Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. If we set up Goals, reviewing them post-launch is another great success metric. Methodology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. It wasn’t meant as a statement about what I think about whether or not web stats are a useful metric of much. Other metrics we look at include: What are our sign-ups for our newsletter? 6 Katrin 09.19.07

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? The silver lining of what (at first glance) seems like a very negative trend is that nonprofits have lots of room to make a positive impression on new donors. But you can use metrics and A/B testing to measure how your emails are performing.

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sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. After such a tumultuous year, with many drivers for both potential increases and declines in giving, it was no surprise to see mixed trends among sectors and organizational sizes.

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Retention Gift Rate Conversation 48

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Analyzing Your Website’s Organic Traffic To understand how people are finding and engaging with your nonprofit website, you need to set up analytics and regularly monitor performance metrics. You’ll find key metrics under the Acquisition > All Traffic > Channels menu in your GA dashboard.

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Websites Guide Impact Metrics 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

About a year ago, I decided to benchmark my blog using some tips suggested by Avinash Kaushik. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. I don't think this metric has any meaning in isolation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Was there anything helpful about that comparison between service engagement and impact? We need to know what metrics we need to be tracking. Sample metrics. Does that make sense? And I’m looking over. Hopefully, that helps a little bit. And that stands for different things. ” So, if I say, “Oh, you know what?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. I began to educate and report on a new series of metrics that added depth and reason behind our results. Data is used for trend analysis or point-in-time analysis—identifying and resolving issues.

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Analytics Data Analysis Metrics 33