TechImpact

AUGUST 23, 2013

Ability to test emails to see if they will be delivered to users’ Spam folder. This service’s strength is gaining newsletter subscribers and paying consumers. Analytics & integration with Raiser’s Edge (CRM tool), among others. Free version, but limited. Paid services are low-cost and offer more features.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

One of the best ways to stay in touch with your donors on a consistent basis is through a nonprofit email newsletter. When done well, email newsletters can be fast and cheap for you and heartwarming for your donor, basically meeting everyone’s needs. Your newsletter’s audience Who you should sent your newsletter to?

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Network for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Sure, you have a lot of things to tell your donors, but unless this is your periodic newsletter (and formatted as such), keep each email to one topic. Avoid sounding like spam. Certain words are spam triggers, and if you use them in a subject line, your donors’ email provider could move the message directly to the spam folder.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Help them to engage with your mission more fully by making it easy for them to sign up for occasional updates like an e-newsletter or action alerts. Test, and Test Again. Find out if there’s a better way to engage them by sending an A/B test of your email campaigns. . Email Sign-Up Form. Mobile Friendly + Accessible .

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Avoid the numbers 100 percent or #1 because they may trigger spam filters. For your next email, try split-testing two different subject lines, one with a sense of urgency and another with a sense of intrigue. You can figure out which length works best for your audience by doing split testing (or A/B testing).

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

One of the things I have to do for my job at C3 on a regular basis is produce our monthly e-newsletter. It took a while, but I finally have a template that seems to be working well for us: I’ve tested the template in Outlook (2003 and 2007), Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Apple Mail and it looks just like the screen shot above, or close enough.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

For example, you could send a monthly newsletter to your subscribers that pulls from your blog posts. Email Spam Test. Are you worried your emails are getting thrown into spam folders? This free service allows you to run your email through a filter to see if there are any words that might trigger a spam flag.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Sixty-two percent of email is opened on a mobile device , so first and foremost your email campaigns (e-newsletters, fundraising appeals, event invites, welcome emails, thank you emails, etc.) Embrace a mobile-first design strategy.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It will also help to prevent people from marking you as Spam. E-mail will allow you to try similar segments as you might use for a direct mail program, and allows you to test new segments at a low cost. Also use message testing to identify the best time to send messages. The worst thing you can do: not segment your audience.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2015

Analyze and Measure: Look at open rates, click through rates, unsubscribes and spam reports to assess performance. My team meets weekly from now until year-end to brainstorm, strategize and come up with new things to test. This is your new “testing” list. Segment and Test. But test now, or very early in your campaign.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

Open rates are helpful with A/B testing. Your organization needs to test what day and time is best to send out your newsletter. Unfortunately, it will be tough to test this if you have no clue whether a large swath of your subscribers have opened the email or not! A/B test your CTA button verbiage, the button color.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For most nonprofit organizations, bulk email -- email newsletters, action alerts or fundraising outreach -- is one of the most productive communications approaches there is. Make sure your e-newsletter provider tracks how many people (and who) get it, open it and/or click through to your website. What else should I know?

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Refrain from using all caps or too many exclamation points in your subject lines, as this could make people mistake your email for spam. Test, test, and test more. Measure, test, and refine Measuring the success of email fundraising campaigns is essential for nonprofits looking to reach their goals.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

They are going to decide then whether or not they want to unsubscribe because you’re sending them spam or if they want to stay engaged with your organization. As I mentioned, it’s so easy to just start sending people copies of your newsletters or add them to your existing email list. 2) Write relevant emails. Yep, I said six months.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 25, 2017

Regardless of whether you work in the nonprofit sector or run a small business, an email newsletter is one of the most important communication channels you have with your customers and supporters. A regularly scheduled email newsletter keeps your audience updated and helps you build a lasting connection with subscribers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. That’s equivalent to sending an email to your supporters and 98% of your emails going to spam folders. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. either way, Facebook organic reach is estimated to be an abysmal 2%.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes and image blocking -- all of which make it hard to know whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email. Segment, test and repeat. Don’t be too alarmed though. What does all of this data mean for nonprofits? Continue to embrace low dollar donors.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’ve tested it. Test, test, test. Test everything in your email. Test every link in your donation form. Test every link on your path to your donation form on your website. You’re going to start writing everything and testing it and scheduling it in October. . So humor me.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Organizations use emails for sending program updates, newsletters, volunteer opportunities, campaign progress updates, and of course, sending appeals. Split Test Subject Lines Your subject lines are the first thing that donors see when they receive your emails. You won’t know until you test! The same holds true for time of day.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The real case for multiple ESPs is that it provides a different IP address, which can prevent your emails from being marked as spam. This is important because spam filters are responsible for an average loss of $15,000 per year, according to the Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study. Do you notice a pattern?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Recent tests from our 28,000-name newsletter list found that the folks we'd added within the prior month were up to 25% more likely to open the first message. Test, test, tes t. There's no reason to go with your gut instinct when so many email providers have A/B test functionality this days. Avoid the spam filter.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The real case for multiple ESPs is that it provides a different IP address, which can prevent your emails from being marked as spam. This is important because spam filters are responsible for an average loss of $15,000 per year, according to the Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study. Do you notice a pattern?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

It serves as a public test bed for new ideas, at least among those people who listen to me. A message can derive from any of the following: an updated web site, a newsletter, a mailing list, an RSS item, a recommendation form, some personal email, newsgroups, and web based discussion groups. It hones my thinking.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2017

We don’t know how Google’s algorithm—or mix of rules—is determining whether or not a specific message will be delivered to the in-box or filtered into a spam folder. If you aren’t testing email subject lines to try to measure what works, it is now imperative to do so. Consider how to craft emails that will drive a click.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0: LinkedIn Group spam is worse than ever. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!], However, defining Web 1.0 The Answers functionality has been discontinued.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0: LinkedIn Group spam is worse than ever. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!], However, defining Web 1.0 The Answers functionality has been discontinued.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

So I tested the ideas, tweaking, fine-tuning, kept playing with them, and then seeing more results, even better results. I don’t mean spamming people. You’re not spam. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be spam. And that was a lot of fun and exciting for me and our clients, obviously.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Prepare email blast /newsletter copy. We recommend you use all of the standard marketing channels: your website, your email newsletter, your social media, and direct mail. email newsletter Email marketing continues to be king. In fact, if your nonprofit didn’t send out a newsletter about it, did it even happen?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Prepare email blast /newsletter copy. We recommend you use all of the standard marketing channels: your website, your email newsletter, your social media, and direct mail. email newsletter. In fact, if your nonprofit didn’t send out a newsletter about it, did it even happen? Email marketing continues to be king.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, sub-submenus can test visitors’ patience and might result in pages getting buried. Making these calls isn’t always easy, so consider doing some user testing when first setting up your menus to make sure you and your visitors are on the same page for your navigation. Do a 5 second test. Your nonprofit’s story.

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