When I talk to data vendors about what data I’d like them to resell, I always mention patents. And then I get pushback from my peer consultants on whether searching patens is worth the time. The argument in our community against searching patents are twofold:… Read More »Are Patents Worth Our Time?
In 1957, my father sat in the cold metal hut buried halfway into the ground of Shemya Island, a remote piece of land that sits near the very end of the tongue full of islands that make up the eastern edge of Alaska. It’s no… Read More »Prospect Research Pride 2016
This article was first published as “Marianne’s Mining Minute” in the APRA Upstate New York chapter’s newsletter, 2012. David Lawson once told me that someone giving $40,000 or more over a lifetime to political causes is more likely than not to be a wealthy person.… Read More »Is Political Giving a Prospecting Tool?
This article was first published as “Marianne’s Mining Minute” in the APRA Upstate New York chapter’s newsletter, 2010. Reporting isn’t always data mining, but knowing what’s in your database can help you develop models of future prospects, whether or not you have the training and… Read More »Just in Time Prospect Management: Trigger Reporting
This article was first published as “Marianne’s Mining Minute” in the APRA Upstate New York chapter’s newsletter, 2010. We have focused for the past 10 years or so on data mining for major gifts prospects. However, with the advent of measuring social networking, we are… Read More »When the Question Is about Participation