Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll walk through three key social media fundraising metrics, as well as how you can improve them: Social Media Engagement Rate Conversion Rate Social Media Return on Investment Ready to tap into the full potential of social media fundraising? This is where your social media engagement rates come in.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Do you suffer from survey fatigue? It seems that a new survey pops up every day, sent to you by organizations, businesses, advertisers, pollsters, and opinion analysts. Surveys are often an advertising gimmick, a marketing ploy, or a general nuisance. So when, and why, should you invest your time in survey participation?

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Donor retention is the second-highest concern for nonprofits, according to the 2022 CCS Philanthropy Pulse survey. To find your organization’s donor retention rate, divide the number of renewed donors this year by the total number of donors last year. How is retention measured?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 19, 2023

Great experiences don’t just keep your members happy, they also boost your nonprofit’s reputation, generate more revenue and increase retention rates. Also, depending on your members’ preferences, you may want to consider alternative event formats like virtual or hybrid events for greater attendance rates.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Survey, poll or focus group. Social media and email have made surveying and polling easy and inexpensive. SurveyMonkey and Doodle Poll offer free platforms with which you can email your stakeholders questions about their interest in a particular event. Are participant rates growing or declining?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

In-session polls. We were happy to hear that IMPACT’s HubSpot Training Day exceeded its attendance rate compared to previous in-person events, with nearly 1,000 attendees joining sessions. In a post-event survey, 90% of respondents said they took advantage of building out their personal agenda prior to the event.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Survey existing donors on what spurs them to give quickly when appealed to.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

To figure this out, look at your website analytics, email analytics, conversion rates, social listening, and more. . Some pages, channels, and topics convert at much higher rates than others. With descriptive analytics, you’re concerned about what happened with your customer or, in this case, your donor.

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Global Giving

APRIL 4, 2019

All this information can be collected through donor surveys, sent after an event or after a newsletter subscription, for example. A : If your goal is to tell better stories to your donors and volunteers in order to engage them with your work, there is important data to analyze: Click rates and open rates for your emails.

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NetWits

JANUARY 31, 2011

Did you know that acknowledgement or “thank you” emails have the highest open rate of any email communication type. Provide them with a place they can give feedback, such as a survey or poll. If you think about it for a second this makes total sense. Think forward to a friend, social media sharing, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

AppBistro is the Yelp of Facebook apps – they’re rated and reviewed – if you want to search for a specific functionality – it is a good place to browse. Survey Apps: Doing polls and quick surveys are great ways to engage your audience and there are apps for that.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, if you discover your donor retention rate is falling, you can focus on donor stewardship in the months leading up to Giving Tuesday to boost retention. Listen to your supporters’ needs by sending surveys and polls where they can provide feedback. Creating experiences that fulfill their needs.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 4, 2021

Live polling during presentations can have a similar effect. Beyond these marketing and administrative tasks, Accelevents allows you to set up virtual exhibitor booths, virtual meeting rooms for networking or breakout sessions, hold interactive Q&As, poll attendees, and stream live video with high production values.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Key fundraising metrics like donor retention rate, donation frequency, and fundraising return on investment (ROI). For example, if you discover your donor retention rate is falling, you can focus more time and resources on donor stewardship in the months leading up to GivingTuesday to boost retention.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Consider Twitter polls or Q&A sessions or surveys. When sending emails, personalize them as much as possible to secure higher open and conversion rates. Personalized emails have an average open rate of 18.8%, which is 5.7% When personalization is in the subject line, these emails see a 50% higher open rate.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

open rate, CTR. blogs, videos, photos, etc… Social media platform insights can offer a lot of this information but doing an informal survey or poll can also work to learn more about your audiences. What other museums do they follow/enjoy visiting? How engaged are they? What type of content do they respond to best?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Polls close midnight, Wednesday, September 30th. It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly. Now it’s *your* turn to select the best. They’ll benefit in the same ways you do.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Take a look at all of your numbers, did open or click through rates increase or drop? Using virtual meeting tools, such as chats, polls, and game wheels to engage families and young children in ways beyond a “zoom call” online. While these trends look bad, we must also not draw the wrong conclusions from them.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

Compare this with other studies on personalized messages that found customized emails deliver conversion rates over 6 times higher than their generic counterparts. One popular method is to send surveys asking for specific feedback on recent initiatives, their overall donor experience and their communication preferences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. At the beginning of each of my webinars, I poll my attendees: “Where did you first find out about this webinar?&# e-Newsletter Subscribers.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Specific audience-centric communications will help you relate to individual constituents and give you the ability to track response rates based on each group. Utilize discussions boards, polls, blogs, surveys and social media to actively engage participants throughout the fundraising campaign. 2) Educate. 4) Activate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Text Poll App from MobileCause. Here’s a summary of the highlights of the conversation: Before I dive into the content, I had the pleasure of experimenting with a text polling app to find out the composition of the audience and their experience with the panel topic. I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Gather this information by sending pre-event surveys and conducting social media polls. Remember to track a variety of event-related analytics , such as the rate of registrations vs. actual attendance and who your top donors were. Incorporate supporter feedback throughout the entire process.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 4, 2021

Live polling during presentations can have a similar effect. Beyond these marketing and administrative tasks, Accelevents allows you to set up virtual exhibitor booths, virtual meeting rooms for networking or breakout sessions, hold interactive Q&As, poll attendees, and stream live video with high production values.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2016

Consumer Reports does great reliability surveys on laptop fail rates. Consumer Reports polled 58,000 subscribers between 2010 and 2015 and found that. New Apple laptops have fail rates from 7 to 9 percent each year. Most new laptops from the other big computer makers have fail rates in the 15 percent range.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

In a survey of 200 nonprofit organizations, Freewill found that nonprofits using virtual technology plan to steward major donors as follows: Phone conversations (21.6%). Given the impact of a simple thank you on retention rates, you shouldn’t stay limited to just one channel. Emails (19.9%).

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Care2

OCTOBER 31, 2014

According to research conducted by Chuck Longfield, Chief Scientist at Blackbaud: First-year donor retention rates have declined to the point where, on average, nearly three out of four newly acquired donors leave within the first year. But first, why should you care?

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Segmenting your lists will lead to more targeted messaging and is proven to boost response rates and help to reduce unsubscribes. Using segmentation can drastically improve your response rates, increase the value of your communications for the recipient, help reduce unsubscribes, and prevent list fatigue. Basic Rules of Segmentation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Eligible nonprofits and libraries can now access discounted rates for Citrix Online's web conferencing and remote desktop services. Detailed reporting: Create reports that show poll, question-and-answer, and survey data, as well as attendee interest levels and registration information.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In 2015, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic Voting Rights Act, yet voter participation rates in the U.S. In Philadelphia, many polling places are difficult to find, hidden deep in the recesses of schools, churches, and community centers. are at historic lows. From 7 a.m.-8 our volunteers were out there gathering data.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

"Text [3-digit Eval Code] to 69866" were the only directions needed, at which point the system would text back with the first question in the survey and prompt the user to text back their answer. Paper use cut by 100%: As "Paperless Evaluations" would suggest, of course, but still worth mentioning.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Mailchimp’s behavior-based automations also help increase conversion rates and deepen user engagement. Some of the tools this platform offers includes customizable event apps, registration and ticketing, live polling, surveys, and analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Mayer’s research is from the 1990s, but the finders were recently validated again in a study from Carl Wieman that college students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom.

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Care2

JANUARY 14, 2009

Given the email clutter your subscribers battle daily, how are your organization’s e-newsletter open and click-through rates looking these days? Here are some useful tips to increase your e-newsletters performance rates. Survey Your List: Ask your subscribers which subject areas they are interested in reading about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Many crowdsourcing work sites provide some kind of rating system meaning the better, more accurate workers can rise to the top. Sites like uTest and Topcoder help you work through work like website or application testing and provide ratings and controls to help you manage more technical processes with vetted programmers and developers.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

For example, FB ads return higher click and conversion rates when the call-to-action on the ad links to an FB asset, such as a Page. Add in FB’s “Like” rating feature next to key digital assets, as well. Ratings add dimension to your information by helping visitors judge the value of content more quickly and robustly.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Social media polls. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter) allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers. Be sure to track relevant social media metrics , like how many people interact with your polls, to assess the effectiveness and relevance of your interactive content.

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