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ROI: Can You Quantify the Untangible? You Can't Quantify Love (or can you?)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages.

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8 Event Budgeting Tips Every Event Planner Should Know

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Use these tips to help you prepare for budgeting unknowns, capitalize on your event ROI, and set your event on the right track. . If you’ve run a similar event in the past, then you have some sense of expense ratios and trends. With any event, you should look for ways to save money, as this always increases your ROI or profit.

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Which Fundraising Events Bring in the Most Money for Small Nonprofits?

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Events are a great way to bring like-minded people together and have a good time in the name of your cause. They don’t do anything to promote your brand, your cause, or your mission. Community/Fun Events Community/Fun Events are widely promoted events that encourage people to do something active or fun while supporting your cause.

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her case in point is the recent Washington Post article suggesting that Facebook Causes had driven very little money to charity and was a failure. As I blogged in response to the article, Causes is best for creating connections and awareness. KDPaine's SobCon Roi Of Relationships In Social Media View more presentations from kdpaine.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. ROI: You Can't Quantify Love or Can You? Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand?

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Successful Organizations On Twitter: Wellstone Action - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some days are more on one end than others, but overall that is our goal.

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Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Understand donors and be donor-centric - What do visitors want to do when they come to your site?