If your group actually has a complicated or controversial issue, then the prospect may wish to talk with you because he or she can learn something. The one type of personal contact there is still not enough of is thank yous. While many organizations use thoughtful, personal appeals to solicit money, whether in letters or phone calls, their thank you often comes in a form letter, without even an extra note attached. This does not make for prospects who want to meet and talk in the future. They feel they are appreciated up until the time they give their money, and then not until they are asked again.
Time is our most precious non-renewable resource.
Working with that understanding allows you to work with the electronic voices, instead of resenting them. Reprinted from the Grassroots Fundraising Journal , Volume 17, Number 3, copyright Chardon Press, 1998. The Board of Directors by Stephanie Roth and Kim Klein Getting Major Gifts Third Edition.