M+R

JULY 6, 2023

Maybe you (or your audiences) are still waiting on an invitation to Bluesky. Here’s what we like about Threads: Easy, captive audience. If you have an Instagram presence, you can quickly build your Threads audience based on your IG following. Threads has a built-in audience and simple integration with Instagram.

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Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

How will you measure the success of your paid advertising campaign? Set Your Paid Advertising Budgets When it comes to running a successful campaign, ensuring you have the right budget in place can help you get a strong return on your investment, reach your audience the right way, and achieve your goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.”

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It is at the heart of every grant you write and outreach letter you send and is the first metric you use to measure your impact year to year. In this conversation , they emphasized how organizations are most effective when they aren’t trying to be all things to all people. But what about your value proposition?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? For nonprofits, this means rigorously testing different emotional appeals, stories, and calls-to-action and then reusing what proves most effective.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s an easy way to set measurable goals and to align your objectives with your daily posting. You can set up the posting times by looking at your analytics to see which are the best times to reach your audience. 10) Measure success. Your success metrics can focus on likes, comments, shares, clicks, and even conversion.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Personalized Communication Ideally, your marketing efforts will reach vast audiences. Along with the need to grow your audience, you also need to ensure each supporter feels individually connected to your nonprofit. You can also create audience personas to help you plan future communications. Test your content.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Some assume direct mail is ineffective today and that younger audiences don’t want to receive it. Segment Your Audience Segmentation isn’t only essential for email campaigns—segmenting your direct mail recipients personalizes your message and improves engagement. Direct mail is too often associated with the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2023

That’s a huge amount of opportunity for nonprofits to tap into and reach out to new audiences. By the end of 2022 there were over 300 million people using Quora across an amazing breadth topics. Here are some clear ways nonprofits can use Quora: 1. Build a Following Signing up and setting up an account is easy, and most importantly, free!

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

We know you are probably impatient so let’s just right to the fun stuff, enter the name and general mission of your nonprofit, followed by the general audience that you’d like a profile for in this AI tool. × They help nonprofits understand their target audience better and create effective fundraising campaigns.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . Looking ahead at future events, we will likely shorten the duration to ensure we’re not pulling our audience away from the important work they do for too long. Make Your Content Accessible to Varying Audiences. How to Measure Success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

There is a higher website conversion rate and donors stay on the website longer because of more opportunities to engage with the software. Bloomerang is super conversion friendly. They offer custom, individualized conversions and implementation assistance. Cost: $100/month for 1,000 contacts to $800/month for 85,000 contacts.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

How do you target the right audience for Facebook Ads for nonprofits? In general, posting engaging content on social media will help you broaden your audience, but employing Facebook Ads expands your reach even further by delivering your posts to your supporters’ feeds and showing them to your chosen targeted demographics.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. These insights can give you a clear picture of what parts of your website — pages, images, forms, buttons — are working to drive conversions and which ones need some help. We consider this a primary conversion, and an example would be “make a donation.”

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With the Virginia Department of Education’s I’m Determined initiative, we brought in key audiences at a discovery and design phase, much earlier than traditional audience testing would take place. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process.

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Forum One

JUNE 10, 2021

It might sound like a lot of work, but small steps could make a big difference in turning website visits into donor conversions, and mission-driven organizations have a lot to gain by spending time on personalizing their fundraising appeals. Step 4: Form and test hypotheses for segment personalization. Did your test succeed?

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Unlock the fundraising potential of your nonprofit by understanding your target audience. This will help you understand the types of supporters that are most likely to be interested in your cause and guide your efforts in targeting the right audience.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Your charitable organization has probably fielded questions from curious supporters and internal audiences on the ways it might be leveraged. A few key things to keep in mind: AI measures probabilistic outcomes in response to a question to determine what data it should show. Is it just a fad? ChatGPT is a probabilistic model.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Whether you’re reaching out to build issue awareness, share important news, or raise money for your organization, incorporating these best practices into your email marketing campaigns can help your emails reach your target audiences and keep them engaged with your mission. . Test, and Test Again. Lead with Your Mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2013

Note from Beth: A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed two books about measurement from two different fields – start ups and nonprofit performance assessment. Big Listening is the art of gaining insight by tracking topical online conversations over time. We find out what is spiking, and join the conversation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Here's an idea from our friend Laura at Idealware: what if you measured any communications method by whether it would have more or less impact than spending the same amount of time calling donors on the phone? Nothing starts a conversation like, well, an actual conversation. I love the way Laura articulates this.

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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? How can we get people to talk to us?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

You, of course, need a formal ladder of engagement or conversion funnel and need to be tracking conversions against what your ultimate definition of success is. One of the participants asked, “So how do you do this with your metrics program? One person mentioned they did a fundraiser for Global Giving and included the link.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Be careful with these types of contests as the motivation behind joining the email list may not be as aligned with the organization, and can lead to lower donation conversions as well as higher unsubscribes. Create a quiz that tests the knowledge of users who are aligned with your organization’s cause. Forward to a friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

You also need to think about its voice and tone and how it can be relevant and engaging to your target audience. And that brings us to the another task, testing and iteration. The testing was fun and it also helped me figure out how to script the close-end conversation that happens when you “Wake Up the Beth Bot.”

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Your goals should always be SMART goals to ensure that you can easily measure your progress throughout the year and understand how to tweak your strategy to reach your goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. Only measure impact, not process. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Media Cause

JUNE 28, 2021

Whether your goal is to drive traffic, acquire leads, get donations or even gain learnings, having a defined why for your campaign will help you plan for, and ultimately measure, success. Channel selection comes down to a few things: your goals , your audience and your budget. Who is your target audience(s)?

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

This model was developed by Open AI and is one of the few language models to pass the Turing Test. You can ask the program to generate a list of email ideas and then refine the list based on any number of factors, such as audience, theme, tone and more. You can use ChatGPT to measure the success of your emails.

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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. You may have written something of value, but none of that matters if you can’t get it in front of your audience. Second, social media isn’t enough on its own to expose your organization to a new audience.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 25, 2023

After that, choose which enhanced measurements you want to use (if any) from the menu that appears. You’ll just need to add your Measurement ID to the correct field on your CMS. You first need to test the connection to your website. Then, select the web option, type in your web domain, and name the stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One transformed Truman.gov into a streamlined design that is tailored to each of Truman’s main audience groups: scholars, candidates, and faculty representatives. In 2019, USDA conducted the third Farm to School Census to measure progress towards reaching their goals. 2021 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three).

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

We offer a number of analytics-related services including web analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and data reporting and visualizations, so we can certainly assist your team. In order to optimize your site to receive the most traffic (and conversions), pay attention to how your site is currently performing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m designing and delivering peer training sessions for grantees all around the theme of social media, learning, and measurement. They measured and learned from the first pilot which was rapid implementation. A/B Testing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!”

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