Fractional CMO & CRO services for organizations that serve K-12 education
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K-12 Specialist vs. Generalist Fractional CMO: What Actually Changes
Read more: K-12 Specialist vs. Generalist Fractional CMO: What Actually ChangesMost education companies comparing fractional CMOs are really comparing two different products wearing the same title. One has sold into K-12 before. One hasn’t. The title on the contract looks identical. The first ninety days do not. I’ve watched founders hire a generalist fractional CMO who ran three excellent SaaS go-to-market motions, sat down with…
Marketing a Paid Offer When You’ve Only Ever Marketed a Cause
Read more: Marketing a Paid Offer When You’ve Only Ever Marketed a CauseA nonprofit builds a good earned-revenue offer, prices it well, and then markets it the only way it knows how: by telling the story of its impact. The campaign is moving, the community shares it, and almost no one buys. The offer wasn’t the problem. The organization brought donor marketing to a buyer’s decision, and…
Pricing for Mission: What to Charge When You’re a Nonprofit and Kind of a Business
Read more: Pricing for Mission: What to Charge When You’re a Nonprofit and Kind of a BusinessAsk a nonprofit leader what to charge for a new offering and watch the discomfort arrive. The number they land on is almost always too low, and it is too low for a reason that has nothing to do with the market. Nonprofits rarely have a pricing problem. They have a guilt problem that shows…
Earned Revenue Models That Work for Mission Orgs
Read more: Earned Revenue Models That Work for Mission OrgsOnce an education nonprofit accepts that it has assets worth selling, the next question is what to wrap around them. This is where a lot of organizations stall, because they assume there is one right way to earn revenue and they are looking for it. There isn’t. There is a menu, and most mission orgs…
You Already Have Something to Sell: Auditing Your Latent Assets
Read more: You Already Have Something to Sell: Auditing Your Latent AssetsThe most common mistake nonprofits make when they decide to build earned revenue is starting with a new product. They brainstorm something to launch, something to build from scratch, and the effort dies in committee before it ever meets a customer. The better move is quieter and almost always faster: look at the assets you…
Earned Revenue Isn’t Mission Drift: Monetizing Without Selling Out
Read more: Earned Revenue Isn’t Mission Drift: Monetizing Without Selling OutWhen an education nonprofit stalls on building earned revenue, the blocker is almost never the market. It is a feeling. Somewhere in the leadership team, or on the board, someone believes that charging for the work betrays the mission, and that belief does more to keep organizations grant-dependent than any gap in demand ever could.…
The Revenue Mix That Actually De-Risks a Nonprofit
Read more: The Revenue Mix That Actually De-Risks a NonprofitThe argument about nonprofit revenue usually gets framed as a values question. Should a mission-driven organization really chase earned income, or does that pull it toward acting like a business? It is the wrong question. The nonprofit revenue mix is not an ideology debate. It is a risk-management one. An organization funded almost entirely by…
