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Adora Drake’s 5 Step SCALE Framework to Move Social Media Followers to Donors.

#053 – Adora Drake is a professional social media marketing coach and consultant with a knack for creating marketing strategies. She helps leaders establish relationships with their audience by teaching them the tools for attracting the right fit people, becoming a thought leader, and bridging the gap between initial contact to the final transaction.

Adora emphasizes relationship building in via social media.  She adds that when it comes to relationships, it is better to go a mile deep than a mile wide.  It is better to build deep meaningful relationships with a few people rather than shallow relationships with many.

“So you’re building a relationship. No matter where you are, whatever platform you are, make sure you’re building relationships.”

Adora teaches how we can use her SCALE Framework to convert social media followers to donors:

S – Social Media

C – Content

A – Audience

L – Lead

E- Execution

Be sure to stick around until the end to hear about the welcome series Adora uses in her own business.

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Resources

  • Website
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • A Nonprofit’s Guide to Email Marketing

4 Key Takeaways  

#1 Master 1 or 2 social media platforms rather than spreading yourself too thin across too many;

#2 Find the platforms where your audience hangs out;

#3 Consistency key; and 

#4 Nurture your new members with a welcome series.

Show Notes

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[2:28] The SCALE Framework
[8:05] The trend right now is video
[12:13] Make for sure you have some consistency
[14:09] You have to be social
[14:32] So you're building a relationship.
[15:33] Check your social media during your downtime
[17:59] There's a couple of ways you can create a lead magnet
[20:16] They are on your list, now it's time to start nurturing them
[21:02] 80% educational and 20% ask
[0:21] Start your Welcome Series

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Posted in PodcastTagged Adora Drake, coaching, Confidence, Digital Marketing Coach, donors, Followers, Groupfinity, leadership, small nonprofits, social media, volunteers

The 3 Characteristics Of The Most Trusted People, According to Minna Taylor.

#052 – Minna Taylor is a trained actress.  After earning her masters degree, she began teaching accent reduction to corporate clients as a side hustle in between acting gigs.  That experience is where she found the intersection of speech & voice, body language, and breathing.

“Communication is a physical activity. We think about it as just coming out of our mouth, but our whole body is behind it. And if we go back to that statistic, which is 7% of the information people receive is verbal, 93% is vocal and nonverbal that means our body is doing most of the talking. What I see time and time again and what I saw at the very start of my career was people’s bodies silencing them.”

Minna outlines the 3 characteristics of the most trusted people:

1 Generosity;

2 Curiosity; and

3 Likability

People come to her to increase confidence, to increase capacity, to speak up, to share their voice, to tell powerful stories, to influence people, and to become powerful agents of change.

Be sure to stick around until the end to hear Minna share how giving up a little control and being vulnerable leads to being more trusted.

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Resources

  • Website
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Book- The Confident Body

4 Key Takeaways  

#1 80% of your attention should be listening and 20% breathing;

#2 Generosity is about energy and presence;

#3 Curiosity is less about asking and more about how you contribute without judging; and 

#4 We have to like someone before we can trust them.

Be sure to stick around until the end to hear who Minna believes embodies all of this.

Show Notes

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[2:24] The characteristics that we look at in the people we trust most are Generosity, Curiosity and Likability
[5:00] Generosity is really about energy and presence
[7:53] Give your full attention on the other person you're talking to
[8:37] The 80/20 rule
[12:19] Breathing exercise
[13:40] Curiosity is engaging in your given circumstances.
[15:58] When we fix things, we fix things from our lived experience
[17:19] Curiosity is less about asking and more how you choose to contribute
[20:27] What's in the box?
[33:39] Be a little vulnerable

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Posted in PodcastTagged coaching, Confidence, donors, Energize Your Voice, Groupfinity, leadership, Minna Taylor, small nonprofits, volunteers

Some Things To Consider Before You Onboard Your Next Volunteers with Tobi Johnson.

#045 – Today I am speaking with Tobi Johnson. Tobi has 25 plus years of experience with nonprofits.  Instead of simply moving to another job when she moved across the country 13 years ago, Tobi decided to start her own company where she could share her expertise and help organizations with volunteerism.

Tobi helps organizations of all shapes and sizes build their volunteer strategy by helping organizations replace old and ineffective approaches with new innovative and research-based practices.

One of her superpowers is showing organizations how to onboard new volunteers and make them feel like they are a part of something…

“This feeling of belongings ingrained in our nature as humans.”

“And when you are a volunteer and if you feel like you’re on the outside looking in, you’re just not going to engage and you’re actually gonna become not as productive.”

“The time that belonging matters most is the time when you’re onboarding new volunteers and welcoming people in to make sure that every single person feels like they belong.” 

Through VolunteerPro, Tobi provides online volunteer management training, coaching & community to leaders of volunteers at all levels. 

Be sure to stick around until the end to hear Tobi discuss using Bling for Belonging.

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  • Linkedin

4 Key Takeaways  

#1 If your volunteers feel like outsiders, they are not going to engage and will not be as productive as they could be;

#2 Volunteers leave groups when they feel implicit promises are not kept;

#3 Make implicit expectations explicit by naming them;

#4 Giving informal recognition can much more powerful than formal recognition.

Show Notes

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[2:23] The feeling of belonging is a deeply human trait.
[5:43] When volunteers feel like outsiders, they're not going to engage and will be less productive.
[8:40] The new volunteer has expectations and they believe promises have been made.
[10:08] Make implicit promises explicit.
[12:53] Make sure new volunteers are connected to your mission.
[15:05] Six reasons why people volunteer
[19:33] Informal recognition is more powerful than explicit recognition
[21:56] Bling for Belonging

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Posted in PodcastTagged 501c3, charity, coaching, Groupfinity, leadership, relationship building, Strategy, Tobi Johnson, Volunteer Pro, volunteerism
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