Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Open Rate: If you manage an email campaign of any size, then you’re familiar with an open rate. It measures the number of people who opened your email relative to the number of people who received it. For example, if 100 people received your email and 20 people opened it, then your open rate is 20%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Tweets with links have an 86% higher retweet rate and higher engagement overall because people are hesitant to retweet or engage with tweets that do not have a source or a call-to-action. Keep your eyes and ears open for Twitter Chats relevant to your mission and programs, save the date and time, and then jump in on the day of.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Sending out emails can be frustrating, especially when you look at open rates. And some people have THE NERVE to not even open it?? You can’t force your audience to open your emails, but you can increase the likelihood that they’ll click your perfectly-crafted subject line and stay engaged in your killer copy.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Open rates, fundraising click-through rates and page completion rates for both fundraising and advocacy all went down. To compensate for these changes in individual behavior, digital campaigners have had to up their testing and innovating game to new levels, and bite the bullet and send more email than ever before.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 29, 2018

Anyone can send emails but the key to having a great email program: high deliverability rate. Did you know an average of 18.21% of emails go straight to spam? Make sure to test emails on as many screen sizes and devices as you can get your hands on. This goes without saying but every email you send should be testing something!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2013

The main push back was that including symbols like stars or hearts in the subject line increases the likelihood that a message would land in the recipient’s spam folder and goes against “best practices.”. The Campaign Monitor did some cool testing on this. Test the waters with A/B Testing. Select the right symbol.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

Usually, you’ll decide in a few seconds whether it’s worthy of opening or being cast away in the endless email trash heap. Overall, your subject lines should do two things: Get the reader’s attention and make them take action (whether that is as simple as opening the email or clicking on a link). Don’t Open the Can.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

Usually, you’ll decide in a few seconds whether it’s worthy of opening or being cast away in the endless email trash heap. Overall, your subject lines should do two things: Get the reader’s attention and make them take action (whether that is as simple as opening the email or clicking on a link). Don’t Open the Can.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Social features on your site—such as comments, discussion boards, user-submitted stories, ratings, and voting widgets—can help build engagement within your audience. If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2015

TechSoup offers three Informz products: two donations for new and renewing subscriptions and an access to discounted rates product. You can choose from several professional email templates, customize your message, strategically determine who will receive it, and track who opens it and what happens next. Get Informz Now. Deliverability.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Sixty-two percent of email is opened on a mobile device , so first and foremost your email campaigns (e-newsletters, fundraising appeals, event invites, welcome emails, thank you emails, etc.) To find the best time for your organization, experiment, test, and don’t be afraid to go against conventional wisdom.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

In a nutshell, Apple announced a new privacy feature which can prevent senders from knowing when a user opens their email. This means that when an Apple Mail user activates this new privacy setting, you may have no way of knowing if that user opened your emails. For reference, the sector average open rate is 20.39%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2022

Creating your next fundraising campaign requires a lot of work: you must identify your goals, your audience, segment your lists, create compelling content, and set up and test everything in your CRM. not clicking, opening, or otherwise engaging with your content) for a year or more, it’s time to remove them.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2015

Analyze and Measure: Look at open rates, click through rates, unsubscribes and spam reports to assess performance. My team meets weekly from now until year-end to brainstorm, strategize and come up with new things to test. This is your new “testing” list. Was the subject line boring and nobody opened it?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Writing last month's post about how NTEN differentiates between types of open rate made me think about the ways we've worked to boost our numbers. Despite the increased volume, we've managed to increase our absolute open rate year-over-year. Looking just at our webinar messaging, we saw an open rate of roughly 22.5%

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Basically, your email newsletter is there to keep the lines of communication open and to meet the donor’s need to feel good about your nonprofit. If you try to use your regular email, you run the risk of being marked as spam, looking unprofessional, and not being able to measure open rates. Comment on your blog post.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

From filtering email spam to offering up personalized Netflix recommendations, AI already underlies many routine aspects of our lives in ways we don’t even realize. In fact, the hope at the Art Institute of Chicago is that these rotating exhibits will increase the annual renewal rate amongst its 100,000 members. The results?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

They are going to decide then whether or not they want to unsubscribe because you’re sending them spam or if they want to stay engaged with your organization. Volunteer openings. Track the open rates of the emails, the click through rates, and what people are clicking on. 2) Write relevant emails. Welcome feedback.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Refrain from using all caps or too many exclamation points in your subject lines, as this could make people mistake your email for spam. Test, test, and test more. Measure, test, and refine Measuring the success of email fundraising campaigns is essential for nonprofits looking to reach their goals.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007. Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes and image blocking -- all of which make it hard to know whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email. Segment, test and repeat.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Common examples of nonprofit KPIs include average donation size, number of recurring or repeat donors, new donor acquisition rate, and donor attrition rate. You’ll then see higher digital retention and conversion rates. Neon CRM’s donation form is a 3-step process that uses visually shorter forms to increase conversion rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In short, one in one hundred of your followers will click on your first two posts in any given week and then the click-through rate drops steadily after that. That’s equivalent to sending an email to your supporters and 98% of your emails going to spam folders. Then, target a global, open audience.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The real case for multiple ESPs is that it provides a different IP address, which can prevent your emails from being marked as spam. This is important because spam filters are responsible for an average loss of $15,000 per year, according to the Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study. But what about engagement from your audience?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’m going to share some website tweaks to help you boost your conversion rate for online gifts. I’ve tested it. So you’re going to need to send several in order to get through, and you’re going to need a really good job writing really compelling subject lines to get them to open it. Test, test, test.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Once you know traffic numbers, you can look at the number of registrations or ticket purchases that took place during the same time period to learn your conversion rate. . But a low conversion rate means that there is some obstacle in the way of making an actual purchase. On average: 20.51% of recipients open event emails.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Once you know traffic numbers, you can look at the number of registrations or ticket purchases that took place during the same time period to learn your conversion rate. . But a low conversion rate means that there is some obstacle in the way of making an actual purchase. On average: 20.51% of recipients open event emails.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2017

At the time it did not seem that this change would have a demonstrable effect on open and click-through rates. We don’t know how Google’s algorithm—or mix of rules—is determining whether or not a specific message will be delivered to the in-box or filtered into a spam folder.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The real case for multiple ESPs is that it provides a different IP address, which can prevent your emails from being marked as spam. This is important because spam filters are responsible for an average loss of $15,000 per year, according to the Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study. But what about engagement from your audience?

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 1, 2018

These need to be honest and value-adding message otherwise it will be marked as SPAM and that person will never talk to you again. Finally, respond back showing the positive response you receive from the article and that you would be open to a collaboration project if one becomes available. Enter Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2018

What are some of the factors causing the deliverability rates of nonprofit clients to be significantly lower than for-profit clients? By reaching out to old email addresses, organizations are more likely to hit recycle spam traps, trigger spam complaints, and ultimately, hurt the ability to get emails delivered to the inbox.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Your donor software should track and report on how supporters interact with all of the channels in a campaign: email opens, social media engagement, web page visits, etc. From there, take advantage of your platform’s A/B email testing and figure out how to best speak to both Malik and Nellie. Need a template for your next campaign?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Many museums are protective about how frequently they send messages to members and other lists, fearing that they will be ignored or perceived as spam. Of course, this fear stems from the uncomfortable reality that most museum communication is spam—unwanted information about events or exhibits. Museum emails are almost always shouting.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 25, 2017

Personalizing subject lines with a recipient’s first name can also improve open rates. It’s worth testing. They’ll damage your credibility and eventually lead subscribers to trash your future newsletters because they’ll consider them little better than spam. Don’t ever create misleading subject lines.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

If you just had to rate it on a 1 to 10. So I tested the ideas, tweaking, fine-tuning, kept playing with them, and then seeing more results, even better results. I don’t mean spamming people. You’re not spam. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be spam. I just know it. Look at all those tens.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Even worse, if enough of them use the "Uninvite" (or "Spam") button, you might find yourself permanently uninvited from your entire email list. What subject lines get opens, and how do these look compared to industry benchmarks? In short, extensive analysis of your audience's behavior.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 7, 2019

We often hear from nonprofits that they are worried about spamming donors. If that is your concern, I ask you this: do you think the donors who received that same text as I did were unsubscribing as a result of spam? Text messages have a 98% open rate. Test on multiple devices. Probably not. Display small images.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, sub-submenus can test visitors’ patience and might result in pages getting buried. Making these calls isn’t always easy, so consider doing some user testing when first setting up your menus to make sure you and your visitors are on the same page for your navigation. Do a 5 second test. Your nonprofit’s story.

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