Just one of those days...

As staff you have to make a lot of fundraising calls. Every staff does. And every now and then you get one of those calls that kicks you right in the gut. You know the ones, right? The call where you hang up wondering IF you really are doing the right thing. The call where you hang up wondering IF you really are just panhandling.

But, at the end of the day you know you’ve been called to serve your mission and a part of that calling is fundraising. And besides, now you have one of those war stories to share with other staff!

Well, let us here at Staff Monkey encourage you! Just because you leave staff doesn’t mean you won’t still get to have those calls from time to time! We recently received an email from a staff who believed we might be engaged in a diabolical plot to rip off staff because there are a number of other Do-It-Yourself email marketing options out there that are cheaper than Staff Monkey. And he was particularly concerned because we use MailChimp (the very best of these) as our backend for our customers and yet keep this a closely guarded secret.

I would share the email, but he wasn’t nice people (although I’m sure he didn’t mean to come across as rude, right?).

We do want to take this opportunity to reaffirm to you, our much loved customers (and potentially much loved customers), that we will always look for better and greater ways to make you more awesome at what you’ve been called to do. And we are always evaluating and looking for ways to add value for what you pay for.

OK, I’m letting go now.