Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The upcoming iOS15 update will create some changes in how email marketers use opens to track success and retarget their audiences — but as we all know, adapting to change is part of operating in the digital landscape. Now is a great time to start A/B testing copy for subject lines and preheader text as often as you can. Use your UTMs.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

When you use a multi-channel approach to marketing, you probably point your audience back to specific landing pages on your website. Keeping your website up-to-date and modern is essential to engage your audience and ensure they have everything they need to get involved with your mission. Your site doesn’t engage your audience.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Audience-centered for me is a subset of human-centered. Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. Without an internal understanding of humanity, it’s hard to be audience-centered.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Personalized Communication Ideally, your marketing efforts will reach vast audiences. Along with the need to grow your audience, you also need to ensure each supporter feels individually connected to your nonprofit. You can also create audience personas to help you plan future communications. Test your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The always thoughtful and inspiring, Avinash Kaushik, suggests that there four social media metrics that we should focus on measuring across channels. Of course, you need to start with. We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) Social media is evolving at an incredible pace.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? For nonprofits, this means rigorously testing different emotional appeals, stories, and calls-to-action and then reusing what proves most effective.

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Achieve

MAY 24, 2024

Use relevant hashtags in your caption to expand your audience and bring in new supporters. With the right text messaging software, you can easily add in multimedia elements like pictures and videos to inspire audiences. Your website: Develop a landing page dedicated to your text-to-give campaign.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

These insights can give you a clear picture of what parts of your website — pages, images, forms, buttons — are working to drive conversions and which ones need some help. Predictive Metrics: This feature can help you predict points like the number of donations you can expect in a certain period. You’ve Switched to GA4 — Now What?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

increase in email conversion rate. Use a mobile online donation form integrated with Google AdWords so you can track transaction-specific conversions to better analyze your marketing efforts and donor acquisition. Set up email segmentation based on behavior so you can send more emails to people who are clicking or taking action.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need. Goal setting matters a lot here; for any piece of content we produced or action we took, we should know if they were trying to drive engagement or conversions. Analyze with actionable data in mind. For that, we need to dig deeper.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Custom Facebook Audiences. Result: 63% more donations, 55% higher conversion rate and a 2X ROI. Custom Facebook audiences are an effective way to leverage your existing email lists. They work by matching your database with Facebook, creating a custom audience. Had a 55% increased conversion rate. That’s it.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

Whether it’s information taken from your online donation forms or metrics on past campaigns, your fundraising data can clue you into which supporters are likely to give and do wonders for your donor communication strategy. The types of events someone registers for and their involvement in the event are also key metrics to note.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

You can set up the posting times by looking at your analytics to see which are the best times to reach your audience. Ideally, it’s good to test tools around scheduling, campaign management, image and video editing to find what works best for your organization. 5) Pick the right tools. 6) Plan your campaigns.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Looking ahead at future events, we will likely shorten the duration to ensure we’re not pulling our audience away from the important work they do for too long. Make Your Content Accessible to Varying Audiences. Our event this year was four days, which, in retrospect, is a lot of time to ask people to dedicate. How to Measure Success.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Whether you’re reaching out to build issue awareness, share important news, or raise money for your organization, incorporating these best practices into your email marketing campaigns can help your emails reach your target audiences and keep them engaged with your mission. . Test, and Test Again. Lead with Your Mission.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. We offer a number of analytics-related services including web analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and data reporting and visualizations, so we can certainly assist your team. However, not all metrics will be useful for your organization’s strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s OK to not include links in conversational tweets and replies, but even then sharing links to resources or call-to-actions (CTAs) is often appropriate and useful, especially in Twitter Threads. That said, if engaging in a public conversation on behalf of your organization on Twitter is unsettling, there are other ways to engage: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

You also need to think about its voice and tone and how it can be relevant and engaging to your target audience. And that brings us to the another task, testing and iteration. The testing was fun and it also helped me figure out how to script the close-end conversation that happens when you “Wake Up the Beth Bot.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

And, one of the questions that keeps coming up is “How do we get our board or senior staff off their addiction to the wrong metrics, like views?” ” You have to show the connection between the metric and what matters! ” Kevin came up and gave a mini-lesson on how to use this technique.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

This model was developed by Open AI and is one of the few language models to pass the Turing Test. You can ask the program to generate a list of email ideas and then refine the list based on any number of factors, such as audience, theme, tone and more. As you can see, ChatGPT is a terrific tool for nonprofit email communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2013

Using monitoring and measurement tools such as Radian6, Topsy Pro, Google Alerts and Tweetdeck, Upwell builds a meteorology of ocean conversations, pinpointing opportunities for intervention. We find out what is spiking, and join the conversation. Matt Fitzgerald has detailed some of our Big Listening insights on our blog.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Choose useful metrics that track things like your engagement, impressions, reach, referrals, and conversion rates. Build your audience persona.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. I've learned a lot about metrics from Avinash. What I like best is that it takes the mystery out of social media metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Marketing Every Stage of ‘The Donor’s Journey’ It’s tempting to think of marketing as a broad-minded approach that’s focused on building awareness with the largest audience possible. 4) Event Promotion Whether you’re planning a black tie gala or a local trash cleanup, you need your audience to show up to your event. Test both!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2021

Track Conversions. Many organizations use A/B testing in order to refine their ads over time. A/B testing is the process of running two ads that are distinct from each other, but are attached to the same page and keywords. Track Conversions. The most important metric you should use when making decisions are conversions.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Revenue increases were widespread, but not uniform—some nonprofits saw an influx in mid-level and large gifts, while others grew their low-dollar conversions. Average gift was nearly flat year over year for the median organization, but this metric is especially volatile and easily pulled by outliers.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Then they reversed this order for the test. NextAfter did a test online with one of their client charities. They did an A/B/C test with a lower ask string vs. a higher ask string vs. simply letting donors choose to make “a generous gift.” On mobile, amounts were stacked on top of each other with the lower amount first.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Even though online revenue grew last year and the year before, every individual email metric declined. To compensate for these changes in individual behavior, digital campaigners have had to up their testing and innovating game to new levels, and bite the bullet and send more email than ever before. This is where EveryAction comes in!

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

This quick adoption of digital event technology by event marketers allowed many events to carry on and helped brands and event marketers reach their target audiences even with stay-at-home orders in place. This type of live event will meet your audience where they are, on their terms, and thus creating a deeper impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

What are your communications objectives and the audience you want to target? I was curious and started a conversation asking these questions: What is your definition of success on Google +? If you want to stick a toe a little deeper into the water, the next step is create a simple plan to test the waters for your brand.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

the IRS defines nonprofits as “Organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes.” Look into: Your primary audience. Starting a Nonprofit: Basic FAQs What is a nonprofit? In the U.S.,

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

From tracking conversations and donations to event registrations, you can note every interaction you have with a supporter in your nonprofit CRM. For instance, the Ahern Audit runs the “you test” and grade-level tests. Neon CRM is designed to help nonprofits grow, inspire their audience, and increase supporter engagement.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

The software allows you to understand your audience’s preferences, which helps foster meaningful conversations, all within a unified platform. Mailchimp’s behavior-based automations also help increase conversion rates and deepen user engagement. Test and launch your event page. Monitor and analyze your event performance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

For use in Program Services and better enabling nonprofits to reach their target audience in order to perform their charitable purpose. The program is available to any nonprofit that can benefit from having more exposure and a bigger audience. Geotargeting and audience set up so only those that would be interested in your ads see them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

What I really like about the start up culture is the commitment to using metrics for learning and continuous improvement. As I quizzed each fellow about their key metrics and how they measure, they gave solid answers about their conversion rates, registration rates, and more. And, the use of rapid prototyping was impressive.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values. Build out code (see the bottom).

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