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Nonprofit Messaging Crisis
Cripples 7 in 10 Organizations

• Most nonprofit communicators admit their messages fail to connect with the people they need to engage as donors, partner, volunteers and more.
• Poor messaging holding back nonprofits from achieving the change they seek.

Dear Nonprofit Communicator:

Most nonprofits are facing an overwhelming marketing crisis: 76% of 1,566 nonprofit communicators we surveyed said their key messages were hard to remember.

Only 29% rated their messages as working well. And less than 50% report consistent use of their core messages.

I don’t think I need to tell you what a real crisis these survey results paint.

I’ve been working with nonprofits and foundations for more than 15 years on these very issues. Nearly every one of my clients faced these kinds of messaging problems.

But until this survey, I had no idea how widespread this malaise of mediocre messaging is and, worse, the obvious detrimental impact it is having every day.

You and your organization are in this business to bring about change in your field. Good messaging equals social change. And poor messaging equals no change.

But if you can’t engage the people you need to start the conversations that build your base of loyal supporters, then you’re getting nowhere.

Think about it…

When weak messages fail time and time again to spark conversation with target audiences, there’s no way you’ll be able to build the kind of mutually-satisfying relationship with a passionate base needed to conquer your organization’s overall goals.

Effective messages are the only way your organization will connect strongly with the very folks you need to engage to move your mission forward.

I’m Convinced of the Power of Effective Marketing,
and Hate to See Organizations Miss Out on this
Reliable Path to Success

My name is Nancy Schwartz and I’m the president of nonprofit marketing firm Nancy Schwartz & Company, and publisher of the Getting Attention blog and e-newsletter. Most importantly, I’ve had the privilege of guiding nonprofit organizations and grantmakers to success via effective marketing.

I’ve worked with hundreds of nonprofits and dozens of foundations to put communications to work to achieve their organizational goals. That’s usually focused on helping them engage prospective donors, volunteers, grantees, partners, citizen advocates and other target audiences.

There’s so much potential for nonprofit organizations that do it right. (And a huge missed opportunity to those that dismiss its validity, have fear of marketing and/or are unwilling to invest the time and money it takes.) That’s why I find the work so gratifying.

From time to time, I do periodic surveys of nonprofit communicators (those who focus on communications full-time, and those for whom it’s just one part of a broader set of responsibilities). I quiz them about what’s working and what’s not.

In late 2012, I surveyed you and your colleagues on your organization’s messaging. How are your messages working overall? And the effectiveness of each element, from your tagline to talking points? What are your greatest barriers to developing effective messaging? How consistently do you use each type of message?

That’s how I arrived at the realization of how serious this nonprofit messaging crisis is.

I’ve been struggling with how best to respond to the new insights revealed in the survey.

I could see that you and your colleagues need assistance crafting messages that do connect, and getting the insights, buy-in and support from your leadership and colleagues to ensure your messages motivate the actions you need.

But I didn’t know what I could do about it.

You see, I consult with no more than five to eight client organizations annually. That’s all I have time for because of the in-depth approach I take, and the ongoing relationships I maintain with some of these clients. So I knew there was no way for me to consult with all the organizations striving to solve this messaging problem.

After a lot of thinking, reviewing models and brainstorming with my prized set of advisers, I’ve come up with a good solution. I can work together with a small group of nonprofit communicators to lead them through the core messaging needs highlighted by the survey results.

And the obvious place to start – the pinnacle of every organization’s message platform –is its tagline. It’s the hands-down, briefest and most important message you have, but 72% of nonprofit organizations say they don’t have one that works, or don’t have one at all!

What If You Could Fix a
Major Barrier to Your Organization’s Success – And Do It with
Hands-On Guidance from an
Expert Who Has Solved that Problem Dozens of Times?

Now you can, with our new program–the Tagline Focus Project.

Here’s what’s so different about this turnkey program:

• You’ll get step-by-step guidance through the entire tagline development process, from research to building understanding and support among colleagues, from creative brainstorming to launch of a tagline that will connect with the people your organization needs to engage
  • You’ll create a tagline, not just learn about it.
• But your gains will go beyond your tagline. You’ll walk away with:
  • The message development skills to craft additional messages for your organization, programs and services.
  • The ability to mobilize your colleagues and volunteers into a powerful corps of messengers

I’m going to tell you more about the Tagline Focus Project later on. But first I want to explain why every nonprofit organization needs a powerful message platform.

Does your organization succeed in starting conversations you need to build a base of loyal supporters?

Probably not UNLESS you reach out with compelling, relevant and consistent messages.

Relevance (i.e., connection) is a must-have to start a conversation or keep one going.

If your messages are off and/or used inconsistently, your organization will fail to engage your base. You’ll motivate a giant “who cares.” And if you can’t even start or maintain that conversation, there’s no way you’ll motivate them to act – give, volunteer, register or advocate.

But that’s where most organizations are today. This dismal success rate is even worse than it looks since it’s not due to lack of effort. Survey respondents report working extremely hard to achieve their marketing goals: huge effort with minimal results.

Messaging Mastery Is Within Your Grasp –You Have the
Skills, Budget and Time It Takes and It Will Be a
Huge Gain for Your Organization, at a
Reasonable Investment!

I’m always interested to meet nonprofit communicators who are putting marketing to work to help their organizations reach their goals. These are strategic thinkers – folks who, as busy as they are, know it’s a must to understand the landscape in which they’re working in.

Because it’s crystal clear that through some focused work, they can find ways to connect with the wants and interests of the base they have and need to grow. And it’s no mystery how to do it – it just takes intention and grit.

And I have a way to help you get there, beginning with your organization’s tagline.

Breakthrough Messaging: Time for a Tagline Revolution –
Because a Tagline is a Terrible Thing to Waste

A nonprofit organization’s tagline is, next to its name, the marketing message most frequently heard, and the easiest and most effective way to convey its brand. That’s why your tagline sits right at the top of the Breakthrough Messaging Platform, right after your organization’s name.

A strong tagline complements your organization’s name to convey its unique value or impact with personality, passion and commitment—ideally in eight words or less.

But when you fail to make the most of your tagline, you’re basically throwing that opportunity away.

Believe it or not, according to our survey, that’s most of you. 71% of organizations have a tagline that works poorly or doesn’t work at all. Here’s the good news: That’s a failing you have the power to change by enrolling in the Message Focus Project now.

Introducing the Tagline Focus Project:
Now There’s a Focused, Proven Way for You to
Master the Message Development Process and
Deliver a Compelling Tagline in
Only 6 Weeks

You’re hearing me right. Now there’s an opportunity for you to walk away with a relevant, memorable, and tested tagline for your organization, in only six weeks: Just participate in the Tagline Focus Project (TFP).

Here’s what’s unique about this turnkey program:

You Participate in an Intensive Mix of Small Group Meetings, One-to-One Coaching, and Individualized Assignments and Critiques: Education researchers conclude time and time again that a learning agenda comprised of various formats works best.

You Craft a High-Impact Tagline, Rather than Just Learning How to Do It: This isn’t just another one-off webinar or tele-seminar series or one-day workshop where you learn about a new marketing strategy. The problem with that approach is that most participants don’t ever implement. There are just too many day-to-day must-dos to get to it.

TFP participation is all about delivering a tagline that’s ready to go, not just about learning how to do it. You’ll walk away with a tested tagline for your organization and the knowledge to develop others for specific programs or audience groups (a highly-valued strong and absolutely transferable skill).

Here are the elements that make me confident enough to guarantee that Tagline Focus Project will deliver for you:

• Expert guidance through the entire tagline creation process from messaging guru Nancy Schwartz (that’s me), nonprofit marketing expert and publisher of the Getting Attention e-newsletter and blog. I’ve crafted dozens of taglines that work, for nonprofit organizations and associations so I know how the process works. You benefit from my experience.
• Opportunity to work together with a small group of peers (no more than 12) working towards a common goal. No matter where you get stuck in the process, they’ll help you get rolling again with the brainstorming, models or inspiration you need.
• One-to-one attention from me, including a kick-off call, regular office hours, a mid-project brainstorming call, and a critique of your top three tagline drafts.
• Participation in three online group meetings/webinars and access to the webinar recordings for review at your convenience and to share with colleagues.
• Proven templates and worksheets for your use in every step along the way—from surveying your audience, to running your organization’s brainstorming meeting and putting your tagline to work. Templates include an online questionnaire to gather insights from your colleagues, leadership and volunteers; and a customizable slide deck to use in your tagline brainstorming meeting.
• Thorough critique of your tagline drafts and suggestions for improvement.

Only 20 Minutes a Day to Create a High-Impact Tagline

Crafting an effective tagline isn’t the mystery most folks think it is, or a black hole time suck. When you’re guided through the TFP tagline development process, you’ll get the direction, motivation, guidance, templates and support you need to get and keep going. And it won’t take you more than 20 minutes a day.

Here’s the TFP fuel that’ll propel you to messaging mastery—you’ll learn how to:

1. Hone the Baseline Skills You Need for Tagline Power

• Strengthen your understanding of what makes a tagline effective and what it takes to develop one.
• Increase your confidence in spearheading the process.

2. Define the foundation, and then four corners of your tagline development process.

• Your organization’s values and wants and the foundation of the process.
• These are the four corners of the tagline development process:
  • Goals
  • Target audiences you need to engage to reach those goals, and their values and wants
  • Tagline team members.
  • Greatest challenges your organization faces as you move through the tagline development process. So you can work, from the very beginning, to address those challenges.

3. Map the landscape you’ll be launching into.

• Research taglines of:
  • Top organizations competing for same attention and action.
  • Like organizations (e.g. in other regions) not competing for same audience’s engagement.
• So you see what works and what doesn’t.
  • Get some ideas you can build from.
  • Avoid duplicating competitor’s messaging.

4. Build colleagues’ and leadership’s understanding and support.

• Craft your case for how a powerful tagline benefits your organization.
  • A strong case is necessary to nurture leadership and colleague support, investment in the process, and to develop this group as a corps of tagline messengers.
  • Doing so will also build understanding of (and support for) related marketing initiatives.
• Counter objections.

5. Know your target audiences to ensure connection (the first step to convincing).

• Identify three or fewer groups you have to engage to meet your goals.
• Launch a brief online survey to get to know them better.
• Learn their wants, habits and preferences.

6. Draft initial tagline concepts.

• You and the entire team.
• Based on your initial plan and what you learn from related organizations.

7. Lead your colleagues in a compelling tagline brainstorming session.

• The value of a tagline team—buy-in, insight, support, messengers.
• Key roles and responsibilities.
• Essentials for a productive team tagline meeting.
  • Each team member circulates drafts a few days before the meeting.
  • Handouts distributed before the meeting (ready to download).
    • Audience research findings.
    • Related organizations’ taglines.
  • Slide deck (all you have to do is customize it).

8. Produce tagline drafts—during team meeting.

• 10 to 20 drafts.
• Select 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd top picks to submit for critique.

9. Refine your tagline for greatest impact.

• Based on feedback from tagline coach Nancy Schwartz.

10. Launch your tagline for the greatest bang.

• Test it out in conversation and refine.
• Roll it out online, offline and in conversation.

11. Train colleagues and supporters as tagline messengers.

7 Reasons Why Message Development Mastery
Leads to Marketing Victory

1. Because Your Nonprofit’s Name Alone Isn’t Enough
You’ve been there.

You’ve got to explain what your organization does and the difference it makes in just a few seconds, but that’s just not enough time to deliver your 60-second elevator pitch. Many organizations expect their names to broadcast what it is they do. Trouble is, they frequently don’t. That’s where a strong tagline comes in.

2. Because It’s Essential to Continue to Invest in Your Organization’s Brand
Regardless of how well your organization is doing even in these tough times, it’s an essential truism that every nonprofit needs to continue to invest. You can never take for granted your positioning in relation to other organizations competing for the same dollars, volunteer time, program participation and attention. You need to continue to stand out.

You’ve got to stay relevant, keep adding value and continue satisfying your supporters. The right tagline helps you achieve just that.

3. Because a Compelling Tagline Ensures Your Organization Connects Strongly with Supporters and Prospects.
It’s hands-down the briefest, easiest and most powerful way to make a memorable (and repeatable) initial connection or re-connection; all in eight words or less.

4. Because Your Strong Tagline Puts You Ahead of Your Competitors—In the Top 19%!
In a recent survey, 71% of organizations said their taglines are ineffective or they don’t have one. With a strong tagline in hand, you’re already way ahead.

5. Because There’s a Clear ROI You Can Measure
A potent tagline works on two levels. First, you’re connecting strongly with prospective or current supporters in a memorable (and repeatable) instant. That alone is worth the investment. Secondly, of course, is the value of the resultant growth in donations, program participants, volunteers and others.

There’s soft ROI (return on investment) and hard ROI. Your soft ROI is the “aha” your new tagline generates in conversation or when it’s read by a first-time visitor to your website.

Your hard ROI comes from testing the new tagline (in a web page, direct mail package and/or e-alert) vs. the existing one or lack of one. So it’s not difficult to look back at the end of the year and review the cost of your participation in the TFP and the increase in the level of connection and action, and then calculate what should be a positive ROI. In addition, when you start benchmarking your messages, and tracking what works over time, you’ll be able to pinpoint the messages that work best to increase marketing results across campaigns and programs.

6. Because Shaping a Potent Tagline Builds a Foundation for Future Message Development—Your Entire Message Platform
Messages in all their forms are pretty much the essence of communications. If your messages connect, your organization is much more likely to motivate your network to act.

Learning how to craft a tagline equips you with the skills to write high-power taglines for your organization’s programs, services and campaigns, so those marketing agendas are equally successful; and gives you a great base to work from in writing the other key components of your organization’s (and programs/services/campaigns) message platform—the positioning statement and talking points.

7. Because It’s a Must-Have Skill for Every Highly-Valued Nonprofit Communicator
There’s simply no doubt that nonprofit communicators (and I mean you, whether you focus on communications 100%, 50% or 10% of your time) who know how to shape messages that connect are more skilled than those who don’t. More skills lead to greater professional success and increased value for your organization.

What People Say About the Tagline Focus Project

Nancy Schwartz, 15-year nonprofit marketing veteran (as a consultant, board member, volunteer and on staff) has crafted the ultimate learning program for every nonprofit organization seeking to improve its connection with key audiences.

There’s never been a message development resource that is so thorough, so effective and such a good investment. That’s because Nancy Schwartz is known as the “tagline queen,” a title gained through her creation of the Getting Attention.org Nonprofit Tagline Awards program, and her subsequent launch of the Nonprofit Tagline Report and Database.

Here’s what recent Tagline Focus Project participants have to say:

 

 

 

 

Here’s What You Can Expect when You Join the
Tagline Focus Project—The Turnkey Learning Program for
Messaging Mastery

Now that I’ve introduced you to the Tagline Focus Project, let me explain what you’ll get when you participate in this private group-learning program:

Note: No worries if you have to miss one of the live webinars. You’ll receive video and audio recordings of each webinar within a day. And, if you are away for one of the assignments, we’ll make it easy for you to catch up.

Welcome and First Assignment – On registration

You’ll be welcomed with:

Assignment One

• Your first assignment for the TFP (you’ll be asked to complete assignments throughout the Project to ensure you develop the most effective tagline possible):
  • Complete online “get-to-know-you” survey
  • Complete in-depth messaging questionnaire, integrating input from key colleagues
  • Invite key colleagues and leaders within your organization to join your messaging team
  • Schedule a tagline brainstorming meeting for the messaging team
  • Complete provided readings.
• I’ll schedule a brief “get to know you” call with you to review the specific messaging challenges you face, and to answer your questions about the program.

Your Great Nonprofit Tagline Toolkit (a private site for TFP participants only) includes:

• TFP map–the full syllabus with assignments
• Access to the Getting Attention nonprofit tagline database and report
• Your invitation to a private Facebook group for easy sharing of questions, answers, victories, frustrations and other report-ins
• A directory of all Project participants, for ongoing networking and brainstorming.

Session I: How to Ensure the Audience-Message Connection

Tuesday, May 7 | 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. PT

You’ll learn how to scale the first two steps to messaging success—building organizational support and understanding your target audience’s wants and habits—in this first session.

First we’ll discuss Assignment One, to ensure I answer all of your questions and guide you through any barriers you ran into. It’s vital that you’re confident in your responses, which are the building blocks of your message platform.

From there, we’ll review the elements common to messages to connect, and a step-by-step message development process, featuring two case studies from the field.

Next, I’ll guide you to build the organizational support you’ll need to ensure your colleagues and leadership:

• Understand the message development process and the value of a tagline
• Share the feedback they get from target audiences (a vital source on wants, interests and values)
• Are primed to be asked to be trained as effective messengers.

We’ll move on to dive into the key factors to which you’ll shape your messages—your audiences’ wants and habits, elements in your working environment, and how colleague and competitive organizations talk about their work and impact. Then, I’ll guide you to find relevant models and show you what to avoid by searching for messaging of similar organizations in the Nonprofit Tagline Database.

Next, the Tagline Focus Project focuses on how to get to know your audiences, as it is their wants and values that will shape your messages. We’ll review core techniques for audience research and I’ll introduce you a quick but effective technique you’ll use to gather audience insights needed to shape the right tagline.

I’ll also guide you to find relevant models and show you what to avoid by searching for messaging of similar organizations in the Nonprofit Tagline Database. We’ll close the session with a review of Assignment Two and Q&As.

Assignment Two

• Review the TFP‘s well-tested tagline development process
• Build on your initial competitive analysis via searching the Nonprofit Tagline Database
• Compile insights on target audiences (shortcut to audience research) through colleagues’ insights
• Outline no more than six core concepts to be conveyed in your tagline, drawing on your responses to the messaging questionnaire and research findings
• Create a short tagline brief, summarizing audience and competitive research findings,
• Brainstorm three tagline drafts to “try out” on friends and family (not with colleagues in your own organization) and, most importantly, one-to-one or small group conversations or emails you have with members of your target audiences. Log feedback.
• Email your messaging team to request they brainstorm tagline drafts too, based on the dos and don’ts, and tagline brief you share with them. They’ll submit these to you before your brainstorming meeting.
• Schedule one-to-one coaching call with me.

You’ll receive the following tools, templates and guides:

• Tagline development process checklist
• Tagline brief template
• Competitive analysis worksheet
• Audience research worksheet
• Email template for guiding your messaging team in their tagline brainstorming
• Messaging dos and don’ts checklist.

Session II: Tagline Brainstorming: How to Guide a Productive Meeting

Wednesday, May 22 | 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. PT

You’ll learn how to manage a productive message development team meeting and drive the tagline to completion in this second session.

We’ll begin with a review of Assignment Two, discussing progress, breakthroughs and concerns. Next we’ll cover brainstorming meeting essentials in detail—from setting clear goals and roles for meeting participants, to handling objections and mobilizing diverse creative forces into an effective meeting of the minds.

The session will close with a review of Assignment Two and Q&As.

Assignment Three

• Develop the agenda for your message development meeting
• Customize the handout and PowerPoint templates
• Practice handling objections
• Note questions in preparation for one-to-one call
• Solicit core concepts and draft taglines from messaging team.

You’ll receive these Tagline Focus Project templates and tools for running your meeting:

• Recommended meeting agenda (detailed)
• Meeting agenda template
• Pre- and post-meeting emails to meeting participants (templates)
• Recommended exercises and logistics, including a tagline scorecard
• PowerPoint deck and handout templates
• Guidelines for handling objections.

Session III: One-to-One Call

May 28, 29 or 31

I’ll schedule a private 30-minute call with each of you to ensure you’re well prepared to facilitate a productive meeting. We’ll strategize around your concerns and possible sticking points so you’ll feel confident in success.

You’ll also receive a worksheet and spreadsheet for your tagline self-critique.

Assignment Four

• Prepare for tagline brainstorming meeting
• Facilitate tagline brainstorming meeting
• Kick off tagline finalist testing via “eyebrow test”

Assignment Five: Part 1

• Complete Tagline Critique Worksheet with top core concepts and tagline frontrunners. Submit to Nancy for tagline critique.
• Implement self-critique and analyze conclusions along with “eyebrow test” results using provide worksheet and spreadsheet.

Session IV: Tagline Tagline Rollout—Strategies for Success

Tuesday, June 11 | 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. PT

In this final TFP group meeting, we’ll review those taglines submitted for public discussion, with a brief overview of what works and what doesn’t. Then you’ll learn how to fine-tune your almost-final tagline through testing over the next month.

I’ll also guide you through each step of launching your tagline and training your colleagues to use it in conversation and in written communication.

You’ll receive an agenda template for your tagline launch meeting.

Assignment Five: Part 2

• Fine-tune tagline and submit final tagline to me
• Customize agenda; schedule and lead tagline launch meetingLaunch tagline.

Bonus for Tagline Focus Project Participants!

Weekly Office Hours–Speed Coaching
You’ll be able to call me for speed coaching sessions (10 minutes) to address questions and challenges that emerge during your message development process. I’ll provide you with personal guidance as you get ready to launch. Weekly office hours will continue for two weeks after the last session.

Ongoing Access to the Great Nonprofit Tagline Toolkit
You’ll have access to the online Toolkit following the TFP program so you can download and use the worksheets, handouts and templates as you need them in your message development work

The Tagline Focus Project Risk-Free Guarantee

I’ll personally walk you through developing your tagline and help you navigate any obstacles that get in the way. The intimacy of this program (not more than 12 participants) enables me to focus on what you need.

I’ve created dozens of taglines that work—for nonprofits, grantmakers and associations—so I know how the process works. You benefit from my experience. This isn’t just another one-off, teleseminar series or one-day workshop where you learn about a new marketing strategy. (The problem with that approach is that most participants don’t ever implement. There are just too many day-to-day must-dos to get to it.)

TFP participation is all about delivering a tagline that’s ready to go, not just about learning how to do it.  You’ll walk away with a tested tagline for your organization and the knowledge to develop others for specific programs or audience groups.

And nonprofit organizations that use well-researched, relevant messages enjoy greater success in making and keeping relationships with donors, volunteers and other supporters, than those that don’t. That’s why I can make this guarantee:

Participate fully in the Tagline Focus Project and take up to six months to implement the tagline you finish up with. If after six months you don’t feel that your organization’s tagline (and overall messaging) is measurably better than it is now, we’ll completely refund your money—100%. No questions asked. Guaranteed.

Register for the Tagline Focus Project Now

Now’s the time to strengthen your relationships with your base, and expand your network, with a smart messaging strategy.

Given the ongoing effects of the global financial crisis, there’s no doubt that the period we are living in now is a particularly challenging one for nonprofit organizations like yours.

It’s imperative you take advantage of this opportunity now, so your organization emerges healthier than ever, and stays that way for the long run!

This action-oriented program is designed specifically to help you and your colleagues get the job done and do it well. All you need to do is participate actively in the Tagline Focus Project, complete the assignments, and you’ll develop a tagline that will engage our base and motivate them to act.

You’ll learn to:

• Understand your audiences better so you know what will connect.
• Use survey data to identify the right focus for your tagline.
• Gain the insights and support of your colleagues.
• Shape the ingredients of your analysis, craft the right tagline and roll it out to your audience.

Plus, get access to all of the templates, checklists, worksheets, models and resources included in the Great Nonprofit Tagline Toolkit that you’ll get with Tagline Focus Project participation.

Take Up the Fight to Add Spark and Light to Your
Critically Important Messaging

You’ll soon discover that the principles you’ve learned in the Tagline Focus Project can be used to develop other messages, at the organizational, campaign and program level. You’ll build your own professional skills and satisfaction, and boost the impact of your organization’s marketing outreach. Win-win!

Remember, with the Tagline Focus Project you not only get step-by-step training on all aspects of developing a tagline. You also get one-to-one time with me, Nancy Schwartz —I’ll provide feedback on your progress and your tagline drafts, and be available for office hours.

And you’ll get the Great Nonprofit Tagline Toolkit, a fabulous resource filled with the checklists, worksheets, models and resources you’ll be able to use time and time again.

All told, we’ve created a high-value, moderately-priced tagline development program for you and your organization. It’s all covered here—everything you need to develop a powerful tagline for your organization, program or campaign.

Turn $997 into Broader Awareness,
Increased Understanding and Extended Reach,
Plus More Donations, Volunteers and Program Participants

Every marketing task your organization tackles should incorporate a frequent analysis of ROI (return on investment). It’s the only valid, vital framework for running an effective marketing program especially when resources are limited, as they are for most nonprofit organizations.

I encourage you to apply an ROI analysis to all that you do. Consider this…

• Take my recommendation and strengthen (or shape) your organization’s tagline by enrolling in the Tagline Focus Project.
• Follow the step-by-step process as you work closely with your base, your colleagues and with me. Work with me one-to-one to fine tune your final tagline draft and then roll it out.
• And then, six months to a year later, look at your ROI in terms of what you learned and produced in the Tagline Focus Project.

For the modest investment of  $997, you’ll learn how to shape a tagline, a process and product that will lead to:

• New supporters: As you take your place among the only 18% of organizations with taglines that work to engage the supporters you depend on. And it’s always hardest to build new supporters.

• Increased loyalty: Your current network will understand your organization’s unique value and impact more clearly than ever, which will strengthen their sense of appreciation and connection. Everyone likes being a part of a winning organization.

• A huge team of powerful messengers: As your network of supporters more clearly understands what’s so special about your organization (they always knew it—that’s why they support you—but they couldn’t easily articulate it) and has a recognizable, memorable tagline to work with, they’ll spread the word to family and friends. Especially when you ask them to do so.

It happens time and time again. Just think about the way you spread the word on what you’re passionate about. Having an on-point, easy-to-remember message on hand (your tagline) makes it easy.

• Stronger skills for all messaging components: Learning how to craft a tagline equips you with the skills to write high-power taglines for your organization’s programs, services and campaigns, so those marketing agendas are equally successful; and gives you a great base to work from in writing the other key components of your organization’s (and programs/services/campaigns) message platform—the positioning statement and talking points. These skills are highly valued and absolutely portable.
• Less stress and better marketing outcomes: When you have to start from scratch writing content for your organization, trying to get it right time and time again, it’s a huge drain. It’s just plain hard to crank it out, and then to revise content through the countless rounds of review and approval.

With a well-researched and tested tagline in hand, you’re ready to go with the essence of your messaging, and can build from that proven foundation each and every time.

Don’t Miss This Opportunity

I urge you to take control of your marketing success right now and commit to creating a powerful tagline that’s easy to remember and repeat.

Doing so just has so many benefits built in for your organization and really, no serious down sides. It helps you connect with your first sentence. It differentiates your organization and makes it easy for your supporters to serve as messengers for your organization. And it will boost your confidence and satisfaction in your own work.

Participation in the Tagline Focus Project will make you a better communicator.

You’ll finish the program with a tagline that connects and, in addition, you’ll gain the skills you need to craft more effective messaging for your other communications. You deserve all the benefits enjoyed by top nonprofit marketers who’ve mastered the art of shaping exceptional messages that connect quickly and deeply.

There’s never been a more important time to connect with your target audiences.

Don’t procrastinate on this risk-free invitation. Seats are limited to 12. Go ahead and register today.

All the best,

 

 

 

Nancy Schwartz
Publisher, Getting Attention Blog & E-news
President, Nancy Schwartz & Co.

P.S. I’m eager to answer your questions. Please contact me (Nancy) at 973-762-0079 or nancy@nancyschwartz.com.

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