This is How to Leverage Google to Find Volunteers Online Wondering how to find volunteers that are interested in both volunteering and your particular cause? Look no further than the most ubiquitous tool out there – Google. But you’ve got to set yourself up for success. Too many nonprofits miss out on the very basics [...]
How to Better Engage Volunteers with Excellent Customer Service Volunteer engagement may feel like it’s getting harder and harder, but research shows interest in volunteerism is on the rise. So, what gives? How can it be that volunteer rates are booming, yet volunteer organizations still struggle to connect with talent? It may be because volunteers [...]
7 Creative Ways to Recruit Volunteers with Free Content In last week’s blog post, I recommended that nonprofits consider creative ways to recruit volunteers with free content. This week, I get down to brass tacks about what that means in more detail. Using Content Marketing to Attract Volunteers Gone are the days when “cold [...]
3 Ironclad Ways to Better Recruit Volunteers Online If you want to grow volunteer participation at your nonprofit and are seeking new ideas for recruiting volunteers online, you’re on the right track. Now, more than ever, recruiting volunteers online is your best bet for connecting with potential supporters. Research now shows that Americans spend [...]
This is How to Use Brain Research for Volunteer Recruitment If you’ve been wondering why your volunteer recruitment ideas aren’t working, you’re not alone. Year over year, it’s the #1 issue raised by those who take our Volunteer Management Progress Report survey. The fact is that years ago, it was relatively easy to put up [...]
How to Recruit Volunteers by Appealing to the Emotions Now, more than ever, our messages occupy a crowded landscape, and recruitment of volunteers is more difficult. Even if your volunteer/potential volunteer has opted into your communication, you’ll still be competing with all the other information they are interested in receiving via email, text, social, [...]
How to Make Volunteer Recruitment Simple by Writing Better Headlines Confession: I spent over an hour writing the headline for this blog post. Wanna know how many titles I drafted before I settled on the one you clicked? 28. Yep, I wrote 28 different headlines about how to recruit volunteers effectively using headlines… Sure, this [...]
How to Recruit Volunteers Using Power WordsLooking for new ways to recruit volunteers? Look no further than your word processing software. To pump up the effectiveness of your written appeals, use the secret weapon marketing copywriters have known about for years -- power words.Words spark emotions, and emotions drive behavior. So, by using power words you can pack more punch [...]
