Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. All modern donor databases feature donor analytics and report generation that you can use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). You’re a charity fighting for action on the climate crisis, and you had two ads on Facebook. UTM s are an extremely effective way to both track fundraising campaigns and measure their success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , You should also be thinking about what to measure and an efficient method for collecting that data before you begin.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). Seek to round out your campaign’s messaging by giving your audience a clear call to action to get involved or learn more.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A holistic nonprofit digital marketing plan involves weaving together multiple channels and strategies into a unified approach that resonates with your target audience. Measurable. These allow you to determine whether the actions you’re taking are actually contributing toward the results you want to see. Achievable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using – Guest Post by Laura Quinn. You’re likely using more than one channel to communicate. How do you know which of those channels is actually driving people to donate, register for an event, or even sign up for your eNewsletter? Enter source codes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Social Media Measurement is this month’s theme on the Zoetica Salon hosted on my blog Facebook page. “ For example, during Hunger Action Month in September, Feeding America created a tab on their Facebook page where people could share a different action every day.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Here’s what we’ll be covering to better utilize marketing for donor engagement: Core Nonprofit Marketing Channels . Integrating Marketing Channels . Core Nonprofit Marketing Channels. Let’s focus on these four main channels: Direct mail. Integrating Nonprofit Marketing Channels. Donor Profiles and Records .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. We view our social media channels as a fun on ramp to our ladder of engagement.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

She knows what strategies work on social media, what strategies fail, and how nonprofits can use social channels to make a big impact on their community. So, if someone was looking to put together a monthly calendar for their social media channels, what are the types of posts they should look to include in that plan? Summarize it!

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Convey the mission as urgently needed and highly solvable to inspire hope and action.

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2023

Measurable Growth Donor management helps cultivate prolonged success and growth by steering organizational leaders toward a donor-centric action plan. Sustainable Fundraising Understanding and engaging with donor trends allows organizations to implement a donor action plan that aligns with the network’s unique goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

One of the themes that bubbled up was the role of ambient data from social media channels and I agreed to lead a discussion on: How useful is this data for foundations? The Center itself sits three people who have access to six customized dashboards that relate relevant information drawn from various social media channels.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

The 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report shows that, regardless of generation, online is now the preferred channel for donations. AI analytics. AI analytics is a description of a type of machine learning that mines insights within a dataset. AI analytics automates much of what a data analyst would do.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When it comes to identifying potential donors, the donor analytics in your nonprofit CRM should help you see who in your database shares characteristics with your active supporters and build segments based on that. Your call to action (CTA) and main campaign message should be clear and centered, but stories are donor conversion machines.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Using analytics data from your website, you can decide which pages people are most interested in or map to SEO keywords to begin prioritizing and optimizing. You can reimagine old footage or images by giving them new life on your social media channels. Your email communications are another simple way to personalize content.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Digital channels have made it affordable for brands to communicate their message to a broad audience. Email marketing is an effective channel but your message is often isolated to people who already know you exist. What’s an action you need to take to achieve your goal? When do they need to take this action?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Create a list of donors who have not donated in 18 months and invite them to participate in some calls to action (CTAs).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. After learning of the change, Edgerank Checker was quick to conduct a study, they compared analytics from 3,000 Facebook pages the week before the change and the week after. Were they urgent?

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

When leveraged with other communication channels, direct mail can generate significant engagement and gift-giving from donors. This shows that appreciation for this communication channel is growing among younger generations. This channel also tends to see positive returns—for every $1.27 Mail enhances trust and credibility.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 29, 2013

Here are the 4 core steps to launching your nonprofit’s Giving Day campaign: Set measurable, attainable goals. Make sure your website and social channels are telling the right story and encouraging the right actions from potential supporters. What would your nonprofit like to gain from a Giving Day?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Match the cause with the business Set a mutually beneficial goal Use more than one marketing channel Make it a collaboration, not just a donation Track the campaign Match the cause with the business Before you start your cause marketing campaign, you need to find the right business to work with. But don’t rely on a singular metric!

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Forum One

JUNE 10, 2021

Most nonprofits have access to at least one web analytics platform, like Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics. Additionally, you may have reports from social media channels, like Facebook and Twitter, and maybe a third-party fundraising system, like Blackbaud or Classy. Measure each cohort’s giving behavior.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Our deliverable is an action plan, a roadmap for organizations to understand how to approach and implement new systems or practices to achieve the impact they seek. Data & analytics: Data & analytics measure the success of campaigns, websites, and more, offering opportunities to learn and refine products to ensure their success.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Donor retention measures how many donors continue to give to your organization. How is retention measured? 100 = 41% We know donors are so much more than their giving, but it’s essential to measure how well your cultivation & stewardship activities are reducing donor attrition. What is donor retention?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2016

Optimizing your nonprofit’s advocacy action alert doesn’t have to end with a supporter receiving a humble “thank you” from a thank you page or email. How many can we get to take an action at a moment’s notice? How many are new because a friend shared the action alert on their social media account? What do I need to do?”.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

And it’s a direct line where you can share the work you do with your supporters to provide transparency and motivate your community for action. Through comments, shares, direct messages, and fun hashtag challenges, you can foster relationships that would be harder to form through more traditional channels of communication.

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Kindful

MAY 12, 2021

It’s unique from other channels because it’s organic, meaning you don’t directly pay for it. Search engines are the vehicles that get your audience to your website where they can learn about your organization’s mission and where they can subscribe, donate, or complete another call to action , known as a “conversion.”. Content ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

I asked Best Friends Marketing Coordinator Claudia Perrone how they were measuring success. The ultimate KPI, of course, is dog adoptions. Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

. —– Whether your organization has had a presence on Facebook for years or just days—or you’re considering starting now—trying to follow along with all the changes to functionality, options, and analytics is incredibly overwhelming. Calls to Action. You can now see beyond the Likes and comments on your page.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. Last week during the Salsa Conference, I was asked this very question, why is social media data important - by Adrianne Burke, of Salsa Labs, during our panel Measuring Your Social Media. The human brain is the best analytics tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2011

Yesterday, I blogged about the &# Valid Metrics Framework &# from the AMEC that provides a suggested guide post for selecting the right metrics to measure social media in the context of an integrated communications campaign. The framework uses actions and results across a continuum that based on the marketing funnel or AIDA framework.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Useful analytics come from a comprehensive data set, typically from a donor management software, that can be manipulated into an intuitive report that anyone can digest. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Semphonic Web Analytics Consulting: The X Change Non-Profit Analytics Challenge – "The Non-Profit Analytics Challenge is a rare opportunity for the brightest analysts in the digital measurement field to collaborate & assist non-profit organizations to optimize their websites.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It is important that the people you are adding to your list aren’t being tricked into signing up, and are instead primed to take the next action that will deepen your relationship and their commitment to your organization. They have a landing page and can be promoted across many channels or used as a search engine marketing page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Include a strong call to action (CTA).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Mobile, social, the cloud , and analytics continue to emerge as key themes. However, analytics is emerging as the true game changer — catalyzed by advances in open architecture. With data, analytics, and intelligence in mind, the following capabilities emerge as candidates to have a great positive impact. Instrumentation.

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