EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Last week, I sat down with Amy Peyrot, Senior Consultant, Social Media Specialist, and resident mathlete at M+R , to discuss all things social media metrics. Here are some of Amy's thoughts on these common social media metrics and how to achieve them. Goal: Engagement Metric: Overall Engagement Rate.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. Here’s what you need to know about post virtual event surveys: Tips for Crafting Your Post Virtual Event Survey.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Before you get started, it’s important to grasp the basics of podcasting for nonprofits, including: Understanding why podcasts work for nonprofits Identifying your podcast’s purpose and audience Crafting your podcast’s content Let’s dive into these podcasting essentials so you can add them to your nonprofit marketing plan.

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Achieve

MARCH 16, 2022

From their incredible flexibility to their ability to reach a vast audience, virtual events are extremely beneficial for associations, nonprofits, and event-hosting organizations of all kinds. If you’re searching for simple strategies to greatly improve virtual event success, post-event surveys are a strong place to start.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Understand your target audience Your small business likely doesn’t have the seemingly endless budgets and robust marketing departments that large corporations do. This means that you’ll need to be more economical with your efforts, choosing only the communication channels and tactics that truly resonate with your audience.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We suggest that you have a conversation and not send a survey. Drive strategy by using data to inform your association’s strategy and departmental strategies as well as drive business metrics and KPIs. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs. Ask your colleagues questions. Take action!

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Now, let’s say that, during a proposed budget review, you notice that the board has cut funding for a top-rated yearly educational program with your constituents. Surveys can be a great tool for this. You can segment data in dozens of ways to help your board members understand your audience and what’s important to them.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Throughout the year, it’s important to conduct plenty of preparation, strategy development, and stewardship efforts to make sure your audience is eager to give when the big day arrives. Key fundraising metrics like donor retention rate, donation frequency, and fundraising return on investment (ROI).

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M+R

MAY 31, 2022

So what happened to open rates? Pre-MPP, we all agreed that open rate generally reflected the rate at which people were interacting with an email. Now, however, we’ve got three different open rates to think about. Others haven’t, so you’re still seeing “open rate” — but now it means “combined open rate.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The always thoughtful and inspiring, Avinash Kaushik, suggests that there four social media metrics that we should focus on measuring across channels. Of course, you need to start with. We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) Social media is evolving at an incredible pace.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need. In terms of metrics, focus on engagement metrics (such as engagement rates or bounce rates), rather than vanity metrics (such as audience size or page views). Analyze with actionable data in mind.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

You might send surveys or host meetings with high-level supporters to get their input on your organization’s strategies. Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success. Their retention rate.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Throughout the year, conduct preparation, strategy development, and stewardship efforts to make your audience eager to give when the big day arrives. For example, if you discover your donor retention rate is falling, you can focus on donor stewardship in the months leading up to Giving Tuesday to boost retention.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Successful event marketing starts with knowing how to reach your target audience. For most event coordinators, one of the best places to reach their target audience is Instagram. With over 2 billion active monthly users , you can connect with a broader audience there by sharing engaging posts.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

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. Our event this year was four days, which, in retrospect, is a lot of time to ask people to dedicate. How to Measure Success.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

increase in email conversion rate. Here’s a great read on the “death of the open rate. ”. Ensure you have access to accurate email metrics including click, action, and conversion tracking so that you can determine the success of content, messages, and segmentation. 1 in 40 online donors is a recurring monthly donor.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

In this article, we’ll go over each of these tips in detail so you can better engage your school’s donor base: Intentionally target your audience. Intentionally target your audience The first step to engaging with your supporters is to define exactly who your audience is. Choose a fundraiser that educates students.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Understand your target audience As a small business, it’s important to focus your marketing efforts and dollars on the audiences that are most likely to invest in your products or services. Send surveys. Solicit feedback about your clients’ communication preferences and ask how they came across your business.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Additionally, retention rates for first-time donors declined from 25.3% in 2020 , according to nonprofit organizations surveyed by the Association for Fundraising Professionals. We recommend you start with these 7 Key Database Metrics. Mailing to the most affluent zip codes will result in a higher response rate.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Survey existing donors on what spurs them to give quickly when appealed to.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Making the most of metrics means helping your organization’s leadership understand and apply the data purposefully. Consider how much communication is too much and at what rate recipients begin to unsubscribe.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

The purpose of this post is to share the results of an interesting survey from the beginning of the event, as well as the great attendee follow-up Q&A. We opened with a short audience survey about nonprofit data management. Would a data management plan like you suggest really improve those kinds of metrics?

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Socialbrite

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Before you do anything else, you should get a handle on email deliverability best practices to bone up on how to reach new subscribers as well as how to pump up those email open rates. Consider your audience. Who is my target audience? Improve your campaign & open rates. What is your open rate?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. Sort through online organizational data (Google analytics, email open rates) to see if there are insights, trends, and patterns that could be used to improve operations. Is the donor renewal rate low? Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. In the Into Focus report , See3, YouTube and Edelman surveyed nonprofit staff and found that the clear majority recognizes the power of video.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We are breaking the audience and database into manageable groups for the purpose of communicating with them. This is typically accomplished by defining portions or segments of your audience who have similar characteristics or interests. The worst thing you can do: not segment your audience.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2022

In the first half of 2021, OneCause conducted a survey of 1,026 Social Donors to explore how giving has evolved during the pandemic and what lessons we’ve learned from the virtual fundraising pivot. At first glance, these metrics aren’t terrible, but the issues that cause users to feel frustrated are typically easy to resolve.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Define Your Target Audience What kind of members do you want to bring in? This will help you determine who your target audience is. You don’t have to look far—you can reference data for current members or send them a survey to discover their interests and motivations. The answer can’t be “everyone.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Systematically keep track of the following: Donor metrics: Who are your supporters, and what interests do they share? You’re able to see, for individual donors and for the organization overall, the number of asks made, gifts obtained, average size of major gifts and donor retention rate. Organized recordkeeping is key. Senior citizens?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics. Every quarter, FEP provides a new set of updates on key performance indicators like new donor acquisition rate or changes in fundraising trends and patterns.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Even though online revenue grew last year and the year before, every individual email metric declined. Open rates, fundraising click-through rates and page completion rates for both fundraising and advocacy all went down. Social media audiences continued to grow in 2017. This is where EveryAction comes in!

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2021

For example, a budget that was appropriate for the size of an audience in the past may now be excessive as some users are online but can’t be identified as a member of your target audience. Declining email open rates. For organizations running ad campaigns, these changes could impact results and data in numerous ways.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

This quick adoption of digital event technology by event marketers allowed many events to carry on and helped brands and event marketers reach their target audiences even with stay-at-home orders in place. This type of live event will meet your audience where they are, on their terms, and thus creating a deeper impact.

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AccelEvents

JULY 1, 2020

Virtual career fair benefits include: Higher attendance rates and more diverse attendee pools. Once you identify these goals you can start to define your target audience and begin to curate which employers you will invite to participate. You will want to promote your event to reach the widest audience possible. Set Your Budget.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Nonprofit engagement metrics can help you understand your organization, but you’ve probably seen the same terms over and over again in your research. While understanding your donor’s lifetime value or your email open rate is great, these numbers alone won’t give you the insight you need to engage your constituents.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Mailchimp’s behavior-based automations also help increase conversion rates and deepen user engagement. What we love about OnceHub OnceHub’s comprehensive analytics provide insights into your scheduling metrics. Analyze donation metrics, participant engagement, and other registration data. Thank your donors.

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