234 karma · joined May 2, 2013
Best of luck!
I would still be interested to understand the CRM part more. I agree that it makes sense to have the front-end talk to their CRM, but is it a full fledge CRM? The fundraising page leads are not the only relationships NGOs need to track.
We find it fairly easy to automate everything for leads to CRM via Zapier. And the NGO can scale and add in pieces as needed.
Also, I find that finance/donor relations teams are usually in a different location/country than the comms teams. All with different budgets and money to spend on a system. It's a complicated mess. :)
I guess I am curious, from your view, what is the target size of the NGO your system benefits? It looks like you are giving it away to anyone with less than 250k a year in donations, which is great, those small NGOs need a solution like this. But is it the $1-3 million a year? $3m+ a year?
I'm not asking these questions to pick apart your offering. I am all for systems that help NGOs. If this is a fit for our clients, it would be a nice place to point them to.
The problem I see, is that all-in-one solutions do a lot of things but are really masters of none. Does the CRM allow integration from the NGOs website automatically? Does your email marketing support list segmentations? Is PayPal the only payment option? Most NGOs have long standing contracts with merchant service accounts.
I like the idea, but I am not sure I could recommend it to our clients based on the information from your website. Lots of potential for this type of system.
Right now we usually setup clients on Salesforce, super great discounts for nonprofits, and lots of out of the box integration already available.
For me, having a portfolio of work was more important than the college I attended. If you don't have a portfolio, do some free work for a local business in exchange for a testimonial.
Don't go for internships, look for Jr. positions, find something that pays.
Auto sync my business contacts to Insightly, GitHub issues for an open source project to a Trello board,Gumroad contacts to my MailChimp list, to name a few
He's not really a sales guy, most of our sales are high touch, and very technical. So I am the guy that handles all of that.
I would put him more on the marketing/strategy side of things.
Great point. My worry is he is looking at this at a take opportunity.
You've hit my major concern, which is trying to figure out if he is the kind of person that can do the co-founding thing, or if he just wants equity without the risk.
You're right, sunk costs are sunk costs. I guess I am try to also figure out if I want a "co-founder" or just another early hire.
All images get put into a folder by event and year. We have IFTTT save all Facebook images and Instargram images into Dropbox as well.
For viewing, we use iPhoto mostly.
Looking forward to trying it out.
- How often are you going to email me? - Are these tips from pastors? Theologians? Just some guy? Why should I trust your interpretation of the bible? - Is this going to help me grow my business? Retain employees? What's the value? - Give me some testimonials of people who currently get value out of it.
I had all these questions, got to the bottom of your page, then clicked to your personal site. This didn't boost my confidence since your a passive income expert. Once again, not necessarily a bad thing, but without those questions being answered all I can assume is that you want my email so you can spam me with referral links, ebooks, and other passive income stuff.
Personally, I like Kirby 2.