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Nonprofit Radio for March 3, 2025: Julia Campbell On Social Media

Julia CampbellJulia Campbell On Social Media

The social media maven returns to share her thinking and advice on short form video; ads; working within algorithms; content moderation; and, privacy policies. Let’s talk about X; Facebook; LinkedIn; Bluesky; Instagram; YouTube; and, TikTok. Julia is a nonprofit social marketing consultant.

 

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Welcome to Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio, big nonprofit ideas for the other 95%. I’m your aptly named host and the podfather of your favorite hebdominal podcast. Oh, I’m glad you’re with us. I’d be stricken with acute glomerulonephritis if I had to drink in the idea that you missed this week’s show. Here’s our associate producer Kate with what’s going on. Hey Tony, we’ve got. Julia Campbell on social media. The social media maven returns to share her thinking and advice on short form video ads, working within algorithms, content moderation, and privacy policies. Let’s talk about X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Blue Sky, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Julia is a nonprofit social marketing consultant. On Tony’s take 2. You’re listening to a top 10 podcast. Barely We’re sponsored by DonorBox. Outdated donation forms blocking your supporters’ generosity. Donor box, fast, flexible, and friendly fundraising forms for your nonprofit, DonorBox.org. Here is Julia Campbell on social media. What a joy to welcome someone back who has been here several times. It’s always a pleasure. Named as a top thought leader and one to follow by Forbes and LinkedIn for nonprofits and one of the 30 nonprofit IT influencers to follow in 2025. Julia Campbell is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to designing social media and storytelling strategies that help nonprofits share their mission across the digital landscape. You’ll find Julia on LinkedIn. You’ll find her practice at JComarketing.com. JC, welcome back to nonprofit Radio. Thank you, TM. It’s so great to be back. The pod. I love it. Oh, thank you. Yeah, people get a kick out of that. I do too. I, I could get a shirt maybe give out the NTC this year. All right. It’s good to see you. We’re in a, uh, an interesting, um, sort of digital landscape time. Uh, the, the new administration sucks a lot of oxygen out of the world. Uh, just right before we came on, I got another New York Times headline. Uh, the, the first word was Trump. I got a headline that Zuckerberg is eliminating all of his charitable foundation DEI initiatives right before we got on, so. Just lovely headlines all around. Yeah, it’s fantastic uh headed in a dastardly uh in an awful direction. What are you hearing from folks? What are you advising folks, uh, you know, you’re the, the, uh, social media maven. What are you talking about? I mean, social media has really been challenging in terms of strategy for several years now just because of the way the algorithms have shifted and the way that organic reach has completely plummeted, and you do need, you know, you need to invest in ads. Ads, but the problem right now that we’re seeing, at least for a lot of the organizations I work with and the students I have and my clients, is the struggle between, are these companies ethical, which we know that they’re not. And how can we balance our need to be seen and create community and get our word out there and educate people and talk about these causes and build movements? How can we balance that that with the fact that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and, you know, a lot of these companies that own these social media platforms are bowing down to the administration and then are also actually really, you know, being very shoddy in terms of content moderation and data privacy. So that’s the bigger picture that I’m seeing, and it even goes beyond just how do we get more engagement, because that’s just the Scratching the surface. So, what I’ve been advising people, I really am saying, you know, you really need to take stock. I don’t think that leaving everything and closing up shop and washing our hands of social media is really the answer, because then we kind of leave it to Um, the void to be filled with misinformation and, um, you know, we really need to still be creating our movements and showcasing our causes there. But we do need to have some serious reflection on how we’re using these platforms. Do we want to pay for ads? Do we want to continually be giving money to these billionaires. I mean, it’s really a fraught landscape right now along with everything going on just in the political sphere and the fundraising landscape and philanthropy. But the marketing, digital marketing sphere is constantly shifting and it’s just like tidal waves of bad information coming at us. It’s pretty overwhelming. Let’s try to break down some of the overwhelm, so, so people don’t feel that bad about it. Maybe just, maybe just a burdened but not overwhelmed. If we can if we can reduce from overwhelmed to to slight burden, that would be. And we tend to be very thoughtful about where we put our time. Nonprofits are very thoughtful and intentional. I mean, you know, Target’s not going to get off Facebook. They don’t care, right? They just don’t care. But the American Red Cross really might. be considering, should we get off Twitter because or X because of all of these factors. So, I think it’s a unique position that social change organizations are in. Well, you’ve, you’ve left X. You, you left X when Elon Musk bought it, uh, but you’re, you’re on LinkedIn. So, right. So how do we, you know, so how do we in the small and mid-size shops think through where, where to be and where to just, you know, place that pin that says we’re no longer here, find us on Blue Sky or, you know, whatever. How, how do we think through that? We have to really evaluate where our audiences and what we’re trying to achieve, but then also figure out where is the line that will not be crossed. So, It’s very personal, and it has to, there’s not a one size fits all that’s gonna work for every organization. If your organization relies on fast-paced news, getting things out in a timely manner, connecting with journalists, then X is probably the place for you. You know, I would never recommend if you’re getting great traction and you are accomplishing your mission. And you’re getting the word out and building a community. I would never recommend leaving a platform altogether, but we really need to evaluate is our audience still there? Are the people that we wanna talk to still here? And are we able to reach them? Maybe they’ve migrated over to different platforms and what are our strengths and weaknesses? So. You know, people ask me all the time, should we be on TikTok? Should we be using Instagram reels, and should we be doing short form video? And the short answer, of course, is yes, because that’s the most powerful kind of content right now on across social media. But if you don’t have video content, then potentially building a thought leadership blog on LinkedIn could work. Maybe going to substack, maybe going to Blue sky, maybe creating infographics and putting them on Pinterest. I mean, there’s all sorts of ways that we can be using these different platforms. And also for me, you know, I, I can’t be Amish as much as I would love to. You know, I have an iPhone. I don’t like Apple. I have Google accounts. I don’t like Google. It’s just, it’s sort of like I, I would love to live in a cabin in the woods and Not have the internet. I, I actually wouldn’t, but we have to understand that we can only do what we can do, and I think our messages are so important to get out to the public, to the community, especially with so much mis and disinformation and confusion going on, that if we’re going to leave a platform where our audience is going to miss us and be craving this information, I think that that’s That’s just a bad, that’s a bad thing to do. So if, if you have a Facebook page, a Facebook group, if you have an Instagram account, and you know you’re really reaching people there and you’re helping people, and you’re helping people understand the cause and the issue, we have to think and reflect on what will be lost if you leave. You said short form video is now the most popular kind of Instagram and TikTok. Wait, you’re valuable things, but I’m, I was, I was trying to wrap up. So again, where the best places are. YouTube shorts. And Instagram reels, um, and TikTok. And TikTok is not going to get banned under this administration, I don’t think so. If you have a TikTok account, don’t, don’t worry about it. I think you’ll be fine. OK, so let’s let’s drill down a little on short form video. What’s your, what’s your advice there? Like length, caption or not? I, I guess that’s yes, but what’s your advice around short form video? My advice, if you’ve never done short form video, go follow candid.org on every platform. Uh, they are an organization. They do not have kittens or dogs or kids or landscapes or anything that would be like a sexy kind of cause. They are just putting videos out that are helpful information, but they’re doing it in a catchy way, like a catchy, entertaining way. So it’s very important for first of all, to have a purpose for the video. Like why would I watch it, but also to have that hook that’s gonna hook me within the 1st 3 or 4 seconds. So what’s the question you’re asking? Maybe there’s a statistic that you’re sharing. Maybe it’s an anecdote of something that happened. Maybe it’s something surprising that you found. Maybe it’s like, oh, this happened in the news, but guess what? You don’t know the real story. Like, what is the hook around this video? And there has to, it has to be a very singular specific focus for the video. Also, authenticity reigns supreme. Nonprofit professionals often do not like to get at their phone. And take video of themselves. We want to sit in our office, we want to do our work, put our heads down. We don’t want to be the face of the organization, but people like to see faces. They like to hear from people. So as much as you can be authentic and be conversing around relevant real-time topics that are timely, that’s really going to accelerate your connection with your audience. It’s going to build trust and that’s gonna create more engagement for you. Awesome. All right, all valuable advice. And so candid.org doing short films they’re fantastic. Malala Fund, Malala Fund, I follow, they’re a little bit more polished. And I think that’s fine as well. That’s just their brand. Candid.org is a little, they’re, they do great videos, but they’re not as polished. It’s much more just a staff member answering a question about like where do I find grant proposals or how do I talk to a board member about a touchy subject. It’s really helpful information for nonprofits. I also recommend really following like the New York Public Library. I mean, there’s all sorts of Nonprofits, organizations doing fantastic work with short form video. Invisible people. Mark Korvath um runs Invisible people. They do a lot of YouTube shorts. They are, they just film people talking and their stories. They do storytelling and that’s their purpose, and that’s what they. That’s what they share. So, sort of find your, your purpose. Like, why are you sharing videos? What are the topics that your audience would be interested in? And then I recommend just watching a lot of reels and TikTok videos. So you kind of get the feel for how they should be structured and the feel for what works, um, before you really jump off on your own. But, you know, done is better than perfect. I always think that. Oh, very good. Uh, a lot of people say don’t let perfect be the enemy of good, but is that’s, that’s well put. Done is better than done is better than perfect. All right, excellent. I knew you, yes, well, there’s no question you’re the right person to help us through this. I hope so. I I struggle as well. Oh, you do? Yeah. Yes, of course. What do you struggle with? I, I struggle with creating short form video. It’s challenging because I’m so used to recording webinars or recording podcasts or doing long form videos, putting it on YouTube, um, you know, putting it on my website, putting it on my blog, but this constant, you know, this constant need to feed the beast of social media. It it can get challenging. Um, and then, of course, I know I work with my clients and the features are constantly changing, and what’s working is constantly changing. So, for me, I really, I Um, grapple with shiny object syndrome just as much as the next person, and thinking like, oh maybe I should be doing more on Blue Sky, or maybe I should be on Mastodon, or maybe I should be on whatever the next new social media platform is. But for me, what helps me is just knowing where my audience is, knowing where my strengths are, knowing what I like to do. And, you know, if I don’t put out a video every day, every week, just really trying hard not to beat myself up about it and doing what I can do, and quality over quantity has always been my mantra on social media, because you can, you can’t beat the internet on clutter. You can’t beat the internet on like AI sludge that’s just generated from an app, but you can beat the internet on authenticity and storytelling, which I think nonprofits, that’s our big strength. That’s like our superpower. Quality not quantity, but done is better than perfect. Exactly. Do not, if you’re spending all day doing 1 62nd Instagram reel, no, that’s too much. That’s way too much. Uh, that’s way too much time to spend. And really just getting it out there and it’s gonna give you that data that you need. So the more you do it, the more data you get, the more you see what people like, what people comment on, what people are sharing, what they’re watching. You can see how long they’ve watched it. You can see, oh, this question works better than this one, or I’m outside, and that tends to work better than inside. So the more you do it, it’s like the more data points you have for what’s working. I’m gonna give a shout out to the woman who does my video reels, uh, which, which, which we use on, uh, we post on Instagram and uh and YouTube. Her name, her name is Judith George. Amazing. Uh, she’s the video, I think she calls herself the video whisperer or the video content whisperer. Judith. She’s excellent, excellent. So I always believe in outsourcing to people. Like I don’t edit my own podcast because it’s not my zone of genius. That’s not where my Talents lie. So I would never, and that is the enemy of getting things done, I think, is because we think we have to do every single thing ourselves. But outsourcing to a video editor, I mean, these people are incredibly talented and they know exactly what they’re doing. So I, I love that idea and I wish more nonprofits would get more into, more comfortable with outsourcing some things so they’re not spending all day editing a video. You and I have talked about this before that it it’s just worthwhile to pay experts to do something that you’re not expert in that is gonna take you a long time to learn and get good at. You may as well just bring in someone from the outside who’s already got the expertise they hit the ground running and, and you’re unburdened having to learn a new skill. Yeah, and you can focus on your superpower, your zone of genius, which is storytelling, which is program management, which is fundraising, which is creating fabulous marketing campaigns and messages, talking to donors. I mean, I just think spending, I, because I’m running my social media for social good academy right now is the time of this recording, and everyone struggles with time management because they have 10,000 other things on their plate. And I think There’s no way for a development director to be able to master 10 social media platforms and create 10 videos every week. That’s just, I don’t see how that’s possible, as well as doing grant writing and donor management and cultivation and stewardship and things like that. So, I, I agree we need to start thinking, we need to take social media more seriously and stop tacking it on. To other people’s job descriptions and really think like, no, it’s time. It takes a lot of time, creativity, effort. You also have to measure what you’re doing. You have to be on top of the trends. You have to have your finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the cause and the industry and the organization. You have to think like a journalist. There’s all sorts of skills that you need to have. And I really think digital marketing, I mean, it’s 2025. Like, let’s let’s treat it seriously. It’s time for a break. Imagine a fundraising partner that not only helps you raise more money, but also supports you in retaining your donors. A partner that helps you raise funds both online and on location so you can grow your impact faster. That’s DonorBox, a comprehensive suite of tools, services and resources that gives fundraisers just like you a custom solution to tackle your unique challenges, helping you achieve the growth and sustainability your organization needs, helping you, help others. Visit donorbox.org to learn more. Now back to Julia Campbell on social media. Let’s talk about ads. Uh, you mentioned, you know, is it worth spending money on ads, or, you know, uh, is the platform one that you want to even pay because you might have basic objections to, to their management or their policies or their algorithms, but you still want to be there. What, what do we think through about whether ads are worthwhile? I do think that putting some money towards social media advertising and Google ads. That’s definitely worth it depending on your goals. So a lot of organizations say, we’re the best kept secret. No one’s heard of us, no one knows who we are, no one can find our website. OK, well that would maybe require either applying for the Google ad grants, which um I’m certainly not an expert in, but I can, I can touch on it. I mean, there are so many experts out there on the Google ad grant, but it’s basically money that Google will give you. You have to manage it well. But to um promote it’s up to 10,000 dollars a month. Yes, you do have to, you have to manage it. I mean, you have to hit certain benchmarks to continue getting the $10,000 a month. You do have to get people to click on your ads. You have to get people to actually take action. Google has to see that your ads are worthwhile, they’re not clickbait. Um, those kinds of things. But you can also just pay for Google Ads. I mean, there’s nothing stopping you from just once in a while if you have a gala or if you have a really important marketing campaign for Domestic Violence Awareness Month or Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and you have some resources on your website you want people to find. Paying for search engine ads can definitely be a great way to do that. I always recommend, when you are considering paying for ads, really understand what the return on investment is worth to you. So, a very simple example, I worked with an organization, a local organization here. They were having a golf tournament. They spent $50 on a Facebook ad. And the return on investment for them in terms of golf tournament signups was $5000. So that’s a pretty good return on investment, right? So, then they can say, OK, well, we’re definitely going to run this ad again, um, this is part of now of our budget. That’s a very simplified way to do it. A lot of ads I see, you can’t necessarily track it like that. It might be awareness, it might be video views, maybe you’re driving people to your website, but as much as you can say, OK, we spent $500 on this ad, and this is what we got in return, and we can quantify it and we can say, OK, this was a really good investment. Uh, that’s what I think we lose when we boost a post or we just sort of throw money at an ad and then we never look to see what happened, and we never look to see, oh, did anyone take action? Did anyone sign up? Did anyone make a donation? We just sort of throw money at the problem and make Mark Zuckerberg richer, which he doesn’t need to be richer. And then we never figure out if it actually moved the needle at the end of the day. So we should be measuring as well. Absolutely, absolutely. This is the thing that that I think is so interesting about nonprofits and digital marketing. When we send out an annual appeal letter, you better believe we know exactly how much we paid for printing, for postage to send it out, and we know exactly how much we got back. But when we write a blog post or post on LinkedIn, we don’t track. Did anyone read it? Did anyone comment? Did anyone share it? Did we get emails? Did we get phone calls? Like what actually happened when we put this other piece of content out in the world? And the irony is that it’s so much easier to track on digital. You can instantly see, and I know Tony, you do reels, you can see within the 1st 30 seconds of posting a reel if it’s gonna work or not. And same on TikTok. There’s instant data that you can get to see, oh this is gonna work, I should do more of this. Uh, this is, you know, kind of falling flat, and then maybe why is this falling flat, time of day, maybe the sound is bad, like the topic isn’t interesting. But we get all of these points of data from digital marketing, and we, we tend to just not look at them. So we’re just constantly throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, and wasting time and spinning our wheels. So, measurement, analysis, improvement, that should be a huge piece of any social media or any digital marketing plan. You mentioned earlier on, uh, content moderation policies. Oh yeah, what are we, what’s your, what’s your beef there? This is really screwing over nonprofits. It’s really painful for a lot of organizations, especially if they use certain keywords. Now I’m kind of concerned. Well, there’s two ways to think about it. Content moderation in terms of X. There’s no content moderation. You can say anything, do anything, post anything, and it’s the wild west, cause there’s zero content moderation there. But then there’s also overly moderating on Facebook and Instagram, specifically, political and social issues. And if you’re posting certain words, especially actually if you’re using paid ads, you will be blocked if you are a social justice organization. We’re seeing this a lot, and they don’t have to answer to anybody. They can just say your ad is blocked. We’re not running your ad. I’ve seen this for um a local food bank that got their ad blocked for no reason. It’s not wasn’t a political ad. It wasn’t, it didn’t have anything to do with a political issue, but everything’s political, I guess now. But Their ad was blocked for no reason. So that’s something really important to understand you don’t need to say it violates our. They don’t need to tell you anything. They’re completely in control, and that’s the other problem. So sometimes they’ll say, oh this this falls into Like, you have to read the fine print of what’s allowed in ads really carefully. So, look up all of the specific terms, look up, um, you know, what they say they allow and what they say they don’t allow. But of course, really at the end of the day, it is the platforms, it’s the platform’s prerogative to allow you to run an ad. The other thing is, Instagram has specifically come out and said that they are going to They’re going to, um, I don’t know what it’s called, like demote political and sensitive issue content because they want their feed to be much more focused on like influencers and celebrities and fashion and happy things. And for a lot of us, I mean, I follow the HRC, I follow the ACLU, I follow so many organizations that are overtly political, and I want to know this news, and I want to hear what they have to say. Um, I’m seeing them in my feeds, but I know that a lot of people. They are saying that they’re seeing less of that kind of content because the, you know, the algorithm overlords are determining what we see and what we don’t see. It’s really true. This is why people love TikTok. TikTok is actually ironically much more of a democracy in terms of the feed, and it’s a lot easier to discover new things, and it’s a lot easier to see things that you actually like, just because TikTok has the business model where they want to show you things that you want to see. So, they’re not trying to overly police what you see. So, it’s just interesting. Each platform is so, so different in that way. What are you seeing on LinkedIn? LinkedIn, I, I really have been enjoying LinkedIn. So, LinkedIn for me though, I’m not seeing a lot of new people post. I’m seeing a lot of Um, my friends, my colleagues, you know, other consultants, people that work in nonprofits, because the LinkedIn algorithm, of course, if I comment on something or like something, if I’m connected to somebody, then they’re more likely to show me that post. I feel like LinkedIn for me, I, I don’t know how to get out of it. I might need to just expand into following some brand new people, but it’s a little bit of an echo chamber for me right now. I love it though. I am learning a lot of new things and I actually finding out a lot of news on LinkedIn, and a lot of articles and statistics and things about fundraising and philanthropy that I, I didn’t know. I follow the National Council for nonprofits for all my news around the federal funding freeze and what people can do to combat those kind of executive orders. So, but I am finding it’s harder to discover new people on LinkedIn, but that’s probably just the way that I’ve been using it. In my own little kind of bubble, um, for safety, really like for mental health reasons. Um, but I love, I think LinkedIn is a very vibrant place for nonprofits to showcase thought leadership, to build relationships with donors and board members, um, and other, you know, fundraising professionals. Yeah, I’ve been consciously following new folks a week. Yeah, so my strategy is, uh, I look at folks who make smart comments on It’s usually other people’s posts, uh, I, because I guess I’m not sure other people are doing what I’m suggesting because most of the people who comment on my posts tend to be the same, you know, there are certainly exceptions, but that’s not, that’s not where I’m finding new people to follow. I’m looking at comments on other people’s posts and saying, oh, that’s a savvy comment, you know, so click, you click the, the little, the person’s little head. And it goes to their profile and you can decide if you want, you wanna send an invitation to uh to connect. I guess I said. I love that. So yeah, you could be, it’s it’s just a proactive. I do a week. And so that it’s strategic and it’s proactive, and I want everyone listening to really embrace those two words because that is How you succeed on social media by being strategic and proactive. We can’t continue to just be reactive. We can’t continue to just post on LinkedIn or post on Facebook and then throw our hands up and say, oh well, nobody commented. We need, and Tony, you do this really a lot. Commenting on other people’s posts, thoughtful comments, interaction. That is what drives engagement and that’s how you get seen. We are not, you know, Taylor Swift, like Taylor Swift. Has 250 million followers on Instagram and doesn’t follow anybody. OK, we, we can’t do that. We have to actually go out there and find relevant people to follow and build our network proactively. So I love that you said that because I think that’s so important. Proactive and strategic. Mhm. Yes, I would love that. Well, quantity is better than perfect. Yes, that’s valuable. It’s time for Tony’s Take two. Thank you, Kate. You are listening, as you listen to nonprofit radio to a top 10. Best fundraising podcast. That is thanks to an organization called Million Podcasts. They put out their list of 100 best fundraising podcasts and squeaking in. At right at number 10. Is Tony Martignetti nonprofit Radio. Thank goodness we’re not number 11 because what, what would I say? We’re a top 11. What is that? Ah, that’s like sad tromboneswamp wap, top 11, you so. Top 10, no, we’re not top 11 or anything below. We are top 10, barely squeaked in. So I’m very grateful to a million podcasts for their, their list, and it is, it is a valuable list of 100 podcasts, different types of fundraising. Uh, there, I saw event fundraising, I saw a crowd fundraising podcasts, and some other ones you may know, Julia Campbell, uh, We Are For Good, you might know Joan Gary, people like that, but working in there at number 10. Is your is your favorite, your favorite hebdominal podcast. With you since July of 2010, each and every week for pert near 15 years. Nonprofit radio. This is all because we have this outstanding associate producer. Kate, and that is Tony’s. Well, congratulations, pod father. I mean. The work, you can see it, all the hard work that goes into the show for 15 years. Oh, you deserve it. 15 years. 15 years. We’ve got boou but loads more time. Here’s the rest of Julia Campbell on social media. To validate what you’re explaining and sharing, LinkedIn for me has become my most popular platform. I’ve got the most connections there, right? That’s a vanity. I understand that, but I’ve also got most engagement on LinkedIn and other platforms where I’m less. Strategic and proactive. I’ve just, I’ve prioritized LinkedIn, so I picked one as a priority, and I would say my next is probably blue sky where I need to be more, more proactive, but that it’s newer, but I need to spend more time there. But you know, like, yeah, no, it’s true. I mean, you know, the things we measure are the things that get changed, right? So I’ve, my social manager and I put emphasis on LinkedIn. And it has made a difference over, over more than a year. I’ve just seen a steady, steady trend in the right direction in terms of engagement. And I I do recommend for the nonprofits listening, really look at your website and see where the traffic is being driven. If, if you, building up your website and a specific, specific pages of your website or specific resources on your website is a goal. For you, you might be surprised that LinkedIn is actually driving a lot of traffic or Pinterest, or another platform that you might not have thought of. We are so conditioned to just think Facebook is the king of social media, when actually the engagement and the reach on Facebook are the lowest. It’s the lowest of all of my channels that I’m on. And it’s the lowest of all of my clients’ channels. It’s not growing. It’s growing internationally, it’s not growing in America anymore. And it’s, I find that it’s just becoming incredibly stagnant over over on Facebook. It’s actually becoming very toxic from what I’ve been seeing. But I, we just are so conditioned to think, oh, that was the very first place we joined. We got a Facebook page. We’ve had it for 25 years now. And so, What are we going, you know, what we’re not, we have blinders on almost, I think, around that. And there’s so many other exciting platforms coming up and so many cool things going on. And LinkedIn also, I will say, is really doubling down on resources for nonprofits. If you go to LinkedIn for nonprofits, they have newsletters, they have a creator studio. They do a lot with Giving Tuesday. They just, I think they’re really trying to establish themselves in the third sector, um, and I think they’re doing a great job. So definitely something to think about if you’re getting kind of sick of the lack of engagement on Facebook. That’s good advice. Take a look at. Uh, you know, all your advice earlier still applies. You know, if you’ve got a good community and it’s active there, then naturally stay, but if not, if you’re seeing the declining engagement that so many of us have seen, my, my practice included, um, you know, either leave or DM or just deemphasize, deemphasize, you know, instead of, instead of a post a day, maybe it’s one a week, maintain a presence, but. You know, if it’s not, if it’s not paying off for you, then don’t spend your time on it. Just like, just like any program that you’re doing, you know, you evaluate your programs, right? Be like you’re saying, Julia, be strategic about thoughtful about your social strategies. Absolutely. And really looking at like YouTube, I’m so shocked about nonprofits, not posting video content on YouTube when it’s the #2 search engine owned by the #1 search engine. So if you have video content and all of us do, I would hope, repurposing it, putting it on YouTube where discoverability is key. It’s not your same donors that are following you, that are gonna follow you on YouTube. It’s brand new people that are hopefully going to discover you because they’re searching. They’re using YouTube as a search engine, people use Instagram as a search engine, TikTok. I think of younger people, especially like my daughter who’s 15, she would never Google something. She would look it up on TikTok. You know, she just wouldn’t, it’s like that’s where that’s her search engine. So that’s, we need to be thinking of these tools, not in terms of like broadcasting our message to our followers, but building new followers and being discovered and hopefully reaching brand new people. So your 15 year old daughter wouldn’t wouldn’t go to YouTube to search for something. She might go to YouTube, YouTube, but probably TikTok or Insta TikTok. Uh, uh, we’re gonna take a little digression, uh, around your background. You used to have, uh, I remember you had Ruth Bader Ginsburg up for a long time. Oh yeah, I have a Ruth Bader Ginsburg, um, but yeah, I changed it. I always have the nasty woman. Well, you’ve got my painted um right after Trump got elected in 2016. That’s been up for years and you’ve got a book with a biceps. Yeah, you’ve got a framed framed framed piece that says well behaved women don’t make history. Wonder Woman and then the one the etching behind me is my mom. Threw that, um, and you can’t see it. It’s so detailed. I know it’s like a good place for it because you can’t pencil? Yes, it’s an etching. So yeah, it’s really beautiful and I was, I actually put it there so it wouldn’t get broken. I need to put it in. I need to hang it up. And on the on the end, is that Wonder Woman’s Wonder Woman. Yes. So what is it about who do you consider strong women? Who do you clearly you you have a You you have an affinity for strong women. Uh, who do you think of? Oh wow. Well, do you know who my favorite right now is um Elona Mar. She’s the rugby player and she was on Dancing with the Stars and she’s 6 ft tall. She’s a Award winning, um, she’s just an incredible athlete, but she’s also just her social media is absolutely incredible about, she’s a different body type, you know, she’s got really broad shoulders. A lot of people think she’s a trans man, you know, write horrible comments on all of her stuff. Um, but she’s just such a light and so inspiring to women and to young girls who, you know, and I’m 6 ft tall, so I love, I love seeing not like little petite girly girls, you know, in my feet all the time. So, yeah, she’s someone I really love. And of course, I am still a huge fan of Hillary Clinton, still forever. I do you know that I went as Hillary Clinton for Halloween in 1992? I have loved her forever. So, I still follow her. I love her pithy comments on what’s going on um on Instagram. But, you know, I just am seeing so many. I mean, I watched all of the SNL 50. Uh, all of that coverage, so like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler are obviously amazing. I watched all of the Grammys, so like Dochi and just all of these incredible female performers. Chapel Rone is amazing. Lady Gaga, obviously. Just it’s the, you know, I think it’s the year of the woman. I’ve been seeing just everything I’ve been seeing in pop culture, um, a lot of women coming up into politics, getting really interested in politics now. Um, hopefully a lot more women will be leading nonprofits. I know that. I don’t know the percentage, but it’s incredibly small, especially women of color leading nonprofits. So I’ve, I’ve been seeing some positive signs despite all of the noise that is trying to keep marginalized groups down. I’ve been just seeing a lot of positive signs of resistance. And I’m very excited for the Handmaid’s Tale to come back in April. About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Yes, so I do like her. I, I follow her videos. She was one of the ones that first started using reels actually. No stories. So she was one of the very first politicians that was using stories. And do you remember she would do Instagram Live where she would just be cooking in her kitchen. I would watch those all the time. It was when she was very first coming onto the scene. She would just do these Instagram lives cooking ramen in her kitchen and like talking about politics of the day. And I thought that was before anyone was doing that. And I thought that was really cool and made her very accessible, and just really interesting. Um, so she’s totally social media savvy, but yeah, she’s a powerful force. And Ayanna Presley, um, senator from Massachusetts, um, she is, she’s one of my absolute favorites. I follow her on social. I love her. So how do all these women influence your own practice? Well, I think being authentic to who you are and shunning the non-believers, you know, Seth Godin always says, shun the non-believers, and not getting so hung up on the people that don’t like you. And now, I am a Canarian. I was, I’m July 9, so I have the strong predilection to have people like me, and I’m a people pleaser. I’m also the oldest daughter. So I have all of these personality traits where I want people to like me. But then when I see what these other women are doing, and they’re standing up and they’re talking and they’re saying their truth, like Ayanna Presley actually has alopecia, and she shaved her head and she’s bald and beautiful and famously just, I mean, she’s stunning, but she’s bald and she just talks about it, and she shares her truth and helps other people. And that’s what I, you know, that’s, that just really inspires me. So, putting your personality into your work, I think is part of the reason why I have been so successful, um, but certainly, of course, not everyone agrees with me or likes me. I’ve gotten some nasty email responses, I’m sure you have too. From time to time, or like a nasty direct message about something. But to me, if people are not responding, it means they’re not paying attention. So, I try to remind myself to be provocative, to be authentic, to be myself, and never, never back down from things that I stand for. So that’s that’s really how they inspire me. Thanks for sharing all that. Sure. What else would you like to talk about? Well, it’s important. I, I like to, you know, too. And I know it’s memorable like I said, I know. I change it up once in a while, but These, the, the things behind me, they really ground me and just really helped me remember who I am and what I stand for, and also the fact that if you’re on a Zoom call with me and you don’t like my background, we’re probably not going to be able to work together, so. All right. What else would you like to talk about? We still have time. Well, you’re gonna go to NTC, right? I’m not able to go this year. OK, yes, I am going. Oh, it’s not. It’s not far from you as well. It’s not. It’s not far. I could probably stop by. I didn’t have any, I didn’t apply to speak, um, but I know you always do a great. Showcase in the exhibit hall, they’re actually it’s it’s nonprofit will be there. I’ll capture 15 or 20s. Yeah, yeah, make sure you let me know if you drop in for a day or something. I know I’m thinking of AFP Icon, which is in Seattle. I don’t know why I thought the nonprofit technology conference was in Seattle, but no, because it’s usually out there, right? Because that’s where they’re. Yeah. OK. Any other conferences you’re excited about this year? Um, yeah, I know, me too. I mean. Yeah, I, I, AFP I, yeah, I applied a bunch of years, you know, I have my theory about why I was never selected, so I don’t, I don’t go to AFP, even though it’s I know it’s huge, but they don’t, you know, being strategic. Yeah, I’ve heard that from a few people that I’m always shocked because like you, they’re really thought leaders in the field and I just don’t, I don’t understand how they pick, but. I, yeah, I’ve been on the NTC committee that’s chosen. Chosen proposals. I did that for a few years, but um, yeah, I don’t know. Icon is is such a. Such a hard nut to crack. You know what I’ve, I think it really does, it parallels what you’re saying about the social networks, and I’ve, I’ve embraced this in my own practice too. Um, I, I, I go where I’m wanted. And, and if, you know, if you’ve turned me down a couple of times. You don’t want me. That’s OK. I’m gonna focus on this is parallel to what you’re saying about the network. I’m gonna focus where people embrace me. They see the value and 10 and their nonprofit technology conference. They routinely welcome me on the what used to be the exhibit floor, like I said, now this year they’re calling it the hub. They routinely, you know, we work out a deal. I amplify their speakers with over 13,000 listens because nobody’s. You know, nobody’s getting 13,000 people coming to their 90 minute session. So I amplify their speakers and they, and they cut me a break and, and I’m, I’m, I’m wanted and, and I feel loved there. So, so routinely year after year I go back to the NTC wherever last year it was in Portland. It’s probably about as far as it could be from me in North Carolina, but I still was happy to go. It was a pleasure to go this year happens to be a little closer. I can drive from North Carolina to Baltimore, but it doesn’t matter. I’ll go year after year. Same thing with clients, same thing with the social networks. Like go where, go where folks embrace you and wanna work with you. That is, I love that. That’s perfect. I completely agree. Um, people always ask me, there’s several conferences, you know, like a nonprofit storytelling conference, but I’ve just never been asked to speak. I’ve never been accepted to speak, and that, and I am fine with it, and it’s just like you said, I don’t lose sleep over places that don’t want me, you know, I focus on where where people want me. It’s almost like really unsubscribes to my email list or people unfollowing me on social media. If I It’s just a, it’s just a signal that’s like, I’m not for you right now, or there’s something going on, or my message is not connecting with you, and that’s completely OK. And I think we do need to get More comfortable in our own skin. We also need a little thicker skin, but we need to say, this is what I stand for, this is who I am, this is my message, and that’s how you’re going to attract the right people to your cause. That’s how you’re going to attract people that want to participate, that want to become part of the movement, rather than we we just focus on numbers and not real quality of connection, a lot of the time. But I completely agree with that. I would only want to be somewhere that would really want me. Let me interject something you said earlier, quality over quantity, right? Real engagement on a couple of networks versus being in 12 different networks and nothing is you’re not gaining traction. No, I, I really do agree and just really, you know, understanding. That your audience wants to hear from you. I think that nonprofits tend to think they are bothering their audience. They don’t send, they send a quarterly email, you know, like 4 emails a year to your donors? No, that’s insane, cause what if they delete one and they don’t hear from you for half a year. So, we always think we’re inundating our donors, our message is boring, or we’re annoying people, but the reality is that, you know, your cause matters and what the work that you do matters, and people want to know about it, especially if they’re giving you money. If they’re not giving you money, they want to hear about it if they’re on your email list, but if they are giving you money, they want to hear what’s going on and they want to hear from you. So we have this imposter syndrome. That is very hard for a lot of people to shake. And I would just encourage any nonprofits listening, you know, communicate more and communicate more authentically, and communicate more strongly than you might be comfortable with. You know, I’ve I’ve received, I’m thinking about Everything going on in the news, like you, you don’t have to, you shouldn’t say something maybe specifically about Trump. I’m not saying you have to do that, but to not comment on the federal funding freeze if it’s affecting your organization, I want to know that as a donor. I wanna know, oh, like, did the USAID shut down? How did that affect Amnesty International, or how did that affect these international organizations? I really want to understand that more. But having, you know, just being so afraid to talk about anything going on in the headlines, that’s not serving your donors. It’s not serving your community and it’s not serving your mission. I have a client that does international relief work and I’m sorry. I said that right to their donors, including their planned donors, and the messages of support that they’re getting back, they’re heartening and heartbreaking at the same time. I mean, you, you, you hear the people’s frustration. And some of them respond with gifts with increased gifts, including, you know, these are folks who have already included the, the, the organization in their long term plan in their will or something else, and now they’re making a cash gift. Uh, I saw one, you know, um, I wanna do an uh a qualified charitable distribution which is an, an IRA transfer for folks who are 70.5 and over, but it’s, it’s immediate cash. It’s not at the person’s death. It, it comes. Immediately now and there and there are others, you know, so yeah, to your point, people do want to hear. They, they love your work, your, your messages are not junk mail and spam to them, and in a lot of cases they will, they will respond even though in with, with gifts, even though you’re not asking for gifts. You’re just informing, but they love your work that much. They hate to see. It hurts them to see that your work is, is, is being impinged on, impinged on, that’s putting it mildly. Your work is being devastated, you know, in, in other parts of the world. They don’t like to see that. And I saw, I saw a great Instagram post, uh, rescue.org. They did a whole series about how to talk to your friends and family about the importance of humanitarian aid. So it was a series of. where they addressed some of the miss and misconceptions. So an example would be, you know, if your dad says to you, well, all foreign aid is just a waste, or, you know, just um, corruption. How do you address that? Or if it says, well, why don’t we just focus on America? How do you address that? So, it was really interesting because I shared it and my stories, I took um photos of it, because it was so helpful. Because obviously people that follow Rescue.org care about humanitarian aid. Um, and so it was a helpful way for us to say, OK, here, we don’t really know how to participate in this conversation. It’s so emotional, it’s so fraught, but here are some talking points that you can use. So that helps your community. It helps your mission, um, but it helps your community advocate for you. And I’ve been seeing a lot of that lately and I love that trend. Julie Campbell, what else do you want to talk about? We still got some time. What else? Um, how much time do we have? 10 minutes or so. Oh, I have a call at 3. Oh, you do. Oh, OK. All right, then let me ask you. I you and I chatted at the top of the hour. Oh, I know we took some time. Um, let me ask you then sky. What do you see? What’s your opinion? Blue sky right now, which I love. It tends to trend toward more social justice, social activism, and left leaning causes right now. Because people are leaving Twitter, but I see it growing and expanding. Content moderation and data privacy are big priorities for that company. I don’t see ads, I don’t see a lot of crap in my, you know, feed. Um, it’s very curated and it’s, uh, I think it’s a much more positive experience right now for me. So I really encourage you, you’re a nonprofit. I think at least to, um, At least to set up your account there. So, save your name, at least bookmark your name, and then, you know, and then like I’d say with everything else, spend time on the platform, see what other people are doing, follow other organizations that make sense, follow consultants you like and writers and influencers, creators that you like, and see what they’re posting. And I, I think it’s, it’s gonna actually grow. I mean, I’m hoping that, I’m hoping that it will grow. I just, it’s not like no other social platform out there in terms of management and what I’m seeing in the feed right now. It’s very like curated and I really like it. Julie Campbell, social media maven. Hey, thank you. My pleasure. You’ll find Julia on LinkedIn. You’ll find her practice at JCsocialmarketing.com. I hope I see you at NTC. Let me know if you’re there. OK, I will let you know. Thank you very much. Thanks for sharing, Julia, savvy advice. Thank you very, very much. Thanks, Tony. Thanks for everything that you do and everything you do for the sector. Thanks. Next week, nonprofit activism in our political environment. If you missed any part of this week’s show, I beseech you. Find it at Tony Martignetti.com. We’re sponsored by Donor Box. Outdated donation forms blocking your supporters’ generosity. Donor Box, fast, flexible, and friendly fundraising forms for your nonprofit, DonorBox.org. I love that alliteration. You didn’t think I was gonna do it this week, did you? Uh, I knew it. That’s why I did it. Our creative producer is Claire Meyerhoff. I’m your associate producer Kate Martignetti. The show’s social media is by Susan Chavez. 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Duitz 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 this’s show number three, ninety nine next week is four hundred win a brand new studio, so we’re welcoming well, welcome us to the show i get to the studio first time in the studio with and we’ve got a wonderful in studio guest as well to inaugurate the new studio experience, and i’m glad you’re with me for it. I’d get slapped with a diagnosis of brick, your radio prayer itis if you unnerved me with the idea that you missed today’s show linked in marketing, mark halpert returns with ideas from his new book, you, us, them for promoting yourself and your non-profit and attracting the people you need durney steak to be part of our four hundredth show next week we’re sponsored by pursuant full service fund-raising data driven and technology enabled tony dahna em a slash pursuant by wagner, cpas guiding you beyond the numbers wagner, cps dot com and by tell us turning credit card processing into your passive revenue stream. Tony dahna em a slash tony tell us my pleasure to welcome back marc halpert to the to the show and to the studio he is owner of connect to collaborate. He spreads his length in and networking evangelism to help others better explain their brand positioning on linkedin. He’s a linking trainer, speaker and coach. His book is you us, them linked in mark i’ve to take a breath before this you, us, them linked in marketing concepts for non-profit professionals who really want to make a difference longer than the book you’ll find him at connect to collaborate dot com and that’s with a number two. And at mark helper and that’s marked with a c so it could also be read at march albert like he was related to her about the jazz. Do you want to on jess? But no he’s at mark helper. Welcome back to the studio and the show. Mark alpert. Thank you. Somewhat. What a pleasure. Come a little closer to the microphone. To that house are our listeners. Can all hear you very well. And you call me anything you want. March alpert more job and have more children. Many things. Okay. More jumper did not among the worst of the moster and i’m glad you took that big breath to read the subtitle it’s a long one, but xero search engine optimization and marketing, i presume it’s jealousy which you’re about to assume that these words are important now i s o you have been on the show. You were the first time on the show was december twenty third, two thousand eleven so you were near beginning. We start in two thousand ten. But you were pretty close to the beginning. Oh, and you have been squawking about linked in since then. Squawking? Yes, you are. You’re the eyes vandalizing. Okay, evangelizing is one way of describing it on dh. You’re on again in twenty thirteen. And you talked about linked in for hiring right specifically just for hiring. What? What? What is your? What is your obsession with with lengthen? It is the tool that it’s a power tool. And if you don’t know how to use a power tool correctly, you can get hurt very badly or get very bad results. I was in the emergency room first time i used the phillips head screwdriver i zoned out and now you know so you can’t drive a nail with a screwdriver and if you really want to make a difference, then understand oppcoll how to approach the business community as a non-profit professional and really get between their eyes. This is the tool that will get you there, but you just don’t do a lousy job of it. You do it the right way. That’s what this book does and you feel that non-profits who were focused on them are largely doing a lousy job that most of the ones i see a doing a poor job, they don’t think like a business, they don’t market it like a business. They would like to see more revenue come in, but they don’t think cash flow that’s a business concept that a lot of non-profits just don’t get so then i teach them a little bit about how to approach people who want to help, whether it’s financial help, whether it’s expertise or any sort of other assistance and how to find the right people to put around you to support you and that’s the u us them concept you i teach you individually as a non-profit professional what you need to be doing properly on linked in, if you cannot tell your own story. No one is going to tell it for you, or they might, and you won’t like what you see us is everybody collectively has a great linked in profile because they have each done the you part and you are in your organization organization, and that includes everybody from the e d down, and it also includes a board of directors. By the way, the board of directors needs to be the exemplary forces behind what makes the non-profit amazing. But when a donor looks at a non-profit and they see a disparate group of personalities all talking about weird stuff and all over the place, they get the position that the impression that i’ll look someplace else, i want to go someplace where they really have their acting looks disjointed, okay? And then them and them is everybody you haven’t touched yet or are in the process of approaching, cajoling, having them either part with their expertise, their money, their time, however you’re trying to get them involved, okay, us, then we’ll talk about who the who’s more specifically, who’s involved who’s, including the us is and the them’s as well, say little more. About this non-profits not thinking enough like business is not necessarily limited toe linked in, but that theme runs to the book way want to do this as a business? We need to be thinking about lincoln as a business would, as you said, it’s a little more about what you wish non-profit it would be more attentive, too. Okay, let’s start with the premise that non-profits are some of the largest industries industry groups in most countries at this point, especially the united states, so it is in itself a business force that must be reckoned with. It employs a very large number of people it operates and very many in many different ways, with different vendors with different services that it needs to understand but like most non-profits life, you send a donation in the old days, you mail the donation to a very large, medical oriented non-profit it took them six months to almost a year to send you a thank you note those types of disjointed messages that non-profits typically are involved with these days, their emails air disjointed, there’s, not any sort of organized marketing push. They’re all over the place they’re trying to do. The shotgun method to gather as many people as they possibly can they’re not thinking in the strong central voice like businesses think to market their services for their product. The cash flow issue is hugely important. Cash flow is what makes the organization run, whether it’s a for-profit or non-profit business, if there’s not enough money coming in, god knows it’s easy enough for the money to go out, then you have a disjointed issue i nova non-profit that everybody took an eight percent a salary cut this year came out of nowhere because they just weren’t pulling in enough revenue. The concept but talked behind this book is how do you approach the people who have the high net worth the business community who wants to donate money or services or expertise to benefit the non-profit how do you approach them and market your organisations mission beyond all the other competing missions and those people are on non-profit arlington, they should be many year altum have just a very poor resume looking linked in profile, they’ve done very little to make themselves stand out. No one will give money to somebody who doesn’t stand out i mean the’s. High net worth and well connected business people there’s you’re confident they’re unlinked. If you’re not, if you’re in business and you’re not on linked in these days, you don’t exist. That’s the fact and you may have a lousy profile, but you at least have a presence. You the non-profit people listening need to understand that you can march you khun look at linked in as a database and pol names and associations, and understand who knows whom to approach people that you want to use as the fulcrum that’s where you get the benefit of lincoln. All right, it’s time for a break. Go ahead. Published this month is pursuing e-giving outlook. They took the latest fund-raising reports boiled them down to the takeaways that you need in a concise content paper. The work is done for you. You can also watch the archive of their related webinar. You continue seeing video. Both are on the listener landing page which is at tony that m a slash pursuant with capital p for pursuing on doll sofer, please. Now, back to linked in marketing. Okay, thank you for being more precise and going deeper about the business orientation that that i think is essential also and and often lacking go just actually lacking a bit deep. Ok, then i won’t talk about your book, okay? So and in the book and i just go ahead, i’ve been called many things, like i said, um, there is a competition amongst non-profits for the attention span of the donor and for the money of the donor and today’s world just think about how your attention is being drawn to its political activities that you want to donate to that are very important to you, and maybe the animal rights or some other human rights or some other organization will take a step back in your mental acuity and your mental attention because something else is competing with you. The competition is absolutely huge non-profits don’t understand that they compete with other non-profits often they’re in the same building or they’re down the hall or there across the country, around the world and for profits understand the competition factor very, very well, and they slay themselves to make themselves more competitive. The concept in the book is written. I wrote many pages on the fact that you have to understand what makes you unique? Why you do what you do not explain what you do or who you do it for. But were is the gut the fire in your belly? All right. Why is that importance? And kalu bring other people into your mission. Then you engage with them. Okay, there’s, the competition let’s talk about ok. And that that’s actually an ideal segway to the you. Because you do talk about being what makes you unique. You refer to a simon. Is it cynic, cynics and sinek? Cynic? Yeah. His mantra is that we react to why cos do what they do, not what they do and he likes to use. Apple is an example of organs of a company that devoted to beautiful design and empowerment on dh. Even though it’s a multi billion dollar company you know, occupying sort of a fringe niche at least initially. And they like to play on that. So that’s, some of the why and why they’ve got such loyal like me. Apple’s users. So okay, so what? How do we use? Linked in to show how and why we do what we do, what drives us? What makes us unique? All right. Step back, simon cynic for those people who are not familiar with him, he has a book start with why? And he also has amazing ted talk that you can find on youtube. So those there for people who are s i c k e k, right? For those who were not familiar, you really need to absorb the concepts in simon cynics book or ted talk books or ted talk. He also uses people like nelson mandela, martin luther king, john f kennedy as examples as role models beyond apple. But for people who were trying to convey a a a a mission or a concept that people weren’t understanding at the time and the if they talked about what, what, what, what, what no one would buy-in when they talk about why it is central to our existence as a people or as a organization or is their mission, then people buy in, they see it on it in a more gut and mental level combined and that’s. What makes this more interesting for people too? Give more attention to something they’re not familiar with that makes you unique. That’s what way have we each have a story? Of perspective that brought us to the work we’re doing that’s, the uniqueness you want us to bring out and it’s the during one of our career. That brings us to where we are today many people in the nonprofit sector your career, but here you are non-profit radio, the culmination of your life to deal today as it is that i met you and we’ve worked together and those types of things i did not go to graduate school to go write two books and to be involved in non-profit i never thought that would happen, but my life has led me there. I need to tell that story. I have told that story on my linked in profile about what makes me go. Why i exceed expectations. One of my mantra is why i do what i do not what do i do? Because that’s a resume and that’s not interesting, but when i express in colorful, rich words using power verbs and if you need to find power rubes go google one hundred eighty five powerthru herbs, you’ll find a million power verbs out there use really intelligent language to convey where you’re coming from, where you came from in the past makes you who you are today so who you are today indicates where you’re going in the future don’t put your resume on linkedin tell your story that’s the what? Not the why? All right, so where do we do so now this? I’m not sure what it’s called, but the preview below your lincoln photograph where you just have one hundred twenty characters that what is that called candy on the headline that’s weighing one hundred twenty characters there? Yeah, it’s a challenge? Yeah, it’s probably the hardest going teo do a couple of sections, but that’s the toughest thing it’s the hardest thing because you have to collapse in my case like thirty five years of experience into one hundred twenty characters and that’s a challenge, four characters per year? No, not even not even even i wouldn’t even do that when i was around when i didn’t have a lot to sustain thirty, but the concept is you do not put something like director of development at x ray xero torque that doesn’t tell the person what they’re about to read it’s like the headline on the newspaper that’s you got it. Capture them to say that at the other end of the spectrum can we do we have to? Does everyone have to use the word passionate? I’m getting tired, seeing passionate, passionate, passionate and geek, passionate and geek thinking. It’s not a word i overused well, no, i wouldn’t use it for you experience. You know, there are other words to use that one hundred eighty five power verbs. Yeah, just find what makes you tick. Ask your colleagues, ask your friends, ask your entourage. How would you explain me? Or i’ve written this? Does it adequately explain that’s? Good. Ask them for their honest opinion and they’re with a really honest they’ll say, tony, this stinks or tony, you’re right, you’re almost there. You need to develop this, that of the other so that’s the headline on the newspaper they will not read beyond the headline unless you capture their attention at the headline the next section underneath it. If i could just further is what’s called your summer memory. Your summary is the lead paragraph of the newspaper article. This you have it’s wide open and you have a lot more characters working. Thousand powerthru thousand ok, that’s. For some people, that’s not enough for some people that’s a way to this’s where you use complete sentences is that start with the pronoun? I imagine that it’s just like me talking to you as i’m reading your linkedin profile, you’re speaking to somebody don’t make it look like a ready. I don’t like the personal pages that read like a wee a corporate, they read like a corporate paige, but it’s the personal pain or mr halpert, those this that’s really strange or, you know, he or she does that you’re talking to somebody you’re trying to make them want to engage with you, why push them off first and talk about and your summary the summation of what you do today and where you’re going in your future? This is not fun, it is not easy to write. We were all taught, many of us were taught not to talk about ourselves. So for some people, this is like pulling every tooth out of their head. You know, that’s why i’m a coach, i teach people how to do this as a coach to draw them out, get them out from under themselves as i like to say because most people are just stuck, they don’t know what to say, then you move farther down the linked in profile, and so so experiences next-gen experienced. So you’ve got this very short headline. You’ve got this elevator pitch type of summary, and then you talk about your experience, not in terms of what you accomplished at every job in every job you’ve ever had. But what are the main themes that brings you to where you are today? What does some of the things you learn that you have in your back and your pocket back pocket that you bring to the table is your value proposition. Where did you come from? The summation of your past experience makes you an engaged, understandable, great person to work with you today. My linkedin profile sucks. I was going to talk to you about that. But that’s ok. Really? Did you look at my yeah, of course i look, i look everybody’s. I mean the other conversation. Okay, um and mark this private coaching. So you do. Lincoln coaching. I mentioned private coaching is the most enjoyable of all the work i do. Okay, if you want help with your linked in profile, and i do that international pact with this, you know? Yeah, that’s, right. A team for god’s. Easy. All right, so you clearly don’t make it your resume. The experience section should be a lot more than a title organization and dates. I mean, that should be there in person. But you, you want the summation, this interesting, everything that brought you to to the value that you now contribute. Exactly. Yeah, and why you, in case you think i’m gonna take a lot of time. No one said this is easy or fun. Yeah, i said that. You said that in the book a few times. Yeah, all right, all right. Next after experience comes skills what for most people, yes. Okay, skills are things that you can actually improve upon. So don’t tell me that your skill is management that’s a big textbook on your spoke stand. Yeah, tell me that one of your skills is non-profit divestment management or because i’m george in jail. I put you in jail for that that’s okay non-profit divestment management. What is that? That is when people are working in non-profits to either divest some of their assets or to break their not large non-profit into pieces, these air skills, these things that are not easy, todo that’s donor-centric acquisition is a skill uh, sure, all any of this. If you don’t know what your skills are, look and see what your competitors skills are pretty quickly. Figure out what your skills are and go one better than your competitors and write your skills in terms of things you do on a regular basis every day. Keep a pad by your phone as you’re performing those skills, write it down because you don’t even realize you’re doing it is you’re doing it. I tell people to record their phone calls just on their end and then hear themselves back so the thing’s they’re asking people to do the things that we’re working with people to do thes air actual skills that we have that there are so innate and us we don’t even know it. But if you don’t tell people what you’re skills are, no one will ever know you have that skill and the other thing that’s really important about skills in addition to headline in addition to summary, you know, is that these air searchable terms on link, then so somebody’s looking to find somebody like you? They will use certain searchable skills in the search. They confined you on a shorter list. They can engage with you and find out are you the right to employees or you the right consultant? Is this something that you want to do on a board basis? Probono whatever that is. Okay, so this is just a big old database at the end of the day. Yeah, all right. Recording your calls. That sounds a little creepy. Using just one side. One side sabelo just to record my own. You want it? You want to play back? What? I saito clients. Potential clients. Exactly the sort of guests potential guests me coming back to this and listening to myself recording with you. I like to hear how i come across. Yeah, i like to see myself in a video and i want to talk about video as well. That’s a really important things. Very easy. Tio toe lincoln how do you come across how you viewed by others? It’s an out of body experience for most individuals, they can’t stand video, they can’t stand audio recordings of themselves work on that. This is a really important aspect. We’re due in twenty eighteen let’s do video since you mentioned it because i want to talk also about the head shot in the background, that banner, but video. Where do you get video into lengthen your linked in profile there two sections where you can add video? You can add it to your summary, just below it. How do you do that? There’s? A little, but the little so you’re insecure in editing. Now your head in your summary is summary, and it says advil eo click. You can either talk that’s. What says yes that’s just to warn you and you can either add it from your hard drive if you have it, download on your computer or were you going at it from the web? Easy. Best way to do it is to do it off of the youtube. So take whatever video you have. Put it on youtube channel. Pull it down over youtube. Channel in tow. Linked. It works like a dream every single time. In summary. In sodom editing the summary, i click the pencil. So it’s azad video. Yeah. All right. I’m gonna hold you. Okay? Where else you said there’s? Two sections. Where else, in your experience, each experience, various job you have. If you have video from that job, you can add a video pertinent to that job. Same thing at video. Take it off you two. My throat on their wellington sucks. I have hundreds of videos. You well, you ought to put him on now. Don’t go crazy. A lot of people for too much video get into video stagnation. But, you know, you don’t think every job should have a little video now. The most recent ones, i suppose. Yeah, and i keep rotating. I just did three videos for the cf a society. Here in new york, they came back to me. It really is a certified financial analysts. It was about finding job’s about what to do if you’ve been recently published. How do you put it on linked in what to do if you want to be a thought leader, how you can pull my other people’s articles and give your opinions on it and what to do and link tio the’s air three little video snippets i threw him up on my youtube channel, i pulled him down to my linked in profile under my job is a linked in trainer and evangelists, and they worked really, really well. Head shot headshot what’s your advice around that that’s, the little circle so what we see is the little circle. First of all, get a professional headshot. Do not do a iphone this’s those terrible you could tell them immediately don’t do a headshot anymore with a white background behind you, it just looks old. It was an older style. Put something with a scene or some suits if you’re an attorney or if you’re in a non-profit put something for the cause. It’s behind you on animal if you’re an animal rights have you know the animal? A picture of the animal behind and the banner you raise banner banner schnoll banner is blank your bandit on humiliated. I can’t even have a continuous conversation with this. This is great! My cough! I i’m humiliated. All right. What do you do with the banner? That’s? A big space. A big space it’s. Almost fourteen hundred pixels by six hundred pixels. You put an immediate image of what you do. You want to do you on radio like i’m looking at you right now. You in front of the microphones. You are? That is easy. I have done a mosaic of various photos of me in various aspects of what i do. It’s my headshot, though my little michel circle is me. If it’s a close up, though, i could do something broader. Do broader? Absolutely. You should do that with your speaking. I could have me there. You know a montage i think you mentioned in the book. Well, that’s. What i instead of instead of one one image for the batter, i could do a montage or a little more pieces from it. If it’s ah, thumbnails from your various videos we were talking about video before. Easy to do if you really can’t do this yourself, folks go to canvass, see envy a dot com and search for linked in banner could be easier going one. Drop it in dunaj okay, i don’t like people who go lazy on me, tony. No, no, no. I want you to do one the ten for you. Canvass. See? A well, i have a way of social manager. I think i could pull something you could’ve said. But all right, can va va dot com dot com for others for other people who need candidate comes asking for a friend. Alright, this’s. Excellent, excellent advice. But i mean, we’re going to get many gritty, and i’m focusing a lot on you because this is the basis of it. And then we moved to the organization and them, you know, that’s attracting. If you optimize the you end us, then the them is going to be there going. People are going to be finding you and and recognizing the value of your organizations, right? You’re going to do a great job. And that’s exactly what wallace about exactly. I read it. I know i just tries i’m disappointed in you surprised i’m disappointed at your shot. I don’t think i throw this thing together. I read it last night, but it could have been this morning. I don’t care the image i want a girl to take away from this part of the conversation is that many people in the non-profit community did not start in the non-profit community. This could be our anybody, hardly anybody. Millennials now are studying and becoming non-profit professionals from school and go into non-profits whole new environment, right? But many of us you were an attorney, i was a corporate finance guy. The journey is amazing how we got interested in all this stuff. This is what the story you have to tell in you. This is where i have come to, and this is where i have come from, and this is why i can offer you. So this is the past to the present, to the future orientation that you have to tell in new york. I’m not ready to move to the us, though. That was a very nice summation for the fact that i’m not ready for you to move to the oh, yeah, no, because the recommendation section. Okay, you have some advice on recommendations e-giving them soliciting them. Let’s talk about that. What’s your advice there, right? Let’s, take a step back to skills. People can endorse you for skills. That means they can come to your skill and they can click. Yes, i know tony has that skill, right? Many people think they’re doing you a really big favour with the endorse you for every single skill you have of which is not those they’re playing perfunctory skills. Well, when you improve your skills on your profile, then people will come to your skill section and say, yeah, tony really has that skill. Yeah. People you can weed out the people don’t really know you have this good. Why given image that people know you have that skill when they really don’t? And they could only because embarrassment when people really want to put words on paper or electrons, they want to write you. You want a recommendation? You’ve done some really great work for somebody. They call you up and they say, tony, great job really appreciate you save there. But thank you and that’s the time you say to them on the phone it’s my pleasure. I’m going to ask you two, please write a recommendation for me on lengthen. I’ll start the whole process with ewan lincoln. Of course it presumes you’re connected on link there i’ll tell you along the lines of what i’d like to include you send it to that person for their recommendation. Humans being humans not having a lot of time being a little bit lazy, basically going to get back what you asked for asking for recommendation with the right wording in the recommendation ensures your success in getting back a recommendation if you just say the somebody hey, write me a recommendation. You’re going get garbage back. Mark is a really great guy. Mark did a really good job here, but we live that’s boring. That’s not good stuff. You want somebody to use an anecdote, a situation where yeoman work really great work was done. And you were the one who did it. And someone else a pining about how well you did. That is really, really valuable. Yeah. Uh, there’s so much of that throughout the web. Recommendations from yelp too. Latto linked in. All right. And content fresh. We just have about a minute before break. We gotta keep our content fresh, always rotating videos. What else can we do? Well, we can post about our work. Well, that’s, what i did, i’m posting yesterday, and i’m going to be on tony martignetti is radio show. And i commented and you did, and i appreciate that. And tomorrow, on top of on monday when this is actually recorded, hey, if you’re honest, you know i want you to have a look. You have a listen in that type of thing. There are so many ways i read an article that i really want to share with other people you’re selling, plop it out there and share it. You tell in the comments, why it’s important? Because if you’re a thought leader and people believe in what you’re talking about, then you telling them to read this article will make them want to read the article. All right, you take a break, regular cps. Now i’m getting personal about wagner. You eat huge tomb. He’s a partner there. He’s. Been a guest here. Check out the firm, then talk to eat. Why? I talked to a very good guy. No pressure. I wouldn’t have it. Why wouldn’t allow it if he was high pressure? He’s not. He’ll explain how wagner can help you with all the stuff that cps do and how they go beyond the numbers. Tete, check out regular cpas. Dot com now, tony state too. Next week is our four hundred show. I want you to be a part of it in line with what mark and i are talking about actually sharing your unique story. I want you to share your story of how you got into non-profit worked like we’re saying nobody. Well, very few people now. I grew up planning this as a career. What got you in? I’m going to read the top two stories on air, so you will be part of the four hundredth show. You will live forever in the non-profit radio archive. Plus, you win a bag of pure coffee. Are four hundred, show sponsor cure a coffee. So my video explaining all this is at twenty martignetti dot com where you can comment to leave your story there. Share it there, and it’ll be part of our four hundredth show. Um, you can you can hit me on linkedin too, if you like. Share your story. Let me know how you got into non-profits now go back to mark alpert and linked in marketing. Okay, we’re going to live. Listen, love, but not right now, okay? All right, s i wanted your yes, i wanted you advice on practices for recommendations. Thank you. Okay. Taking back charge of the show now. Now we’ll move, teo. But already we move. I’m ready, but i’m not ready for you now. Ok, i’m ready. You’re ready? I’m ready. It doesn’t matter. Let’s, go. We’ll go though we’re going. All right. Who are the us? Is you mentioned? The executive director needs to be optimized linked in. So all this all this you advice we just talked about applies to who each individual in organization that has a public face. If you touch the public, you should have a great linked in profile for and on behalf of your organization. Because one loose link in the chain makes the change terrible week. Yeah, it’s only strong as the weakest link. All right, so on ly, if you’re public facing, i mean, you could be. It could be a back, you’ll be data administrator or something that most people have one, anyway, should let’s concentrate on the with the public face let’s, be sure that the public is seeing the organization at its best that this story’s air consistent the examples that people are citing are consistent, but they’re using their own words their own intonation in showing what they want to show about themselves, often in non-profit e of people have been there for a long time. They’ve all come through the door, you know, through the grasses together they’ve grown up together. This becomes something that they can talk about individually, what they’ve learned and how they developed in the organization, all within the mission of the organization. But if you have one really great linked in profile and you have several orm or really poor linkedin profiles, an individual can look at everybody in that organizations linked in profile and see that it’s disjointed. When it’s disjointed, they lose faith, they lose faith, they lose interest and they probably are going to donate whatever you’re looking for them to donate that’s the us. The book has three case studies with family centers wave and why and unicef wave what is it? Waving? Waive any it’s, not wave. And why no nights not only to your down your work, you know, v and why that’s wave and why waving me so even direct too. But i mean half of my friends and wave me there’s going to be leaving? Why? There are only listening. I’m color i thought the senate and eunice if i don’t want to cut off, i said yourself united nation international children emergency fund everyone knows that very all right on one of them, one or two of them the you profile, the communications, marketing people there. Or that you are asking them questions and profiling the organization and how it uses linked in smartly one or two of them says said that they provide content four individuals to use on their their personal pages, i think optionally and no, nobody mandated it. But they like that out of shared drive of content that you can put in your in your personal page. So that’s, one way of we’re gonna be optimized and having a consistent message exactly right works really, really well, a lot of for-profit ce do. This is well, their managers in the organization that read articles or know what’s going on in the company and their articles that are written about people in the company and it helps keep the met, the message organized. And then when there’s a hot topic that comes up in the industry or in the non-profit little world, they can pull that article really quickly, send it out to the various people who are using leaked in on an effective basis, and have them push that article out with an introduction of personalized introduction in their own words saying, this is what we do. This is why we do it. Unicef there’s a crisis anywhere in the world any day of the of the year. They have a shared organizational effort to send out material so that people don’t have to recreate the wheel. It doesn’t make sense. Okay, so that’s one it’s simple. One method is simple. Starting content. I know what it was about. Wave at it spelled w v. And why? And the why is not capital. But i just assumed that that was a misprint. A typographical error in my book. Come now. Yeah. There were a couple money. No. But i thought that was one i thought this way. I thought the end was supposed be capitalized. I just assumed you typed it. Wrong way. Vinnie is a very i know and elder elder’s center for people who are multiple centers across the spectrum from assisted living to five star nursing care really read waving and i guess i owe him that much i know you are since i thought they were waving. Why i owe them that much of a shout out. Okay? Damn hyre you mentioned onboarding or maybe it’s in the case studies onboarding new employees making sure that they follow the the the organization page. Andi also, i think it’s in one case studies orienting them about what we what are expectations are around your personal linked in now that you work for us if we start talking about that, i don’t think any of your clothes i think that’s very common. It’s joining the club, it’s toeing the line. This is what we do. This is how we communicate with the world. This is what we’d like you to understand, but if you can’t communicate it yet, you’re too new. Learn it, learn it. From one source, instead of having it from disparate sources. So it’s great for onboarding it’s great for bringing in a new boardmember it’s great for bringing in having the new executive director understand from the outside, only great you’re saying it is essential you want us for new on new employees knew our new volunteers. It makes perf boardmember zoho doesn’t make sense. Every organization needs tto have it’s company profile pages of what linked in calls there it’s, a micro website just for the organization so you you can be a part of and follow and organizations company profile page and the company of the organization can communicate through that profile page any news that they have any new project they’re working on whatever there the volunteer appreciation day is with pictures and videos and all that, and everybody who follows that organizations company profile page gets that message through linked in so it’s just yet another way to reinforce the marketing and the branding of the organization of the central let’s talk about the profile, the company profile page now the non-profit paige, we’re talking about the individual what you could do to optimize all yours all your individual ones for the company page. Obviously, we talked about following sharing it you want you want staff and volunteers in boardmember to share the non-profit paid absolutely. You can share the earl of the non-profit page. You could put it in your signature of your email. See what we’re doing today at our organization’s linked in company profile page. Any business person is going to recognize that’s another place to get information on the organization. Ultimately, you’re trying to reinforce a consistent message in the us through the company profile pages one tool or just having fairly consistent messaging for each individual as a well, we want to bump bonem can’t hurt to send it twice in one item i want optimize our our corporate page. Is it called the corporate page? Goodcompany probono latto we want to optimize our company, the profile page are numbered, but we also want all the individuals right optimized so i want the ah ha moment when an individual who was outside your organization reads and sees that there’s a consistent, organized message. Why? Because so few non-profits do this, you’ll stand stand out exactly right let’s, let’s more about the company. Profile page employees can contribute to it. They can you can empower employees tio to make contributions and, you know, depending on what you may not have a marketing communications staff. Duvette but you’re encouraging individual employees to contribute, but you want to have one adamant in the organization be responsible for the company profile coming to consider one boy, but he’s got all right. Somebody should vet it has to be done that way. Okay, okay, but it becomes something that people can point to and be proud of and that’s really, and you want to see fresh content on there just like you do on the company facebook. But you know, the organization facebook page, your link things, your twitter stream, of course, fresh content, family centers, those that wave and he does that you mean stuff? Does that that’s why i really chose these three? Because they do the very best off almost everything they should be doing on linked in these are not the first two are not large organizations, of course unicef is immense, but they doing the two small organisations, they’re doing every bit as good a job with just one person being responsible. For all the outbound marketing and branding, using lincoln is just one tool. In doing that they use facebook, they used twitter charge they use instagram, but they’re using linked in to communicate with the corporate sector. That’s where the high net worth individuals are going to give the big bucks or give the great expertise that they’re looking for that they need you in the organs and your friends is that when a cz these people are doing their research, they’re going to look for you on linkedin exactly because they’re using linked in all day, every day anyway in their office. That’s what business people use all the time just just a nout growth of using yeah, you know, i don’t know if that’s widely known among non-profits that people in the corporate sector are using linkedin routinely. Yes, yeah, that when they come in in the warning, they turn on their e mail, they turn on their internet and they go to rightto link todo many of them. They want to see it getting any messages through linkedin if they’re looking for a job if they’re looking for it, even if you’re not looking, yeah it’s, it’s there, it’s a tool it’s, a communications medium that business people used to speak to other business people, they’re vetting uh, vendors, they’re looking at consultants, they’re seeing who knows whom and how they can get to that next person that they want to influence. This is the tool, i don’t think that’s, widely known in the non-profit community that the corporate community is using linking so widely, yeah, that’s, that’s the premise of this book that if you want to get to the high net worth big giver, you gotta talk the language, the high net worth big givers using all the time you have to be where they are. Of course not don’t make them think too hard don’t make them work too hard, put it on, linked in over there already there in any way and that’s common sense, unfortunately not appreciate. Well, yeah, but we’ve had we’ve had social media guests say you’ve got to go where, where your constituents way audiences are not where you want them to be, right? So your point is and it’s not only high net worth donors, but maybe you know this could applied any major donor new, new major. Donor looking at the organization. That they’re going to do research on you on linked in there, they’re less likely to go to your twitter stream then they are just like for your for your facebook because they use that at different times of the day. Lincoln is open business hours, primarily it’s open twenty four seven, of course, but it’s used by people on their screen while they’re sitting in business. You’re going to them. You’re seeing the usage statistics. I mean, you see that it’s tze predominately a nine to five. There are times when it is busier than others. It takes it it’s quieter saturday and sundays. Yeah, but it’s clear it wasn’t clear, not really. Nine to five monday through friday, depending on the time zone people are in, right? Yeah, there’s, there’s a lot of use and people are learning how to use linked in for purposes it wasn’t intended, which is good because they’re using creative ways to engage with each other. Who’s going to a meeting? I’m going to a networking event. Who’s gonna be there. Who do i want to meet? Who’s part of this organization doing this, of course, is not aspirational know there’s going on. This is going on. This is absolute this’s, and the better your linked in profile is, the more apt ur or possible it is that you’re going to meet somebody good, and you’re going to find somebody good to meet. So you want to have this all optimized, you know, as you’re approaching new potential volunteers a cz you’re approaching, we haven’t gotten to them yet, but corporate sponsors also local businesses. I’ve got i’ve got a i’ve got a vendor coming in this afternoon. I don’t know a thing about this person or what the organization does. Somebody said you need to see them or give ref averted onto me. They’ve got a product to seem interesting. I want to know more about them before they actually walk yet. So you do your research up front, you could have a much better conversation during that sales call and get to the nitty gray. You know what they’re about? They’ve probably read your linked in profile to at the non-profit level. They know what you’re all about, it’s all about sale that part i understand, right? It’s, the business it’s the business people using lincoln so so commonly that i don’t like i said, i don’t think it’s so widely known. All right, all right. We have, like just a minute or so men and a half before the break. You talk about something i was not aware of in the company profile page. A showcase showcase. Sub page. Yes. What is this? My book is a showcase sub page on my company profile page. I can take a product or service and i could give it extra extra notoriety on my linked in profile company profile page. And you can see just about that little last. How do we create a sub sub showcase? Okay, the admin on the company profile page is the one who lords over the right. Okay, spaces, you should guard. They goto says, creates showcase page bank it’s done. Says where on the company profile page on the admin is paige. Oh, head men see a different aspect of the company profile pictures. Got everybody else is okay. All right. So look for the showcase some page and you can put all kinds of content in their absolute video to video audio. Yes. Pdf. Slide deck you anything you want? You spend a couple. Of pages talking about all the different formats from everything you mentioned to png die what people don’t know they don’t have dozens of formats that lincoln will accept if you don’t have a visually interesting linked in profile, you know people walk away that’s the concept okay? Gonna take a break this time for tell us i have a new tell us moughniyah ll and this one is from a company talking about companies tell us has allowed my business to support my favorite charity without even feeling the pinch of writing a check. I am donating money every month that i would have spent on credit card processing anyway. And quote, you heard me say it. 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And there are all these little nooks and crannies that people don’t know about. So i blawg every business day about a nuclear cranny. Alright, richard block my blood is connect the number to collaborate. Dot com yeah, you go to lincoln nuggets on that page and you can subscribe for free. You get something every morning at eight a, m eastern time every single business day. It’s if it’s not something new, i’ve got three good new things that came out for monday, tuesday, wednesday, coming up next week. And then i also talk about things in my life for other people’s lives that are linked in oriented, this always a linked in twist to what i write about. Okay, that’s, we get the good stuff. Well, the good stuff is here and non-profit radio we’re talking about almost holdout on non-profit radio listeners, almost this good stuff. You don’t do it every business that no, but they’re getting good stuff from you right now for analysis so much the better all right. Don’t hold out on non-profit idealist. I should never i won’t have it okay to them. S o basically, your premise is that thes people who are potential volunteers, board members, donors, advocates and one way or another, supporters generally are going to be using if they’re in the business world going to using linked in tow. Look at you two reach to do their due diligence. And obviously, it’s got to be optimized the way we’ve talked about individually and organizationally. All right, this is so this is their first impression. They may very well be their first impression of you. Gotta be strong. Don’t make it there only impression. Yeah. Keep the oppressions consistent and regular and tell your story. The more people see things, the more they remember them. They’re not gonna remember any of you want to get to the why? How always, why always why? Why should i want to help you? You talk about some other them’s in the book that i haven’t rattled off yet. Listen, rattle off a few yourself. Well, i just happen to have the book right in front of me and that’s. Why, you let’s talk? About some them we talked about donors, we talked about corporate sponsors, corporate sponsors are huge, you know they’re going to definitely big money. They’re based on what you’re saying oversignt competition back to my competition comments, you have to show the business that is going to be a corporate sponsor on linked in which is a medium they understand where your value is and how they can be a part of making the world a better place. You have something in a book called cooperative in court. Is that is that a misprint? I’ll be the one dish, my world, my word, it’s, a portmanteau oh, it’s a portmanteau you’re doing that there was a misprint again, like, wait, you’re even new york. Yeah, coop oppcoll hour to swap a tours, tours the has the noun of the challenge and warm of the adjective cooper cooper. What is it? Coop petition competition petition is cooperative you as an individual in the non-profit working with in a community of non-profit professionals, other people on a collaborative basis, though you may compete for the same donordigital. And this is a really important thing. Is there’s a very there’s a lot of comment that bill broker makes in the case study about family centers about how they’re working on community aspects and working with other organisations in the community the’s, air cooperative action players with bill and so, as if we work together, we could do things better, and then we have to understand who our competition is and how to approach them and that’s the premise of the chapter on coop petition so does so does coop it? Er begin as a competitive er and then you coop them into being a cop it er it’s a process, because if i’m to go up there, if i am to coop, if i’m competing with somebody, my guard is up, i’m not really ready to collaborate until i understand how they can help me and i can help them, but mostly how they can help mei that’s human nature when i see in their linked in profile that they are actually doing something that resonates with me, though they may compete for donorsearch vollers, we can do things better and that’s people that most people don’t even. Recognize as people that that could be assistant helpful. I want to flush that with a little more. Okay, yeah, that seems like, uh, i mean, you have to be very gentle about how you start, recommend a or offering teo cooperate with competitors dahna business all the time. Yeah, not really done in non-profit i know another business concept they bring from my experience and from what i’m seeing in the market to bring to non-profits so just help make things a little bit more intellectually interesting. How might you initially approach? Ah, competitors to tryto coop them into a being a coop it er first i search for them on linked in using keywords, we talked about keywords before search engine optimization. Keywords are your skills and words that you use in your headline your summary and you experience. I would make a short list of the people in my general area if you are in a geographic mode and you khun see and read their profile and understand where there are overlapping areas of interest were there overlapping connections. The people you both know with their overlapping areas ofthe need because we’re all talking are not lincoln. Profiles about the things we want to do to make the world a better place. And then you can approach them. You, khun, send them a request to connect. You can call them up on the phone. You can have coffee with him. You connect with them if they were deserving of your connection. You just don’t connect anything that moves. Because that’s just not a good thing to do. And then you continue to send the material. Hey, tony, we talked to coffee about this, that of the other here’s, an article i just came across. What do you think? And the more you send to me and i send to you the stronger our allegiance becomes to each other, even though we’re competitors were able to collaborate on certain areas. And we build trust between us. And this is unique to some people have never even thought of doing this before, because we’re all hunkered down in their nine to five. But there’s a greater need for not want non-profit professionals to be professional with each other and to help each other along the way. It’s a tremendous effort. All right, i made you tigress twice. That’s. Why? I asked you, but we’re coming back to it. I keep a mental map of where we’re headed, so you’re going to listen more them’s. Okay, so more talk about people who make decisions on grants. You know, we haven’t talked about foundations, of course foundations. They’re certainly going toe look atyou. Think then it’s probably not probably not enough of them actually asking. What is your linked in profile, earl on the grant application, but there’s probably going to be some of them were going to take another look. Well, even if they look, they look well, be looking well within their right to go beyond the four corners of the applications, right? And if they are corporate oriented, they’re gonna be looking or they come from the corporate world into the non-profit well, they’re going to be looking, um, plan e-giving you know, a lot of attorneys and a little about that. I know you do. You know, a lot of attorneys who work with givers, they want to show givers who are typically might be corporate people. They might have retired from a great corporate career, how this all works name one more and then we got to wrap it up, how about the press? Linkedin is god’s gift to the press because when they need something fast, they’re looking and if your profiles great, you’re going to get more press, better press and you’re going to get a story if you can convince somebody why you have something to say. Mork alpert, the owner of connect to collaborate at connect the number to collaborate dot com the book is you us, them linked in marketing concepts for non-profit professionals who really want to make a difference, thanks so much more helpers are available on amazon, in paper and in kindle. I just had to throw that and thank you for having me. You’re well, good to have you back next week. 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