About this episode

This episode discusses the gap between the fear of making fundraising calls and the reality, introducing the Phone Coach App as a solution.

The Problem: Gap between the anticipated fear and the reality of fundraising calls - we talked about this previously in Episode #20Candidates imagine donors will be annoyed or reject themReality: Most donors are flattered, want to help, or politely declineThe gap between what we fear and what happens is huge The Solution: Phone Coach App Link: https://practice.7figurefundraising.com/phone-coachSimple goal: help you make five fundraising phone callsUses ladder approach from Winning Edge #20Rep...

People in this episode

Host: Commonwealth Partners

Topics covered

• fundraising
• donor relations
• fear of rejection
• phone calls
• coaching

Keywords

• fundraising calls
• donors
• fear
• Phone Coach
• coaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Commonwealth Partners

Products: Phone Coach App

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