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Scout Quest Webinar Recap: Humane Society Results! Huge Advertising Update! Direct Mail Targeting! And a Deadline: MARCH 22.

M+R

3) Scout Quest… for Direct Mail??: No, we’re not turning Scout Quest into a direct mail co-op (so many exist already!). But we ARE going to begin adding direct mail data so we can identify who on your email file are making direct mail gifts to other organizations. Have a question? Direct Mail Targeting!

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What actually happened: Apple Mail Privacy Protection

M+R

About this time last year, we all started talking about Apple’s new Mail Privacy Protection , a.k.a. We saw some of the impacts of these changes in this year’s Benchmarks. Apple Mail Privacy Protection works by pre-loading email content — including open tracking pixels. That’s the “Privacy” part of Mail Privacy Protection.).

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Direct mail built the conservative movement. Can influencers beat it?

M+R

Read time: 5 minutes It’s 1980, and you hear the mail slot clank down the hallway. That version of you — now sitting on a valuable piece of real estate — probably had their address bought by a man named Paul Weyrich, a pioneer of conservative political direct mail. Looking for benchmarks? We’ve got some Benchmarks.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

Bloomerang

Start with benchmark data. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. These are some places to begin: M+R Benchmarks ; Fundraising Effectiveness Project Reports ; Fundraising Report Card Benchmarks. . . — Kevin Shulman for the Agitator-DonorVoice.

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How many fundraising emails should you send a year?

Care2

If you look at the latest M+R Benchmark study , the number of donation appeals sent per year to nonprofit supporters averages about twenty-four. Direct Mail marketers have already known this for years, as do some of the larger nonprofits with massive email lists and sophisticated multi-channel fundraising programs.

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Humane Society: Tactics for Sustained Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She went to say that she thinks too many folks are focused on the Facebook Like as the social media success metric. “Who cares? And very likely they are simultaneously doing direct mail and/ or events or PSAs etc. That’s also how we’ve been able to obtain more resources to handle the volume we have.&#.

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Attention All Shoppers: Online Fundraising Metrics Are In!

NTEN

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.