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What Are Key Event Metrics and Why Do They Matter?

Greater Giving

Fundraising ROI (Return on Investment). Calculating ROI can tell you how worthwhile each event is—and other key event metrics can tell you how to improve it in the future. Calculating ROI can tell you how worthwhile each event is—and other key event metrics can tell you how to improve it in the future. Cost-to-Revenue Ratio.

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter. If your nonprofit’s objective is to gain a lot of followers on Twitter, then you should follow on a 1:1 ratio.

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8 Event Budgeting Tips Every Event Planner Should Know

AccelEvents

Use these tips to help you prepare for budgeting unknowns, capitalize on your event ROI, and set your event on the right track. . If you’ve run a similar event in the past, then you have some sense of expense ratios and trends. Website design and/or hosting (if not included in your event management technology). Mobile event app.

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ROI: Can You Quantify the Untangible? You Can't Quantify Love (or can you?)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages.

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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

Get Fully Funded

Donor management software and other technology tools used for raising funds. Most organizations either stay below that benchmark or work up to that size of an operation, allowing time to develop the right processes to accurately categorize expenses and maintain the right overhead expense ratio to get a three- or four-star rating.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. ROI: You Can't Quantify Love or Can You? Social Media ROI Case Study Slam.

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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Identify what technologies are most appropriate. One great way to help guide you in the process of identifying and selecting the most appropriate technologies is to ask your community! WeAreMedia’s ROI Toolbox. So, your definition of success has to be flexible to the changing times and the changing needs of your audience.