EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Make sure you tell your supporters about it! What was special about the better-performing email

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Nimble AMS

MAY 30, 2023

With interactive boot camps and 7 CAE credits available, you’ll have multiple ways to learn about today’s AMS marketplace. How many versions of the software is your company currently supporting? If a software company has only one version to support, it can focus on one system. Better support and quicker fixes.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 17, 2022

Next, consider the following: Survey your staff to learn how much time they spend on various company-wide processes. Receiving this feedback will identify organizational trends and help you prioritize which tools are best for your association. 81% of data satisfied employees report they’ll stay at their company for the next five years.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Studies show that 63% of Gen Z consumers were more excited about direct mail in 2022 than they had been in previous years. spent on direct mail, companies earn an average return of $4.09. Direct mail can benefit your nonprofit in many ways, from connecting with donors in a personal way and yielding a high ROI. Track trends.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2023

Lead tracking software is common in the business-to-business (B2B) world where sales teams need to know the when/where/who of companies checking out their online resources. This is fine for identifying macro trends and user flows. Companies are also lead scored by recent website activity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Each year Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good presents a free webinar featuring the top ten digital marketing and fundraising trends to prioritize in the following year. This year’s webinar, 10 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Trends to Prioritize in 2023 , was presented on December 7.

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Kindful

APRIL 15, 2021

Selecting the right donor management platform can have a profound impact on how your nonprofit manages donations, communicates with current and potential donors, analyzes donation data, and makes decisions about future projects pertaining to the organization. What is Salesforce? This CRM system manages data, not customer experiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Also, data from the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report reveals that 45% of online donors worldwide are enrolled in a monthly giving program. And don’t be shy about sending emails! Facebook has the highest ROI and it is worth investing $100-500 in a test advertising campaign for your monthly giving program.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

But donors can reveal just as much information about their motivations and interests through their unspoken actions. Specifically, donor giving patterns can reveal insights about how to best reach donors across multiple platforms and secure their long-term support. Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And so it continues to surprise me that nonprofits invest far too little in video content, as if they are somehow exempt from this general trend. Finding the ROI. One reason for the disconnect between stated belief in video and video budgets has been the lack of hard data about the return on investment (ROI).

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This way, you can see all of your data in one place and make better-informed decisions about where to allocate resources. Integrations: All major data sources – Learn about the Looker Platform. About Company : Founded in 2012, Google acquired in 2019 for $2.6bn and has included in Google Cloud Platform.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

We’ve done our research and heard what nonprofit professionals have to say about matching gift software. Ensure the software covers a wide range of companies and their forms and is regularly refreshed with accurate and up-to-date data. A big part of that involves exploring the software systems available to such organizations.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Think about what changed for you, your nonprofit, and your constituencies. . Now the only thing normal about the phase we’re in is everyone is in this same transitional space, focused on politics, new social behaviors, and the associated socioeconomics. Digital product acceleration is trending across businesses worldwide. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. But planning for the new year isn’t just about brainstorming. I’m sure you’ll want to do them all, but remember this plan is about focusing your efforts on what will matter [to your bottom line] most.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2021

Third-party cookies are used by ad companies to track you as you visit different sites around the internet, building a profile of you and your interests based on the sites you visit and using that to send ads to you. Decreased ROI on ad spending. However, when someone visits with Safari 12.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field.

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Givinga

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

By getting employees involved in Giving Tuesday campaigns, businesses can increase engagement and grow their CR program – and its ROI – through an initiative that employees are already comfortable with. Remind People About Giving Campaigns. You’ll see the ROI in increased employee engagement, retention, and sales.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Our strategic partnership with Achieve is one that aligns with our company values and that we’re delighted to share with you. In 2014, a technology solutions-focused group of owners acquired Achieve and reorganized it into the company it is today. Q: Tell us a bit more about Achieve.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Join us to hear about: The current state of SEO and organic social media and the reality that what you post is likely not being seen by as many of your followers as you may think. Real-world examples of how nonprofits are already investing more deeply in their advertising budget and seeing valuable ROI.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Overlooking important trends. It’s about strategically planning how you’re going to get your nonprofit in front of the people who will best connect with your mission. . With this information at your disposal, you can get strategic about how to target each donor segment. Overlooking important trends.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Each fundraiser’s site features a personal appeal and social sharing buttons, which are great ways to spread the word about the campaign. Build on that one-day email fundraising idea by securing a match from a company or major donor and advertise the match in your email campaign. What will not have a good ROI?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Luckily, there are affordable and effective tools you can leverage to spread awareness and get people excited about your fundraising efforts—namely, your website. You should make the donation process as simple as possible so that your donors don’t think twice about their choice. Use calls-to-action. or “Contact Us.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Even more cumbersome is the trend to not only publish your stories on your blog and website, but to also have to publish them on Medium , Steller , as Facebook Notes , on LinkedIn Publisher , and soon directly into Google.com. Your nonprofit has claimed your LinkedIn Company Page and you post a minimum of twice monthly.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

How do we raise awareness about our unique stories to a generation of naturally attention-deficit individuals? Do we forget about this audience and keep doing it the way we’ve always done it? But there was also something extremely odd about these “Sponsored” posts that Instagram. Rise above the noise. Extremely moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Note from Beth: Recently, Networked for Good offered a free e-book about how nonprofits can development a micro-content for their social media presences filled with useful tips and best practices. Carie Lewis gives an excellent mini case study of how to leverage micro content during the holiday and get results. Identifying a Trend.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

This new reality and shifting landscape have created significant opportunities to use virtual and hybrid events — and the technology that powers them — to elevate brand awareness, increase demand generation, enhance user acquisition, and ultimately accelerate growth for your company or your clients.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. When most people think about reporting in the Learning Industry, they think about ROI justification. Baseball and your Learning Organization.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2018

As the forlorn real estate salespeople in Glengarry Glen Ross lamented, it’s all about the leads. Those salespeople spent every waking moment strategizing about how to get the good leads and complaining about how management was holding these leads back. This 3:1 ROI is higher than that realized in most clinical services.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce Acquires Buddy Media for $689 Million – "Salesforce has entered an agreement to acquire social media marketing platform Buddy Media for approximately $689 million, the company has announced. For more than four decades, search has essentially been about matching keywords to queries. Take a query like [taj mahal].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

  You need to quantify the trend and understand what it means or else you won't know what to change.     Get granular about how customers feel re: different features.   They monitor what is said about their brand and produces in real time in all types of social media - from Twitter to blogs. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. How to analyze a moving target? A case in point is Georgia Shakespeare.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

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!" One bit of evidence that this is working well is that our client retention rate is about 99%.and

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Hat tip to Jay Moonah for the pointer to this Gartner article about virtual worlds. Ah, but what about ROI? Despite the concerns within companies, don???t t ignore this trend. Check out the Nonprofits and Second Life Wiki and Blog for information about the nonprofit side. enterprises) will have a ???

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2009

SxSWNP Flickr Cred: wharman Peter Campbell changed web hosts and has some good advice about the process. Beth Kanter has a quick summary of the NP Social Media ROI Poetry Slam session at SxSW this weekend, which included NTEN superstars Danielle Brigida , Wendy Harman , Carie Lewis , David Neff , Geoff Livingston , and NTEN's own Holly Ross.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

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!" Take time to probe on how a webcasting company intends to carry out your event.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In Europe, it's all about monthly bank drafts for supporting charities. We'll also discuss some trends in recurring giving and take a peek at segments. If you're conflicted about whether to attend my session or Carol's, I say go to both - send your online person to ours, and your direct mail manager to Carol's.

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