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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?” But there was agreement that membership retention and loyalty problems might be symptomatic of declining confidence. Today trust bleeds into everything.

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Taking Advantage of a Crisis

Robert Weiner

All key metrics declined for the index as a whole for the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the first quarter of 2008. " He advises nonprofits to "embrace integrated marketing, focus on donor retention, increase monthly giving, and ramp up or start a planned giving program."

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Attention All Shoppers: Online Fundraising Metrics Are In!

NTEN

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

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Taking Advantage of a Crisis

Tech Soup

All key metrics declined for the index as a whole for the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the first quarter of 2008. He advises nonprofits to "embrace integrated marketing, focus on donor retention, increase monthly giving, and ramp up or start a planned giving program."

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Your Data is Going to Break Up with You

NTEN

Do those numbers tell you anything you NEED to know, or are they vanity metrics (those numbers we LIKE to track because we think they make us look good)? 16% retention rate . Let's take a step back, and ask one simple question: "Why?" " Why are you tracking all those things? 129 have donated again in 2010. Birds Saved.

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Nonprofit CRM Trends Plus How to Choose an eCRM - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

One bit of evidence that this is working well is that our client retention rate is about 99%.and Philip King: Ask about their client retention rate: I think this is key. frogloop: What metrics are the most critical to measure and track when conducting an online fundraising strategy? Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Audience Growth (content consumption ???