Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

The book is, The CEO Test , written by Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer. You’ll learn what truly matters to be a successful leader and you’ll discover a clear roadmap for succeeding in these seven critical challenges – the CEO test : Can you develop a simple plan for your strategy? Top leadership jobs are endurance tests.

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Nonprofit AF

MARCH 15, 2024

Hi everyone, I’ve been having issues with the email notification system, which is why email subscribers hadn’t been getting notices.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2021

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. Here are some important points from the book that are particularly powerful: Leadership is the process of influencing volunteers to accomplish good things.

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To learn more about calculating your retention, check out our blog. To learn more about member engagement best practices, check out this blog. Approach retention scientifically: Identify your association’s measures of success, develop and test the strategy, document its effect, and learn from the experience.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s an all-to-common scenario: a new user to WordPress builds their site, goes live and starts blogging or selling or raising funds without giving much thought into how their site’s performing. Leave it to Google to come up with the industry-leading site testing app. Are visitors getting a good user experience?

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 24, 2024

For more than a decade , (or 37 major releases at the exact time of this blog), the Nimble AMS product team has mirrored Salesforce’s ideal product upgrade model. This was not included in the Salesforce release notes, but during testing, our team found flows on the Nimble AMS member portal, Community Hub, were failing.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In this blog, we outline how you can use the same framework to improve new member acquisition at your association. Top of funnel outreach includes channels like social media, newsletters, and blogs that are designed to establish credibility. One example of thought leadership is this blog!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. Here are some important points from the book that are particularly powerful: Leadership is the process of influencing volunteers to accomplish good things.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. But blogs can help your organization in a few key ways: Central Communication Hub. Think blogs are boring? How To Start a Blog.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2014

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Books The Leadership Test Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. The spectrum of influence ranges from manipulation to persuasion to coercion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Publishing blogs and articles to your website helps increase SEO. If the speed test fails, a good first step is to make sure your website’s images are optimized and host your videos on a third party website, such as YouTube, instead of directly on your website. 5) Install SSL certificates on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Don’t let your vision become delusional.

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Charity Village

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As you read through this blog post – and move on to participate in the RISE Program after ?? imagine me as your co-pilot, sharing not just theories but battle-tested tactics that have steered organizations toward success. Fellow advocates of change – I’m glad you’ve found your way here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership The Leadership Test Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. The spectrum of influence ranges from manipulation to persuasion to coercion.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2015

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. Here are some important points from the book that are particularly powerful: Leadership is the process of influencing volunteers to accomplish good things.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

In our previous blog posts on retention and product value , we illustrated how data isn’t one dimensional. We test our assumption by designing a targeted A/B email test for this group. Results : We measure performance of the test and roll out the most effective campaign based on registration numbers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits is a blog and webinar series on website design, email marketing, online fundraising, and social media best practices for nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. 29: International Day Against Nuclear Tests — #AgainstNuclearTestsDay. September.

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M+R

JULY 27, 2023

Fortunately, we started asking these questions with just enough time to put together a treatment test before finalizing our End of Year strategy last fall. So, when coming up with a cultivation content strategy for the test, we tried to reuse existing assets as much as possible. Okay, back to the results… ???

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Once the team aggregated the data and they were able to form a hypothesis, test it and confirm a need. In order to track trends year-over-year, IAEE will repeat many of the same questions, adding in three or four additional questions about programs or services the team is testing.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Keep them out of it for now (we can always test that later.) Package codes will determine the segment and where in the A/B test they fall—see more in step three, below. Test one thing at a time. The only way you’ll ever know what’s working and what’s not is by testing your approach.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2023

In this blog, we will revisit the basics of in-person meeting prep and provide suggestions for setting up successful hybrid meetings. Test your tech in advance Once you understand what tech is available and needed, test it out! Either way, be sure to conduct thorough audio tests to make sure everyone can be heard on the call.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this blog, we share tips on how to take your marketing to the next level with the help of analytics. You can learn more about content tagging and taxonomy in this blog. If you’re doing an A/B test or targeting your email to a certain segment, it will also be difficult to refine your list without real-time access to your data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard many (many) times that all your nonprofit’s blog and site content should be optimized to drive traffic. But when you’re lean on resources and human power, just producing blog posts and updating your website feels like a miracle, never mind SEO or a content strategy. Search Engine Optimization. But you can change that.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

Second, chatbots and other AI technologies need to be carefully designed and tested for human interaction and bias to mitigate risks. Even if a chatbot was a good idea for providing sensitive counseling support, it does not appear that this chatbot was well designed or adequately tested.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

Every piece of software has a software development lifecycle (SDLC) that typically involves discovery, requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. Test in a Safe Environment Low-code development can be incredibly fast. Unlike low-code, it’s a complicated process.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Here’s Laurence Pagnoni’s blog about emojis in reply. A/B testing : If you’re unsure whether emojis will be effective for your specific audience, you can conduct A/B testing. A reader writes : “ Bloomerang, please add emoji support throughout the platform–but especially for email subject lines!”

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

And don’t forget to test, test, test before launching. Recruiting and hiring can add weeks or months to the schedule. During implementation, your team will need to manage and execute multiple integration pieces. Once your solution is running…“will they come?” People can be adverse to change.

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

In addition, our user experience team conducts extensive research—surveys, interviews, usability tests, and data analysis on specific areas where we know there is a need. And as our design and engineering teams build, we test. And with each significant release, we conduct more formal testing. appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits is a year-long blog and webinar series on website design, email marketing, online fundraising, and social media best practices for nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. 29: International Day Against Nuclear Tests — #AgainstNuclearTestsDay. September.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For instance, your marketing team may use AI to come up with new, creative ideas for blog content, but they should still be in charge of writing it themselves. Campaign testing: Encourage team members to conduct A/B testing and iterative experiments to optimize AI-driven fundraising campaigns. Conduct staff training.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 15, 2022

By looking at retention data from different views, you can really start to test some of your assumptions, make more informed decisions, and take action. Armed with that information, you might run a test to offer first year members a discount at the annual conference, and then see if that segment’s retention rate improves.

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Association Analytics

MAY 4, 2023

Many people have good ideas, but using analytics to test the ideas, improve upon them and prove ROI on their efforts will set you apart! Having these kinds of insights will make you a rockstar at your association because you’re tying decisions to data and showing measurable results.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When making something (video, blog post, article) ask yourself if this is something that would also be interesting and useful a year from now. Guest blogging can be a great way to build up backlinks to your content while also reaching new audiences. You can use tools like Experte mobile test and Pingdom to test your site speed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

Test the service by selecting the orange “Get My Bot” button. 101 Best Practices for Nonprofits is a year-long blog and webinar series (written and presented by Heather Mansfield ) on website design, email marketing, online fundraising, and social media best practices for nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In this blog, I’ll share lessons learned from our SOC 2 audit to help you build a culture of nonprofit compliance. Avoid assumptions—test iteratively A saying I’ve always lived by is, “You don’t know what you don’t know.” We also leaned on teams across Candid to refine and test these procedures.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

The breakdown of campaign/source/term/medium used as UTM parameters is a tried and tested structure for understanding acquisition. Test with a couple of links to see how it all works. Examples: facebook, google, instagram, blog, website, qr-code. Last but not least: test and learn from it. We’ll get to that next.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 31, 2011

One of my favorite books about leadership asks its readers five powerful questions , putting aspiring leaders to the ultimate test of what it takes to be a true leader. The best thing about this book is that if you pass the test you can skip reading many of the mountains of other leadership books on the market today. Clark, Ph.D.

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