Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. As we process new ideas -- including from management books! -- we're always looking for social validation. "I

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. As we process new ideas -- including from management books! -- we're always looking for social validation. "I

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others. The findings mirror many of benchmarks in the Convio report. donating money). donating money).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

by Don Bartholomew I'm noodling around with a couple of ideas so this post does a lot musing.        A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’ve also used this as benchmark for my training and peer learning projects so one could quantify transformation. This makes easier to embrace a key principle of movement building “sharing and documenting practices” that Rachel Weidinger shared during her session at NTC last week. Measurement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Here’s a few good resources shared on the wall in the past week. Book: My colleague, Micah Sifry , has written a book, “ Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency.&# The theme of transparency was an important idea in the Networked Nonprofit and I can’t wait to read Micah’s thinking about the transparency movement.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. You might thank them for their past donation of $300 or thank them for sharing one of your social media posts. Offers accountability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Last month, I had the honor of keynoting the Social Good Brasil Conference and one of the other keynote speakers was Peter Sims, author of “ Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries.” How did you come up with the idea for this board? Then an agency approached us with the core idea.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2015

Instead, focus on the metrics that affect revenue. Google Analytics gives you lots of metrics to watch — but there are only three that directly contribute to revenue.”. Marc has three pieces of advice he’d like to share. Forget about “big data”—pay attention to your small data. Featured Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I noticed that you had a badge to Share Our Strength on your blog. You call yourself activist, what are some causes or ideas that you are standing up for? Words of wisdom about blogging? Know why you’re blogging and be real. There’s nothing uglier than a blogger with a sense of entitlement. the UNITED STATES !!!!

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The purpose of this post is to share the results of the Q&A, including answers to questions not addressed during the event. QUESTION: Caity talked about calculating the ‘growth score’, then used an example of the benefit of moving that metric just 2%. QUESTION: Where can I get benchmarks for retention by sector?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In fact, I’d probably not get much traffic or have many people share it on Twitter or Facebook. “5 Make sure to head over and read that for some more tips and ideas on how to construct your email subject line. Third , get into the habit of reviewing the metrics. Make the subject interesting and compelling. Poor Design.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

While it might seem a little early to start thinking about 2018 to some (hint: it’s not ), it’s the perfect time to benchmark where 2017 has taken you. Blackbaud Index : The Blackbaud Index provides great fundraising ideas and resources that bring you the most up-to-date information on charitable giving today. Include a shareable.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Virtual bbcon 2020 is fast approaching, with thousands of nonprofits registrants, many of whom are fundraising, communications and marketing pros like yourself: ready to expand your vision with fresh ideas and actionable inspiration! From Insight to Action: Using Analytics and Benchmarking in Fundraising Strategy.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The study takes a deep dive into the metrics, statistics, and trends of four different peer-to-peer fundraising event types: cycling, endurance, 5Ks and walks. In the study, we identify areas for potential growth and share key performance indicators to help you benchmark and refine your existing events. billion in event revenue.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

According to the Nonprofit Email Engagement Benchmark Study by M+R , the average email open rate for nonprofits is around 25%, while the click-through rate hovers at 2.5%. Your open rate is, of course, one of the most important metrics you’ll want to track. of their total audience. Imagine the missed opportunities! Include lots of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

" In the comments of that post, Kynam Doan pointed out that I was missing one important metric: There's one more benchmark that you may be interested in - your performance in relation to others in your market space. At SXSW, KD Paine shared some insights: KD Paine was asked a question about metrics for blogs.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the ins and outs of online fundraising, explaining how you can leverage various platforms and fundraising ideas to engage your supporters virtually. Share the gifts they’ve made. You can include social media share buttons on your online donation form. Here’s what to expect: What is online fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Then pick one idea to reduce information overload in your life from this list. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Take Breaks.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC second annual Social Summit and sharing some information on social media ROI and metrics. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals. Have any tips yourself for measuring social ROI?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the ins and outs of online fundraising, explaining how you can leverage various platforms and fundraising ideas to engage your supporters virtually. Share the gifts they’ve made. You can include social media share buttons on your online donation form. Here’s what to expect: What is online fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why the number 52? Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Have they been able to put the ideas into practice?

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. LinkedIn’s Social Selling Index is one of the few metrics I think is worth obsessing over. At the very least this will give you a benchmark to reference your progress. Guess what?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2019

Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. LinkedIn’s Social Selling Index is one of the few metrics I think is worth obsessing over. At the very least this will give you a benchmark to reference your progress. Guess what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at. Make a note of ROI benchmarks.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2017

The event took place in November and I’m super exited to share that it attracted 6,000+ participants and raised over $1M in personal fundraising and sponsorships, more than double the revenue originally projected in our financial forecast. Your volunteers are connected. That would mean 6,000 participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. If you have a large team/organization, you could ask this on a survey and share back the data.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

What are you really going to implement from the online marketing plan that is packed with a lot of great ideas, but in all honestly, you just don’t have the resources to do them all. Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Produce a monthly website and online engagement report of key metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Of course you have to be interested in what information or conversations they are sharing on Twitter. And you need to build some redundancy in your network so you have a few multiple paths to people and ideas of interest to you. Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  It included two excellent case studies and social media metrics- one on ASPCA and the other Georgia Tech. Dell measures ROI based on the number of useable ideas generated. On Twitter, a start up company got 100 great marketing ideas for free, women raised $6,000 in a day and a wooden toy maker in NH got a nationwide contract.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Is it best to create a monetary goal or one based on impact metrics? And if you have a big end-of-year idea or you’re set on your tried and true concept, it still may make sense to incorporate #GivingTuesday into your plan. It’s a great idea to create a toolkit that your fundraisers can use to guide their work.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Here Are This Week’s Nonprofit Highlights: Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today. In his latest npEngage post, Frank Barry shares 7 Tips for Creating Compelling Nonprofit Infographics that get Shared. What’s the story?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. We’ve come a very long way from Microsoft and Internet Explorer having 90% of the market share. What are the most important website metrics to measure? The metrics should follow those goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Establishing metrics for this campaign was difficult in that we didn’t have anything to use as a benchmark. Our digital engagement success is evolving based on our experience and it is difficult to outline what metrics of success might look like. What does success look like?

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