Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. There are also more and more opportunities emerging for people to coordinate global conversations that happen at the same time, instead of disconnected over time (still tied together via hashtag). Invite your audience. What do those # mean?

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Round tables make for better conversation flow, but long tables provide a more communal feel. Guests need to be able to see each other and their food, and the music should be low enough that they can enjoy conversation during this time. Inspiring speakers that resonate with your cause can captivate the audience.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 25, 2021

While these assumptions usually aren’t accurate, they allow someone whose time is extremely valuable—such the president of a company or a wealthy philanthropist—to make quick decisions about what deserves their limited time and attention. Making a killer first impression is key to getting that limited attention. You know.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

When you’re able to set the stage with analytics and donor attributes – like their wealth rating, public giving records, and personal interests – you can strengthen your understanding of each donor segment, and position your asks to speak to specific audiences. Winter 2022. 25 Ways to Spotlight Your Donation Form. Autumn 2022.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2023

While these investments may work, organizations quickly realize the time and attention needed is unsustainable and engagement is less than desired. While getting new donations may be the ultimate goal, your marketing efforts should focus on starting a conversation with potential donors about what you do and why they should care.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign. 2) Identify your target audience. 2) Identify your target audience.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Audience-centered for me is a subset of human-centered. Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. As first-time parents, they are the focus of most attention, almost to a fault. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How can you connect with your donors despite all the other ads, social messages, texts, and emails that are vying for their attention? How many of them actually invite you to have a conversation with them? All of us are marketed to, but few of us engage in real conversations with the nonprofits and brands we like.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The first thing that you’ll need to do is start creating content that will attract your target audience. Once you’ve got their attention, people will want to get in touch, to find more information about becoming a member. Thankfully, many social media networks will have mechanisms that will allow you to have a private conversation.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A holistic nonprofit digital marketing plan involves weaving together multiple channels and strategies into a unified approach that resonates with your target audience. Segment your audience. Include clear calls to action (CTAs) to prompt audiences to take the intended next step. Outline your digital marketing goals.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A well-crafted narrative not only communicates your mission but also establishes a meaningful connection with your audience. Know Your Audience Before penning down your story, it’s imperative to understand your audience. Encourage your audience to share their own experiences and connections to your cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Technology can now imitate many aspects of in-person events, from chat functions that mimic group conversations to interactive games and events through a screen. If any of the ideas above have caught your attention, you might be wondering how to put them into action. 3) Hybrid fundraisers. 4) Live auctions.

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M+R

JANUARY 24, 2022

Good creative is essential because it’s how we seize attention in incredibly busy spaces. But here’s the thing: The audience for a piece of creative must believe the content is relevant to them, or they will ignore it. Other times, relevance is not about the ways an audience is directly impacted. Source: Girls Inc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Boost conversion for mobile traffic by making it clear that you offer the mobile payment they want to use. Nonprofits saw mobile conversion improve by more than 2 points after activating Venmo on Classy Pay in 2022. Different payment options also broaden your reach to audiences across younger generations. People like easy.

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Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

As a member of Generation Z (Gen Z), or today’s 11- to 26-year-olds, I have been curious about the advice given to nonprofits on capturing younger audiences’ attention. But other suggestions, like using pop culture slang and memes to catch Gen Z’s shorter attention span, feel a little off. Invest in Instagram.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Determine your goals and audience. The first step to creating a nonprofit content strategy for WordPress is to determine your goal and your audience. To help you figure out your goal and audience, answer the following questions: Why do you want to start a WordPress site? Conversion rate. About page. Sponsorships page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It should then define and identify your target audiences — people you are trying to reach and whose needs you want the website to serve. Target audiences. The document should start with some information about your organization and your overall goals and objectives for the redesign. Next would be technical and design requirements.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

Marketing campaigns dedicated to membership recruitment can help you build brand recognition, reach the right audience, and grow your networking opportunities — increasing your membership’s value in the process. As for choosing new recruitment channels, start with the ones your target audience prefers. Communicate benefits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Adding legible, large text that is viewable on a small, mobile screen lets you get your ideas across, even if your audience isn’t listening. You really only have a few seconds to grab attention. Get their attention with a “hook” (i.e. something that grabs the viewer’s attention) and then get to the point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Maybe you check your open rate and see that only 25% of your audience bothered to open the email you spent hours writing. If you write to your audience, using phrases like as you all know and I hope everyone understands , it makes the reader feel like one among many. Better Fundraising Email Trick #2: Keep It Conversational .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2021

During isolation, many people reported that it was nice to feel like someone is having a conversation with you, about topics you find interesting. Clubhouse is an audio-based social media platform that is gaining significant attention. The only thing that could make it better in many cases would be the ability to interact.

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TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

Create custom audience segments. You’ve undoubtedly targeted a specific audience or demographic with a fundraising push, or with a specific message. Applying a customer audience segment to your overall traffic, or to specific webpages grants even more donor insight than you’d get when looking at total aggregated results.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

And every advocate for social good has much to gain by paying attention to the Information half of IT. Why pay attention to data? Think about the last time you heard someone mention a safety deposit box and compare that to the last conversation you heard about creating, managing, or forgetting login credentials. That’s okay!

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Social listening is the process of tracking online conversations in order to better understand what people are saying about a given topic. Organizations use social listening to track their brand reputation, understand their target audience, and monitor their competition. Track trends relevant to your cause and industry area.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

How do you target the right audience for Facebook Ads for nonprofits? In general, posting engaging content on social media will help you broaden your audience, but employing Facebook Ads expands your reach even further by delivering your posts to your supporters’ feeds and showing them to your chosen targeted demographics.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Some assume direct mail is ineffective today and that younger audiences don’t want to receive it. Every piece of direct mail that converts donors has to not only capture their attention but also move them to take the next step and give. Direct mail is too often associated with the past.

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Pamela Grow

MAY 10, 2023

When it comes to marketing, holidays have long been recognized as powerful tools for for-profit businesses to engage with their target audience. Holidays like Christmas, Easter, and Halloween offer excellent opportunities for building comprehensive marketing campaigns that appeal to a broad audience.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 31, 2014

It can be used to get attention, engagement and action between your organization and its target audience on both a local and global scale. It also prepares your readers to respond positively to your conversion optimization tactics that should be employed on your landing page. […].

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2021

Making sure you pick a fundraising event theme that sparks their interest and holds their attention is important. Step 2: Consider your audience. In order to start to pin down who your target audience is and what may appeal to them, ask yourself these questions: Will guests be bringing coworkers, partners, or families?

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Social media is an indispensable tool for raising awareness for your nonprofit’s cause, reaching new audiences, and strengthening your relationships with donors. An attention-grabbing image can encourage a user to pause their scrolling and engage more deeply with your nonprofit’s content. After all, with 4.9

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

Create a list of the top 10 LinkedIn profiles, saving links directly to the Activity section of their profile where you can quickly see which conversations they are joining and what they are posting about. Identify your most important partners, donors, and supporters—those you wish you could run into or have coffee with more often.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 4, 2021

With the events industry focused on hybrid and virtual events instead of more traditional live events, event producers need to pay careful attention to the attendee experience. Why are you hosting this event and who is your target audience? Immersive technologies are a way to get your audience involved in the event experience.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

The best blogs engage audiences by making personal connections with readers and sharing insider mission information. This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 21, 2023

This sparked conversations among fans, critics, and potential supporters. Caveat: We don’t recommend taking Swift’s lead when it comes to posting at midnight unless your audience is also awake and donating at that time. This exposed her work to new audiences and served as a way to increase awareness in general.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Coordinating an impactful marketing campaign which runs across several channels remains one of the best ways to capture your audience’s attention. This campaign effectively utilised Asda’s vast customer base to reach a wide audience, raising awareness about the importance of regular breast checks.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

And with donor retention rates on the decline, new donor acquisition is a constant topic of conversation. You don’t have to be in a rut, relying on data only to identify email blast audiences or simply for major donor prospecting work. It can be even more challenging when you’ve hit a wall in your acquisition efforts.

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