Join us to learn how the 2021 CoMoGives campaign was promoted, what worked, what didn't and how we'll adjust to make it even better next year. John Baker, director of Community Foundation of Central Missouri (the foundation that powers CoMoGives), will talk through the ins and outs of planning and supporting our community's $1.8M with MayeCreate's Monica Pitts and Stacy Brockmeier.

For a fully-formatted article version of this blog, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/learn-how-our-community-raise-1-8m-in-one-month-with-john-baker-stacy-brockmeier

Today we are going to talk about solving problems. 

At MayeCreate, we love solving problems. One we solve day after day for our clients is helping their businesses run smoother by leveraging their website to take some of the day to day heavy lifting off of their staff. 

We’re gonna go through six cool website integrations that help boost workflow and efficency (with maybe some bonuses thrown in for fun).

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/cool-website-integrations-that-save-you-time-which-saves-you-money/

I'm super excited to have Cheryl Unterschutz on this podcast.  Cheryl is the public relations manager and the marketing manager for Central Missouri Community Action. Between those two roles, she wears numerous hats and handles more responsibilities for her organization than I even dare to think about – yet she does them all well. This team of one is here to tell us all about her marketing journey and how she put together her marketing plan. I know that you guys are going to learn a lot from her experience in the trenches as an everyday marketer for her nonprofit organization.

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/how-one-woman-does-the-work-of-10-celebrating-central-missouri-community-action

When it comes to marketing we all start where we are. And that’s OK. What’s not OK is when we do all the work to move forward and build marketing assets but don’t use them because we never took the next step. Then those hard earned assets are about as useful for growing your business as the change sitting under your couch cushions is for buying Starbucks. I have personally forgotten every single one of the items on this checklist at least once. Let’s take a look at my list of misadventures so you can learn from my mistakes instead of making them yourself.

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/np-marketing-inventory-checklist

This is for those of you marketers who have to design – and even for you marketers who love to design. Because maybe you get stuck. Maybe it takes longer than you want it to. If you're designing things from scratch, it’s time consuming. At MayeCreate, we design things from scratch so we're always looking for ways to speed up the process, but still create beautiful, functional Websites. These are just six of our absolute favorite tools and libraries we use to get organized and get the creative juices flowing. Hopefully you can use some of them to rock out your own designs as well.

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/6-design-tools-libraries-to-get-your-creative-on/

Whether you’re looking to start a new venture or grow an existing one to the next level, it all starts with an idea.  From there, a decision must be made and actions must be taken. If you’re an ideas person, you LOVE to come up with ideas… but too many ideas can make it hard to take action.  You’re excited by ideas and you want to be a success, so picking an idea can feel very limiting.  It’s kind of like analysis paralysis and option overload had a baby together. And your great ideas just whihter on the vine.

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/if-youre-new-have-tons-of-ideas-and-dont-know-where-to-focus-start-here

Marketers are always pressed for time (especially because you’re either selling your time OR you’re wearing multiple hats). While I’m not always the fastest draw in the west, I like to think I have a solid process to produce quality work with a reliable turnaround time. Finding ways to improve processes without sacrificing quality is etched into our company culture. The team is always slacking about some awesome new find or another. Don’t even get me started on my new tablet. It’s AMAZING.

Here are our favorite tools to keep creativity flowing and crush lag time. 

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/9-free-and-cheap-marketing-tools

The most common way to suck at your marketing is to just straight up not do your marketing. And I hear all the excuses. Heck I’ve made those same excuses myself. So one of the easiest ways to start succeeding in your marketing is to actually GET IT DONE consistently. But back to those excuses again, right? Seems like all revolve around the big bad four letter “T” word…time. Well let's blow up the “T” word. And put some ideas on the table to get work done faster so we call go back to working on all the other stuff we’re responsible for!

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/8-tips-to-save-time-boost-marketing-productivity

Who really knows what they’re doing with their social media, really? 

I’ll tell you who. Those amazing data loving people who follow their social data like they’re stalking a junior high crush. (Oh common you know you hid in the bushes and watched those cuties play ball every now and again! No?

I’m a stalker of lots of types of data, but when it comes to social media I also have to rely on a team of friends to keep me informed - employees, nonprofits I work with and other data geeks. And since 64% of nonprofits don’t have a digital marketing plan3...I felt like you might need a team of friends to hook you up as well.

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/nonprofit-marketing-benchmarks-series-social/

The best marketing is informed marketing. And I wanted to give you the best possible advice to succeed in 2022. Over the next series of posts look at nonprofit marketing benchmarks for Email Marketing, Social Media and Websites. I’m going to break the benchmarks and my takeaways into the different digital marketing mediums, explain what I found and what it actually means to you, a nonprofit marketer. Starting with email!

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/nonprofit-marketing-benchmarks-series-email/