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Kindful Renewal: Is HubSpot a Bloomerang Alternative?

If you run a nonprofit on Kindful, you already know the situation has changed. Kindful was acquired by Bloomerang and is no longer really it

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Migrating from eTapestry to HubSpot: What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know Before They Start

eTapestry earned its place. For small and mid-size nonprofits that needed a real donor database without a six-figure price tag, it delivered

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Moving from Spreadsheets and Email to HubSpot for Nonprofits: What Leaders Need to Know Before They Start

Every nonprofit starts somewhere. For a lot of them, that somewhere is a shared Google Sheet and a Mailchimp account. It works well enough i

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The Biggest Gap in Nonprofit CRM Isn't a CRM Problem

A note before we get started: We use Fathom at Lake One, I'm an investor, and the Fathom links here are referral links. The category logic h

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Your Nonprofit Doesn't Need a CRM Migration. It Needs a CRM Strategy.

After years with a legacy CRM, your nonprofit has finally decided it's time to move on. Your team is ecstatic. You choose a platform built f

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Migrating from Blackbaud to HubSpot: What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know Before They Start

HubSpot isn't Blackbaud. It wasn't built for fundraising the way Blackbaud was, and if you go into a migration expecting a one-for-one swap,

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Why Most Nonprofit CRMs Feel Heavy (and It's Not Just the Software)

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Can HubSpot Manage Nonprofit Pledges? - Yep!

A donor pledges $10,000 to your capital campaign, payable in monthly installments. You log it in your donor database, send a thank-you, and

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Nonprofit Website Best Practices: How to Turn Your Site Into a Fundraising Engine

Nonprofit websites carry a lot of weight. They tell stories, share updates, and showcase impact. But at the end of the day, they’re also one

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Signs Your CRM is Fatigued: CRM Data Management

Your CRM should be the backbone of your sales and marketing efforts. It gives teams visibility, keeps data organized, and makes reporting st

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First-Party Data in Healthcare: What to Collect (and What to Do With It)

Healthcare marketing is changing. With third-party data on the decline, first-party data has become the foundation for building trust and cr

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Manufacturers: Here’s What Your Sales Toolkit Really Needs

Let’s call a spade a spade, most manufacturing sales toolkits are just PDFs with a fancy name. And while there's nothing really wrong with p

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