The Jerry Huntsinger tutorials

This special showcase within the direct mail section of SOFII comprises a complete series of tutorials from the dean of direct mail fundraising, the USA’s legendary Jerry Huntsinger. In 57 parts plus supporting materials, this insightful, practical series is building, over time, into the complete step-by-step guide to direct mail fundraising.

Tutorial 47: answering questions I wish someone would ask

by Jerry Huntsinger

Jerry Huntsinger asks a string of questions that should be asked, then says you shouldn’t allow your keyboard to filter your personality or your voice. And you can find out how his gardener, crazy Eddie, invented a new take on the Johnson box.

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Tutorial 48: seven golden rules for the reply form

by Jerry Huntsinger

Seven golden rules to follow that will really make your reply form work.

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Tutorial 49: persuasion or exaggeration?

by Jerry Huntsinger

Jerry Huntsinger is in a more philosophical mood this week. Here he discusses the fundraising writer’s role in ethics.

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Tutorial 50: ten ways to break out of a creative slump

by Jerry Huntsinger

Are you in a creative slump and don’t think you’ll make that important deadline. Worry no more. In this, his fiftieth tutorial on SOFII, Jerry Huntsinger gives you some ideas that he uses to get over it.

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Tutorial 51: get a second gift: the toughest job of all

by Jerry Huntsinger

More grim news, this time from Jerry Huntsinger: most first-time donors won’t give again. Don’t worry though, as usual he has some sound advice in this latest tutorial on SOFII, with a great ’Welcome to our famly’ letter and strategy that will help you bind new donors to your cause.

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Tutorial 52: executive directors: learn to love a fundraising letter.

by Jerry Huntsinger

Are your CEO and chair of your board afraid of fundraising letters? Do they wish they didn’t have to send them? When you point them in the direction of this new tutorial from Jerry Huntsinger they will learn to love them. They – and you – will find some old tips on how to write a great letter, some new ones and best of all learn just why they work.

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Tutorial 53: principles of testing

by Jerry Huntsinger

This tutorial from Jerry Huntsinger gives you the principles of testing that will save you from drowning in an ocean of facts.

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Tutorial 54: how to survive by the law of probability

by Jerry Huntsinger

It would be so easy to be successful in direct mail fundraising if all you had to do was come up with one winning package and then send it to your house list for the next 10 years. But, surviving in the fundraising world is so much more complicated...

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Tutorial 55: how to get your outer envelope ripped open!

by Jerry Huntsinger

This tutorial from Jerry Huntsinger will show you how to get your donors to rip open your envelope in anticipation of your vital message inside.

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Tutorial 56: strategy for the small organisation.

by Jerry Huntsinger

Are you trying to raise money for a small charity? Worried that you can’t compete with the ‘big boys’? Then head over to this latest tutorial from that other eminent fundraiser Jerry Huntsinger and you will find that you actually have some advantages over larger organisations – who might also find something useful.

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Tutorial 57: stand in your donor’s shoes

by Jerry Huntsinger

Someone somewhere is waiting for your mail. She could be a legacy prospect. Have you excluded her from your mailing list because she gave so little last time – even though she’s been making donations for years?

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