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Protest Oregon's Proposed New Fundraising Law

Harvard Business Review

An organization's overhead might be consistently high for any number of reasons: obscurity of the cause, a long-term strategy at work, educational efforts not labeled as services, and so on. Often we hear that a telemarketing firm takes 90% of what it raises. But it's an amateur analysis that ignores the telemarketer's costs.

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B2B Salespeople Can Survive If They Reimagine Their Roles

Harvard Business Review

The study found that by a factor of 3 to 1, B2B buyers want to self-educate themselves by going to sellers’ websites to learn about offerings, and a majority of buyers prefer to make purchases online. Reimagine, retrain, and redeploy your sales people.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Their focus is on securing and recognizing large gifts mainly from high-income, educated, older donors through year-round campaigns and solicitations of funds. How does Comic Relief raise such extraordinary sums and support its operations while maintaining the golden pound promise? The Profit Proposition. The People Proposition.