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Launching a successful nonprofit communications campaign

Candid

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Similarly, for display advertisements on websites, distill your messaging into compelling headlines and striking visuals to grab your audience’s attention. To test or preview your campaign, consider doing a soft launch first.

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Before Publishing Your Annual Appeal, Ask Yourself These 5 Questions

Bloomerang

In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how to evaluate those annual appeals before you publish them so you know you’re sending out the best possible ask. . Once you’re ready to look at your appeal again, you should evaluate it by asking the five questions below. I stick by them as a place to begin. how you would talk).

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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Craft good headlines. Here’s an excellent cheat sheet that can help you write more engaging headlines. Here’s more tactical tips from Upworthy: Find or create great content. Write at least 25 headlines —simply because your first one will likely suck. Avoid giving it all away in the headlines. Be visual. “If

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.” For nonprofits, this means rigorously testing different emotional appeals, stories, and calls-to-action and then reusing what proves most effective. Use time-limited offers to create urgency.

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Simple Ways to Analyze Nonprofit Email Performance

Connection Cafe

But, evaluating the performance of your email campaigns can be much simpler. If you’re a classic right-brainer, this headline could send you into a cold sweat. While the answer is different for every organization, the path to that answer is always the same: Test! There are two basic ways to run a test. Full Test .

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

Museum 2.0

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. Implicit Associations test. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 3: Content Strategy

Connection Cafe

Content for your website includes your headlines, body copy, photos, captions, graphics, videos, audio clips, etc. Once we have a complete content inventory, we then proceed with a content audit where we evaluate each page/section of content for how useful it is for the end user. Usability Tests. Stay tuned! Introduction.

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