Rather than the plethora of Seasons Greetings vs Happy Christmas cards, xmas virals and the outrage of ‘how little money actually goes to the charity from most charity card sales’ I thought we’d share this selection of very creative business cards posted on Flickr with you! We always fancied our iConcertina business cards - […]

I’ve just read a lenghty and interesting blog post full of useful and friendly links in the US and UK for charity donations that is a great reference point. Please follow the link to read the article here: http://www.creditcardlowdown.com/2007/11/50_online_tools_to_research_select_and_donate_to_charities.html

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We are delighted to announce the release of the report. It is available to download on e-consultancy.com our partners in this project.
We evaluated the top 120 charity websites (by voluntary donations) in the following categories:
• Usability – is the site easy to use?
• […]

Please follow the link to read our client services director Dean Russell’s latest comments from Third Sector on 29th November 2006.

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Dean Russell, our Client Services Director, was recently interviewed by Chris Lake, Editor at e-consultancy.com on the results of our recently published Charity Website Benchmark Report. Please follow this link to read the full interview.
The report is available for download here.

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We wanted to share some delightful feedback from our client The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (www.pdsa.org.uk).
PDSA recently commissioned a personalised Charity Benchmark report that compared them to 10 client selected competing charity websites, and Helen Jeff’s say’s “Thank you for the report. It’s excellent. We shall be endeavoring to put into place […]

We’ve just donated a new website to the Execution Charitable Trust (ECT), launched today. Execution is a client of ours - they are an independent boutique brokerage house and their Charitable Trust is the brainchild of the firm’s founders, James Blackburn and Nick Finegold (in particular). They hold an annual charity day when the firm donates […]

As you’ll note in our News section , e-consultancy.com & iConcertina Creative have just issued a Charity Website Benchmark report revealing that many of the top 110 charities’ sites suffer from a lack of transparency, communicate poorly, and score quite low in accessibility.
In a recent podcast conversation over at Fundraising Technology, my colleague Mark Meade […]

At the UK Fundraising Perfect Pitch last week, two of the presentations were based on similar business models. Both were based on the presumption that they could leverage Charities’ databases and campaign communication to springboard their marketing initiatives. By attributing revenue generated to the Charity referrer, (in-return) they promise to […]

I am a real sceptic on the potential value of these type of ‘Speed Dating’ seminars where organisers attempt to match buyers with suppliers. I presented iConcertina Creative in a 30 minute slot yesterday talking about Online: not just Marketing’s domain. Take our online survey which gives you a taste of […]