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

NetWits

The conversation around email performance is wrong: open and click-through rates alone do not show constituent engagement. Used properly, you’ll know if your email metrics are at industry levels; used poorly, you’ll only scratch the surface of email performance. Figure 1: Opens and open rate. Figure 2 : Clicks and click rates.

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2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study Highlights Online Advocacy, Fundraising, and Social Media Metrics

Care2

The 2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study was just released and is packed with insightful data on advocacy and fundraising response rates across the nonprofit sector. In particular we were excited to see advocacy response rates increased 28% between 2010 and 2011. Overall, email open rates held steady between 2010 and 2011.

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Infographic: 2012 Nonprofit Benchmarks

Care2

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. Online advocacy response rates were up 28%. Can’t wait to get your hands on the data? Online fundraising grew 20% in 2011.

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Seven Random Metrics to Improve Your Nonprofit's Communications

NTEN

This week, as part of Member Appreciation Month, we're talking about technology that supports communications and information, so I thought I'd share some of the metrics we use to track our effectiveness that don't really warrant a complete blog post in-and-of themselves. We'd also love to hear about your favorite metrics.

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How to Get Started Using Event Metrics for Fundraising Success

Connection Cafe

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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How is GA4 Different Than Universal Analytics (UA)?

Whole Whale

Macbeth, as your high school memory serves you, came to power after killing Duncan aka Classic Analytics (GA2 | code: ga.js) which happened in 2012. Why UA Metrics won’t Match GA4. Why are engaged sessions in GA different than the UA bounce rate was? In UA, there are two User metrics: Total Users, and New Users.

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The Math and Science of Social and Mobile Media: A Spreadsheet to Track Your Fundraising Success

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why. Email is still a very powerful tool for fundraising and the likely reason why donor conversion rates dropped in 2012 is because nonprofit e-newsletters are still formatted to primarily be read on desktop and laptop computers. Other Metrics.

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