Direct Mail

Getting Your 46 Cents Worth
April 25, 2013

I am a firm believer that receipts have an important purpose in our fundraising strategy and should be mailed quickly after (almost) every donation. Here's why.

Copywriting? Use More Paint
April 15, 2013

There's great power in your words. But to find it, you must, as the Second Apparition told Macbeth, "Be bloody, bold and resolute."

Richard Nixon: Copywriter
April 8, 2013

If we want to motivate readers — get them to the emotional state we want them be in when we ask for money — this is how we have to talk to them. "We've got to. It's all we can do. We have no other choice."