Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Here are some questions that can help get people talking to start sharing the groups they work with. In my experience, the more diverse group you can get together to have this conversation and work through this planning together, the more complete a picture you can draw of your community.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Last week, I sat down with Amy Peyrot, Senior Consultant, Social Media Specialist, and resident mathlete at M+R , to discuss all things social media metrics. I also tried out a lot of math jokes on her - check out the video to see how they landed, or read on for the highlights of our conversation.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 10, 2022

DonorPerfect is here to help you manifest a stronger fundraising strategy. Get your 2022 Fundraising Calendar to improve on key metrics like donor retention, conversion rate, and more.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Using that knowledge, we’ve created this guide to help your team understand major gift KPIs, the metrics you should be tracking, and the top tips to do so successfully. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. 3 Tips to Track Major Gift Metrics More Effectively.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas. When looking at online benchmarks and digital revenue, we saw that any growth or ground held was due to increases in sustainer metrics.

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 4, 2021

Related read: How to Engage Your Board of Directors in Financial Conversations ] Let’s inspire your board members, keep them engaged and boost their productivity! If your board members hit the snooze button during meetings, this will reflect in their commitment to fundraising, advocacy efforts, and follow through on assigned tasks.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You can track metrics that will help you identify what’s working, including social media engagement, impressions and reach, database growth, event registration and attendance, and website visits and sessions. K eep an eye on what leads to conversion. How are these folks getting to your website?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

This post originally appeared on the NTEN blog – you can also read the full post and join the conversation on the NTEN.org website. Is data helpful if you aren’t using it? Is data helpful if you can’t change it? These are the reminders I find helpful but I’d love to hear from you!

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Candid

APRIL 6, 2022

Meme: To disrupt traditional research methodologies, MEASURE has developed the CARE model to help BIPOC-led organizations identify their theory of change and measure their impact. The CARE model empowers participants by providing direction to help communities lead the work. The Innocence Initiative tools we used led to amazing results!

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

But for fundraisers, numbers can reveal a lot of insights that help you understand donors, demographics, and more. Fundraising metrics are the key to unlocking your most effective, generosity-encouraging strategies. Tailoring your messaging for specific groups of donors helps your message resonate and ultimately boosts donations.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Members are turning to their associations to help them shore up their credibility and address increasing public distrust of their industry or profession. One exec expressed interest in resources to share with our members to teach them how to have conversations about controversial topics.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

To help you figure out your goal and audience, answer the following questions: Why do you want to start a WordPress site? With it, you’ll shape the rest of your website to drive conversions If your nonprofit is already well-established, you may be able to glean audience information from your constituent relationship management system (CRM).

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

However, the trick is to shift the conversation from the process to the outcomes. If analytics could help pinpoint the reasons and lead to strategies that reduce this number to 10%, think of the increased revenue! These could be qualitative or specific metrics or KPIs. If you need help making your case, A2 is here for you!

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Care2

MAY 31, 2013

During our discussion, Jessica and I talked about nonprofit and political campaigns obsession with vanity metrics. Because engaging people and mobilizing supporters to advocate for social justice and policy change is how we help move the needle. Are we fostering meaningful conversations with target audiences? Focus on Influence.

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Achieve

MAY 3, 2024

Let's explore how data analytics can be strategically applied to crucial components of your fundraising event, helping guide you towards making more informed decisions and impactful outcomes. Repositioning the call-to-action to a more prominent place in your email can help address this issue. An acceptable bounce rate is around 2%.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

The conversational nature of podcasts makes them a digestible way for supporters to learn about your nonprofit. Plus, inviting thought leaders, influencers , and other guest speakers that your audience cares about helps secure your place as a trustworthy nonprofit. This answer can help you establish your approach to podcast content.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

The metrics you use to measure your progress toward a business objective are key performance indicators (KPIs). What metrics could you use to predict whether you will achieve your goals ? These metrics are called leading indicators. Develop KPIs for Your Goals. How will you know whether you have achieved a goal?

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. Sharon is summarizing the notes from all the CoLAB conversations.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Whether you own a pet-care business , bookstore, or flower shop, these five tips will help put your small business on the digital map. This database will reveal your customers’ traits, preferences, buying patterns, and more, helping you develop donor-driven engagement strategies. Perform market research. Create customer personas.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 17, 2021

It can help you measure your performance, refine your fundraising strategies, and ultimately boost the effectiveness of your campaigns. These predictive scores and metrics can then directly guide your fundraising strategies, pointing you straight to the individual donors who’ll be most likely to take your target action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign. The very first step before you even open Ads Manager is to have your web developer set up a conversion event that’s triggered when someone makes a donation on your website.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fundraising apps are helpful tools that drive your nonprofit’s fundraising campaigns by empowering you to pull in more donations, and there are hundreds to choose from. This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success.

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M+R

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s also a good time to check that any recommended events or custom events you want to track are fully set up in GA4 so that you don’t lose any tracking capabilities (this may require the help of a developer to set up). It’s not accurate to compare UA pageview data to GA4 pageview data since the metric logic has also changed.

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sgEngage

APRIL 4, 2024

But it does need to be part of a larger, intentional conversation about being a revenue-wise organization. Utilize a dashboard to communicate financial updates A dashboard is a helpful tool for board members and staff to stay abreast of the organization’s finances.

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EveryAction

JULY 12, 2023

Digital ads have had an interesting few years in the nonprofit world: despite conversations among digital thought leaders about the effect Apple’s iOS 14 and 14.5 Those kinds of results help explain why we’re seeing organizations add mobile messaging to their omni-channel repertoire.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2023

Whether it’s determining what content leads to conversions, or tracking the CX experience among a complex system of different branded websites, there are some unique challenges that mission-driven organizations face when it comes to tracking customer satisfaction. There are other metrics that can provide a glimpse into your site’s CX as well.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Get the conversation started by asking the following questions: . Focus groups offer great value because they encourage in-depth conversation about your organization. If you don’t cast a vision, your association won’t know what metrics to include in reporting. The next step is learning more about your member data.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In a culture that supports innovation, everyone feels encouraged and confident to brainstorm, introduce new ideas, ask questions, and start conversations in order to identify opportunities for enhanced impact. Creativity and curiosity: Curiosity can lead to creativity, which, in turn, will help your nonprofit to innovate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

Imagine what your organization could accomplish in 2022 if you began each initiative with clean, streamlined donor records that record donations from your online forms and update automatically , an arsenal of canned reports to track key metrics, and a solid plan to prioritize each donor segment individually. About the Author.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. In addition to keeping it safe and secure, think of how you can leverage it to gain insights to help run your association more effectively. We suggest that you have a conversation and not send a survey.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2020

When you’re live, there’s a true authenticity created that helps build trust and likeability with an audience. What content would help serve and provide value to your audience right now? Social Ads: Running a small social advertising campaign can help increase reach, viewership, and engagement substantially.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. For example, the only real way to measure sentiment and how people are feeling about your campaigns, your content, your work, and your impact is to analyze the conversations yourself. Why is Social Media Data Important?

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Goals and success metrics. In addition to goals, establish a set of online community metrics to help you track progress toward your goals and find opportunities for improvement. These metrics tell you how many of your members have joined the online community and how many are using it. Number of online community logins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!” It helps you set priorities, allocate resources, and make choices. We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?)

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.orgSource

APRIL 25, 2023

Studying factual information will help you make better choices.” Before adding talent, have a thoughtful conversation. When a manager wants to add talent, have a thoughtful conversation,” Sarah advised. “Begin with the data,” Sarah responded. I love that answer.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 14, 2017

Building awareness and getting people familiar with your organization and cause is important—but to stay afloat, increase online giving conversions on your website to increase your bottom line and allow you to create a larger impact. Consider these steps to increase your online giving conversions. Optimize for mobile. Make it easy.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This is the secret weapon that will help you meet your strategic plans in 2024. The previous version of Google Analytics (GA3 or Universal Analytics) was around for over a decade and helped organizations of all shapes and sizes track and analyze data around their website traffic. leads) it’s bringing in.

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