Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2013

That’s why I took Exact Target’s fantastic list of 50 Email Marketing Tips and Stats for 2014 and boiled it down to three key takeaways for nonprofits. According to email testing and tracking service Litmus, approximately four percent of all email opens can be attributed to Gmail webmail users, as of June 2013.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

But are these stats meaningful? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? Last week during the Salsa Conference, I was asked this very question, why is social media data important - by Adrianne Burke, of Salsa Labs, during our panel Measuring Your Social Media.

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2010

Here's a hit list of our high-level benchmarks from this year's study: Email fundraising response rates were.13%, 13%, and email advocacy response rates were 4.00%. So, if we were you, we'd download the full report and then give it a read, asking yourself these important questions: Are we tracking these stats?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

This allows you to track all donor interactions and reach out to donors at the right times. This helps increase donor retention rates, which leads to more revenue. You can use it to keep an eye on your donor retention rate, campaign progress, and more. Give donors an easy way to show their support. Customized reports.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

No matter what type of report you may end up utilizing for your own work, it is important to ask a few assessment questions. Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

There is no magic software that is right for everyone, but by knowing the right questions to ask will get you ahead of the game. MUST HAVE #4: REPORTS TAKE ONE-HOUR EVERY MONTH TO LOOK AT YOUR EMAIL STATS AND REEVALUATE YOUR STRATEGY. At the bare minimum, you should be able to track open rates, click-through rates and opt-outs.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

We're tracking open rates, web site hits, blog comments, people served, high-dollar donations, staff productivity, and thousands of other things across our organizations. Let's take a step back, and ask one simple question: "Why?" " Why are you tracking all those things? Step 2: Ask the Right Questions.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

For each major marketing initiative answer the following questions. Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Thank people, answer questions, follow up, and show personality to build on these relationships.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. Research Questions. 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? People who leave the site (bounce rate). Deliverables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Are there patterns?

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

If used the right way, retargeting leads can drive in a 147% increase in conversion rates. You use cookies to track that visit. And the efficacy of retargeting and remarketing is not limited to just hypothetical examples and research stats. The key to effective retargeting is in knowing the right balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). I discovered that I had problem figuring out how many total feed subscribers and the trends over time because I had four feeds (three built into the typepad blogging platform) and another one in feedburner which offers the stats tracking feature. Technorati ???Authority???

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

In most circumstances, nonprofits regurgitate some version of their mission statement or present irrelevant stats, neither of which put the focus on what the person can do. Joe Garecht poses The 4 Questions You Need to Ask to See if Your Fundraising is On the Right Track on The Fundraising Authority Blog.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Email/social media conversion rate. An online webinar would allow an opportunity for a forum to feature the tools available, offer some fundraising best practices, and provide an opportunity for your fundraisers to ask questions. Number of emails sent/social media messages posted. Timeframe : Three months before event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ??? s linking to you -referring URLs in stats program -google rss alerts (can be set to daily, as it happens, etc.) ??? s linking to you -referring URLs in stats program -google rss alerts (can be set to daily, as it happens, etc.) ???

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

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. Don’t forget to include your nonprofit’s general email, phone number, and physical address in case someone wants to reach out with a question. Lots of stats and facts. They just won’t.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. Instead, I'd like to see us asking broader questions about process, like: How do different people arbitrate the value of a piece of art, a historical artifact, or a piece of scientific evidence?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ask these questions: Is there a project you want to get funded for immediate use, before the end of the year or early into next year? Your answers to these questions should help you to determine the type of campaign you want to create, and how you do it. And make sure you track results on both ends.). Be specific.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Keep your cost down and response rates high in order to maximize your ROI. What do you do?

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Social Media Advocacy ROI Online 28

Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" and had a CTR was 2.17% and a conversion rate of 4.40%. February 6, 2009 | Robin Reed Thanks Daniel.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded?

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 4, 2015

If you don’t know where some new donors are coming from, then it is time to start tracking that too. Same goes for outcome measurement – you may use outcome stats for marketing purposes, but their primary purpose is program and/or contract management. How many hours did staff spend on a particular activity, times what rate?

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" One bit of evidence that this is working well is that our client retention rate is about 99%.and

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Facts and stats are useful here. Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds. The doctors found that Anthony had a brain cancer, and after initial surgery it was clear they were on the right track. Mission – Enter the organization’s mission. Test them out to see what works.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2013

What the data tells us … Below are some stats from five random organizations, looking at their monthly newsletter (in one case, bi-monthly) that was sent right before and right after July 22. Orgs 1 and 2 saw their Gmail open rates increase, with Org 1 getting a corresponding lift in click-through rates. Don’t Panic.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Send in your questions and comments, we love for these sessions to be interactive. So, as Steven said, if you have any questions, put them in the Q&A box. You can put them in the chat box as well, but we prefer Q&A, I prefer Q&A because it’s easier to track your questions. Kristal: Okay, cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

But the stats. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. What is a reasonable growth rate?

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

This year, Whole Whale predicts that $605 Million will be raised on the day, read more about the stats and predictions for GivingTuesday 2020. New volunteers will be evaluating new nonprofits based on rating sites. Track your progress. Ask the question: Did we cannibalize giving or increase it? Check your reputation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments along the way. And, Steven, you’re going to be keeping an eye on questions and answers in chat. So I might ask you and say, “Hey, what are some of the questions in the room?” The other thing is the retention rates go up.

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Donor Video Practice Gift 84

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

We’ll save some time for questions but, most importantly, we would love to hear from you. But do reach out because we’ll have some time for your questions at the end. So start by asking the question, who must you engage with to achieve your mission? We’ll see them. We’d love for these to be interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. With all that aside, I'm pleased with these stats!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, the networking was good, but the best part was the opportunity to ask Jeremiah a few clarifying questions to his face! Think Nielsen Ratings ). Need to track down the cost of the most expensive Van Gogh) It can be difficult to put a dollar value to intangibles in social media. source: Chris Brogan). Answer: I don't know).

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Oftentimes, registration rates suffer because of the process itself. Checklists.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

Before we dive into the 5 reasons I believe people fail to get marketing results, I thought it might make sense to first demonstrate a few ways you can measure and track your performance. Track Your Keyword Rankings. Bounce rate. Second, the bounce rate is quite high at about 80%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" " The question awoke my inner research geek (a long time ago I worked as a research analyst and focus group moderator).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. So I tweeted, questions and links, to see what each member thinks. But from my stats surcease of sorrow, I realized - some things you can’t keep score. But the fact was I kept tracking, never loafing, never slacking.

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