Whole Whale

MARCH 15, 2023

Take Our Survey Now Thank you, PowerPoetry Team #MobyTip: Always remember to utilize a/b testing to optimize your email strategy and discover your audience’s best preferences. Remember that your email strategy will forever be changing based on your organization’s needs, audience behaviors, and brand goals.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Avoid the numbers 100 percent or #1 because they may trigger spam filters. For your next email, try split-testing two different subject lines, one with a sense of urgency and another with a sense of intrigue. You can figure out which length works best for your audience by doing split testing (or A/B testing).

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Everyaction

AUGUST 23, 2018

It’s affected by a lot of factors, with spam filters generally being the primary cause. In 2017, the average spam rate for nonprofit fundraising emails was 24.16%, meaning that only three quarters of sent emails even reached supporters' inboxes. in 2017, simply because spam prevented their supporters from receiving their messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

But, it is important to point out that the Google + team is listening and improving features – with its “ Feedback Friday &# so the landscape is changing rapidly. Can Google + be a good platform for social change activists? The following is framed with one disclaimer: We’re in the days and this could all change.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2017

This issue of email deliverability — the percentage of email that actually makes it into inboxes and not spam folders — is becoming a critical issue for nonprofits of all sizes. How Your Emails Become Spam. Test and Improve Your Email Engagement. Email Deliverability Defined.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 12, 2015

As long as there have been websites, there have been tools in place to keep those sites safe from spam and hacker abuse. Historically robots aren’t able to solve the distorted text, but new artificial intelligence programs are changing that, allowing non-humans to gain access to sites with a scary 99.8%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. CircuitEditor regularly hosts Twitter Chats on the subjects of social change and philanthropy in Africa. Pick a topic and start talking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

My guess is that 99.99% of nonprofits (or more) have not yet been invited to beta test Google+ ( sign up here ), but if you are a regular reader of Mashable, TechCrunch, or The Next Web, you might be feeling like your missing out on the fruits of being an early adopter (before the site is even out of beta – craziness!).

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content. By Stuart Holland, Sr.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Was my spam score low? As an email marketer, it’s your job to know the words that service providers are flagging as spam. A sudden drop in open rates could indicate your email was flagged as spam by one or multiple ISP’s. If open rates are dropping, you might consider changing your pacing. Full Test .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

But what’s important to understand is that when this feature becomes available to users, your open rates will change. Open rates are helpful with A/B testing. Your organization needs to test what day and time is best to send out your newsletter. Could it be that you’re sending spam and therefore people avoid opening your emails?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2013

The main push back was that including symbols like stars or hearts in the subject line increases the likelihood that a message would land in the recipient’s spam folder and goes against “best practices.”. The Campaign Monitor did some cool testing on this. Test the waters with A/B Testing. Use the technique sparingly.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

To compensate for these changes in individual behavior, digital campaigners have had to up their testing and innovating game to new levels, and bite the bullet and send more email than ever before. Having a tool that allows for easy segmentation and testing is key to improving email deliverability. High Complaints.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Beyond the opt-out law, the CAN-SPAM Act provides plenty of other regulations that if you don’t follow could end up causing you to be blacklisted , such as deceptive subject lines or misleading information. Basically, nobody will be able to receive your emails because they’ve identified you as spam. Test Your Subject Lines.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

That being said, if you have already written your subject lines, I’d like to urge you to test them against these tips. End of year is not the time to change it up and try something new. If it sounds like it could be spam, it could be spam. Avoid words that you commonly see in spam emails.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2015

Analyze and Measure: Look at open rates, click through rates, unsubscribes and spam reports to assess performance. My team meets weekly from now until year-end to brainstorm, strategize and come up with new things to test. This is your new “testing” list. Segment and Test. Will you change content for any of these groups?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Here are their 6 conventions: What should stay, change, or go? Test your design in a preview pane, full screen and with images turned on and off before you send it. Send a test message to a free e-mail account to see what it looks like. Check the spam score report. Additions: 7. This guide to CSS Support is a must have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

This was going gangbusters for a few days and then Facebook identified GetHandOn.com as a spam site. For me, the true test of whether or not this virtual game of Tag can be called a success won’t be defined by how many players it attracts, but rather by the level of engagement of the people who stay with us after it’s over.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

Make sure you change the subject line, and let the recipient know about your previous attempt to engage. Don't email inactive subscribers: Only use quality email addresses; this means they should be permission based, validated, with no typo domains, with no spam traps, with no complainers, and a good fit for your target list.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

But when the ESP lost our email lists (which we backed up weekly, thank goodness), we knew we had to change. Flexibility: As detailed as your needs may be now, there will be changes you want to make in the future. Ideally this includes a strict anti-spam policy, automatic SPAM cleaners, ISP-specific controls and white-list approvals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Expanding on the Non-Profits on Facebook page, we want to help you harness the power of Facebook and bring positive change to the world. Keep your page name short and accurate, can't change after you create it. They are working on having the ability to change it, but not high priority. It's intended to prevent spam.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Refrain from using all caps or too many exclamation points in your subject lines, as this could make people mistake your email for spam. Test, test, and test more. Measure, test, and refine Measuring the success of email fundraising campaigns is essential for nonprofits looking to reach their goals.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Google’s mobile-friendly test tool is a quick way to check whether or not your pages are optimized for mobile devices: 7. In the past, people would try to game the algorithms by spamming anchor text links to artificially increase their rankings. Add your keyword to an image alt tag. Write long form content.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

From filtering email spam to offering up personalized Netflix recommendations, AI already underlies many routine aspects of our lives in ways we don’t even realize. For example, one theatre critic in Chicago wrote about how theater ticket prices are changing like airline fares. AI technology changes this. The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I have a really good spam filter ( Spam bayse ), I use rules/filters to direct project related email and listserv email to folders, and am fairly good at "zeroing" out my inbox. changing habits is another story). I just set up a few as tests. I also use Google desktop search and search when I need to retrieve.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 3, 2018

These days, we pay for a lot using automatic charges or withdrawals and it’s tough to keep track of each site that needs to be notified when your card information changes. From there, take advantage of your platform’s A/B email testing and figure out how to be st speak to both Malik and Nellie. Need a template for your next campaign?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

They are going to decide then whether or not they want to unsubscribe because you’re sending them spam or if they want to stay engaged with your organization. Don’t tell them about minutes from the last board meeting or about changes to the parking lot (unless it’s relevant). PLEASE (yes, that’s the sound of me begging) don’t do this.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

In this ever-changing and progressing world of social media it can be overwhelming to “keep up with the Joneses”, so to speak. I’d accepted the friend request and then started getting spammed. Author: Taylor Shanklin. Let’s say you are a small or new organization just trying to get your roots planted.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes and image blocking -- all of which make it hard to know whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email. For fundraising messages, open rates were down from 2007 to 2008, but click-through and response rates did not change. Segment, test and repeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. I started my blog as a test bed for theories I have about blogging and it's growing impact. It requires the ability to change our internal culture. Yes, I do work for an environmental non-profit. I started something I call The Show Me Experiments.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

If you try to use your regular email, you run the risk of being marked as spam, looking unprofessional, and not being able to measure open rates. CAN SPAM laws so you don’t have to worry about it. Set her heart on fire with stories of real lives and real change – it’s what she wants to know after giving.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’ve tested it. Test, test, test. Test everything in your email. Test every link in your donation form. Test every link on your path to your donation form on your website. You’re going to start writing everything and testing it and scheduling it in October. . So humor me.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

By releasing annual impact reports, your nonprofit can more broadly reinforce how your work is creating positive change. Split Test Subject Lines Experiment with Days and Sending Times Be Direct and Concise Make Your CTA Stand Out Keep Your List Clean Engage Before Asking Segment Your List Ask for a Small Favor 29.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Recent tests from our 28,000-name newsletter list found that the folks we'd added within the prior month were up to 25% more likely to open the first message. Test, test, tes t. There's no reason to go with your gut instinct when so many email providers have A/B test functionality this days. Keep the new names coming in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Since Online Nonprofit News was the first to populate the "nonprofit blogging space" -- what changes have you seen over the last few years in 501c3 blogland? So, I guess the only change I have seen in the last few years is that some people are paying attention to it. That does represent an important change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards. Many museums are protective about how frequently they send messages to members and other lists, fearing that they will be ignored or perceived as spam. They are thrilled to test new programs and exhibits.

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