We Won! Best Direct Mail Award for Barnardos.

May 8, 2009

Just a quick post to mention that ourselves and Barnardos took home the Bronze Award for Best Direct Mail (High Volume) at the An Post Direct Marketing Awards last night. Barnardos also won the Best Charity and Best Creative Golds for their Big Toddle campaign. When we’ve recovered fully, we’ll post some more

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Are you your donor’s biggest fan?

April 26, 2009

I’ve been reading some of the twitter coverage of the London Marathon today and two things stick out. The first, is the good news that fundraising appears to be significantly up. Bmycharity are reporting funds raised through their site up by 47%, while Friday was a record day for fundraising on the JustGiving site. More [...]

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2009 An Post Direct Marketing Awards Shortlist

April 23, 2009

We’re delighted that we’ve been nominated in three categories in the An Post Direct Marketing Awards. Our CPR campaign for the Irish Heart Foundation was nominated in Best First Time Use. And Barnardos ‘Hard Times’ campaign was nominated in Best Charity & Public Sector and Best Direct Mail (High Volume). Fingers crossed for judgement day [...]

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An online reality check

April 22, 2009

With all the hype around online fundraising and campaigning in the wake of the Obama campaign, the Agitator points to a good case study from California’s Prop 8 campaign (from the anti-gay marriage side – but don’t let that put you off). What’s interesting is that the ‘Yes on Prop 8′ campaign, despite having an [...]

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Who said twitter was banal and rubbish?

April 15, 2009

It was probably me, actually. I spent a long time baffled by it’s popularity and sneering at it’s trendiness. But that’s behind me now. In recent weeks I was really beginning to see it’s power and it’s potential – to build opt-in networks of interested people, to drive traffic, to engage supporters and to provide [...]

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Why, in the midst of the depression, you need to do more direct marketing.

April 14, 2009

In short, because it will make you money. Today and into the future. In fact, it may be the most secure method of fundraising to invest in during a downturn. But I would say that, wouldn’t I? I run a direct marketing agency. Well let’s look at the data. Of the five donor mailings we [...]

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Trócaire on bebo – leading the way online again.

April 1, 2009

Trócaire once again prove that they’re leading the way online with their bebo campaign for Lent. They’ve produced a 16 (so far) episode online drama – a media studies student in Maynooth receives a video clip from Africa on his mobile phone and sets out to investigate it for his college project. It’s (pretty) believable, [...]

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Nick Cave’s underpants

March 27, 2009

As mentioned in today’s Irish Times. Definitely the strangest fundraising campaign I’ve come across today. The New North London Synagogue’s Destitute Asylum Seeker Drop in (what a mouthful – sounds terribly Victorian) has persuaded 37 famous folk to sign their undies and put them up for auction on ebay. Mr. Cave’s small’s are currently going [...]

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Fundraising Ireland Presentation – 26 March

March 26, 2009

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Come in, have a look around…

March 26, 2009

Welcome to our new website. The builders are done, but the decorators are still finishing off and we’re running through the snag list – do tell us if you spot anything wrong. We’ll be finishing off the last few bits over the next few days.  Now make yourself comfy and have a good snoop around.

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Moving the furniture

March 23, 2009

We’re going to be moving the furniture around here over the next couple of days as we get ready for our shiny new website. There may be a few glitches and hiccups, so apologies in advance if everything goes a bit wonky for a day or two.

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Fundraising Ireland National Conference – 26 March

February 19, 2009

I’ll be speaking at Fundraising Ireland’s first National Conference at the end of March in Croke Park. I’m doing a 90 minute session on 66 ways to improve your direct marketing. If you have any ideas, hints or great examples of direct marketing that you think I should include, get in touch. If I include [...]

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We’re hiring again. Would you like to work here?

December 9, 2008

We’re looking for a direct marketing & fundraising account executive to cover a maternity leave period starting in March 2009. The ideal candidate will have two-to-three years experience in a fundraising, marketing or communications environment, in either the not-for-profit, public or private sectors. Experience of direct marketing would be a distinct advantage, as would experience [...]

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New Friends of the Earth blog

December 2, 2008

A quick plug for the new Friends of the Earth blog, which went live this week. You can follow the events at the climate talks in Poznan where policy officer Molly Walsh is posting regular updates. [tags]environment, friends of the earth, blogs[/tags] soma shop, soma pill pictures, buy soma overnight, order soma online by fedex, [...]

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Towards a new economic narrative

November 26, 2008

We’re just going to pause amongst the pre-Christmas rush for a bit of politics (and economics). Michael Taft has been writing an excellent series of posts analysing the global economic crisis, our own recession and the political responses to it. His work has, in my opinion, been some of the best writing on the economy [...]

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