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Data drives better digital marketing for nonprofits

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Without the discipline of data, your digital marketing success is based more on hope than strategy and execution. social media, surveys, conversations) to let donors know they are being heard and appreciated. Push program outcome data through your social media outlets every week. Use small data (i.e. Data and story-telling.

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Data quality vs. data quantity: let’s end the debate!

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If your nonprofit is attempting to track down donors using social media data accounts, you could be barking up the wrong data tree. Use social media as a communications medium, not as an append to your donor database. #3. What donor data does your fundraising strategy depend upon? Donor retention. Need a data cleaning?

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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr

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And from the Q&A at the end of the event … QUESTION: You talked about using social media logins, like Facebook, to help capture more information about donors and prospects. We definitely recommend using social media logins to your website as a convenience option for your constituents. What tools do you recommend? DEBBIE: Yes.

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Technology, data and fundraising: is it getting too complicated?

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Working with a partner, 2Dialog , we have been co-hosting a webinar series “Drive Your Fundraising Success with Strategy, Smart Technology and Better Data” The message of the program centers on the need to align strategy, tech and data. The back story. All this technology is helping us to capture more data than ever.

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Workplace Giving Data Problems Just Got Worse

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Companies of all sizes have evolved the very idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to include employee engagement, cause marketing, and an ever-expanding idea of corporate citizenship that now includes sustainability programs. The second blog, Why Mid-sized Businesses Need CSR , gives us a map of the problem.

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CRM data migration: it’s all about the future

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1 Start with your fundraising strategy. ” Reach out and invite your donors to tell you more about themselves – offer polls and surveys, ask for feedback on website content, and use social media. As questions begin to emerge around the 20%, focus on the future … and get tough! – in order to execute that plan?

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More fundraising software = more data headaches

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Finally, social media, mobile fundraising, and a whole array of fundraising and volunteer management apps. Further still, how involved is your social media strategy, mobile giving, and text campaigning … more systems and databases? Start with contact databases, donor management systems, and CRMs.

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