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Using CiviCRM

You're reading from   Using CiviCRM Develop and implement a fully-functional, systematic CRM plan with CiviCRM

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783281459
Length 574 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Erik Hommel Erik Hommel
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Joseph Murray Joseph Murray
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Brian P Shaughnessy Brian P Shaughnessy
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Achieving Your Mission with CiviCRM FREE CHAPTER 2. Planning Your CRM Implementation 3. Installation, Configuration, and Maintenance 4. CiviCRM Basics – Moving through the System and Working with Contacts 5. Collecting, Organizing, and Importing Data 6. Communicating Better 7. Campaigning with Petitions and Surveys 8. Fundraising for Your Mission 9. Growing Your Membership and Interacting with Members 10. Managing Events 11. Interacting with Constituents – Managing Cases 12. Providing Support – Grant Management 13. Telling Your Story – Building Reports 14. Customization, Community, and Cooperation Index

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CiviCRM can assist your organization in sending, receiving, and tracking online and offline communications, but it is up to you to create an appropriate communication plan that fits your CRM strategy. Ideally, you will communicate in ways that will provide the following results:

  • Effectively and efficiently achieving your organization's mission

  • Responding to the interests of the different types of constituents in terms of topic, treatment, tone, and timing

  • Aligning the communication to its call to action

  • Reinforcing your brand

Aligning efforts with objectives

Your plans to communicate with constituents should relate to your plan to achieve your organization's mission. Usually, organizational goals are achieved both directly and indirectly through communications: serving clients, educating and persuading people, raising the profile of your organization within certain target groups, increasing event attendance, recruiting new volunteers, or generating new donations from new...

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