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Overcoming Declining Nonprofit Website Traffic

Connection Cafe

Blackbaud’s just-released Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits found nonprofit website traffic was down 14 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. It should be noted, like other benchmark reports, nonprofits within the study vary from year-to-year.). Benchmarks are helpful, but your data is what matters most. Email Traffic.

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5 Reasons Why Your Email Got Deleted

NetWits

Every major email reader (Outlook, gmail, yahoo, etc) can handle images just fine. Lacking Analytics. Here’s a great report by NTEN and M+R on non-profit emarketing benchmarks as well as a quick look at what the open, click through, response and unsubscribe rates look like. Third , get into the habit of reviewing the metrics.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Analytics This! Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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Storytelling Through Paid Advertising

NTEN

Remember that average banner click-through is just 0.1% [ DoubleClick 2009 Year-in-Review Benchmarks ]. As you go, you'll be able to use analytics to validate your assumptions and optimize your ad buys based on what's working. Here's the rundown: Yahoo! It allows users to upload their own creative and serve it across Yahoo!'s

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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. The most valuable part of the blog benchmarking process is the reflection process and linking insights to making improvements.

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How-to: Manage Your E-mail Campaigns (and Be a Good Guest)

NTEN

A high enough spam complaint rate can get you completely blocked from email delivery systems such as Yahoo Mail or Hotmail -- which each account for about 15% of all email addresses. . What subject lines get opens, and how do these look compared to industry benchmarks? How do you know if you're a good inbox guest?

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