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Why You Should Do A Cost-Benefit Analysis Before Throwing Your Next Nonprofit Fundraising Event

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The importance of a cost-benefit analysis for your fundraising strategies. James Greenfield is the guru of fundraising cost-benefit analysis. Donor conversions. Because the anticipated ROI at this point is modest, smart awareness-building strategies are broad brush and relatively inexpensive. raised ratio?

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ROI: Can You Quantify the Untangible? You Can't Quantify Love (or can you?)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper.

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What are the best metrics to use to measure ROI and improve your blog's content?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. At the end of 2008, I did a " Best of Beth's Blog " analysis using PostRank. It’s not possible.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. Here's a brain dump of some key points.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

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I'm thinking about writing the description for the WeAreMedia Module 6: Considering the ROI for this week. " I think this statement still holds true, although with more people thinking about ROI and Social Media, practice is evolving. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

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Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). I agree, but is a ratio the best number? Conversation Rates. The conversation rate is the average number of comments per post. particularly because I'm 100% in love with this metric to measure conversation. Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ???

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