You know how to fundraise. What you're dealing with now — pressure, the team, strategic decisions — that's not in any newsletter. So I started writing it down. Sundays. Free.
I said you'd be first. -- Discount codes just make it complicated.
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Hi Reader, I woke up this morning and read this same email I sent you, and thought - discount codes? That just makes it complicated. So, I removed it. No code is needed to get the bonus extra. Read on. A few weeks ago I made you a promise. I said I was turning something we'd been building together into a tool you could actually use. I said CFW readers would get it first. That's today. The Systems Investment Playbook is the exact process I used when I had five builds on our list and no good way to choose which one went first. One build that quarter. No more debate. The gift officer who was managing 1,000 prospects manually is now working a portfolio of 50 — the other 950 in automated cultivation. That happened because we used the filter to pick the right build first. Every week the wrong build stays at the top of the list is a week the right one doesn't move. If that sentence lands, this was built for you.
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One more thing. CFW readers also get the Chief Fundraiser OS Diagnostic free through Wednesday midnight — a 17-page self-diagnostic that maps all 13 systems and identifies the one constraint that's capping your operation right now.
After midnight on Wednesday, the code expires. Cheers, PS — The diagnostic alone will tell you which system is capping your operation. If it's System Six — and you'll know when you see it — the playbook is what you do next. The free add-on expires at midnight on Wednesday. chieffundraiser.com/products/system-6 |
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You know how to fundraise. What you're dealing with now — pressure, the team, strategic decisions — that's not in any newsletter. So I started writing it down. Sundays. Free.
Hi Reader, A few weeks ago I made you a promise. I said I was turning something we'd been building together into a tool you could actually use. I said CFW readers would get it first. That's today. The Systems Investment Playbook is the exact process I used when I had five builds on our list and no good way to choose which one went first. One build that quarter. No more debate. The gift officer who was managing 1,000 prospects manually is now working a portfolio of 50 — the other 950 in...
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