Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

A warm, conversational tone: Your donation receipt, like all your donor communications, should have a casual, personal tone that makes the reader feel like they are having a conversation with you or reading a letter from a friend. Try reading your letter aloud and see if it sounds like you are chatting with your donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

By “pitch”, I mean opening the door to deeper engagement with your organization, whether through a quick conversation with someone who is learning about you for the first time or the ask in a year-end appeal letter to a donor who has supported you for a long-time. Those initial conversations tend to be awkward and creepy.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

While this sounds great, the real question becomes: Are you doing everything you can to maximize your investment into email marketing? It sounds like a silly question, but 46% of marketers say they use more than one email service provider (ESP). 4 The Ultimate Email Marketing Cheat Sheet: Facts, Stats, And Actions.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. Sounds horrible, right? But it doesn’t have to be. So picture this, you’re starting out at your brand new job as a major gifts officer at the nonprofit of your dreams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Here’s the stats I asked for and why: Average Repin Ratio : Gives a measure of engagement. SFMOMA love. What did you learn?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

Email is still a very powerful tool for fundraising and the likely reason why donor conversion rates dropped in 2012 is because nonprofit e-newsletters are still formatted to primarily be read on desktop and laptop computers. Related Links: 12 Must-Know Stats About Social Media, Fundraising, and Cause Awareness. It’s that simple.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

Email is still a very powerful tool for fundraising and the likely reason why donor conversion rates dropped in 2012 is because nonprofit e-newsletters are still formatted to primarily be read on desktop and laptop computers. Related Links: 12 Must-Know Stats About Social Media, Fundraising, and Cause Awareness. It’s that simple.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

They don’t need to know all your statistics – in fact using more than one well-chosen stat can make people stop reading, which means they probably won’t give. The letter should read in a friendly, conversational tone and include an interesting story that grabs the reader by the heartstrings. So, stay on point!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 1, 2016

Does telefunding sound like an old-fashioned fundraising approach to you? But what better way to get that message across than to have a conversation with your members? In order to have those one on one conversations, KidsQuest started telefunding campaigns. Perhaps the most impressive stat? The key to the success?

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

While this sounds great, the real question becomes: Are you doing everything you can to maximize your investment into email marketing? It sounds like a silly question, but 46% of marketers say they use more than one email service provider (ESP). 4 The Ultimate Email Marketing Cheat Sheet: Facts, Stats, And Actions.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2010

After nearly three years of monkeying around in Facebook in a not so very organized way -- does that sound familiar? -- we're finally able to say we've gotten close to a secret sauce. One of the main stats we track to articulate the value of our social media presence is site traffic. First, we had a Facebook Group. I still love them!).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

Armed with these impressive stats, on the second day I joined with other passionate museum advocates, board members, and students to advocate on the Hill. Having a definite, specific ask will give you clarity and a pivot point around which to frame the conversation. This may sound a little trite, but it was an “aha!”

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Full stats here. Voting on individual artworks turned each one into a social object worthy of lengthy conversation. Talking with Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn Museum, it sounds like GO comparably sparked a huge number of community conversations in artists' studios around Brooklyn.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? Facts and stats are useful here. Looking forward to a great conversation! Mission – Enter the organization’s mission.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

They have the basics down pat: they know the lingo, and they understand the importance of conversation. But they were curious about what kind of content they should tweet, and how to strike the right balance between carrying on conversation and self-promotion. All of this sounds like a lot of work. Retweet others.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

look at stats and compare to your audience to see if it is a fit. Great to have a lapel mic and ear phones (to monitor how the recording sounds). Sony Sound Forge - much like audacity but is single track. let’s you listen to mp3 format before you upload it to be sure it sounds right, add tags, etc.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The Office of Marketing & Communications began the task of dealing with the uncertainty of the library’s future with one strategy in mind – creating communication messages asking the public to “learn the facts” and “join the conversation”. The most critical aspect of this strategy was our ability to manage our message.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Because I sound like a broken record saying this, I’m going to say it again, volunteers make your very best donors. I was ready, ready with the conversation. When you talk endlessly, people either do two things, they zone you out, okay, or they end the conversation before you have the opportunity to ask. Expression.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

I’m really excited about this conversation today that we have with Amber Leonti. Amy DeVita, TopNonprofits: So let me ask you a question about the process: what concerns came up from your executive team that, you felt you needed to dig in a little deeper, maybe get some more stats or facts and figures? That’s crazy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Here's a nice before the event write up from Jordan over at the Convio Blog based on a conversation with Renee Alexander, Operation Smile's Social Media Stragetist. It sounds like he did an electronic version of many of us done for years on flip charts or on the wall in low tech ways. (See I have it on video).

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Remember the stat from before? Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out! 8% of supporters who stop giving do so because they don’t know where their money is going. .

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Remember the stat from before? Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out! 8% of supporters who stop giving do so because they don’t know where their money is going. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Let’s finance the whole thing, and let’s do it every year because when stats show that over 91% of nonprofits never reached $5 million, that’s a bonkers stat to me because who did we need most these last 18 months, right? They’re rock stars at all those other things. They’re doing great. ” Why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

These moments when the audio stream was dropping in and out, a video and audio lag time between the 2 worlds of 15-45 seconds (adding some confusion), feedback and distorted sound quality, and a chaotic chat stream. Based on the TechSoup Second Life Group stats). So back to last night's events. I also turned off my audio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Quantcast, Google Analytics, HitTail are what I use but eventually I end up relying on server log stat software like AWStats. And if you talk about things you know about because of the necessary work of entering the stream of conversation in your local blogosphere and things you write about on your blog all the better.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

What’s the sound of your nonprofit’s brand? Colleen Fahey’s article, How Audio Enhances Your Brand Content: Find Your Signature Sound , provides guidance for how your nonprofit can strengthen its voice. It’s important that you begin paying attention to the stats. Have you ever thought about it?

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

And so I got to have that conversation with her just because we already had an appointment on the books and. I had already been having conversations over the months prior to that with some of my mentors about making a switch to consulting. The other thing to maybe start sounding like a broken record is really to tap your network.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Today, the conversation has shifted towards making our websites accessible as a key requirement of the development process - for complex reasons and with complex benefits. This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So one thing that you absolutely need to look at is, just like it sounds, when did they last give? I can’t tell you how many, I was going to say arguments, conversations that we had at the agency about which was the right monetary amount to go after. Makes sense? Jackie: Exactly. Kari: Cool. So let’s look at recency.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

Erica: Sounds good. So you don’t want to sound too greedy. So say, if you are making thank you calls for your donors, that’s an opportunity to have a conversation, especially like last year, a lot of donors were home. And I know there’s a couple of new stats coming out very, very soon. Steven: All right.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’m going to share some website tweaks to help you boost your conversion rate for online gifts. It needs to be conversational. ” So I showed you the stats of board members calling to thank donors. They can boost your conversion rate 5%, 10%, as high as 27%. So type your questions in any time today.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

One content reviewer commented that she "LOVED the conversations we reviewers were having with each other and you within the copy - I learned a lot and felt valued." While this may sound like a compliment, I see it as a warning for me as the project manager - I don't want participants who gave so much to feel like they didn't do enough.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? ” Well, you know, it sounds like a good goal, right, but do I need to lose that? if you could type your question into the Q&A, that will help us at the end of this conversation tackle those questions one by one. Why is it important?”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And here’s some impressive stats about WhatsApp. I’m going to show you some stats in a minute. So people right now are on WhatsApp and we can use it as a way to start a new channel of conversation with people that is complimentary to how we already communicate with volunteers, with donors, with, you know, our support base.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And that’s what I’m going to do today, I’m going to try to cover a lot of ground but leave some time at the end for Q&A and conversation and all of that. And that sounds kind of self-evident but it is often the case that sometimes tactics lead in communications. And now I can see the chat, I can see my pal Steven.

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