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Automating Donor Cultivation

How can automation help you cultivate more donors?

Automation can give you more time to spend building relationships and help you deliver the right messages to the right audiences at the right time. But how do you start using it? What kind of communication can you trigger with automation workflows? How do you use it to create connections and guide donor journeys? This week on The Responsive Weekly, Isabelle Brauer of Whole Whale joined us to talk about automated donor cultivation.

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Top Takeaways

  • It’s worth taking the time to learn how to use your automation tools before you dive into creating communications
  • Focus on your owned channels, like your website and email lists
  • Segmentation is the key to personalizing
  • Automation doesn’t just apply to email. SEO and website processes can be automated, too.
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Megan Donahue
Megan Donahue is a writer specializing in all things nonprofit, content strategy, and the intersection of nonprofits and technology.

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