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Fundraising Ideas to Reverse the Trend of Declining Email Response Rates

NetWits

Fundraising email click-through rates dropped 27 percent and response rates were down 21 percent from 2011. This follows a recent trend that email click-through rates have declined across all industries. Epsilon and The Email Institute’s Q3 2012 report indicated overall click-through rates have fallen from 5.5

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Solving the Donor Retention Rate Issue: The Case for Creating a Board-level Donor Thank You Committee

Bloomerang

Do you know your organization’s donor retention rate? In 2019, Dr. Adrian Sargent bemoaned the fact that first-time donor retention rates were below thirty percent: “The USA still holds the record for the most shockingly poor pattern of results. Because according to the FEP, the 2020 repeat donor retention rate was 59.6%—whereas

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Practical, Actionable SEO Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But when you’re lean on resources and human power, just producing blog posts and updating your website feels like a miracle, never mind SEO or a content strategy. Over time, a high exit rate signals to search engines that your content is not helpful to visitors, which can negatively affect your ranking.

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Create a Winning New Member Strategy in 3 Easy Steps

Association Analytics

As you’re planning out potential customer journeys to membership, keep in mind that it should be a process full of give and take interactions. Using automation tools, you can approach people in a methodical way that doesn’t burn them out, but also make sure you’re top of mind for them.

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How to Use UTMs to Leverage Donor Acquisition for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? Measure the success of your upgrade asks – do donors who come from your species extinction petition go on to be regular donors at a higher rate? The breakdown of campaign/source/term/medium used as UTM parameters is a tried and tested structure for understanding acquisition.

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Should You Add An Emoji To Your Nonprofit’s Email Subject Line?

Bloomerang

A/B testing : If you’re unsure whether emojis will be effective for your specific audience, you can conduct A/B testing. Send two versions of the same email—one with an emoji in the subject line and one without—and track the response rates to see which performs better.

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Your Guide to Year-End Fundraising Best Practices

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Coordinating these channels cohesively – for example, telling one community member’s personal story over email, social media, and direct mail – promotes consistent messaging that reinforces the nonprofit’s brand in the supporter’s mind. However, this is not a universal rule.

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