Zion Consulting

10/21/2024

🌟 Supercharge Your Year-End Giving! 🌟

We’re halfway through the year-end season—it’s not too late to maximize your impact! 🎁 With 30% of all annual donations happening in December, having a solid plan is more important than ever.

Introducing our Year-End Tracker tool—your ultimate resource for crafting a customized multi-channel campaign that wraps your donors in inspiring stories and invites them to give generously. Plus, it includes 90 minutes of coaching with our team to help you fine-tune your strategy!

✨ Why choose the Year-End Tracker?

Tailor your outreach to connect deeply with your supporters.
Streamline your campaign efforts and ensure no donor is left behind.
Set your organization up for success in this vital giving season!
Don’t miss the chance to turn your year-end campaign into a powerful movement for change. Let’s make this December your best month yet! 🚀

👉 Get your Year-End Tracker at the link in bio!

09/23/2024

For the first time, Zion is offering our robust and proven Year-End Campaign Planning Tool to help you build a customized multi-channel campaign. Wrap your donors in a story and invite them to give generously to your important work this fall. Grab the tool and put it to work, or get our help customizing your campaign and creatively ideating a theme in a private 90-minute coaching session with our team.

Enter the Year-End season with confidence—Zion is here to help!

Click the link in bio to purchase.

09/04/2024

A beautiful day in Kansas City to get out of our home offices and away from zoom calls to meet with a perspective client doing incredible work here in our hometown!

07/25/2024

Due to unforeseen events, we are rescheduling our end-of-year workshop to next Friday, August 2nd at 9 am CST.

Year-end fundraising often either feels too big a task or sometimes too small a task. It’s not as simple as the December newsletter and one more ask at the end of the year, but it’s also not something that has to be so overwhelming it gets pushed to the last minute.

We want to help you navigate how to plan your year-end campaign with simple strategies and a plan that works.

With one more week to register, we hope you’ll take advantage of all the tips and tricks we’ll be sharing to help you plan a successful year-end campaign.

Don’t miss this!!

Register with the link in bio and we’ll see you there!

07/11/2024

When you spend the day meeting with clients and staying hydrated at the same time. 😆😆

Cheers! 💦🥂

06/12/2024

Dear unnamed Organization,

We loved supporting you over the past few months. Initially, we felt our hearts aligned with your vision and were excited to partner with you. However, we have lost connection with your mission. We haven’t received updates for a while and weren’t sure our donations were reaching you until recently. Unfortunately, we can no longer support your mission at this time. We wish you all the best! Sincerely, Terry and Sue

This letter reflects the pain of neglected donors. No organization needs to risk receiving a message like this. The lack of timely thanks and connection left this couple feeling ignored and unsure their donation was needed.

Timing and having a plan are crucial. Initially, the organization connected well with the donors, but once donations started, they lost touch. No matter the reason, these donors didn’t just “feel” neglected. They WERE neglected. The organization lacked a plan for timely communication and gratitude. As a result, these donors and many others were lost. What a tragic loss!

An action plan with timely responses ensures everyone feels valued, whether they are recipients of your work, field workers, or donors. Each donor and gift is unique, so your thank-you process should be, too. Acknowledge every donation monthly through handwritten notes, emails, or postcards.

Ideally, thank donors within 48 hours, but if that’s not feasible, don’t wait until multiple donations come in to reach out. Acknowledge every gift promptly with a timely, inspiring, personal, and specific message of gratitude.

If you need help creating a plan, you’re in the right place, and we’re here for you. Check our bio for ways to connect, or comment on what you need help with.

05/14/2024

Honored to partner with one of our favorite biblical teaching ministries so that all of their resources and classes can be free to all who want to learn more about Jesus. Recently these classes have been taken into prisons for inmates to participate in — the church has left the building!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Make Him Known in Churches and Hopeless Places Excellencies of Christ Founding Partners support free teaching, discipleship resources, and equipping tools through their monthly donation. A $30 donation enables Excellencies to proclaim the person of Christ and disciple one person in the knowledge of....

05/03/2024

Blue Ocean Marketing has been an absolute game changer for ZION clients.

I grew up in La Jolla, California — a beach town in the San Diego area with the bluest water I’ve ever seen (seriously, La Jolla Cove is ranked in the top 5 of bluest waters in America).

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So, welcome to Blue Ocean Marketing. We specialize in helping ministries, non-profits, and small businesses unlock potential and find success — and we can’t wait to help your business find a blue ocean to thrive in.

Learn more about what we do and book a free strategy session at blueoceankc.com.

04/25/2024

It’s TOMORROW!

Don’t forget to register if you haven’t already!! 🤗

We’ll be talking about:
1. How to identify why your losing donors
2. How to find donors already in your database
3. How to build healthy sustainable relationships for long term funding

TOMORROW, April 26th at 9AM CST

Click the link in the bio to register we’ll see you there! 😊

03/26/2024

You can't always control what direction your organization goes, and you can't control the financial situation of your donor, but you can definitely control whether or not you neglect them.

Did you know that according to the stats, re-engaging your lapsed donors within 18 months of their last gift is critical?!

If you lose them for 2+ years, their chances of returning are slim. 3+ years, and those chances drop to lower than if they had never given in the first place.

Armed with this crucial piece of information, you have work to do, and it's not primarily asking for more money!

Here's the secret sauce, and you'll hear it sung loud and clear here at Zion.

Engaging with your donors isn't about their gifts; it's about them—the people with the vision to serve something bigger than themselves.

Building a relationship is about valuing the things THEY have a vision for. The better they know you, the better they will know if the money they want to give fits your organization.

Your donors are the lifeblood and heroes of what you do. They care about what they are funding, and being able to communicate where their funds are going and thank them properly is like Christmas morning when they understand how much of an impact their gifts are making.

It truly is better to give than to receive; make sure your donors feel that way.