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Do you Pin? Check out this interesting Video Infographic: A marketer’s guide to pinterest

I’m a big fan of eye-catching infographics, but this one is even more engaging, its a video!. Very interesting facts about Pinterest, how you should use it and how popular it is. […]

Submit to HMRC online even if your donations management system doesn’t support it

How are you getting on with the new requirement to submit sector-specific compliance claims electronically? Our latest software, a specialist sector platform makes submitting your claims painless. It fully integrates with your existing system and is very simple to use. It manages the whole process whether you submit 1 or 500,000 payments at a time. […]

Ready for the off: Gift Aid claiming goes digital

From the end of September sector-specific compliance Claims will be different. The current R68(i) form will be no more and you will have to submit using one of 3 options: Complete on-line forms with attached spreadsheet (up to 1,000 claims per submission, but as many submissions as you like); Submit from your database on-line [direct […]

Day 3: Fundraising requires skills and expertise

If you think that anybody can fundraise you are mistaken. Fundraising takes skills and hard work; the best fundraisers can make a huge difference to the fortunes of your charity. Appoint a smart, fast-learning team and offer them plenty of training and support. Bear in mind that it’s important to hire a fundraiser to raise […]

When technology succeeds

This is a quote that we used in out original brochure, it was true then, it’s true now. “IT (information technology) is both the cause of problems and the source of solutions, but is not the magic touchstone. Its implementation is by people, its utilisation is by people, the ultimate arbiters of success or failure, […]

Up Close and Personal

“By the end of 2012 there will be more connected devices than people on Earth”: the first sentence of Heather Maitland‘s article really kicks off The latest edition of JAM is a very timely look at mobile marketing. A host of excellent articles that build up to the final one (well it’s in the middle […]