What’s the Best Way to Motivate Yourself?
Two experts discuss how we can set better goals and follow through on them.
What’s the Best Way to Motivate Yourself?How to get donors to give more
Promising to ask for a donation once and never again can increase total contributions.
The once-and-done strategy generated an initial response rate nearly twice as large as that of the regular mail campaign.
Amee Kamdar, Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, Brian Mullaney, and Chad Syverson, “Once and Done: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Increase Charitable Contributions,” Working paper, January 2015.
Two experts discuss how we can set better goals and follow through on them.
What’s the Best Way to Motivate Yourself?Benefactors don’t want anyone to question their motives.
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