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Fundraising Ideas to Reverse the Trend of Declining Email Response Rates

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The much-anticipated 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark study was released last week. based national nonprofits in 2012. Nonprofits often use this study to benchmark their own online activities and fundraising ideas. One of the eye-catching findings from the study was the steep decline in the performance of fundraising emails in 2012.

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Infographic: 2012 Nonprofit Benchmarks

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The 2012 eNonprofit Benchmark study comes out April 5 th and is packed with great data that highlights key online fundraising and advocacy response rates as well as social media metrics. Not to worry, you can get a sneak peak at some of they key benchmarks in this terrific infographic that illustrates: Fundraising.

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Don’t be Fooled by Message Open and Click-Through Rates

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The conversation around email performance is wrong: open and click-through rates alone do not show constituent engagement. In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). Figure 1: Opens and open rate. Findings are below.

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Report release: The 2014 Nonprofit Benchmarks Study

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Published today, M+R and NTEN’s 2014 Nonprofit Benchmarks Study returns for the eighth year. Even though response rates for nonprofit emails continued to slide in 2013, online giving was up as email and social media audiences and web traffic kept climbing. Key email metrics, including open rates and response rates, declined in 2013.

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Live from NTC! A Sneak Peak at the 2013 Online Benchmark Report

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Dennis McCarthy and I had the pleasure of presenting Online Benchmarking: What Worked in 2012 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN. NTEN and M&R also released their report, the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. A benchmark study is a tool, and like any tool, it depends on how it’s used.

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Released at the 2012 NTC Today: The New eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R and NTEN

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You can now download the 2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , just released at the 2012 NTC by M+R and NTEN. That's just one of the fascinating bits of analytics from the " 2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ". Other highlights: The advocacy email response rate increased by 28% from 2010, to 3.8%. It's free!

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Are Email and Click-through Rates Heading South?

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It''s no secret that the nonprofit community has seen a steady decline in email open rates, click-through rates, and email page completion rates, which was also confirmed by the 2014 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. For example: Fundraising messaging response rates were down 11% from 2012 levels to 0.07%.

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