Website scams are actually quite common. 

We were in our weekly meeting this morning and realized that more than one of us had clients who were dealing with fraudulent claims last week so we thought now would be as good of time as any to educate our listeners about common spam schemes and how to steer clear of them.

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/podcast/3-common-website-scams-and-how-to-spot-them/

Building a website is like building a house; You draw up plans and review them before you ever start building--because it’s a lot easier to move the kitchen on paper than it is once the house is built!

But not everyone is an experienced architect. So, for those of you who are building your first website, or are thinking about redoing what you have, here's the Nonprofit Website Checklist... so you don't accidentally build the house before you're really sure about where the kitchen should go.

For a fully-formtted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/podcast/nonprofit-website-building-checklist-website-planning-series-part-2

We can all learn a thing or two from people with autism and their families. Each person sees the world differently. And by experiencing it from another's point of view you can better communicate and serve others.

In celebration of Autism Awareness Month, I talk with Myles Hinkel and Katie Lentz of The Thompson Foundation for Autism about how they help people with autism and their families to adapt and improve communication.

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/how-understanding-autism-improves-communication

In our Website Planning series, we geek out over each aspect of a nonprofit websites. In this first episode we tackle the 10 crucial questions you need to ask when planning on building a new website!

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/10-questions-to-ask-when-building-a-new-website-website-planning-series-part-1/

This article is not one of those “what you should be posting about on social media” bits.  I am going to explain how I use social media as a business owner, a salesperson, and as a representative of my company to connect with people in a similar way to how I would be connecting with people at a fundraising event.  

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/podcast/connecting-outside-the-show-using-social-media-groups/

Are the tools you're using to fundraise for your organization actually helping or just holding you back? I interview Sara Mayer of Sara Mayer Consulting about how to patch the tools holding your organization together with duct tape and swap them out for the types of systems you need to boost productivity and make fundraising easier.

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/fundraising-tools-to-make-raising-money-easy/

About a year and a half ago the Missouri United Methodist Foundation (MUMF) began hosting educational webinars to deepen their relationship with their audience. Today it's still going strong and growing.  I interview David Atkins and Laura Murphy to learn how they do it and how it's working.

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/using-educational-webinars-to-grow-your-nonprofits-audience/

In aerial, you can learn one technique, one move, one principle, and use it to create much more complicated, unique, and interesting moves, without having to learn anything new. One technique can produce endless variations.

We marketers often feel the pressure to work harder and keep doing new things in order to meet people. I’m here to tell you - You don’t have to do that.
You can recycle your existing content to produce many more variations and reach more people, without having to learn or produce anything brand-new.

Listen to learn about using the Reach and Recycle concept to help you plot out the ideal journey of how to turn your audience into donors and customers.

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/podcast/7-tricks-to-save-time-perfect-performance/

If you have a blog, you know how much time you invest and that it can be a lot of work. You probably also know that if you're going to put that much work into something, it is absolutely imperative you know whether or not it's working. The last thing you want to do is pour hours and hours into making a blog you feel is going to connect with people, and then it just falls flat.

I go full data ninja in today's episode and blog post to take you through what I do to determine if a blog is working. 

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://www.mayecreate.com/blog/podcast/how-to-tell-if-your-blog-is-working

Join me as I dig in and debrief the awesomeness and lessons learned from CoMoGives 2020, our community's $1.6M year-end online giving campaign with John Baker, Executive Director of the Community Foundation of Central Missouri and Erika Payne, MayeCreate Project Manager.

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: 

https://mayecreate.com/blog/1-6m-online-giving-campaign-debrief-celebrating-comogives-2020/