Something for followers of Vincent and Louise to consider… The St. Vincent dePaul Society offers 10 reasons why their Councils should  consider cellphone engagement:

1. Reach the unengaged through a personal device carried by nearly everyone
2. Encourage one-time donors to give and participate more often
3. Increase your dollar amount, frequency and number of donors
4. Grow new donor, volunteer and member relationships
5. Deliver relevant, timely and high-value engagement
6. Build lasting relationships with high retention rate services
7. Have your messages read in the first 3 minutes of delivery
8. No added staff needed, this is a completely managed service
9. Nearly 100% of your attendees at your events are carrying a cell phone
10. Would YOU leave home without your cell phone? Neither would YOUR
Constituents!

Cellphone Engagement Opportunities:

 Fundraising:
 Inviting event participants to text-in to receive a donor link to give
 Providing links from your E-newsletter or emails for people to join
 Sending last minute year-end reminders by-text with donor links for people to give
 Building donor relationships by sending periodic messages about Your SVdP activities
 Radio-thon and Marathon:
 Provide Marathon participants unique keywords for their Peer-to-Peer fundraising
 Create a permissioned group of people who are interested in receiving more information, as well as a future opportunity to give.
 Offer a front end opportunity for Radio-thon listeners to text in to give
 Volunteer & Member Communications, & Training : 2
 Setting up unique groups of volunteers to send information regarding: links to registration forms, volunteer dates, time and locations changes, other urgent
information.

 Delivery via text message that will immediately appear on a volunteer’s phone
 Send encouraging messages and scripture to members

 Custom designed applications for a councils specific needs, such as:
 Cross technology conversion of email to text, text to email, text to voice, etc.
 Custom applications are available for your unique communication needs via
text, email and voice (phone calls)

They are working closely with

Mark L. Highbaugh, Sr | Chief Executive | Marlimar Mobile Strategies | Spot On text
502.777.4447 | Mark@Marlimar.com | Marlimar.com | MyUniversityMobile.com | InteractiveMobileStrategies.com