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Climate Counts: Businesses Combating Climate Change
Climate Counts brings consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change. Since 2007, Climate Counts has rated 150 companies (representing approximately 3,000 brands) in 16 industry sectors. The charter members of the i2 project are boldly showing leadership with sustainable positioning that enhances efficiency, reduces climate impact and betters their bottom line.
Nonprofit Fundraising: Success vs. Productivity for Nonprofits
Is "success" the same thing as "productivity"? Not when it comes to fundraising organizations. "Success" usually means high levels of income or gifts. "Productivity" means producing desired levels of income at controllable costs, ensuring that income is consistent and predictable, and managing the effort with efficiency. Here are a few tips to help you assess and improve the productivity of your nonprofit's fundraising efforts.

Nonprofit Fundraising: Improve Your Fundraising Performance
Is "success" the same thing as "productivity"? Not when it comes to fundraising organizations. "Success" usually means high levels of income or gifts. "Productivity" means producing desired levels of income at controllable costs, ensuring that income is consistent and predictable, and managing the effort with efficiency. Here are a few tips to help you assess and improve the productivity of your nonprofit's fundraising efforts.

Using a scorecard
Businesses of all sizes, be it a large corporation or a newly-established small business, spend a considerable amount of time and effort developing well-thought out strategic plans that work to pave the way for their business’s success.

Measuring and managing social performance
In recent years donors and practitioners have demonstrated a renewed interest in and commitment to understanding how to reach poor people effectively, assess their level of poverty, and judge the social performance of MFIs.

Evaluating PR Pitches – Getting Beyond the Beauty Contest
Sadly, the pitch is often the high point in the agency/client relationship. Agencies may over promise and under deliver, but equally clients may brief poorly or be seduced by showmanship or short term tactics. Objective evaluation is the answer. Adrian Maguire of online PR specialist, www.CLICKintoPR.com outlines ten things you should do and ten things not to do.

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Turn Your Do-List Into A Game
The do-list is a burden we carry around, day in, day out. When we have nearly completed it, we or someone else dumps more "do" on it. It's a game you never win. Turning your do-list into a game, by making it a scorecard, shifts the paradigm. Now it becomes a game - a game which you can win or lose, a game where you don't win 'em all, a game which is both challenging and entertaining. What a difference!
Search Engine Marketing - The Importance Of The \"Easy Sale\"
In our previous post, we discussed the concept of the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) two-step, and ended by introducing the concept of the “easy sale”. What’s the easy sale? That’s the offer on your Website that allows your prospect to sign up for an e-newsletter / request a whitepaper / complete a scorecard – anything that allows them to learn more about your company without the risk of having to speak to a live human being – or worse – the dreaded “Sales Representative”. In return, you capture their contact info (email address minimum) which now allows you to continue marketing to this prospect on an ongoing basis and puts you in control of the sales cycle.
Balanced Scorecard: Measuring the Important Stuff
The Balanced Scorecard was devised by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the early nineties. It began with the premise that an exclusive reliance on the financial indicators such as profit and loss was causing the managers and owners of businesses to do the wrong things. Subsequently it was seen as a tool to measure the success of implementing strategies or implementing good ideas. The financial indicators are great at telling us how a business has performed in the past what the Balanced Scorecard does is supplement this with measures that indicate how the business will perform in the future.
High Def TV Is In the Eye of the Beholder
HDTV is a big entertainment train coming at the consumer 100 MPH. In the Americas it took a bunch of years to transition viewing from B&W to color. Now the government has said everything/everyone will go from SD to HD in less than three years and that finish line is next February. Networks and stations are moving to beat the deadline and they're well on their way. Set manufacturers can't wait for every household to make the transition even if the sets aren't as big (expensive as they would like). Content pipelines? Well sure, kinda. Ok so the squeeze the shows a little hard so it fuzzes up the quality of HD...sssooo?? The consumer? Sure! Right!! How much??? Well here's the scorecard of where we stand and how we'll end up.
Using Balanced Scorecard
This tells how to use a Balanced Scorecard as a Performance measurement tool
Are you drowning or swimming?
Are you drowning or swimming. In business things keep you afloat and other things drag you under To assist you in assessing your state I would suggest using the concept of a balanced scorecard. Here you list out all the attributes that affect your business both positively and negatively and then score them out of 10 (or more if they are important and less if they not) even to negative scores if they are really dragging you down. I set out a framework for you to use and customise below. I hope it helps
Develop your Sales Presentation using the Balance Scorecard
Most of us know the strategic use of the Balance Scorecard. We use it or at least a variation of it, to run our business. If it is good for your business, would it not be something that is simple and straight forward for your customer. A quick overview of the four areas of the Balance Scorecard:
Map Strategy with Balanced Scorecard
Effectively developing and communicating high-level business strategy is essential for organizations looking to achieve market leadership. Additionally, creating a results-oriented culture requires a comprehensive management system. Use Demand Metric’s downloadable Balanced Scorecard Strategy Map tool as a basis for implementing a proven business performance management methodology.
Writing Business Strategy Plans
Build a Strategic Planning Team- engage a cross-functional planning team to represent each department's needs. Hold a kick-off meeting to set strategic planning goals, schedule meeting times, and get organized for the planning process. Introduce the Balanced Scorecard Approach- review and distribute our Research Note "Map Strategy with Balanced Scorecard" to provide a framework to work from. Develop a Strategic Planning Charter- use our Project Charter template to document the goals and objectives for the planning process, and set plan completion timelines. Document Strategic Planning GAPS- evaluate your current strategic planning process and add GAPS to our GAP Analysis Tool under the Strategy tab. You will be using this GAP Analysis Tool through the entire strategic planning process, so consider distributing this tool to the wh
Balanced scorecard as a leadership tool
Some tips for managers on using a balanced scorecard as a management tool. The success of balanced scorecard theory throughout the business world can in large part be attributed to its potential as a leadership tool. Used to its best effect can have a powerful impact on any size of organization – and here’s some tips on how to use it.
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