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Shameless Ask, Looking for SXSW 2012 Nonprofit Votes!

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SXSW 2012 session voting is nearing the end. If you’re not familiar with the process The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a huge new media event. We’ve got until Friday Sept 9th (right, tomorrow). Final program is selected through a combination open voting and secret SXSW staff magic.

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Fundraising Ideas to Reverse the Trend of Declining Email Response Rates

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based national nonprofits in 2012. One of the eye-catching findings from the study was the steep decline in the performance of fundraising emails in 2012. Epsilon and The Email Institute’s Q3 2012 report indicated overall click-through rates have fallen from 5.5 percent to 4.5 percent over the past year. What’s to blame?

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3 Tips that Make Every Holiday Campaign Work

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My favorite word for 2012 is SEGMENT! Our inboxes are bombarded everyday with emails, if you want people to read your email you need to provide them with information that speaks to their interests or their involvement with your organizations. Share the impact their gift made in 2012. Make Every Email Count.

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Why You Need a Mobile Ready Email Template

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Make sure to check out their annual Nonprofit Technology Conference , taking place in San Francisco, April 3-5 2012. If you’ve been been putting off accepting the growing reality that people read the messages your organization sends on mobile devices, stop right now. Just stop it. Stop and accept. Even better? The Preview.

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The #1 Way to Improve Your Event Fundraising Survey

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We went through a similar process in 2012, although with a slightly different group of agencies. We enlisted 11 agencies, representing a diverse geographic region, to assist us in learning more about our event. In July we sent out a survey to over 6,000 donors, participants, and team captains and got about 1,000 responses. Want to Learn More?

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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. What’s new this year are email tiers, revenue tiers, and the years your organization has been engaged online.

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Online Fundraising and 3 Reasons to Start a Recurring Gift Program

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One of the ways nonprofit organizations are meeting this demand is by placing some of their focus on building successful online fundraising programs. — Join Bill when he talks about Making the Most of Recurring Gifts , on February 22, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. It’s a tough position to be in—being required to do more with less.

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