PRESENTED BY

The Amazing

Spectacular

Of Online Fundraising & Digital Marketing

Denver, CO - September 24-25, 2019

About NIO Summit

Grow Your Online Fundraising and Become an Innovative Digital Marketer

The Nonprofit Innovation & Optimization Summit is the premier conference for nonprofit marketers and fundraisers looking to grow their online fundraising. Rather than have an open call for speakers, we hand-select the leading experts in marketing and fundraising innovation from around the world, and bring them all under one roof to teach us how to achieve real and tangible online fundraising growth.

Over the course of two days, you’ll learn proven and research-driven strategies from these leading experts, participate in hands-on training sessions, and discover all the tools you need to grow your online fundraising and revenue.

Through extensive networking opportunities, you’ll gather new ideas and learnings from a community of nonprofit marketers and fundraisers like yourself who are seeking the most innovative solutions and strategies to grow their revenue.

Why Attend NIO Summit?

4 Reasons a Nonprofit Fundraising Executive Should Attend

1. Get inspiring new ideas from bleeding-edge digital marketers.

Every year we go to the top marketing conferences around the world to find the best digital marketing thought leaders to invite to NIO. This year, we’ve secured some of the most talented forward-thinkers to inspire you with breakthrough ideas to help give your nonprofit organization an edge.

2. Learn secrets to building a culture of perpetual learning and performance improvement.

The key to consistent growth of your fundraising program is creating a culture of innovation and optimization. At the NIO Summit, you will learn secrets from other nonprofit executives that have cracked the code of cultural transformation so that you can motivate your staff to continually push for better and better results.

3. Preview new technology solutions in a no-pressure, sales-free environment.

Nobody likes to pay to attend a conference only to be forced to sit through sales pitch after sales pitch from the main stage. Yet, as an innovative executive you need to constantly stay on top of what is new in the world of technology. To solve this, we have created a special “Innovation Showcase” that is located in a private lounge within the main venue. You can pick and choose which technologies to review in a no-hassle, comfortable, intimate setting.

4. Network with fellow innovators from both the nonprofit and for-profit space.

One of the best parts of the NIO Summit is the built-in networkingopportunities throughout the conference. Because this event is only for nonprofit innovators and marketing thought leaders, you will have the opportunity to meet and engage with people that share your passion for leadership, new ideas, and market disruption.

5 Reasons a Nonprofit Fundraising Practitioner Should Attend

1. Learn advanced marketing ideas to accelerate your growth.

The NIO Summit is the place where you’ll find proven fundraising strategies, the latest marketing innovations, and the essential tools to help your nonprofit achieve major online fundraising growth. Take in over 16 powerful and practical, action-oriented sessions on email marketing, copywriting, landing page creation, content marketing, analytics, social media marketing, online advertising, marketing automation, and of course, testing and optimization.

2. Discover what works and what doesn’t in online fundraising.

Gain insights from over 1,000 online fundraising experiments to get quick wins for your online fundraising program that will impress your boss and raise more money for your organization.

3. Fast-track your way into testing and optimization.

If you have ever wanted to move into the exciting world of conversion rate optimization, this is your chance! The entire NextAfter team will be available to you to help you with everything from developing a strong, testable hypothesis, to getting up and running on a testing platform – we’ll even help you set up and run your first test from the floor of the conference.

4. Get instant free access to your own experiment research library.

Every attendee of the NIO Summit will get access to the newly designed Winston Experiment Research Library. Winston easily integrates with all major testing platforms and will enable you to monitor, document, and share the results of all of your experiments from one centralized, beautifully designed interface.

5. Meet and network with marketing thought-leaders and fellow nonprofit innovators.

Imagine the opportunity to attend a nonprofit conference where meeting new people doesn’t feel like work. That’s because the NIO Summit has been engineered to provide you with natural opportunities to connect and network with other nonprofit attendees, speakers, and subject matter experts so that you have people you can turn to for inspiration, new ideas, or even your next career move.

4 Reasons Why Everyone Will Love the NIO Summit

lion image1. The venue is set in the heart of Denver, CO.

The Ellie Caulkins Opera house in downtown Denver is a world-class hall that looks gorgeous, sounds beautiful, and will provide the best conference experience possible for you to learn new strategies from each speaker, network with other innovative fundraisers and marketers, and discover the right tools to help you implement new strategies.

The location downtown Denver, CO will give you breath-taking views while also providing ample restaurants and entertainment for you to keep the conversations going after conference hours.

2. The speakers will blow your mind.

We literally travel to marketing conferences around the world to find the absolute best expert speakers we can find. You will be inspired, challenged, entertained, and of course equipped with killer ideas that you are guaranteed not to find at any other nonprofit conference this year.

3. Killer swag.

Instead of crappy tote bags jammed with marketing propaganda, we’ve created a sweet Swag Shop where you can trade in the tokens for the coolest nonprofit conference swag you’ve ever seen. Earn tokens by participating at the Summit, and you’ll be able to cash in on Bison coolers, boot-leg T-shirts, notebooks, sun-glasses, and more.

4. Money-back Guarantee.

We are so confident that you will LOVE the NIO Summit, that we will 100% refund your money if you don’t walk away with new ideas to grow your fundraising and marketing.

THE SPEAKERS

Ross Simmonds

Founder of Hustle & Grind, Author & Marketing Consultant
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Ross Simmonds

Founder of Hustle & Grind, Author & Marketing Consultant

Ross Simmonds is the founder of Hustle & Grind (eCommerce store for entrepreneurs), Crate (content marketing software) and offers content marketing services to brands and startups around the world. He share his  thoughts on marketing, business, life and things that inspire him on RossSimmonds.com. He is also the author of Stand Out: The Content Guide for Entrepreneurs and The Hustle Manifesto.

Tim Kachuriak

Chief Innovation & Optimization Officer at NextAfter
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Tim Kachuriak

Chief Innovation & Optimization Officer at NextAfter

Tim Kachuriak is the founder and Chief Innovation and Optimization Officer for Next After, a research and consulting firm that works with businesses, nonprofits and NGOs to help them grow their resource capacity.

Prior to founding NextAfter, Tim served as Senior Vice President of Innovation and Optimization for The Pursuant Group, and Vice President of Digital for KMA Direct Communications.

During his career, Tim has consulted with a number of national and international nonprofits including The Heritage Foundation, Prison Fellowship International, Doctors Without Borders, Wycliffe Bible Translators, The George W. Bush Presidential Center, Moody Bible Institute, The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, as well as others.

A nonprofit thought leader, Tim is the lead researcher and co-author of the Online Fundraising Scorecard, a contributing writer for Fundraising Success, CO+OP, and Outcomes magazines.  Tim has trained organizations around the world as far away as Bangalore, India and Oslo, Norway and is a frequent speaker at national nonprofit conferences including Social Media for Nonprofits, Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Direct Marketing Association Non Profit Federation, the National Religious Broadcasters association, Missio-Nexus, and the Christian Leadership Alliance.

Tim is also the co-founder of Online for Life where he currently serves a Vice Chairman, co-founder and managing partner of Flux Analytics and Donor ID, and is on the MECLABS Advisory Board for Optimization.

A Western Pennsylvania native, Tim and his wife Rebecca currently live in Prosper, TX with their four children Max, Charlie, Gracie, and Joey.

Amy Harrison

Copywriter, Consultant & Speaker at Write With Influence
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Amy Harrison

Copywriter, Consultant & Speaker at Write With Influence

Amy Harrison is a copywriter, content trainer and owner of Write With Influence: an online resource that helps business owners write better marketing content faster and easier. She is also the host (and many of the characters) of AmyTV: an online comedy sketch show all about writing compelling business copy.

Michael Aagaard

World Renowned Conversion Optimizer
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Michael Aagaard

World Renowned Conversion Optimizer

Michael Aagaard became obsessed with Online Marketing and Conversion Optimization in 2008, and I hasn’t looked back since. He was a self-employed CRO consultant (with brief agency stints) helping businesses all over the world and across verticals till he joined Unbounce as Senior Conversion Optimizer in July 2015. Missing the freedom of being his own boss, he left Unbounce in late 2017.
Michael has spoken at conferences in 11 different countries and keynoted at some of the biggest online marketing events in the world. He believes in the scientific method and is of the opinion that psychology, statistics, UX & design, web analytics, research, copywriting and not least business sense are the core components of real conversion optimization.

Dana DiTomaso

President and Partner at Kick Point
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Dana DiTomaso

President and Partner at Kick Point

Dana is President & Partner at Kick Point, where she helps people and teams do better marketing. After working with clients of all sizes for the last 19 years, Dana knows that our industry has an accountability problem. She’s now teaching people how to better communicate how they bring value, and then deliver that value to their organizations. Dana speaks at conferences around the world about reporting and analytics, SEO, and brand building. In her spare time, Dana is the weekly technology columnist on CBC Edmonton AM. She also enjoys drinking fancy beer and yelling at football players.

Jack Nasher

Professor, Negotiator, Best-Selling Author, and Acclaimed Mentalist
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Jack Nasher

Professor, Negotiator, Best-Selling Author, and Acclaimed Mentalist

Jack Nasher, born in 1979, studied and taught at Oxford University and is currently the Professor for Leadership & Organization at Munich Business School and on the faculty of Stanford University. Jack is an expert on reading and influencing human behaviour, particularly applied to negotiations. He trains and advises companies all over the world on negotiation matters and runs the NASHER Negotiation Institute. His books have been published from Austria to China. Jack has been featured on over 100 TV and radio stations.

Jack’s books reached multiple bestselling status, appearing in Russia, Korea, China, Poland etc. Jack is regularly featured in leading publications such as Harvard Business Manager and Zeit. Jack donated 100 % of the royalties of his book on Sir Karl Popper to Human Rights Watch Germany.

He is an avid contributor and reviewer at the world’s leading scientific conferences and was awarded the gold medal for best paper at the International Conference on Applied Psychology 2016 in Colombo/Sri Lanka.

Jack is a member of the Society of Personality & Social Psychology and a Principal Practitioner of Association of Business Psychologists. He is deeply involved in setting up professional standards for business psychologists.

Jack is an avid mentalist, combining psychological illusions with magic, and has given over 50 shows at the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, California.

 

 

 

Chris Mercer

Co-Founder of MeasurementMarketing.io
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Chris Mercer

Co-Founder of MeasurementMarketing.io

Chris “Mercer” Mercer, co-founder of MeasurementMarketing.io, is a sought after measurement marketing expert and has been helping marketers, marketing teams, and agencies, plan out what’s important to measure in their marketing, build measurement systems (using Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics), create actionable dashboard reports, and finally use those reports to forecast and optimize their marketing results. In short, Mercer helps marketers know, trust, and grow their numbers.

Joshua Tijerina

CEO of Longbeard
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Joshua Tijerina

CEO of Longbeard

Joshua Tijerina is the CEO of Longbeard — a digital design and strategy firm that has offices in Rome, Toronto, Phoenix, DC, and South Africa. Joshua has over 17 years of experience working with and for non-profits in the digital marketing space, specifically in the areas of content marketing, growth, and fundraising. Joshua is married with three kids. He has a Bachelors of Communications, a Masters of Public Administration, and a Doctorate of Organizational Leadership.

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Travel Information

NIO SUMMIT LOCATION:

The Ellie Caulkins Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Center

1385 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80204

HOW TO GET TO THE VENUE:

To get the to venue from the airport (DIA), take Pena Blvd W to I-70 West. Exit onto I-25 South. From I-25, exit at Speer Blvd (Exit 212). Turn left (south) on Speer Blvd to Arapahoe Street and turn left. The parking garage is on your immediate right, between Speer and 14th Streets,

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HOTEL INFORMATION:

We’ve secured discounted rates exclusively for NIO Summit attendees at the two hotels below. Be sure to book your stay soon to make sure you get a room in the official NIO Summit hotel block.

Aloft Denver Downtown
800 15th St.
Denver CO, 80202
$199 for a single or double, $209 for a triple, $219 for a quad

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The Magnolia Hotel
818 17th St
Denver, CO 80202
$215 for a single or double, $235 for a triple, $255 for a quad

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