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Why
Does Your Cause Matter?
Discover your uniquely powerful answer and propel your organization's
success to new heights. Cause Matters Corp. can help you champion
your cause when you're ready to move your product, service organization,
or business to a new level. Here's how:
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Agricultural organizations create communities of engaged through a tailor-made social media hub, including training for your staff to manage tools such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Linkedin and blogs.
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Agrifood groups will better
protect their interests by understanding and proactively influencing
consumer, political and media groups in order to dispel myths
and reinforce truths in today's agriculturally naïve world.
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Organizations will gain
insight into the powerful effectiveness of grassroots marketing
and how it connects their cause to their audience, on a personal
level, for phenomenal results. |
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Non-profits will boost
revenue generation by developing skills that strengthen long-lasting
sponsor and member relationships. |
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Employees will take away
valuable selling solutions as they learn to identify and connect
with customers' "hot buttons," avoid common sales
mistakes, and promote their product or service as a sensible
solution. |
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Executives will gain confidence
by learning techniques to deliver engaging speeches and generate
the results they desire. |
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What We Do ~ Tailored for You
Cause Matters Corp. offers tailor-made packages in agricultural
advocacy, fundraising, marketing, speech coaching, and strategic
facilitation for select clients. Examples of projects include:
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Building social media hub to leverage your existing marketing messages and build communities engaged in your cause. |
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Crafting an agricultural
economic development initiative for the new Indiana State Department
of Agriculture. |
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Developing a multi-year
international leadership program. |
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Facilitating strategic
local county leadership discussions. |
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Creating an agricultural
advocacy program. |
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Collaborating with organizations
to develop strategic marketing and fundraising plans. |
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Coaching powerful presentations
from executives through program design, speaking techniques,
and audience insight. |
One of the fundamentals of success has been
to work collaboratively with clients to deliver "tailor-made solutions." Another fundamental
is to tap into expertise from working across North America, Europe,
United Kingdom and the Baltics.
What We Believe ~ Our Philosophy
Our approach revolves around the concept of helping you connect your
cause through hitting target audience hot buttons.
Whether you're representing a product, service or your own business
- Cause Matters Corp. will work closely with you to develop tools
to meet your goals in championing your cause.
Who We Are ~ Champions for YOUR Cause
A team of highly skilled individuals with over 50 combined years in
the business, not-for-profit, agriculture, and finance arenas. Michele
Payn-Knoper, nationally known professional speaker, founded Cause
Matters Corp. in 2001 to help people learn how to champion their cause.
Her talented team includes: Kelly Carter, Katherine Page Saldaņa
and Margie Thomas.
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and her team delivers success to you through: |
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Customized Packages |
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Strategic Solutions |
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Creative Collaborations |
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Refreshingly Direct Approach |
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Dynamic Delivery |
When you are ready for a change for your cause,
contact Cause
Matters Corp.
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"As a non-profit organization, it is important that we put our
Young Dairy Leaders Institute together first-class, but within
budget. Michele listened to our requests, and exceeded our expectations.
She even helped us attract new sponsors for the program." -
Jodi Luttropp, Holstein Foundation
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"Michele was like a breath of fresh air for our organization
as we reviewed our sales, marketing, and communications strategies...we
just needed her to sit down with us to help take a different look
at what we're here to do and how we could approach things more
productively. We really appreciate her insight into what we are
and what we can become"
- World Ag Expo
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