For many nonprofit managers, marketing equals fundraising.
But your organization exists for more than just bringing in donations. By using social marketing methods for behavior change, you can boost the effectiveness of programs and activities that are the reason your organization exists — to make a difference.
Social marketing uses the same tools and techniques of commercial marketing, but its purpose is to bring about positive health and social change. The bottom line for social marketing is behavior change.
Social marketing, as described here, is different from using social media to communicate or peer-to-peer and consumer-generated content.
Indeed, this social marketing has been around for over several decades, used to address issues around the world, from family planning, to HIV/AIDS, to breast cancer screening.
When social marketers develop a program strategy, they consider the same elements of the marketing mix as commercial marketers.