Less than six months from now, on April 17, 2006, I’ll be pounding the pavement once again from Hopkinton to Boston, determinedly putting one foot in front of another for more than 26 long, arduous miles.
It’ll be the 8th time I’ve taken the same exhausting journey. And I’ll be tired and sore [...]
Bob Cargill Cause-Related Marketing, Direct Marketing, Fundraising
The New England Direct Marketing Association has just issued its Call for Speakers for NEDMA ’06: It’s a Brave New World, a conference and exposition to be held on June 14-15, 2006, at the Bentley College campus center in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Interested parties are invited to submit their proposals no later than [...]
Bob Cargill Direct Marketing
Thanks to noted corporate blog strategist, B.L. Ochman, I recently caught wind of yet another smart organization that’s shed its Web site entirely and instead staked a claim in the blogosphere.
Union Square Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm, turned its site into a blog because, as they say, “We realized that our [...]
Bob Cargill Blogging, Marketing
It was inevitable that both DIRECT and DM News would eventually establish a presence in the blogosphere, but what’s the chance of two of my favorite trade publications launching their own respective blogs just days apart?
As a dyed-in-the-wool direct marketer who just so happens to write a blog, I can’t help but be [...]
Bob Cargill Blogging, Direct Marketing
Convio, the leading provider of software and services to help nonprofit organizations use the Internet for driving support, recently announced the release of Convio Tributes, a “constituent-led fundraising solution” that lets a nonprofit effectively leverage supporters and take, as the company says, “Internet fundraising to a new level.”
With Convio Tributes, a nonprofit can provide [...]
Bob Cargill Direct Marketing, Fundraising
Seth Godin has just announced the release of his next free ebook, Everyone’s An Expert, which you can download here. The book, he says, “is for anyone who wants more online traffic, more revenue, more followers, more attention, more interest, more donations or more influence.”
It’s a short book – you can read [...]
Bob Cargill Direct Marketing, Fundraising, Marketing, Public Relations
“Instead of detailing workouts in a private training diary, runners are now logging their workouts on the Web for friends, teammates, and long-distance training partners to read and respond to,” writes Chaddus Bruce in the October 2005 issue of Runner’s World (“Today I Ran Fast – Keeping A Training Blog Can Help You Get Fit [...]
Bob Cargill Blogging