Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Investigate how well your audiences perform. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? Measure the success of your upgrade asks – do donors who come from your species extinction petition go on to be regular donors at a higher rate? Test with a couple of links to see how it all works.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

As a bonus, many associations find that repeat event attendees also renew at higher rates. ( Do your repeat event attendees also renew at higher rates? ). This data shows that attendees at the three year point have the highest drop-off rate. (Do We test our assumption by designing a targeted A/B email test for this group.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Open rate : The success of your email often hinges on the open rate. On the flip side, a poorly crafted subject line can lead to lower open rates and, consequently, reduced chances of achieving your fundraising goals. A/B testing : Subject lines are often the primary variable in A/B testing for email campaigns.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Adding an emoji to your nonprofit’s email subject line can be effective in certain situations, but its impact largely depends on the context, your audience, and the nature of your email. Here are some factors to consider: Audience : Consider your audience’s preferences and expectations.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The upcoming iOS15 update will create some changes in how email marketers use opens to track success and retarget their audiences — but as we all know, adapting to change is part of operating in the digital landscape. Likely, your average open rate will increase and you’ll need to set news goals around email opens. Use your UTMs.

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Media Cause

JUNE 27, 2023

Not all social media channels are created equally when it comes to engaging with your audience—meaning your planning and execution needs to be nimble and flexible based on your goals and the audiences you want to engage with. We’re not saying that every ad needs to be on-trend, but it doesn’t hurt to lean into what’s going viral.

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M+R

JULY 27, 2023

Fortunately, we started asking these questions with just enough time to put together a treatment test before finalizing our End of Year strategy last fall. So, when coming up with a cultivation content strategy for the test, we tried to reuse existing assets as much as possible. Okay, back to the results… ???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

1) Multi-Channel Strategy Employing a multi-channel strategy helps nonprofits reach a wider audience with their year-end campaign. Data on donor behavior, preferences, and interactions provides audience insights that can be used to improve fundraising strategies and optimize future campaigns. However, this is not a universal rule.

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M+R

JUNE 22, 2023

Showing your most responsive people ads can increase their donation rate even more than reaching them in just one channel – and precise targeting allows you to use your budget where it will have the best results. Just upload their information into Meta, Google, or your DSP of choice, and target them as a custom audience.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

When you use a multi-channel approach to marketing, you probably point your audience back to specific landing pages on your website. Keeping your website up-to-date and modern is essential to engage your audience and ensure they have everything they need to get involved with your mission. Your site doesn’t engage your audience.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If your nonprofit organization is struggling to share your message with your various audiences, you’re not alone. Are you looking to talk to your existing audience, or expand to new folks? But with a little bit of structure and curiosity, it becomes a lot easier to learn and iterate to better connect with your audience. .

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Just like the private sector, mission-driven organizations need to ensure they are providing personalized marketing and digital experiences in order to effectively engage their online audiences. This allows you to successfully test and evaluate your personalization strategies and tactics. Segment your audience on social media.

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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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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Audience Analysis. There are a few steps to successful audience-centric design: Identify Your Audience: Understand all of the groups your serve and find out what makes them tick. Create Personas and outline tasks: Create a sample person that represents each audience group you serve. You know your audience.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One of the most astonishing things we’ve found in our digital marketing to these high-value audiences is that just a very small lift in performance among them can yield significant increases in revenue. Where you draw these lines is less important than how you think about your audiences. . How large is the potential audience?

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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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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Goal: Engagement Metric: Overall Engagement Rate. If your goal is to engage + build relationships with your audience (hopefully it is!), Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and even Instagram now report on engagement rates right within their native analytics so be sure to figure out how these numbers are represented.

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Classy

JULY 30, 2021

Adding a personal touch to your email subject lines can help you increase your click-through and open rates. It takes more to connect with your audience than to convince them to donate, and personalized email subject lines can help you develop meaningful connections. That is where testing comes into play. Make It Short.

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Forum One

JULY 8, 2021

To ensure you are sending the right content at the right time to your target audiences, check out the following 5 tips for better email personalization to incorporate in your email marketing strategy. With your key audiences’ inboxes receiving more and more emails, it is important for you to make sure your organization’s emails stand out.

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M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It also offers audience insights and traffic information that can be helpful for targeting your ads! Groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists and USA for UNHCR actually improved donation form conversion rates by showing more content to their paid traffic! Testing changes to your donation form to improve conversion rates.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Custom Facebook Audiences. Result: 63% more donations, 55% higher conversion rate and a 2X ROI. Custom Facebook audiences are an effective way to leverage your existing email lists. They work by matching your database with Facebook, creating a custom audience. Had a 55% increased conversion rate. That’s it.

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Media Cause

APRIL 8, 2022

Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and even Google all have on-platform lead generation forms, allowing you to quickly—and easily—get information from your audience to grow your lead list. From a testing perspective, on-platform forms require multiple. Having on-platform lead generation forms. forms to run across various ads.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, audiences are likely to open and engage with direct mail. On average, direct mail has an open rate of 57.5% Direct mail reaches different audiences. To identify a target audience for your campaign, you’ll need to dig deeper with your research. This channel also tends to see positive returns—for every $1.27

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

of their total audience. According to the Nonprofit Email Engagement Benchmark Study by M+R , the average email open rate for nonprofits is around 25%, while the click-through rate hovers at 2.5%. And while those numbers might seem modest, when you compare them to social media engagement rates, they become truly impressive.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 1, 2021

Depending on your event’s size, the duration, and the type of audience you expect, event organizers have to consider many elements of a live event venue to make sure that it works. A test or ping speed should run around 30ms or less and a rate of 2MB per 100 users. There’s a lot that goes into choosing the right venue.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 4, 2022

“MobileConnect became a reality through COVID as a way to send reminders for students to get tested and help support our safety efforts,” said Mead. . UMass Amherst currently hovers around a 60% email open rate when factoring in commercial and transactional emails. The Preference Center has been a huge game-changer,” said Mead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

The other important factor to note is that the virtual component of these campaign types is allowing nonprofits to reach wider audiences across the world. Set up a mobile payment option to boost conversion rates with a seamless experience that reflects your brand. Respond personally to new donation activity.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Every membership program needs a structure that appeals to its intended audience. Understand Your Target Audience One of the most important steps in refining your membership model is to gain an understanding of your target audience by conducting an audience analysis. of those who have interacted with you before.

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EveryAction

JUNE 3, 2016

Once again, we called on our Email Deliverability Specialist, Brett Schenker (that's literally his title) to examine data from email programs at over 50 national nonprofits of all shapes, sizes, and internet service providers to determine the benchmarks for successfully engaging audiences + soliciting donations through email.

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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. Kindful places a heavy focus on data, giving the user access to donors’ giving history, wealth details, and rating for likelihood to give. Best of luck and happy fundraising!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

We had close to 2,000 fundraising friends sign up, and we kicked things off by surveying the audience about their year-end fundraising goals (which we defined to include Giving Tuesday ). Audience questions from our fundraising friends who attended the webinar. If you want to test if a QR code has any lift do an A/B test.

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Candid

JULY 6, 2021

These relationships are key for your organization’s donor retention rate. . While generic messages that are not tailored to your audience may not do much to help build relationships, they don’t hurt like poorly automated ones can. . Conduct A/B tests to make sure your subject lines, images, button placement, etc.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 1, 2021

Depending on your event’s size, the duration, and the type of audience you expect, event organizers have to consider many elements of a live event venue to make sure that it works. A test or ping speed should run around 30ms or less and a rate of 2MB per 100 users. There’s a lot that goes into choosing the right venue.

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Media Cause

JULY 23, 2021

RSAs allow you to create and use multiple headlines and descriptions that Google then tests to see which combinations perform best. Use Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI) to match ad headline(s) with what someone is typing into Google and greatly increase your click through rates. Test time-specific (day, month, year, time of day, etc.)

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

By pinpointing your organization’s purpose, you can unlock a powerful marketing tool that will enable audiences to connect deeper with your messaging. In this blog, we’ll talk about the importance of getting to know your audience and how you can use purpose-driven communications to build lasting relationships. open rate, CTR.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Start testing your outreach plans. Throughout the year, conduct preparation, strategy development, and stewardship efforts to make your audience eager to give when the big day arrives. Start testing your outreach plans. To expand your audience, consider how you can take a multi-channel marketing approach.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 2, 2022

If your subject line can create this curiosity gap – it’s open rate city for your newsletter. . This will help improve your open rates as well as your click-through rates. Test Test Test different headlines. Tips For What To Write in the Subject Line. Use strong keywords. Invoke curiosity.

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