First of all, I want to make clear that entering the broader market of charities can simply mean a different website design—I don’t know how this should play out, and I believe that we need to be very careful to spend budgets, but I do think that there could be a way for organizations to be both appealing for EA’s and non EA’s without investing too much on marketing. It doesn’t necessarily mean competing with big, well-funded charities that spend enormous amounts of money on marketing, it could simply mean learning what they do well and implementing small changes to at least be easier for me and you to convince our friends to donate to effective charities.
Furthermore, I want to refer to the second point you’ve raised—I also think that emotional appeal can boost the motivation within EA’s. Things like GDlive give me a boost in motivation, not because the numbers are not sufficient to make a strong case but simply because there are some EA’s, like me, that are more feeling-oriented than other EA’s and I personally want them on board as well.
In turn, if what we are proposing in the post is successful, it could be the case that this gain in motivation by EAs and EA-aligned people would lead them be more eager to learn more about EA, donate more, and maybe even change their career plans to work on EA cause areas.
I think that alone can be a good enough reason to make an effort to seem more emotionally appealing.
First of all, I want to make clear that entering the broader market of charities can simply mean a different website design—I don’t know how this should play out, and I believe that we need to be very careful to spend budgets, but I do think that there could be a way for organizations to be both appealing for EA’s and non EA’s without investing too much on marketing. It doesn’t necessarily mean competing with big, well-funded charities that spend enormous amounts of money on marketing, it could simply mean learning what they do well and implementing small changes to at least be easier for me and you to convince our friends to donate to effective charities.
Furthermore, I want to refer to the second point you’ve raised—I also think that emotional appeal can boost the motivation within EA’s. Things like GDlive give me a boost in motivation, not because the numbers are not sufficient to make a strong case but simply because there are some EA’s, like me, that are more feeling-oriented than other EA’s and I personally want them on board as well.
I think that alone can be a good enough reason to make an effort to seem more emotionally appealing.
Agreed! I think our views on the issue are quite similar then :)
Although I’m all for variance in opinions within the community, in the case of outreach and marketing I’m kind of happy that we do (: