rabid fans who do your social media, marketing and PR for you. He’s got super ideas and lots of valuable stories.

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Oh, hi there. Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio. Big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host geneva community radio in geneva, new york, on lake seneca up at the northern tip it’s so cool that you’re with us, our latest affiliate and i’m shouting you out a second week in a row. I just love that geneva community radio is with us! Thank you so much love having you listen er of the week this week, aaron barbara in las cruces, new mexico he tweeted me last week that this show is awesome! He loved amy sample ward, and he’ll share non-profit radio with the non-profits that he works with, i love it makes him listener the week thank you very much. Erin aaron is also a cellist he’s at aaron barber of five a special listener of the week gift for aaron this week you’re going to get our guest peter shankman new book when it comes out in january and i will be in touch. I’m glad you’re with me, i’d be forced to endure papel idema if i saw that you missed today’s show zombie loyalists peter shankman is a well known and, uh, often quoted social media marketing and public relations strategist. His latest book is zombie loyalists. He wants you to create rabid fans who do your social media, marketing and pr for you. He’s got super ideas and very valuable stories on tony’s take two, please, no more rock star consultants. We need consultants who work with non-profits sponsored by generosity siri’s hosting multi charity five k runs and walks. I’m very glad peter shankman is with me in the studio. He is the founder of haro help a reporter out connecting journalists with sources in under two years from starting it in his apartment, laura was sending out fifteen hundred media queries a week, two more than two hundred thousand sources worldwide. It was acquired by vocus in two thousand ten he’s, the founder and ceo of the geek factory, a boutique social media marketing and pr strategy firm in new york city peter is on nasa’s civilian advisory council. You’ll find him at shanklin dot com and he’s at peter shankman on twitter. His latest book is zombie loyalists using great service to create rabid fans? I’m very glad his book brings him. To non-profit radio and the studio. Welcome, peter. Get to be here, honey. Thanks. Pleasure. You live on the west side of manhattan, and you and you there’s a there’s, a pretty well known five star steakhouse. I’ll get wolfgang’s not far from you know, but you pass it to go to a different steakhouse, right? Morton’s? Correct. Why is that more? I’m a zombie loyalist importance. What does that mean? I love the service, the attention to detail, the quality, the sort of where everyone knows my name mentality. When i walk into that morton’s or any mortons around the world, they have a tremendous custom relationship management system. When i call one number ah, in new york or anywhere in the world, it they know who i am by my cell phone. And i’m treated with just, you know, phenomenal. Uh, happiness toe here for me. And my wishes are granted is aware, and we have any happy hour holiday party coming up at morton’s next couple days. And, you know, as always, i forgot to call and make a reservation, you know, called and yesterday and said, hey, i need a a chance to get a reservation. For seven people dahna you know, there’s a night at, uh, seven p m, which is, you know, the week of holiday party, and they looked and they said, oh, well, and then i guess their computer system kicked in. Of course, mr chang is not a problem at all. We’ll get before you run away, you know, have it we’ll have a great booth for you that, you know, and we’ll tell us names the people attending and, you know, you know, you know, they’re going to specialize menus for them and their names on they really they have ah, really high level of service that they provide not just to me that’s, the beauty of it, you know, it’s one thing for everybody, yeah, it’s one thing, if they just provided to me, but they do that for everyone, and that is huge because, you know, being able to call when a normal person makes a reservation and not that i’m special, i’m actually rather abnormal. But what a normal person makes a reservation and says no more tests, okay, greater. You celebrating anything so, yeah, it’s, my wife’s birthday waiting. Always ask after anyone said, oh, you know what, it’s, my wife’s birthday great what’s her name and her name’s. Megan, whatever. And you go in and they and you sit down on the on the menu. It has happened, but they make it. And then megan, whoever she happens to be well in the next forty five minutes, you know, taking fifty selfies with her menu and that’ll go online. And when her friends, you know, want that same experience, they’re going to go morton’s, you say in the book, you get the customers you want by being beyond awesome to the customers you have and that’s why i want to start with that morton’s story, which is in the middle of the book, but they do it for everybody, and then they have the vips as well and there’s the terrific story of you tweeting going to tell that story that’s a good story, but it’s a good story. Love stories. I was flying home from a day trip to florida and was exhausted and starving and they trip, meaning you’re flying down a canoe down to six a m lunch meeting flew back same day. You know, one of those one of those days and, ah, i jokingly said the tweet, hey, morton’s, what? You meet me at newark airport when i land with a porterhouse in two hours? Ha ha ha ha ha! Um, you know, i said it the same way you’d say winter, please stop snowing things like that. And i landed find my driver and said, next, my driver is a is ah, waiter in a tuxedo with the mortons back, they saw my tweet. They put it together, they managed to bring me a a steak. And and, you know, as great of a story is that is that is that it’s a great stunt that’s a great story, and it wasn’t staged. It was completely amazing. But, you know, that’s not what they’re about. They’re not about delivering steaks to airports. They’re about making a great meal for you and treating you like world when you come in. And you know, if they just did that if they just delivered the stake, the airport, but their quality and service sucked, you know, it wouldn’t be a story, you know? You know what they did for peter. But you know, my steak’s cold, you know? So what? It really comes down to is the fact they do treat everyone like kings and that’s that’s really, really important because, well, why is it happening to have a great experience of morton’s? And then you tell the world, you know, oh, yeah, great dinner last night, that was amazing, i would totally there again. And as we moved to this new world where, you know, review sites are going away and i don’t, i don’t need to go to yelp reviews and people i don’t know and, you know, if they’re shills, whatever the case may be, i don’t know or trip advisor, same thing i want people in my network who i trust and people in their network who they trust, then by default, i trust so and that’s going to that’s already happening automatically, you know, when i when i land in l a and i type in steakhouse, you know, not me, i know i know where the steak house on telly, but if someone typed into google maps or facebook steak house in los angeles, you know they’ll see all the steakhouses on google map, but if any of their friends have been to any of them they’ll see those first. And if they had a good experience, only if the sentiment is positive will they see those first and that’s? Pretty amazing. Because if you think about that the simple act of tweeting out of photo oh, my god! Thanks so much more in love. This that’s positive sentiment. That network knows that. And so if you’re looking for a steakhouse, you know, and your friend six months ago had that experience oh, my god. Amazing state. This great place, the sentiment will be there on dh. The network will know that that we will show you that steakhouse because you trust your friend. And this is where we start to cultivate zombie loyalists. Exactly is through this awesome customer service of the customers. You you have say more about something. Yeah. I mean, you have so many companies out there who are trying to get the next greatest customer. You know, you see all the ads, you know, the facebook post, you know, we’re at nine hundred ninety, followers are ten are one thousand follower gets a free gift. Well, that’s kind of saying screw you to the original nine hundred ninety followers. Who you had who were there since the beginning. We don’t care about you. We want that one thousand, you know, that’s not cool. The the companies who see their numbers rise and you see their fans increase in there they’re ah, revenues go up are the ones who are nice to the customers they have. Hey, you know, customer eight. Fifty two. It was really nice of you to join us a couple months ago. How do you know? How are you? We notice that you posted on something about a you know, your car broke down. Well, you know, we’re not in the car business, but you know, you’re you’re two blocks from our our closest ah, outlet or whatever. And, you know, once if you need to come in, have a cup of coffee, will you use the phone? Whatever. You know, those little things that you could do that, that that really focus on the customers you haven’t make the customers you have the ones where the zombies who tell other customers have great your and this all applies to non-profits certainly as well the question, but even more so. Yeah. I mean, if you know non-profits constant. Worry about howto make the most value out of their dollar on how to keep the dollar stretching further and further. And and, you know, you have this massive audience who has come to you, who’s a non-profit who said to you, you know, we want to help here we are volunteering our help and just simply treating them with the thanks that they deserve, not just a simple hey, thanks for doing it, but actually reaching out, asking what theywant asking how they like to get the information things like that will greatly increase your donations as well as making them go out and tell everyone how awesome you are letting them to your p r for you and that’s what a zombie loyalist does and this is for this could be donors could be volunteers in the organization who aren’t able to give a lot, but giving time is enormous. And if you know if they have such a great time doing it, they’ll bring friends as as zombies do. You know zombies have one purpose in life? A real zombies have one purpose in life. That’s defeat it doesn’t matter how the mets are doing, it doesn’t. Matter, you know, because chance that they lost anyway, but it doesn’t matter how how anyone’s doing, you know, what’s going on in the world economy. It doesn’t matter what matters was zombie is where they get their next meal because they feed and they have to infect more people. Otherwise they will die zombie loyalist to the same thing. All they have to do is make sure that the custom they tell the world we all have that friend who does it, you know that one friend eat, eat nothing but the olive garden because, oh, my gods greatest breadsticks everywhere, you know? And they will drag your ass the olive garden every single time they get that chance. That’s a zombie loyalist. And you want them to do that for your non-profit and there’s a big advantage to being a smaller, smaller organization. You could be so much more high touch, and we’re gonna talk about all that. We got the full hour with peter shankman. Gotta go away for a couple minutes. Stay with us. You’re tuned to non-profit radio. Tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy. Fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten. Minute burst of fund-raising insights published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding, mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation. Really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder, am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website, philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals, the better way. Welcome back to big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent, peter, it doesn’t take much, teo stand out in the customer service world doesn’t really doesn’t, you know, and the reason for that is because we expect to be treated like crap. You know, if you think about that book, i love this example, whenever i give speeches, i ask, i ask everyone the audience, like, who here has had a great flight recently, like at least one personal raise, their hands, like, ok, what made it great and without fail there? And, well, we took off on time and i had the cd was a sign, and we landed on time and, like, so you paid for a service, they delivered that service, and you are over the freaking moon about it, like that’s the state that we’ve become, you know, that’s how bad customer service has been that you are just beyond thrilled that they did exactly what they said they were going to win, nothing more less than twenty minutes in the post office line exam, and i’m ecstatic exactly, you know, it’s it’s. So we really are at a point where we only have to be one level above crap, i’m not even asking my client to be good, just one level of crap. You know, if everyone else’s crap and your one level above that you’re going to win. It’s my favorite one my favorite jokes thie two guys air out in the woods, hunting in the woods and the just jog. It was the first one sees a bear and they see this barren bears raised up he’s about to strike. And first one reaches down and tightens up his laces on his running shoes and it was the studio don’t be don’t be needy, you can’t outrun a bear and i don’t need to understand how wrong you know, i love that joke because it’s it’s so true that’s the concept, you know, all you have to do is be just a little bit better than everyone else and you’ll win the whole ball game. Now we have to set some things up internally in orderto have the structure in place, no question about it to create the zombie loyalists. Yeah, i mean you haven’t. You have ah company, where the majority of people in your company are afraid to do. Anything outside the norm, you know? I mean, lookit, lookit, a cellphone companies, you know, they call them cause you have a problem, right? T or t mobile. You call them your problem? They’re actually the customer service. We’ll handle your caller actually judged and rewarded based on how quickly they could get you off the phone. You know, not on whether or not they fix your problem fast, but how fast they could get you off the phone. Which means how many more calls get everybody worked. When i worked in america online, we all had to do a day of customer service every month just to see what it was like. That was a brilliant idea. But, you know, again, it’s just it was a system called vantage for you to sign on and assumes you signed on. If you want to call, you know that was tacked against you if you were in a call and and it went over a certain amount of time that was tacked against you. So the decks were stacked not in the favor. The customer. There are some companies out there who allowed there customer service employees to simply be smarter. About what they dio and do whatever it is they need to do to fix the problem. You know, my favorite story about this verizon wireless? I went overseas, as in dubai, and i landed two buy-in i’d turn in, my father had gotten global roaming on my phone, which, you know, twenty bucks for every hundred megabytes, okay, so i land and i turn on my phone and it says, like, before i’m even off the plane, i get a text that you’ve used two hundred dollars in roaming charges, but how, you know, three hundred dollars, by telling it off the planet. We’re something’s up here, so i called horizon on a nice guy answer the phone and oh, yeah, i mean, you know, first it was yes, sir, you do have global roaming, but it doesn’t work in dubai. Okay, well, that’s not really global that’s more hemispherical roaming, i think, is the issue, and so i said, well, look, i’m gonna be here for a week i said, you know what? You have my credit card, bill me like, cubine bilich a thousand bucks and you let me have the phone for, like, a week and you know that, you know, for five hundred bucks, i won’t go over to gigs would just do something for me. Sorry, sir, i’m not authorized to do that. You can look. So what i have is well, you can pay twenty dollars and forty eight cents a megabyte. I’m like i’m sorry. Seriously, which equates essentially too. I will be charged. Twenty thousand forty eight seconds. Three thousand forty eight cents for every i think, the times for every four seconds of the video gangnam style if i decided to watch my phone like this is pretty ridiculous. So i simply hung up. I’m hung up on your eyes and i went down the street to the dubai. The mall of the emirates, which is the largest mall in the world, is a freaking ski slope in that, and i’m not joking. And as a ski slope in this mall and went to one of like the eighty six different electronic stores in this mall bought an international unlocked version of the same exact cell phone. I have went next door to the local sim card store, but, eh sim card that gave me twenty gigabytes of data and a thousand minutes of talk for forty dollars. I then put that in my phone because it’s, an android phone i simply typed in my user name and password for google and everything imported. And verizon did not get a penny on that trip. How easy would have been for a rising to say, okay, you know what? We’ll cut your brake. They still make a lot of money off me. And i would tell the world how great verizon wants to work with and how wonderfully, how helpful they were. Instead, they guaranteed that i will never. They will never make a penny from any international trip. And i take what? Fifteen of them a year? Because now my cell phone, my international cell phone that i bought, all i do is pop out the sim card on my land, wherever i am put in a new sim card. So and you’re speaking and writing and telling that story ports and rittereiser and every time i tell the story about variety that make it a little worse. Apparently verizon tests out the durability of their phone by throwing them kittens. I read this in the first week, you know? So not necessarily, but you know, the concept that that all they had to do all the energy was in power, mark and it wasn’t mark’s fault. Mark was a really nice guy, but he was not allowed to do that. He would get fired if you try to do a deal like that for me and so it’s this concept, you know, and the funny thing is it comes down if you really want to go go down the road in terms of a public company like verizon of where the issue is, you could even trace it to fiduciary responsibility because the fiduciary responsibility of any company’s ceo all the way down the employees to make money for the shareholders future responsibly means by not allowing me and they don’t allow a mark the customer service agent to to help me on dh take a different tack. He’s actually losing money. Too many ceos think about the next quarter. Oh, we have to make our number six quarter. I’m fired companies and other countries to anything with next quarter century, and they make a much bigger difference because he okay, what can we do now that we’ll have? Impact in the next five, ten, fifteen years, you know, and really implement the revenue that we have and an augment and cos america don’t don’t think about that. That’s a big problem i’d buy a product line has a lot of natural and recycled materials seventh generation and they’re they’re tagline, is that in in our every decision, we must consider the impact on the next seven generations? It comes from an american indian, it’s great it’s a great line. I mean, just think about how much money horizon would’ve made from in the past three years over just just my overseas you’d be telling a story about like them, about morten, exactly like the one about things. Look, a lot of people listen to me, and they went for a time when you googled roaming charges variety when you google verizon roaming charges my story about how how i saved all this money really big came up first because i did the math and if i had not called mark and bought my own self-funding done this, i would have come home with thirty one thousand dollars self-funding and you’re damn authorizing wouldn’t know anything about that would be like up to bad. Sorry about the fine print and plus the employee who sold you the quote international plan, right? I’m sure you told her e way i’m going to canada and i’m going to dubai. I’m assuming she didn’t know where to buy wass she thought it was near canada, but yeah, long story short couldn’t use it. All right, so employees have to be empowered there’s to be we have to be, but changing a thinking too. I mean, the customer has to come first. The donor, the volunteers don’t volunteer. You get at the end of the day where’s your money coming from look, if you’re non-profit or fortune one hundred where’s, the money coming from, you know and if you we see it happening over and over again, we’ve seen what you’re seeing right now play out every single day with company uber on uber it’s so funny because uber makes you know the value of forty million dollars right now, but that doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t mean anything if people are running away in droves. Which people are there’s a whole delete uber app movement that the lord god you people are doing what’s the problem well, it’s several number one, that uber is run by a bunch of guys who honor the bro code. The company was actually started by a guy who, in on business in business insider, said he started the company to get laid. His goal was to always of a black car when he was leaving a restaurant to impress the girl he was with that he came out and said that and you see that culture run rampant throughout uber from their god mode where they can see they actually create there was, ah, don’t read this, my business insider as well it was, they created a hookup page that showed or ah, walk of shame page that showed where good women were leaving certain apartments, like on weekends oneaccord believing certain place on weekends, going back to their home. It was obvious that they, you know, some guy that did that and of course, just their whole surge pricing mentality, which is, you know, two days ago there was a couple of symbolism, the terrorists of the figures of harris attacking in sydney at that at that bakery, and sidney, uber and sydney instituted surge. Pricing for people trying to get out of harm’s way, you know? And and they later refund it all was a computer glitch i’m you know, i’m sorry you have a stop button and you can when you see something happening like that, there has to be someone in the office because you know what? Not cool, we’re going to take care of that and hit the stop button and it was yeah, bad tons and tons and tons of bad publicity. You know, i was having an argument with one of my facebook page facebook dot com slash peter shankman because they said, oh, you know, so what? They don’t they don’t turn surprising, i have enough cabs there and, you know, people can’t get home i said, i’m pretty sure that the on ly come, but i’m sure that no one had cab companies there. I’m sure that there wasn’t anyone who had enough cars. They’re private cabs, uber’s, whatever. Yet the on ly stories i read about companies screwing up during the event where uber not joe’s sydney cab company you know, i didn’t see him staring up because he didn’t turn on surge pricing you got it you got to respect your customer after as we’re ah training for that then not only trying to change that mine ships well in in trying to change that mindset rewards for a custom, for employees that do take go to go the extra mile. Well, first of all, if you give the employees the ability to do it to go the extra mile and understand they won’t get fired, you’re not going to get in. Try always to tell every one of my employees you never get in trouble for spending a little extra money to try and keep a customer happy you’ll get fired for not doing you know you’re fired for, not for seeing an opportunity to fix someone and not taking not doing everything that you could know. Rich carl is famous for that ritz caldnear hires people not because whether they could fool the bedsheet but for how well they understand people. Because in wisconsin’s, mind it’s much more important to be a people person and be able to be empathetic and that it’s such a key word empathy is just so so sorely lacking. You know how much you’ve called customer service? Yeah. You know, i have to have to change my flight. Might my my aunt just died. I really oh, ok, great that’s three dollars. I just want to go now earlier. You know, you show up at the airport, your bag is overweight by half a pound. That’s twenty five dollars. I just can you can you just cut me some slack, you know, so empathy and giving the e-giving the employees, the ability to understand that the customer that sometimes you can make exceptions and it is okay to make changes. And this is where a smaller organization has huge advantage. It’s, easier to change. That’s what kills me. You know, i go to these try to frequent small businesses when i can i get you something small businesses, and they won’t. They act like large businesses, you know, in the respect that they don’t have. Ah, like they want to be respected almost they don’t have, like a six a six thousand page code that they have to adhere to. They can simply ah do something on the fly. And yet, for whatever reason, they won’t do it. And it’s the most frustrating famous and what guys, you’re acting like a big you act like mega lo mart here, you know, and you’re not mega lo mart, and you’re just joe’s house of stationary, whatever it is and, you know, not be able to help me. You’re pretty much killing yourself because you don’t have eighty five billion customers to come to the door after me, you know? But i have a pretty big network. And for a small business, two get killed socially as social becomes more and more what? How we communicate, you know, it’s, just craziness. It’s, you know, we’re pretty much in a world, i think where something almost hasn’t happened to you unless unless you share it a joke that, you know, if i can take a selfie, was i really their but it’s true. You know, we do live in a world where, you know, i remember god ten years ago, maybe not even not even ten years ago. I was one of the first people to have a phone in my camera, you know? And it was like running from that’s what i said, yeah, i carry in my phone, right? And it was like a i think a point eight. Megapixels. You know, it looked like i was taking a picture with a potato, but it was it was thiss i remember it was two thousand two and i was in chase bank and there was a woman arguing with the teller and i pulled out my video, you know, it was there the crappiest video you’ve received, i pulled out and i said, you know, i started recording and the one behind a catwoman have in-kind the woman behind the counter was talking to the customs, saying you do not speak to me that way. You get out of this bank right now and the customers saying i just wanted my balance and u n yur manager comes over, i get this whole thing on my little crappy three g motorola folks phone and i remember i posted online and gawker picks it up. I gave him my e mail. You know, my headline. I put my blood was, you know, chase where the regulation ship is that go out yourself, you know? And it was it just got tons of play on gawker picked it up. It went everywhere, totally viral. So it’s one of those things, he was just like, you know, this is in two thousand two it’s twelve years later, how the hell can you assume that nothing is being with that you’re not being recorded? You know, i i they were blowing i sneezed a couple weeks ago and ah, ah, not to get too graphic here, but i needed a tissue big time after i was done sneezing, never going through my pockets, looking for desperate, looking for tissue, like looking around, making sure it wasn’t on cameras somewhere that someone didn’t grab that with hoexter viral sensation, you know? I mean, i went god, i went to high school with eight blocks from here, right? If the amount of cameras that aaron lincoln center today were there in nineteen, eighty nine, nineteen, ninety, i’d be having this conversation entirely. I’d be having this conversation behind. Bulletproof for themself. Yeah, so you know you’d be you’d be talking to you have to get special clearance to visit me. Pray be it the super max in colorado, you know, it’s one of those things that you just like my kid who’s, who’s almost two years old now, he’s gonna grow up with absolutely no. Expectation of privacy the same way that we grew up with an expectation of privacy, and i’m thankful for that because she will make a lot less stupid moves, you know? I mean, god, the things that i thought, you know, in in high school, i thought the stupid is in the world, thank god there wasn’t a way for me to broadcast that to the world in real time. Thank god creating these zombie loyalists, and we’ve got to change some. We’ve gotta change culture and thinking and reward zsystems let’s, go back to the the cost of all this. Why is this a better investment than trying to just focus on new donors? I love i love this analogy and accufund analogy let’s open a bar and there’s a very cute girl across the across the park and catch my eye catcher. I got to go, you know you don’t know me, i’m amazing in bed. You should finish your drink right now. Come home, let’s. Get it on. I’m impressed. I am that good chancellor should get throw a drink in my face, go back talking to her friends. I’ve done a lot of research on this. That’s probably now lets us sue let’s, assume an alternate world. I’m sitting there on my phone. I’m just playing like, you know no bored with friendraising and she’s over there talking to friends, one of her friends, holy crap! That’s peter! Peter shankman. I’ve heard him speak he’s in this fantasy world. I’m single too. He i think he’s single and he’s having this amazing guy. I know he has a cat. You haven’t. You should totally go talk to him. The very least i’m getting this girl’s number that’s pr. Okay. And what are we trust more me with my you know, fancy suit collar going over the seventies leaders in hi, i’m amazing. Or the girl saying, hey, we’ve been friends since their great i’m recommending that guy. You should trust me on this. You know, obviously that that’s where good customer service comes into play and that’s where corporate culture comes into play because if i have a great experience with you and at your company, i’m going to tell my friend when they’re looking and i will stake my personal reputation and there’s nothing stronger than that. And these are the people who want to breed at zoho illicit struggled in advertising strong of the marketing and they’re going to share people want to share that. Think about the internet runs on two things it runs on drama, drama and bragging are bragging and drama and if you if you need any proof of that, you know go and look at all the hashtags with crap that’s happened, you know, bad customer service, bad, whatever, but then look at all the good hashtags you know, when our flight’s delayed for three hours and we’ll lose our seat oh my god, i hate this air land on the worst airline ever, but when we get upgraded, right hashtag first class bitches or whatever it is you know it looks to me like that on the because we love to share it’s on ly a great experience if we could tell the world and it’s only a bad experience if we could make everyone else miserable about it as well, we got a lot more peter shankman rest of the show i want to send i wish i could shout out live listener loved by city and state and country can’t do it this week where were pre recorded but, you know, i love the live listeners and, of course, podcast pleasantries. Everybody listening in the time shift let me know where you listen. If you tell me where you listen, i’ll shout you out when you’re on a treadmill, their car plane where you listen, i’d love to share it generosity siri’s they host five k runs and walks if a five k event could possibly fit into your twenty fifteen fund-raising an engagement plan, i asked you to talk to dave lynn he’s the ceo there, you know? You know, dave, you’ve heard me talk about him, you know, generosity, siri’s they have events coming up in north jersey, also, miami tell dave you’re from non-profit radio and he will take good care of you generosity, siri’s dot com or, you know, i like to pick up the phone and do business a lot. Seven, one, eight, five or six nine triple seven this week’s video. We need consultants who will talk to small and mid sized non-profits roll up their sleeves and do the work for them. There are lots of organizations that want to pay and sometimes have trouble finding somebody who will. Do the work for them and not be sort of an elusive rock star. Only available, you know, by webinar and and and on stage video. Got a lot of comments at tony martignetti dot com. Also on the facebook page. Tony martignetti non-profit radio let me know what you think. I answer every comment, and that is tony’s. Take two for friday, nineteenth of december, forty ninth and forty ninth show of the year. Peter, you have a golden rule of social media that that a good number of customers like to share and people are going to keep doing it, people will always share again. It goes back to the concept that if you create great stuff, people want to share it because people like to be associated with good things. If you create bad stuff and buy stuff, i can me i mean, anything from, like, a bad experience, too, that content people not only won’t share that, but we go out of their way to tell people how terrible you are. Yeah. Dahna you know, how many times have you seen companies fail horribly? You know, after major disasters, when company’s heir tweeting, you know, completely unrelated things after after random school shooting? No, it was after the shooting at the theatre in aurora, colorado, the dark knight, the tweets hey, shooter’s, what’s your plans for this weekend, you know? And i’m just going really, you know, but of course the thing was the thing was retweeted millions of times, you know, with a sort of shame on the so wait, we’re society, like i said earlier, that loves to share. When? When great things happen once but love to tell the world when we’re miserable because we’re only truly miserable when you make everyone else miserable. Arika it’s funny you mentioned generosity siri’s the one of my favorite stories, which goes to sort of a bigger picture of culture, and somehow when you’re just doing your job because that’s what you’re supposed to do your job but you don’t realize there are ways to get around that i i listened to your podcast, among others, when i’m running through central park on dh more like if you know my body type more like lumbering through central park, but i get there i’m an iron man have and uh so i go to central park and it’s super early in the morning cause i usually have meetings and i dont run fast altum i run like i really dont run fast, but but as i’m running, but let’s give you the credit that you have done a bunch of iron man, i have try i do i do it. You know, my mother tells me that i just have very poor judgment in terms of what sports i should do, but on the flip side, i’m also a skydiver, which is with my weight is awesome. I fall better than anyone, you know, but so i’m running through central park last year. It was february, february of thirteen and fourteen of this year, and it was around four forty five in the morning because i had a meeting and had two, ten miles so for-profit morning running about but labbate around nineteen, seventy ninth eightieth street on the east side in the park, and a cop pulls me over. Andi says, what you doing? Look at him, you know, i’m wearing black spandex, i have a hat, it’s five degrees, i don’t wantto playing checkers, you know? Well, you know, i’m like i’m running it he’s, like, okay, can you stop running? I’m like, okay, you get the park’s closed like no it’s not look, i’m in it look around, there are other people who know part doesn’t oppcoll sick, sam, like he’s ago. Would you have any idea? And you’re like, no, i’m running, he does what you name. I’m like seriously, so i’m writing you a summons and make you ready metoo sametz for exercising, i just want to clarify that you’re writing metoo and sure, nothing. I wrote me a summons for exercising in central park before it opened that the charge was breaking the violating curfew. You know, i’m like i get the concept. The curfew is to keep people out after two way if it’s not to prevent them going in early to exercise to be healthy. I’m like i’m not carrying, you know, a six pack. I’m not drinking a big gulp. I’m not smoking. I mean, i’m doing something healthy and you writing me a summons for it? Um and i said, you know, i’m gonna have a field day with this. I said, i kind of have some fathers. This could be a lot of fun. I’m not, you know, i know you’re just doing your job, sir, even though you have the discretion not to, but okay, so i go back home, take a picture, might take it, email it to a friend of mine in new york post, you know, front page, new york post next day, no running from this ticket, you know? In your times covered it, runner’s world covered. I mean, i went everywhere. Gawker covered it, you know? And my whole thing was just like, dude, you have discretion. Look at me, you know, i’m not i’m not even going super fast for god’s sake. I’m just just trying to actual size here, you know? And of course i went to court and i beat it. But how much money that cost the city for me to go to court fight this thing? You know, every employee you have to give your employees the power of discretion, of power, of empathy to make their own decisions. If you go by the book, bad things will happen. And again small shops so much easier to do it. Flatline flat organizations. I work with a non-profit animal rescue non-profit kapin a friend of mine was a skydiver and shut him out. No, i can’t but there’s a friend of mine scott ever and she was killed in a base jump several years ago, and her husband asked to donate her memory to this non-profit so i sent him a check. And about three months later, i get a coffee table book in the mail and i was living by myself the time i didn’t own a coffee table. It was you no more money to spend on my flatscreen and i ah, remember, i call i look at this coffee table guy throw i throw in the corner, i look at it over next couple days, it pisses me off about how much, how much of my donation did it cost to print? Melon produced this book to me, and so i called them up. Well, sure, we believe most of our donors are older and pry prefer to get a print version as opposed to, like digital, you know, where they throw it away like you don’t throw digitally, but okay, i’m like so so you’ve asked your you’ve done surveys in, you’ve asked all you know, we just assume the most number older i’m like, i open my mouth one of joining the board and spent the next year interviewing customers, interviewing every current and past donor-centric to get their information and shock of shocks, ninety four percent said online, and so over the following year, we launched facebook page twitter, page zoho flicker account, youtube everything p s the following year for that, donations went up thirty seven percent in one year. In that economies right away tonight, donations went up thirty seven percent in one year, and they saved over five hundred thousand dollars in printing million reproduction. Imagine going your boss boss revenues up thirty seven percent and we save the half million dollars in boston about your really good beer. You know, all they had to do was listen to their audience, be relevant to the audience you have, and they will tell you what they want. We have tons of tools for segmentation. My god, you’ve gotta listen to what segment you want people want to be, you know, someone, someone ask me today you know what, what’s the best way i knew nothing about their company what’s the best social media left me to be on should be on twitter shevawn facebook i said, i’ll answer that question if you can answer this this this question to ask you is my favorite type of cheese gouda or the number six they don’t understand that’s not a real question like neither is yours like i can’t tell you where the best place to be your audience can i said, go ask your audience, believe me, they will tell you, there’s a gas station, the midwest come and go. I just love the name kumo, angio and their tag around. But you can read more about the tagline is always something x i mean, come on the jokes just write themselves for god’s sake, but they don’t take themselves to see really love that come a ghost knowing the name of the company gas station and, you know, i remember there in iowa and i went to visit a friend and i and i was like, you’ve got to get a photo of me in front of coming goes on, and the beauty of this is that some of their employees actually look at their customers when they’re on their phones. We start to go, you know what? You use twitter or facebook and they say, oh, you know, and they record the information and they know it customers will give you so much info if you just ask them because then they feel invested, they feel invest in your company, they feel like they that you took the time to listen to their non-profit requested their their their questions, and they feel like they’re nufer harrow every month we have a one question harrow survey, you know, heroin question survey, and it was we’d get like a thousand people respond. I’d spend the entire weekend emailing everyone responded, thanking them personally and took my entire weekend, but it was great because we’ll wind up happening is that, you know, if we took their advice and launch it on monday with the new thing, they oh, my god, how did this? They took my advice. Yeah was your advice to a hundred other people advice, but we took it and they don’t like it and it just it just made them so much more loyal, and they tell hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people we get in there were days i got there days where i was in temple one morning, the garment center, synagogue and my phone i feel like phone getting really hot in my pocket, which is not normal, and i’m starting her on i look at it it’s almost on fire. It had frozen because we were mentioned in seth gordon’s morning blogged oh, and at that time i was getting emails every time we get a new subscriber and the phone’s actually frozen and was locked and and was like overheating, i t at the battery and, like, reset the entire phone because we’ve got so many new, like fourteen thousand subscribers in, like, three hours have seen some scene you say excuse me, you say that customer service is the new advertising, marketing and pr yeah, it really is. Well, again, you know, if we’re moving to that world where so imagine a lot of land and i love that i can use this. Now imagine a lot of lamp latto lamp has water, oil and a heat source, right heat source heats the oil, the oil flows with water, it makes pretty colors i’ve heard it looks really good when you’re high now i’ve heard. Now imagine if crystal’s imagine if you’re ah, everyone you meet in your network, okay, is a drop of oil. The water is your network and what is your world? Everyone you meet in your network from from the guy you’re sitting doing the radio interview with to the guy who serves you ice cream with local deli to the guy who does your dry cleaning to your girlfriend to your wife to not same time to your kids second grade teacher to your second grade teacher years ago, everyone you meet is in your network, you know, right now, when facebook for started, i would see the same weight from a kid. I was junior high school, his posted at the same weight as like my current girlfriend, which is ridiculous. I don’t need to know about everything my friend from junior high school’s doing, having talked to in fifteen years, facebook setting a lot smarter as google. Now i see the people i communicate with the most okay, and if i if i reach out to communicate with new people, they start rising in my feet and my stream if i don’t, they fall it’s just like a lava lamp. Every person you connect with is a drop of oil that heat source at the bottom that’s rising, raising or lowering those drops of oil is relevance. So imagine the heat sources relevance and the more i interact with someone, the more the higher they go in my network in the more i see of them, the more trust level there. Is when i’m at a bar and i meet someone at a restaurant unconference i meet someone i don’t need to, um connect them. I don’t even go on facebook friend request, you know, awkward friend requesting is when you seven think that lesson my friend requested some of the real world was second grade. Will you be my friend? My daughter’s doing that? Because, you know, it’s like cat? Will you be my friend like honey? The cat doesn’t like you, but you know it’s, this awkward thing who the hell friendly quest, someone if i find hang out with you, the bar and we connect again and we talk and we go out to dinner and we’re having a good time with friends. I don’t need to first request that you, you know, that’s going away, friending following liking and fanning is all going away. What will interact is the actual connection. So if i meet with you and i have a good time with you and we talk again, if i use your business if i go to your non-profit if i donate if i volunteer, whatever the network knows that the more i do that the more interact with you, the more you have the right to mark it to me and the more you will be at the top of my stream in them or i will the information about you, the less i will have tio search for you. But if you do something stupid or we’re no longer friends xero you’re going to fade. I don’t unfriend you just disappear. Unfriending is also dated a woman we broke up. It was nine months after we broke up. There was one from the other one because it’s just awkward. So the whole kapin frenemy? No, but you know the causes of not having to do that of just, you know, okay, i haven’t talked in a while. I don’t see your post anymore. It’s the real world that’s how it should be. And if you’re not feeding zombie loyalists yeah, they can start to defect. No question about it. I wanted to spend a little time on if you’re not re down, you know, talking to them, giving them what they want, talking about their information, helping them out, they will gladly go somewhere else with someone who is, you know, if i have. A great experience of the restaurant every week for three years, and then all of a sudden, over time, i’m noticing less and less that restaurant’s doing less and less tio, take care of me, you know, and maybe management’s change, and i don’t feel that, you know, i’m ripe for being infected by another company. I’m right for someone else to come. So you know, peter, because if i tweet some like, wow can’t believe i have to wait forty minutes for a table that didn’t used to be like that. If if someone else a smart restaurant, they’re following me and they’re going great, you know peter’s no, wait, no way over here! Why don’t you come to black storms will give you free drink, you know, you know, and that right there that’s first sign of infection and i might become infected by another by another company become zombie little us for them and so let’s take you have a lot of good examples. Let’s, take a one on one situation. How can we start to cure that? The simple act of realizing following your customers, understanding when they’re not happy and fixing the situation before it? Escalates? You can contain a small outbreak. Small outbreaks well, viral outbreak. You can contain that by getting the right people. Finding out what the problem is. Getting him to one room, fixing their problem, healing them. You have a good united story right back. When was continental? I was a frequent flyer and booked a trip to paris on i was very angry because they charged me four hundred dollars and looking for you. I remember what it was and the i called the ceo. Just just for the hell of it. I’m like i’m going. I wrote a letter, an email this before social right friend wrote an email. The ceo like this ridiculous. I’m freaking fired-up falik thirty months later, my phone rings hello, peter, please hold for larry kellman, ceo of coming little and i’m like, oh, crap, you know? And i got your telephone he’s like peter hated misjudgment doing started letting these freezes their new way. We sent that note. I’m getting it and see it. We’re gonna weigh them for you but if you have any more problems, you know, feel free to call me and handup the phone the next forty minutes. What is staring at it like, holy crap, larry killed on the ceo of united airlines just called me and talk to me, and it was like, it was like, god coming down and say, you now have the power to levitate your cat. It was just ridiculous and so, you know, i have been faithful to continental on now united ever since on dh they continue to treat me with respect and do great things, and they’re they’re improving. They were getting a lot of crap over the past several years and that there really are starting to improve its nice to say, and not only, of course, your own loyalty, but you’re oh, my god, how zombie loyalist for them and how many times how much it’s, unquote fired-up latto bradrick attract so many friends to united? I’ve made so many friends. I mean, my father, you know, he only fleshing out it now, which means he only drag. He dragged my mom on the internet and i only drink my wife. You know, there’s a lot of lot of work that way we gotta go away for a couple of minutes when we come back. Of course. Peter and i’m going to keep talking about his book comes out in january. Zombie loyalists. Like what you’re hearing a non-profit radio tony’s got more on youtube, you’ll find clips from stand up comedy tv spots and exclusive interviews catch guests like seth gordon. 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You have some examples of zombie loyalist leaving and mass like dominoes netflix, they’re both they’re both in the book so it’s so one leaving, if you know if you know, start the cure one leaving, yeah, and then that’s the thing you know, the little expand beauty, the internet with the hashtag everything like that, you know, it doesn’t take a long time for those things to sort of blow up in your face and, you know, the other day everyone zoho twitter’s responsible for for us losing another. Now you’re responsible for you losing? Yeah, yeah, and if your product isn’t great and you’re your actions, don’t speak well of who you are, then there’s no reason your customers should stay with you, you know? And it was all social media is really hurting. I know you’re hurting yourself. The only difference is that social media makes it easier for the world to know. Yeah, they’re just telling the story. Dominoes and netflix are good example because they they bounce back, they took responsibility and yeah, they both owned dominoes came out and said, you know what? You’re right, our pizza and we do have a problem, we’re going to fix this, and they spin million’s, fixing it. And sure enough, they’re back with a vengeance. Now i may or may not even ordered the maroons in awhile, and i live in your city. That’s, that’s, a that’s, a sacrilege. But, you know, i have the app on my phone from oversea, no traveling, somewhere, being should boeing or whatever, and then you know what, do you get it? Eleven. Thirty at night, when you’re flakes, lady landed dahna. Which reminds me, i should go exercise flipside looked something like netflix. They they also were screwed up, you know, they were losing that trial switch between the two. They came up with a new name and it was so gross and public. Oh, man, again, you’re watching the same thing happen with uber right now seems to be really insane to see if they’re able to repair themselves. Listening is important, but both those both those two examples they’d listen to their customers think there’s a problem with listening because everyone’s been saying, listen, listen, listen, for months and years and years and years now, but you know, no one ever says that you have to do more than just listen, listen actually follow-up you know, it’s one thing to listen, you know, i used to love my wife, i could sit there and listen to her for hours, you know? But i don’t actually say anything back she’s just smack me, you know, and go to the other room, and so you really have to it’s a two way street, you know, listening is great, but i can’t respond and look, i think further, and i was like, oh, twitter so great, because someone was complaining on twitter and we went online, we we’ve saw the complaint that we fixed their problem in yes, how about if the problems exist in the first place? You know? Because the great thing about twitter is that, yeah, people complain on twitter the bad thing about it. Is there complaining about you on twitter so it’s like what if the problem didn’t exist in the first place? What if? What if you empowered your front desk clerk to fix the problem so that i didn’t have the tweet hurts is my favorite story of all this i used to rent from her it’s religiously and then i went teo phoenix sky harbor airport has past april and i gave it i was giving a speech and go on my name’s supposed be on the board, you know, second grade that car and it wasn’t okay. What happened? I’m going upstairs. I weighed forty minutes on the vp line. After forty minutes they finally say, you know, there’s a on ly one guy here a lot of people might have better chance we go in the regular line. Okay? Probably told us. That a little earlier in the regular spend forty five minutes waiting. The regular line it’s now been are you tweeting while this is happening? Well, i had to know. I was actually not only tweeting. I don’t have to. Tikrit a mim that should give you some idea of how long i was online with myself on those offgrid enough. That means i get to the counter. I can help you. Yeah, i was downstairs. The vp doesn’t tell me. Oh, you, via preservation is upstairs, like yeah. Ok. Let’s, let’s put a pin in that. They just sent me up here. Like, right. They have to help you. Well, it’s. Not really. They you guys for the same company. I mean, i could see the reservation on the screen. You you can help me. Sorry, sir. I can’t help. You have to go to the next. Like you just next to me. Okay. So if you know anything about sky harbor airport in phoenix, all of the rental car coming through on the same place. Yeah. So i walked fifty feet. It’s a bus takes you to the big bang. A civilian where they’re all next week. I walked fifty feet from the sensible of filth in depravity that was hurts to thee. Wonderful zen garden of tranquility that was avis. And in four minutes i had a nicer, cheaper, more nicer, less expensive car given to a woman named phyllis, who was sixty six and moved to phoenix from detroit with her husband for his asthma. I knew this because she told me she smiled at me. She brought her manager out and said that’s, another refugee from hertz. And i said, this happens a lot there like, yep, i’m like, wow, you think they have done something about that? And so on the way out in avis, i thank them. I walk past her. So i shoot on this, you know, sort of. Look at the look of the beast. I get my avis carnage at my hotel. Wanted to tel i write a wonderful block post about my experience called peter, and hurts in the terrible, horrible. Nobody could really bad customer experience. You have a kid, you find out we’re writing titles about your blood post that have to do with kids books. I do not like hurts, sam. I am and and i included in this block post. The five things i’d rather do than ever rent from hurts again. I think number three was was, ah, ride a razor blade, bust through a lemon juice waterfall. With just, you know, and it’s a bit, but of course, the next day hurts reaches out to me. Oh, miss jay manuel, this is ahead of north american customer service. I saw your butt! I’m like like, you know we’d love to, but make no like you’re not going to fix the problem. Number one sametz david’s car i’m never going back to her number two through a five people yesterday, five people interacted with all of whom had the chance to save me and keep me is a customer for life, a customer who have been so happy and i would have loved you five people blew it, so don’t waste your time trying to convert me back. You’re not going to know what you want to do is spend some of that energy retraining your staff to have empathy and to give them the ability and the empowerment to fix my problem when it happens, because five people, it takes every single employee to keep her company running. It takes one to kill it. Yeah, p s avis reached out to thank me personally. And i am now just this ridiculously huge loyal fan of avis and always will be. You have a pretty touching story, but when you worked in a yogurt shop, you’re really yung wei have a couple of minutes tell it tell it could stay that was in the east side, which again is yet another reason why i live on the west side. Nothing good ever happens in manhattan’s east side, so i was i was working and i can’t believe it’s yogurt, which was a store that i think back in the i c b y no, no t c b y was the country’s best yogurt the countries i c b i why was a poor i can’t believe that you can’t believe is that your family was yogurt was a poor attempt to capitalize on his teamviewer working in this store, and i go in every day and make thee over to clean the floors. I do, you know, a typical high school job, and it was during the summer and houses people walking by things like second avenue or something. And there were these brass poles that hyung from you know there was awning, right that’s elearning that there, and then the brass poles that held the awning. Up and they were dirty as hell, right? I’m sure they’ve never been polished ever. And i found i found some brass polish in the back with all the beer in the back and went after anyone outside. And i’m positive polishing the polls. My logic was, if the polls are shiny, people saw them, maybe they come in the store, maybe they’d want toe, you know, buy more screenplays and the manager came out, what the hell you doing? Told him what i thought i’ll pay you to think inside, you know, like there’s. No customers in there. Okay, i’ll make sure the yogurts schnoll pumping it full blast and i quit. I just quit that job. I mean, like, i couldn’t even begin to understand why someone would invest. I mean, t own a franchise. Bring fifty grand to at least to buy that franchise. Why wouldn’t he invest in the two seconds it took a little elbow grease to make the police claim that might bring in more customers? What the hell, you know, but you’re not paid to think you’re not paid to think my favorite line. Yeah, i just i i encouraged if any kids listening. Those teenagers. If you. If you boss says that to you, quit quit, i will hire you. Just quit it. Probably worse thing in the world that you could possibly do, because you have customers who you have customers who every day could be helped by people who are paid to think and that’s the ones you want. Hyre we gotta wrap up, tell me what you love about the work you do. I get paid to talk. I mean, my god is the same stuff i used to get in trouble for in high school, but on a bigger picture, what i really love about it is being able to open someone’s eyes and haven’t come back to me. 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When are these appropriate for your events? Do you need professional help? How do you create drama? And when do you get paid? Neill Bogan is director of development and communications at New York Common Pantry. Tracey Drayer is executive vice president for Nassau Region of Hadassah. And Yolanda Johnson is development manager at Princess Grace Foundation-USA.

 

 

 

 

 

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Yeah. Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host geneva community radio welcome in upstate new york, they’re on the northern tip of seneca lake, one of the finger lakes in new york state. So glad to have geneva community radio as our newest affiliate welcome and i’m glad you’re with me. I’d suffer the embarrassment of period in sign of itis if news leaked out that you missed today’s show auction’s, raffles and cash calls, when are these appropriate for your events? Do they need professional? Do you need professional help? How do you create drama? And when do you get paid from fund-raising day twenty fourteen, i was with neil bogan, tracy dreyer and yolanda johnson, and yes, my voice just cracked like i’m a fourteen year old. Also social appreciation well, look att social engagement for member appreciation or maybe your donor appreciation campaign that doesn’t include an ask amy sample ward is our social media contributor and ceo of n ten, the non-profit technology network between the guests on tony’s take two, no more rock star consultants. We’re sponsored by generosity, siri’s they host multi charity five k runs and walks here is my conversation on auction’s, raffles and cash calls from fund-raising day twenty fourteen earlier this year welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand fourteen. We are at the marriott marquis hotel. Thriving new york city times square with me now are neil bogan, tracy dreyer and yolanda did johnson there? Seminar topic is auctions and raffles and cash calls. Oh, my way. Talk about maximizing revenue at your events. Seated well, he’s, the only gentleman on the panel. So you know that he’s seated next to me is neil bogan is director, development and communications at new york common country. Then we have tracy dreyer. She is executive vice president at nasa region of casa. And then yolanda johnson, who is development manager for the princess grace foundation. Neil tracy. Yolanda. Welcome. Thank you very much. I was using i was a quarrel. Could be jingle singers. This is wonderful. Okay? We’re trying to maximize revenue at our events. Let’s, start in the foreign there. You’ll wonder what what are what do you feel that non-profits are not getting right at events that they could. Be could be better at well, i think that the particular area that i’m covering within our session is auctions silent and live auctions, and i think that what non-profits can probably do a little bit better is think more strategically regarding auctions and their audience do the analysis to know who’s going to be in the room and just tell you what you khun selling, how you can sell it. Um and i think as faras live auctions are concerned, really making the determination of what will work, you don’t always do a live auction, you know, when they fail, they fail publicly when they’re successful, they’re very successful public, so you’ll be able to talk us through how you know when you should do whether you should do one. Yes. Okay, okay. Tracy, what do you want to you’re part of of actions and raffles and cash calls all by my part is rapid, and the important point with rappels is that it should be considered an integral part of the entire event, not just in ad on at the end. So planning for the raffle, especially for a large ticket event, needs to begin at the same time planning for the event begins because gathering enough prizes tohave event, a raffle that looks interesting and exciting to bid on or to put in your tickets or buy more tickets, increase the number i think it’s you were planning to buy because the prizes look good is very important. Tio tio gather a lot of prizes and that can take a lot of time. Okay, neal, i presume cash calls is that your expertise exactly cash calls are a great way to provide the right kind of opportunities for your audience to give if you feel that the cash call is right for for who your audience is and what? What your organization which cultures? Okay, let’s, let’s stick with cash calls neil, what is akash call it makes everybody understand what we’re talking about. Cash schnoll is a variation of a live auction that depends on the skills on dh, maybe charisma of your auctioneer and the messaging of your organization. But rather than selling on object or an opportunity, you are offering opportunities to give what does this sound like? What is the person say kickoff akash call they’ll say thanks for being here to support. The new york common pantry, about which served forty five thousand new yorkers last year with almost three million meals and to start off five thousand dollars, will provide groceries for five families of four for an entire year. And now here she is saying this to the entire audience of the entire audio and go ahead. So now we know it’s it’s, almost always the culmination of a benefit or a dinner of another fund-raising sametz come in the end. So it’s been, everything has been prepared, everything you’ve done is leading up to this cash call on. In some ways, if you feel a casual is right for you, you’re home giving program your whole development program leads up to this moment because for some people it’s when when they want it, okay, but before we get to the context, i wantto make sure people understand what it is we’re talking about. So what are people now inspired to do? Five thousand dollars could do this. What people literally raised their hand if you’re doing it manually, let these days there are processes where you could do this almost entirely digitally, although a live auctioneer will usually still just worked with raising hand and you’re committing to five thousand dollars. You’re committing to five thousand dollars and someone will come to you immediately to confirm that in our case, we use simply a preprinted card. We have volunteers spotted around the room, just like spotted us at any auction. They come right away. Come on, get your information. Hopefully a check or a credit card number. Oh, really? Right then. This is not a pledge for within the next six weeks it can be, but the best way to cover it on our experiences. Treyz lorts credit card person is enthusiastic there. They made their public commitment and they’re ready. So so do we. Take them away from their table and no move to the side of your arse. Wipe with our swiper. No way with a hand held on a little square was swiping right there yet. Or even just write the number down on a on a traditional okay paper card. Okay, so and this comes more at the end of an evening. Yes. In our case, the messaging has built through a whole program. We have honorees. People have spoken about our organization. We capped. That with a short video that really tries to show the impact that we can have for people who need food support on show how we can make things better with these folks on dh provide some of the emotional contacts and then videos over the auctioneer steps out and begins against okay. Now, this cash call is one amount, or where we get a bunch of people with five thousand and then we’re not going up to ten thousand way we do it is we actually we start high and work down. Okay, come on. We always have abid arrange three positions. There’s no dollar amount that goes unanswered. That that’s right way. Find that if you get the top couple of prearranged lower winds will take care of themselves. Okay? Spirit is hitting a room and okay, where does the common pantry start? What dollar amount? We started at five thousand dollars. Okay. Believe one year back on your first started. Ten weii brought it. We brought it to you learning and other charities. The first cash call, maybe five hundred. I mean, i’m standing on the side of charity that wear with all of your donors. We i think all three of you say you need to know whether it’s, whether each of these is appropriate in your organization, not only weather, but how five thousand starting in five thousand, somebody else might start in one thousand, right? That’s right where they might decide that this is not really not the way that they’re okay. And why might that be? Why my cash now? The zoho pure listen, because these are all good questions for you, too. How do we know when whether, how to? Forty martignetti non-profit radio details so people can execute or or follow-up with you and just fill in a couple of missing gaps that maybe we didn’t think of together? I would say in our case our board and benefit committee are very attuned to who there who their audiences to who our community of supporters is way have some provisions and really, you know, people ask people, would you do? Akash called, i believe before the first time we ever did it, we got a positive response, okay? It worked on we’ve been able to build on okay, so if you can preposition some people at the right dollar amount, maybe it’s worth doing that that’s, right? If and of course it does depend on in general, let e-giving level on the capability of your audience on your supporters. There may be a different type of event that it isn’t the right tone for their questions of tone and taste, but it we are event is i’m not too formal, it’s it’s, really, you know, trying to be aboutthe impact. The organization has so it’s, all right, it’s, the right tone for us, okay, alright, neil, what will come back your work, by the way, you’re welcome, teo, contribute to him, and i didn’t mean to actually dahna silo you, yolanda, if you had come on time, monisha you want camera, so he you’re probably better off because you were going to the hot seat. You’re going. I was gonna position you here. I’m glad i came down for coffee and realized that was early. You got stuck, right? Okay, so you want to go? You want teo, think about staying closer to you. I didn’t want to add one thing about courage calls. And that is, we had a very successful one that the end of our awards gala last year thinking very strategically towards a big, even if you have something different that’s coming up. Our gala is usually in new york city. It’s going to be in beverly hills this year. And so we said, we’re going to beverly hills, who wants to buy the first ground level table of fifty thousand dollars? And we got a taker. And he said he wants to buy a silver table. A twenty five thousand dollars. And we sold eight in about five minutes. So when you have something exciting and new and different, i think that’s also a great opportunity for cash. You’re tuned to non-profit radio. Tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights, published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding, mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation. Really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder, am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals the better way. You you don’t mind, tracy. We’re not a couple. We’re definitely will definitely get to the auction’s. Short shrift, the auction’s around. Sorry, we’re doing auction. I’m sorry. Go ahead, yolanda. You’re the first person who said you have to decide whether it makes sense to have an auction. How do you know? Well, i think that you have tio determine who’s going to be in the room. So the affluence e of the people there the intro it’s of the people there in accordance with what all items you have to offer. I have done in death analyses of our donors and what they like and those of the items that i go after. And then i know that i can sell them when those people are in the room. There’s no use in having things that are random for your demographic. So are people love travel. They love beauty treatments. You know, in certain things there’s certain things that they like. They like like that, they like to dine out. And they also like things that are mission centric, so unique opportunities with our artists. We support emerging artists in theater, dance and film at that emerging staged toe where? You know tony kushner wanted princess grace award in eighty four and look at what he did. So they love those unique experiences to be around the artists. So you need to know your no your constituents. You need to know your constituents getting to know you need to do an analysis of how much they have paid in the past. What you really think they will pay? This’s a very calculated things were just going out soliciting a villa here, or or i don’t know a car rental their you know, whatever you can get is not being particularly teacher. I don’t think so. Now there are times when you can get things. Because i also believe in packaging. You know, you have one thing that maybe, quote unquote random for your for your audience that you take something else that goes along with it that they love. And that creates a package that will still want to buy that. Do you do this on auction? Just once a year at a major gala? No, we do auctions just about every event. Okay, always with a professional auctioneer. Only with an auctioneer. If it’s a live auction. So we only do a live auction when it when we have items that are live, auction worthy, okay and what’s the other type of auction, silent auctions and online options. Okay, so silent auctions that’s where people are dropping their little tickets into no, no silent auctions where you walk up, you know, like we’d be in this room and then you have the bed sheets on the table and you have something displayed there showing you what auction the auction item is and you sign up for it. People competing, they wait around the aino labbate each other what they do, they stand around looking to see who signed up after they really will do that. Ok, ok. That’s. A silent auction? Yes. And then the online version online version, which really is very interesting, because then you have a global audience. You know, my organization, it’s, the princess grace foundation yusa. But we also have constituents in europe, so that gives them an opportunity to participate. So let’s say a little more about the live auction. Now, you said not always with an auctioneer. Oh, yes, always within our woobox naralo okay. What’s the value that the live auctioneer brings over having someone from the organization do it let’s make this clear. I’ve done it both ways. I would say that if you have someone who’s, extremely charismatic and has the experience to do it and has the report within the organization go for it, have a boardmember someone like that who’s, very charismatic, you’re live auctioneer weinger but for the most part, i would recommend having a professional auctioneer, we tend to use people from the professional auction houses who and, you know, it depends on the audience that evening. Sometimes you want someone old guard and then other times you want someone who is a little more hip. We’ve used people from paddle eight, you know, very, very hip and young, and we’ve used people from christie’s and sotheby’s, so it really runs the gamut according to what you have. Ok, i assume battle it is an auction house, it is three i’ve not heard of. Okay, well, enlighten us something else about auctions that we haven’t mentioned yet about so let’s focus on so we can start with why and a little bit about how but what else? What? Else would you like to share? You’re going? I think i would like to share that non-profits should be very weii already talked about strategy, but they should be careful in protecting themselves as faras auctions are concerned. Sometimes people don’t think all the way through, you know, the paperwork of an auction i arrest standards, you know, making sure that you have back-up for values, making sure that you have actual donation forms or emails and type of paper trail on file because things can come up later, you know that you want to make sure you’ve got all your ducks in a row. What happens after someone wins an item? The auctioneer is given the item to that person what’s the next next step where they just a runner come the way neil was describing come over to them or yes, we have. I like to build drama with my live auctions, so sure. Oh, look at this she’s lighting up your life. You’ve been lighting up since you got here. Really? But now even more. Yes, sir. Share the drama in the live auction. So one two things you khun dio i’m giving away secrets here, so there you go, everybody. But you always have to have a person in the house who’s going to buy the item, okay? And then you can have someone else is going to try to outbid them just to keep the drama go. Both of those predetermined? Yeah, you figured out this’s always a lot of behind the way you need to show you the show. So i’ve got i’ve had one person in the audience once before, and we knew that he was going to bid up to one hundred thousand dollars for this item. You had explicitly asked him to do this. And we told him you can stop there because after their, you know, you’re gonna have to buy it. Okay, thie other person was we had someone on the phone who we knew wanted it very badly. So we knew strategically we could get that person to go to one hundred grand. They kept outbidding each other. It got the excitement. People were yelling in the room. Everybody was looking around and then the person on the phone one. But we’ve got to up the ante because we have the other person in the room who was going toe to keep it going. Now that khun go rogue. I’m not a person who did not have the money did she kept going and it was just like, wait because it’s out of your control that that happens. But it all turned out. All all ended. Well, she got a little too busy as well, but okay, but it ended. It ended. Fine. Yeah. On dh then the other thing that you can do to build that sort of drama and the room is to ask ahead of time if your top item can be donated twice and then it winds, you know, someone bids on it and they win it and you’re like, oh, my god, the auctioneer says this is such an amazing item and it went once oh, my gosh! Wait. What’s this okay, they’re coming over to meet. They’re going to give it again. We’re going to have tuesdays at their bill and you know, and so then people go insane and you sell two. Outstanding. Alright, so there’s. A lot of choreography. Yes. Goes into these indeed in advance. Okay. Excellent. All right, tracy. Well, can i first make a comment about you? And you may not know, but there’s a booth over there on the other side of this room where they do silent auctions on your phone so you pay them for the service, and instead of going to the traditional clipboard and writing down, you know, how much of it is you put it on you pick the ones you wanna bid on, and then if you’re outbid, they send you a message so you can keep bidding, so because more game on your phone, you can still work the room. You don’t stand next to your item, you could be having a drink with your friends on the other side room and not i forgot to go back that you will run over, right? Everybody runs over to check out what’s going on in something, make sure you’re still okay. Even got the apples don’t want to see you. I want a visual visual confirmation, ok? Yes. So, tracy, with raffles. How do we know whether we should be doing a raffle at an event? You should be doing a raffle event no matter the level of the event you could, of course, charge less for tickets if it’s. A smaller event. So add a basic meeting. We may hold a raffle and the tickets would be one for five three for ten, seven. Twenty oh, and you just got you know if you don’t have items. If you haven’t got them donated, you might just go out and buy some some nice items and people have lower expectations for the price. But at our larger event of the year, we will charge raffles at five for one hundred three, three and one grand prize for one hundred euro hyre level. So of course they anticipate that the prizes will be of more substantial value. So as i said, the raffle work begins as you start planning the event so it’s really two phases. First you have to collect the prizes so you have to go out and use all your contacts. And in a given community they could have an endless number of organizations coming to them appealing for a prize. So you have to do something to differentiate yourself or you have to have contact at a at the store. It’s best to send in a good shopper to be the one to ask for a raffle. Prize to be given, yolanda is nodding shops shopping skills are important here. Yes, indeed on. And also now, if you go to a store that’s part of a chain oftentimes it’s not that store that you walk into that can give the price, i have to go back to corporate headquarters. So then you need the manager or someone in the store to be your advocate and actually write a letter to headquarters and say, this organization deserved the price. So it’s really quite time consuming, and you want to gather prizes, and sometimes even if i’m the letter to the potential donors, it says we won a prize value of one hundred fifty or two hundred fifty dollars, they give you something that doesn’t achieve that level. So you might want to put together a basket of smaller items so that it looks more substantial. So so that’s your pre event work of really collecting the raffles and wrapping them in a beautiful way, right? Because we’re displaying these at the meeting or the event, right, everything is on is on display. So you want the look of it to be something that stimulates the purchase of the ticket so as soon as the person now now we’re at the event, and as soon as the person walks in and gets to the registration table and comes to get their names head, they’re asked if they want to purchase raffles so and what we often do at a fancier event is in the envelope with their registration ticket. We print out their names on stickers, sort of like the ones you receive from the post to put on return address, but just their name so it’s a little fancy or looking at everyone elearning princessa xero princessa reprinted we know who’s coming so we know who’s coming in an envelope, they may not use them, but we’ll give them say, twenty stickers will be very optimistic on when they go in there. They’re just fixing them to the raffle ticket instead of, you know, student with pen and leaning up. So that sets the tone of the event also it’s a little fancy. I have to interrupt nufer secretary what about something that doesn’t look so sexy? Like its a rental of villa or something but person’s giving you like a certificate? So, you know, and you all you have is an envelope. Well, this one wouldn’t go into a lovely gift bag or it can be put in cellophane and wrapped with ribbon, or or something like that. It doesn’t have to be the item it and as long as there’s a description and and at a table of, say, thirty five raffles, you could also have a list of all the raffles, and it explains what his item one is this too and so forth so the people can choose so there are a couple different types of right? Well, there are many different types of apples, but the two main that we use is as you put your name on the ticket, you can put it in a large receptacle and then i don’t want pull the first ticket item person number one gets it and so thie other way is to wrap each item’s. Watch the watch, the infrastructure here you almost made like an earthquake. What your elbow there knowing my own strength very fragile. Option two is to display each item wrapped beautifully and put a identify which number it is and have a separate receptacle in front of each item, so then the person could take their tickets, and if they like item number two best, they can put all the tickets. Is that preferred? Because then people know what they’re bidding on versus beavers of being random. It depends. It really depends. So i would think that my personal business that that i would prefer that because i don’t want to put in for i don’t want to win a raffle that’s, you know, sixty miles away from my house for nothing, but i have a friend at a recent event. We switch to that method, which we haven’t done it at our particular event, and she happens to buy a lot of raffle tickets and typically, she wins this year she did not win, and she was a little frustrated because when you put in the big one, big pot and you, you know, ten percent of the pot, right, you’re probably gonna be picked, but in a little receptacle, if you spill it, split your stuff out so she personally felt it wasn’t good, but most people really enjoyed it, and our gift wrapper takes great pride and how beautifully she wraps, and that adds to the whole. Piece and then you can spend more time. So if your cocktail hours truly an hour and you know how much can you drink or eat there, you walk around with your friend to discuss the items. Where should i put my peace on that? And also instead of just selling raffles at the front door, you also have someone selling raffles right at that table. Because if someone sees something that they really want to win, they might buy more raffles and increase their odds of winning are putting more into that individual. Recep, buy more right there at the table, right. Ok, so there are many other types with those of the two main that i’m familiar weapon and i would say, and then there’s also grant prize raffle. So sometimes you have a few raffle items, prize items that are well above the other level. So you call that a grand price so you might sell grand prize tickets for two for one hundred or as i said before, one hundred dollars each of three regular and one grant so that’s a separate drawing. So what we have started to do is when you have thirty five. Prizes to draw if you’d spend online time with your audience just drawing name after name, it wastes a lot of time so weii draw the prizes outside the room and then we deliver them. We run around the room delivering them to people so it’s very exciting drama people coming so, like last year was delivering a big item. I walk over to the table and everyone’s looking at, you know, oh, who’s the winner when we hand it to the person gets very exciting like that. But then the grand prize, you always drop publicly because that builds up a little excitement there, okay? Anything anybody wants to add either if you want to add on the raffle side, you still have a couple of minutes together. Did you want to just speak to? I’m big on the back and this year about the paperwork involved in different things with apple? Thank you. Yes, you should before raffles or anything as i’m sure you need to check with the gaming local gave the new york state gaming commission and see what then kind of you need a permit, then from your local municipality as well? Non-profits don’t always do so? They definitely don’t always do it. But it’s, they should be doing that’s between you and your accountant. Nobody listens to this show anyway don’t work, but that will never be heard. That’s really? I mean, even at a p t a level we had to do that we had to go for the gaming license and the minister, and then there’s also tax regulation depending on the value of the prize. And then there’s also an affidavit that you can have someone signed a waiver for the organization that you know what the price falls apart afterwards. You don’t them coming back after the organization so they can sign a waiver as they receive the prize. And that protects you your london you had mentioned earlier to the you didn’t say the qualified appraisal, but that’s what you meant the mixture you have documentation for the value of the prize for the value of the prize and just from our own experiences, i’ve developed several it’s, not a paperwork burden, but we’re very well protected from both perspectives from if you give us something, it becomes our property is not something you can never get back once. You donated to us and it may or may not be. It’ll be used at that event if it doesn’t sell it, that even we’ll try it at a different even. But you cannot have it back. Excellent. Good to know that policy. Yeah, wanna implement it way took a lot of time to get it to solicit it. It’s ours is ours. And if it doesn’t go this time, we’re gonna we’re gonna hold it right. Always keeping a good relationship with that donor. But being up front that we really believe in our partnership and we want to take this item we know will sell it to somebody if it doesn’t happen at this. Okay, i think you had mentioned that sometimes your donor’s tried to set the level that you should be able to get for it, like they say, the minimum bid. But we like to avoid that. You know, i’m just saying, oh, yeah, i know you said you had an item one, so i still have it. Don’t let donors minimum it’s actually their prerogative to do so? I mean, they’re giving it to you, but if you can at all avoid it, try to because some places everyone, you know, if you’re giving something of your own and you’re going to set a high value, its worth a lot to you, but it may not sell in the room, you know? We know what will sell their different inflections with different items and better as a bargain, then as a top in-kind anything, neil, i’ll give you the last words way hadn’t heard from you for a while. Well, there’s follow-up for about thirty seconds, ok, obviously taking too long, you’ve got be secure. You gotta know, let each of your donations or pledges is that you’ve got documentation for each one or the actual payment you’ve got tio secure them in a fairly hectic environment. Then get back to your shop and record them and acknowledge them right away. Just like any other donation. Okay, treyz e-giving last word. Okay, one last thing neil had mentioned before that you take credit card numbers, you take credit cards and sometimes you scan and sometimes you just write it down way had an incident with someone about two hundred dollars worth of raffle prizes on. We didn’t scan at that point, we just wrote down the numbers, went back to the office, he just they didn’t win. They disputed the charges for seeing the raffles and we lost out thatwe had we had our terror, even the even the old fashioned hoops. Swiper, even your fashions white, the old sorry that you ever really went over the side. But that’s something. We’re now very cautious because of this one incident. I feel bad you longer you want to. You want to wrap up anything you want, teo? No, just thank you so much for having us. Opportunity. You’re welcome. Thank you for your mentor. I you know, i was just i don’t want it. Thank you very much. That is neil bogan and tracy dreyer. And you latto johnson. Thank you so much. Thank you, tony. My pleasure. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Listening to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand fourteen let’s do podcast pleasantries sending these out. Especially too. Katie reed levin she’s listening at simon’s rock the early college in great barrington, massachusetts, also christine to marco. 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Yeah, well, you may have heard the west coast had a bit of a storm last night with lots of power outages, so just dealing with getting everything back online. Sorry, that’s okay? I did not hear that i’m sorry that you had was this you don’t get snow, they’re important in oregon very much it was not. No, it was actually very warm and, um, you know, wind gusts seventy or ninety, some crazy high speed, actually a piece of building downtown just a few blocks from the intent office blew off and crashed through the fifteenth floor windows of a law office while the lawyer was working there? Oh, no. It was a very interesting evening. Pieces of a piece of a building flew off. My god, yeah, i’m doing unfortunate. Very unfortunate for that building owner that it flew into a law office right there. Prepared thing, actually, that only you know, that broken building is screwed. Okay, now i understand you’re you’re you know you’re like, like all the contributors, your typically early, not even just on time. So i understand completely. Let me ask you about something before we get to our appreciation campaigns and it’s. Just like in the past four months, i noticed at facebook they spun off their messenger handup and at four square they spun off. They’re a nap called swarm, and i’m wondering why why it is that thesis you two huge social sites would spin off two separate aps big chunks of what draws people to them. The facebook it’s, the messages message sorry messaging and it’s a four square the whole purpose of four square is checking in and they spun that checking function off teo a separate app called swarm why do they do those things? I have a few different ideas. Probably none of them have any, you know, piece of reality in them, they’re just totally my own experience trust your way, trust your judgment. I mean, i do think that one piece that factors in is the, you know, we’re all we’re using different apse all the time, and if i am using facebook to connect and i’m able to kind of, um, multitask inside of their consent messages, i can post things, whatever, and then i leave facebook and i go to some other messaging out to talk to friends. You know, facebook just had fifty percent of my time, but if i’m using facebook to do that, i close facebook and then i opened my messenger app and start messaging people there. Now facebook has one hundred percent of my time in that example, you know, so it’s providing a way for the app to be is nishi and focused as possible, but then still own the other nation focused parts that you know you want to do. So instead of having that all in one super multitask kind of ap experience, you’re splitting that off into ap, and part of that, too, is that you know, facebook is more of an example of this than four, square, but a lot of facebook users in the beginning were all using facebook on their computer where was a lot easier to kind of multitask. Have a chat, you know, send someone a message post on your news feed. Never. Well, now, you know, most people are using facebook on their phone, so it’s it’s much more difficulty to be multitasking inside of a nap. So again, you have multiple app that are all technically rolling up into the same umbrella. So it’s easier from the user’s perspective, i don’t have to import all those new contacts in new app still facebook, but it’s focused on what i’m doing there, okay, that one thing, and then you always have to factor in like, well, how are they? How are they monetizing those ap? What of the ads? What are they selling? What’s the data they’re able to capture? And if you have multiple app that are more focused and maybe have different different data pieces that air getting pulled in than that even more opportunity, i see. Okay? And that the one thing that doesn’t resonate with me eyes the ease of use of the ap facebook act it’s. A little it’s. A little busy. So i could say i see that spinning. Okay, see, that is a good reason, but okay, monetization. Tio, andi. Just time, time, time that they want you paying attention to their they’re brand okay, yeah. I mean, if you want to think about the four square example, i mean, when we first started using foursquare, it was you could check in somewhere. I am here. You know, you could see where your friends were, and then they really started in encouraging users to leave tips and post recommendations. And then they rolled out some features that were trying to see where you were and then ping you and say, hey, is this where you are? What if you do this thing here, you know, and have offers and promotions? So it became came. It became a little busy, right? So it made sense to spin off that other piece that’s more the recommendations and the where to go and where your favorite places. Because now that’s almost like competing with yelp. You know what? Give them a second app that’s more in competition with maybe at those shooters are already, you know, have installed on their phones on buy-in system apart a bit from that. Okay, cool. Thank you. Thank you for those insights. I find myself actually checking in a lot fewer a lot less often. Now with the separate swarm app. That’s that’s me. I don’t know. I have no idea what the statistics are, but i just, you know, i don’t feel like i haven’t even used it since that which happened interesting. I mean, i had a very boring foursquare news feed in which i only checked in an airport, so i didn’t only used to only see you at airports that’s, right? I just thought you were just there all the time. Okay? Yes. Well, it was a way of saying, hi, i’ve come to new york, was around or i’ve come tto wherever, but all right, thank you. Let’s talk about appreciating our donors and maybe and volunteers and maybe even employees through through the social networks. We don’t always have to be asking for something, right? I don’t think that we have to be asking for something. And i also think that really great. Ah, really great. Thank you. A really great sign of appreciation will be met with eagerness to give again or to volunteer again or two, you know, come again, wherever it was that you were an event, etcetera. So i think, you know, i have worked with people and organizations where it felt like if we’re not including an ask, you know, we can’t necessarily devote the staff time and energy to put on appeal together on dh, you know, i get that if you’re really strapped, there’s only three of us, you know, we have to make this happen, but i really think that taking that time t just say thank you really goes so much further in building that relationship, which we want to talk about fund-raising a special, especially individual fund-raising that’s really that’s really the peace, right, it’s building that relationship? No, i don’t know that you could sure maybe you don’t mail, but something outside of the hard cost of mail and all those thank you letters, you know, but i think there’s got to be a way, especially with social media, where it can be so much more quick and nimble to say thank you and make it feel. Really good. So maybe for twenty fifteen, we can plan an appreciation campaign. Yeah, let’s do it. Okay. And you have a bunch of examples. We’ll get to talk about some of the examples. Okay, but what? You know, this is true of probably any campaign that were we’ve talked about in the past, but what do you think we should be thinking about as we plan our let’s make it what is most likely a donor volunteer appreciation campaign. What should we what do we have in mind? So one thing that i think we need to have in mind is the timing of when we say thank you. I think often we always think, okay, well, we’re going to ask people for money. It’s december. Right now, you know, say, everybody’s got their end of your appeals, and then when someone donates and it goes into the database, they get their confirmation email and it says, thank you, and we made sure that it was a really nice thank you letter, but it’s a confirmation email and it says thank you, and we feel great because they got thanked. I also think there’s a lot of opportunity to have said thank you before that ask went out if we if it’s december it’s the end of the calendar year, right, what if november or even that very beginning of december is when you make sure everybody that already donated, donated in the year or maybe donated last december or volunteered so far this year came to one of your events this year? Whatever it is, that’s important to you is a monthly member, whatever they get thanked for what they’ve already done. So when they received that end of year asked, they feel like, oh, i’ve already been recognized, maybe i do want to give a little bit more or maybe i do want to come to the end of your, you know, gala, whatever it is, i think that that’s really important and some thing i don’t often see organizations do say thank you. First on dh then that people up for that ask later. Yeah, you get them feeling very good when the actors come that’s really interesting. All right, we’re gonna go out for ah, quick break and we may end up dividing this into two to conversation since we got a little short and i you know, i had extra question for you, but we’ll get through. Well, well, well, great, certainly nobody’s going to be short changed on non-profit radio. It just is not gonna happen. Okay, all right, we got to go away for a few minutes, stay with us. Like what you’re hearing a non-profit radio tony’s got more on youtube, you’ll find clips from stand up comedy tv spots and exclusive interviews catch guests like seth gordon, craig newmark, the founder of craigslist marquis of eco enterprises, charles best from donors choose dot org’s aria finger do something that worked and they only levine from new york universities heimans center on philantech tony tweets to he finds the best content from the most knowledgeable, interesting people in and around non-profits to share on his stream. 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To sign up, visit the facebook page for tony martignetti dot com. I’m rob mitchell, ceo of atlas, of giving. And you’re listening to tony martignetti non-profit radio. Big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I like the drama in rob mitchell’s voice. Thank you, rob mitchell s amore live listen love quick woodbridge in new jersey i love all the new jersey red fort lee woodbridge let’s go abroad croatia sorry, we can’t see your city i have a friend who works for unicef in croatia, ireland, turkey and vietnam. Vietnam we can see you cities kanto and hoochie minh city live listen, love out to each of you. Okay, let let’s continue thinking about are, uh, a campaign of appreciation. Uh, something that we’re always emphasizing together because you make me pay attention to it is you’re going to have to do this in the channels where your donors and volunteers are not in the channel where you would prefer to be thanking them exactly. And i think i think part of that is, um, uh, struggle and an opportunity so there’s the, you know, if we see just using that as an example, if we see people are tweeting about their local tech club and they’re an organizer, so they’re, you know, big volunteer for us, we want to jump right into twitter and start engaging with them and thanking them, and pointing people to them and, you know, doing whatever, but then we also want to find ways there. We leave that channel to make something private just for them, i think there’s that thank you and recognition that’s public. But for example, last week, everybody on staff sat together and just passed cards and everybody wrote thank you cards and signed everybody else’s thank you cards and mailed those out to aa group of, um what we call community champions, you know, really, really great volunteers for us. And it didn’t take that long, but everybody physically wrote, you know, out that card and we never mail things too. You know, we don’t ever male things were a technology organization. So when those folks received the cars at the end of last week, we started getting emails are like, oh, my gosh, you mean, how did you even have my address? You mailed me a card. This is so cool. Thank you for thinking of me. So i think there is that in the moment go into the same channel. That person is and thank them and engage with them. But then find something that can be special. That’s just between you and that donor or that volunteer or whatever that makes them feel extra special, excellent, excellent videos are very common as as an appreciation method, you could do them and mass, and you could do them, maybe even individually who, which i think i think what most difficulty when we think about video is one of the most often pointed two examples of how to do a thank you to your donors that i see in block post every year is charity water and how they, you know, record all these different videos so that, you know, if i donated, i opened up my email oh, my gosh, here’s a video where someone is saying, you know, hi, amy, thank you for donating, and i’m like, oh my gosh, they made this just for me, we, you know, most non-profits do not have the staff capacity to do that, or if we’re going to be really honest, maybe don’t necessarily feel like they have the technical skills to create lots of videos and edit them and feel like they know howto get them up quickly on youtube and embed them in an e mail and send them out. You know, so i think that video khun b, really personal, but i really think organizations should consider video something that can be personal because they’re being really authentic and they’re being their individual selves versus you’ve created separate videos for every single donor that makes sense. I mean, i think it’s a non opportunity for staff, whether it’s executive director, other staff to just not feel like it has to be a high production video that it’s really just me sitting at my desk, if you, you know, you sitting in the studio creating a quick, very authentic video that says thank you, and you can share that either an email or, you know, share that video on twitter, whatever that is, but i think it’s better that it that it’s really authentic as it’s created versus feeling obligated to create, you know, tons of videos just so that it has people’s names in it that makes them for sure, because you’re saying that something that’s, authentic, genuine, heartfelt will will come across and people are people don’t really expect to have a personalized video made for organization that could do that, you know, that is terrific, but the vast majority cannot, but everybody could be genuine, you know? I mean, i tried to come across genuine on a mic and video, and a ceo can do the same thing, and and you’re right, and staff to you, you have examples of each of those thie all right, the ceo of girls inc has a very nice, very thoughtful video judy reading berg and it’s just her sitting in an office and it’s like a minute nap video and she’s very genuine. Yeah, i actually i’ve talked do a lot of people at, you know, at our conference or other conferences where, you know, they say i’m the executive director, you know, i know that if i’m going to be in a video, of course it needs to be, you know, like in a nice setting or, you know, we don’t have a very pretty building, you know? We don’t have, you know, our offices and very nice i don’t know where that comes from that feeling that you know, you’re the executive director and you’re going to create a video for the organisation, it has to be in some, like, beautiful, you know, sound studio, i love it. When it’s literally your desk, like i would if i was working with girls. And judy has her video, i would say put more messiness on that desk, mate. Make it literally your desk, you know, people, maybe she’s, super neat and tidy, which i also am. I have currently two things on my desk, but but maybe that’s really her desk, but just have it be an invitation to come in and sit down with you. You know, i think that’s, um, that’s a really great and super easy way for any organization. Tohave a video feel like it’s being personal, you know, you’re just inviting them into the space. Of course, if it’s on office, where you’ve got all kinds of things in there, that could be a video. I mean, of course, there’s going to be, you know, exceptions to that statement. But i do think just invite them into your office have, you know, make it feel like someone sitting down with you have someone literally in the video sitting down with you, whatever you can do to just make it feel like you’ve been brought in, you know, personally now we just have about a minute left there’s an example of a different one from nature conservancy, which is a whole bunch of staff from all over the world, and a lot of it starts with them each saying thanks to you and then whatever it is their job is and how, how the donors all support their work, whether it’s underwater ah, you know, forest and grassland that’s a lovely one, too, thanks to you, yeah, i love that example video from the nature while we can, we’ll send out the these links and everything for listeners on dh i love that they use is an opportunity to highlight what staff do because with an organization like nature conservancy, often times you don’t even know. I mean, i want to support the nature conservancy, but i don’t know i’m supporting them because i don’t even know how to do that work. I don’t even know what you would do, you know? And so i think, it’s a great way to highlight this is actually what our organization does. These were the kind of staff that we employed to do this important work, because, again, if you’re goingto follow-up later with another ask donation request. People now have that understanding of oh, my gosh, yeah, you do need more funds because this is the scale of the work. These are the kinds of people that you no need to be on the ground doing this, and i want to support that. We have to leave it. There kayman sample ward ceo of inten you’ll find her at amy, sample ward, dot or ge and also at amy rs ward on twitter. Thanks very much, amy. Yeah. Thanks for letting me talk about appreciation. I appreciate you so much. Tony. Oh, amy. Oh, my god. That’s incredible. Thank you. I’m grateful. I’m so grateful that you contribute month after month. Thank you. Uh, i’m a little teary next week. Next week is peter shankman. Thank you. Next week is peter shankman. He’s got a new book called zombie loyalists because he wants you to create an army of rabid fans through great customer service that you missed any part of today’s show it’s on tony martignetti dot com. Keep generosity. Siri’s in mind, please. General city serious dot com. Our creative producer is clear. Meyerhoff sam liebowitz does a line production. Social media. Julia campbell remote. Producer john federico. Music. Scott stein with me next week for non-profit radio. Big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. Go out there and be great. 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