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My Water Pilgrimage:

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Its website has a feature that allows you to create a “birthday campaign”, a program in which friends can donate to your personal online fundraiser in lieu of gifts. The NGO I came across Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH) through charity: water’s birthday campaigns.

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Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

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Use repetition of key benefits or value proposition in your sales copy and ad campaigns many times. Effective advertising and political campaigns do that (“Geico can save you 15% or more …”). The second version talked about a particular girl in Zambia, Rokia, who was starving. Three times is a common number.

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