EveryAction

MAY 23, 2016

Hint: it’s not for the money. If you’ve worked in any sort of corporate capacity, you’re familiar with performance metrics. Whether they’re called KPIs or quotas, metrics are essentially the milestones that an employee in your prescribed role should reach over a given time span. Why we consider making the switch.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Hint: A great time to do this is when you are creating your annual budget and marketing plan. Hint: I typically recommend posting 3-4x per week per channel as a starting point. Hint: Did you know you can respond to all Facebook & Instagram direct messages and comments through Business Manager? .

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Media Cause

AUGUST 15, 2022

Often, as I hinted at the beginning of this blog, I’ve seen organizations trying to decipher how their supporters could contribute. Not in the cold, database metrics (although those are important), but in real life? Here are three questions I’d like to consider with you: What do you ask supporters to do? Do you really value them?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2019

hint…probably). Mighty Citizen Fundraising Campaign Metrics Template. What are personas, how do you develop them, and what do you do with them? And should your organization even be worrying about incorporating personas into its marketing efforts? Listen Now: Resources: Rachel Clemens. Mighty Citizen Marketing Campaign Template.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 6, 2022

We’ve hinted at this above, but it’s important to state the importance of multi-channel communication outright. Track your fundraising metrics, including outreach response rate, donations received, and supporter retention. If you don’t implement best practices, your fundraiser is likely to struggle.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2021

CauseVox also recently introduced our new activity metric , which allows participants to track their participation, whether that’s miles walked or laps swam. Here are a few hints: Donate to enter. It’s a fun idea that ties in the organization to the activity. Charge a registration fee for your hunt. Donate for a boost.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Twitter Cofounder Suggests A Replacement For The Follower Count : Twitter cofounder Ev Williams — who remains on the company's board — hinted Monday that follower counts may soon become the second most important number to users. The dream metric," he said, "is how many people saw your tweet."

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

While it might seem a little early to start thinking about 2018 to some (hint: it’s not ), it’s the perfect time to benchmark where 2017 has taken you. Fundraising Programs: Four Metrics to Measure the Success of Your Major Gift Program : It’s not enough to simply measure dollars raised by major gifts.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Forget the hundreds of metrics that are being spat out and focus on what matters most for your nonprofit. For nonprofit marketers in particular, tracking conversion metrics on supporter behavior is what you should probably be focused on — versus just viewing vanity metrics of how many people have visited your website.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2015

For the actual numbers to the metrics above, along with all the rest of the sexy data, download the report next week. If you are going to #bbcon , be sure to check out the LO Benchmark presentation on Monday (hint, I’m presenting) where we’ll get stupid nerdy with the results and show you examples of how to excel in each category.

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BoardAssist

MAY 10, 2016

Educating their leadership and board members in this important new metric. Over and over, donors are looking for performance metrics. Hint, don’t include a monthly request as part of a regular appeal. Smart nonprofits are: Investing more staff and resources in donor relations. They want high performance from you.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Sometimes that trust is measured through email performance metrics like open rate, click-through rate, or donor-response rate. Preview text gives the recipient a hint as to what your email is going to be about. There are 10 main elements of an email appeal that we can test , and there’s insight to be gleaned from each one.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Percentage of new vs. returning users (hint: more returning visitors = higher loyalty). If we set up Goals, reviewing them post-launch is another great success metric. Once we’ve set the timeframe, we then start digging into the data to answer some key questions: What are some benchmark stats for improvement? Overall site visits.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Keeping in touch with your metrics, for both your website and emails, is essential to providing the content your visitors actually want -- not what you guess they want. Hint: you have to ask before you can know that.) When we reviewed their website statistics, we found that nobody ever visited that calendar. I know I would.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Hint: Don’t make them scroll through their inboxes—more on that below!) It should be directly tied to your progress and defined metrics. If you have an effective model in place to track progress on strategic plan goals (such as a strategic plan report card), consider using this to incorporate your campaign metrics.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Read on to learn this experts view on the current state of nonprofits and online video, tips and hints on how to maximize your videos impact, and how much all of this really costs. Good metrics are often hard to come by, but measuring success is the only way to know if your effort and investment has paid off!

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

Charity rating organizations use varying metrics for evaluating efficacy and impact, but most organizations use Accountability, Transparency, Program Percentage, and Fundraising efficiency as the basis for their ratings. Hint: they’re not all downloadable PDFs! Charity Ratings. Annual report template. Download Template.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 29, 2023

While you should limit yourself to a single call to action in a fundraising email (hint: You should ask people to donate), you can be much more liberal with the number of links to the page you want people to visit. Based on our research, using six button and form links in an email resulted in a 10.09 increase in click-through rates.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Rosser offered a number of practical hints for helping viewers discover your videos on YouTube. It is YouTube's primary measure of video quality and is the key metric used by YouTube's search and discovery systems. Make Your Video Discoverable on YouTube. First, thumbnails are key! Pay Attention to Watch Time.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2014

Here’s a hint: you can only have 1 top priority. Define success metrics. You’ve got a list of priorities, so for each item on that list spell out the goal or metric to which you are working. But software isn’t a strategy in and of itself, and the very first step to developing a strategy is formalizing priorities.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Hint: If you can’t set aside some time each month to check on your account, a Google Grants manager can step in.) Google also uses a metric called ‘Quality Score’ to measure the effectiveness of different keywords, and each of your keywords must have a minimum Quality Score of 3. Like we mentioned, anyone can apply.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

A little insider hint for you. So when we always lean into the data and metrics and. You can send us a tweet. There’s a Q&A box and a chat box. You can use either of those, although if you use the Q&A box, it might be a little bit easier to see. But bottom line is we’d love to hear from you. We love doing them.

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