Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

How much effort are your social media channels really worth? Earlier this month, the Ad Council hosted a webinar on the topic of social media ROI with three great social media minds to help us navigate these and other thorny online issues. By Sacha Evans. What are the right tools to help measure success? Simply Measured. Sprout Social.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I know our YouTube channel started in 2007. We have a decentralized team of 10+ staff contributing stories to our social media channels. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2012

We’ve known for some time that an integrated multi-channel approach to constituent engagement is key for nonprofits to be successful; however there’s been limited understanding of optimizing integrated marketing or its impact. The central finding from the study is that dual channel donors give the most. See chart above].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. The ROI for us is measured in lives saved more than just the money raised to do so. We have a second paid person, LaWanna Mitchell, who creates e-cards, games, screensavers, puzzles and a plethora of free downloads for our website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2024

The evolution of golf event-specific technology has elevated the game, making golf event sponsorships even more appealing to businesses looking for high ROI on their marketing or charitable dollars. This immediate visibility provides instant ROI that can be further enhanced by social media and email marketing campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2024

It Folds Seamlessly into Digital Channels Your nonprofit likely leverages digital marketing channels to raise awareness about your mission, garner support, and solicit donations. Using tech to market your golf tournament lets you seamlessly fold it into your current digital strategies on channels such as: Social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The key, though, is doing it in a way that delivers maximum ROI. The risk is low, and the potential rewards are great, so be sure to consider testing this channel as part of your next fundraising effort. This should generate enough data to give you a good sense of your cost per action and ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

A great social media content calendar can help you: Save time : we’re all busy, which means that sometimes we can forget to update our social channels – especially if you don’t have a dedicated social media manager. 3) Decide on your channels. The next step is to focus on your best-performing channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Know that using third-party apps decreases ROI if not used carefully. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Chapter 5 :: Introduction to YouTube Channels. Now you must create your YouTube Channel using a Google Account you already have or by creating a new one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. LinkedIn is a powerhouse in ROI. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Winning marketers are strategically merging automation and digital data with the more intimate channel of direct mail. Multichannel campaigns including direct mail report an ROI 18 percentage points higher than those without direct mail. We call this tactile marketing automation (TMA).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2012

As someone who observes thousands of nonprofits on the Social Web each year, let me just say it’s better to spend 90-minutes on a webinar than hours upon hours to trying to figure it out yourself, or worse not knowing about the changes and their effect, and thus wasting your time executing a poor, ROI-less strategy on Facebook.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

It’s evident that when you can show a donor the tangible return on investment (ROI) of their gift, you get a higher average gift and more frequent giving. It allows you to see which fundraising activities provide the highest ROI and contribute the most to your fundraising goals. Donation ROI. Why is this important?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

In February 2006, WITNESS first social media tool was the launch of its YouTube Channel. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. Currently, WITNESS’ ROI tracking is measured by way of increase in awareness and donations. What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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Greater Giving

MAY 25, 2022

Fundamental Strategies to Maximize your Event Marketing ROI. This guide will look at four transformational fundraising strategies for increasing your nonprofit’s ROI from its event marketing outreach. When you spend time and money marketing to people who are unlikely to attend your event, your ROI will inevitably take a hit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities. I am firm believer in the math of the social media – as your communities grow, so does your ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In fact, one of the most in-demand job skills for digital marketers and fundraisers is knowing how to effectively use social media advertising channels and Google Ads. would increase the ROI, but in truth, there are more important projects to focus on than investing time and resources into our Facebook Stories.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. Dupe: Our organization has literally just started tracking ROI for using these tools by way of campaigns. If you are a smaller organization, have a few people work together to keep the channels updated and have fun with it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

Those 27,000+ subscribers produce more return on investment (ROI) in terms of bringing in new clients and webinar attendees than my 600,000+ Twitter followers and 40,000+ Facebook fans combined. Link to video on the HRW YouTube Channel. My e-newsletter is by far the driving force behind Nonprofit Tech 2.0. Bottom of e-Newsletter: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Know that using third-party apps decreases ROI if not used carefully. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Chapter 5 :: Introduction to YouTube Channels. Now you must create your YouTube Channel using a Google Account you already have or by creating a new one.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 6, 2021

Deciding on the channels through which to send your appeals can be tough—there are so many ways to reach donors these days. A multi-channel fundraising strategy, or one that targets donors through a variety of mediums, is most likely to reach the widest audience and result in maximum funds raised. What is multi-channel fundraising?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

At the same time, marketing teams were facing an uphill battle to prove ROI as new digital marketing opportunities, like the rise of video content marketing and the shift towards mobile, led to changing tactics, and budgets came under more scrutiny. Now, a decade later, human resources teams are facing similar circumstances.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Beyond adding your nonprofit on the desktop site, most of the ROI from using Foursquare comes from using it on an iPhone, Android phone, or Blackberry. You can upload and simultaneously post videos to Twitter and your 12Seconds Channel with just a few clicks straight from your smartphone. Foursquare.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 14, 2025

With a structured approach, you can build a strategic, data-backed budget that will allow you to make the case for new initiatives or increase spending in channels where youve been absent, or where theres untapped potential. Is there a channel you should be leaning into more heavily? Which channels consistently deliver strong results?

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Compare DAC across different channels (e.g., Fundraising ROI What It Is : The return on investment for your fundraising activities, showing how much revenue your efforts generate relative to the costs involved. Why It Matters : ROI reveals whether your campaigns are worth the time and money youre investing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Create a YouTube Channel/Google Account. Design your YouTube Channel. Get the necessary training (HTML, digital photography, video, social media, and mobile technology). Create a master login sheet. Create a Google account. Sign up for Google Alerts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2013

Topics include understanding how much time social and mobile media requires, how to track return on investment (ROI), and how to craft a social and mobile media policy for your nonprofit.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 10, 2024

But, accurately measuring and tracking your efforts across multiple channels is a significant challenge, especially if you have a small team. Direct and indirect channel attribution can help you put the pieces together. In a multichannel strategy, you measure performance on each channel alone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

80% of my ROI (Return on Investment = webinar registrations, new clients, speaking engagements) comes from my e-Newsletter, and thanks to blogging my e-Newsletter list has jumped from 3,000 subscribers (which took 4 years to build) to almost 8,000 in 10 months! I wasn’t convinced at all that the world needed another blogger.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

and Canada find email to be the communication channel that most inspires them to contributebeating all other platforms. Investing in strategic email marketing can amplify your fundraising return on investment (ROI), engage supporters personally, and rally even more people to champion your mission.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the help of Shutterstock’s events and marketing teams, Reynolds and Deeran figured out ways to create processes internally and saw ROI from the channel go up dramatically. That’s when they decided to examine if that approach would work well for other businesses.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Therefore, when we create a media campaign , we always have a plan in place to measure paid media ROI (return on investment) and the success of every dollar invested. What is Paid Media and Paid Media ROI? This is when a campaign’s KPIs will tie directly back to the campaign investment to measure the paid media ROI.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

Whether you tell stories in your fundraising or communications program, chances are you want to understand the impact and return on investment (or ROI) of the stories you tell. Crunch the Numbers We really can’t talk about measuring ROI without talking about our numbers. This could be a quarter, month or week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2012

Now that I have had some time to work with the tool set and figure out through a process of trial and error what kind of content works best on Google+, not only has engagement significantly increased on the Nonprofit Organizations Google+ Page in recent months, but so has my Return on Investment (ROI).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

ROI: How Infographics Can Help Your Business [Infographic] | Social Media Today – "With the infographic craze in full-swing, you might ask: Are infographics just a pretty way of displaying data, or will they actually benefit my business? " Where do you get your news?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2013

Topics include understanding how much time social media requires, how to track return on investment (ROI), and how to craft a social media policy for your nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2022

While there are several answers to this question, getting a return on your investment (ROI) really starts with two key things: new donor retention and second gift conversions. The issue that most nonprofits face is they acquire a donor in one channel and hope to convert them to a different channel later on.

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