EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Last week, I sat down with Amy Peyrot, Senior Consultant, Social Media Specialist, and resident mathlete at M+R , to discuss all things social media metrics. Here are some of Amy's thoughts on these common social media metrics and how to achieve them. Goal: Engagement Metric: Overall Engagement Rate.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You can track metrics that will help you identify what’s working, including social media engagement, impressions and reach, database growth, event registration and attendance, and website visits and sessions. Once you invest in some of these strategies, it’s important to track what works to engage with potential members.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In today’s world, success is measured by more than just clicks and open rates. Once you have your taxonomy and metadata in place, you can use metrics to analyze the performance of your marketing channels. Here are examples of success metrics broken down by three common channels: List Preparation. How are you tracking success?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Sending emails between Tuesday and Thursday and between 9 AM and 12 PM or 6 PM and 9 PM can also increase open and response rates. A/B testing can help determine the most effective sending days and times for an organization’s unique supporter base. Define your metrics of success. However, this is not a universal rule.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

It’s an excellent way for both sides to test the waters without a total commitment. Step 5: Measure and celebrate board successes In addition to implementing a strategic recruitment process, it’s crucial to define success metrics that align with your organization’s goals. Get candidates involved early. Communicate the expectations.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. For example, retention rates tend to be higher for mid-level and major donors. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. .

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M+R

JULY 27, 2023

That assumption was also backed by years of UCS’s email fundraising metrics consistently beating M+R benchmarks. If too little cultivation was a real problem, we’d have seen it show up in fundraising metrics, right? Well, in the last few years, email metrics did start to decline. Okay, back to the results… ???

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 7, 2024

But the good news is that nonprofits benefit from higher open rates compared to regular marketing emails. Your real test lies in converting these opens into donations. Your Welcome Email According to Campaign Monitor, Welcome emails have a whopping 91.43% open rate. Think of it as a two to three line thank you update.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 23, 2018

When sending a fundraising email, nonprofit Digital staff are keenly aware of the metrics that they need to achieve; a high open rate means the most people are actually seeing the content of the email, and a high click rate indicates that the email's messaging was persuasive enough to move people to donate.

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.orgSource

APRIL 25, 2023

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the unemployment rate will remain low, at 3.9% If you are having difficulty finding diversity in your talent pool, Sarah suggested testing new waters. According to a survey by LinkedIn, 61% of U.S. workers are considering leaving their jobs in 2023. Robert Half found that 46% of U.S.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

From what we know of the changes so far, the biggest impacts will be on open rate statistics and the ability to A/B test subject lines and preheader text. While open rate is a great statistic for assessing subject lines, luckily click-through rate still reigns supreme among email data. A/B Test Email Content.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. For example, you might test different Giving Tuesday email strategies or affinity month themes to see if donors respond better to certain appeals. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Key fundraising metrics like donor retention rate, donation frequency, and fundraising return on investment (ROI). These metrics provide a comprehensive, bird’s eye view of your organization’s fundraising and outreach efforts that you can use to craft a new strategy. You can start testing your outreach plans. .

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

The most user-friendly AI tools will provide these insights in the form of predictive scores and rank metrics. But when looking at the bigger picture, even more valuable benefits become clear: Higher conversion rates through better-targeted donor lists. Reduced overhead costs of broad fundraising outreach. AI for Nonprofits in Action.

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EveryAction

JUNE 3, 2016

The report details why nonprofit fundraising emails end up in spam folders, how much damage spam can do on #GivingTuesday and during the end-of-year fundraising push, and offers tips from our expert on reducing your spam rate. What is shifting, however, is the way organizations are looking at and prioritizing email metrics. The reason?

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Candid

JUNE 28, 2022

You can calculate this metric for your organization by dividing the number of donors who gave again this year by the total number of donors who gave last year. . Maintaining a high retention rate means your nonprofit has access to ongoing, sustainable financial support. The donor retention formula.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Implement and Test : Develop and implement your ChatGPT-powered initiatives. Be sure to continuously test and iterate to ensure optimal performance and user satisfaction. Monitor metrics such as engagement rates, content reach, and donor response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The always thoughtful and inspiring, Avinash Kaushik, suggests that there four social media metrics that we should focus on measuring across channels. Of course, you need to start with. We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) Social media is evolving at an incredible pace.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Google has a metric called Quality Score. This metric is used in conjunction with your bids to determine which ads to run and what each ad should cost. An ad’s Quality Score is calculated by three things: Expected Clickthrough Rate – The likelihood that the ad will be clicked when viewed.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This year, the need to check in is even more critical, as 2023 will usher in a whole new paradigm for a core part of digital strategy: web metrics. Investigate what’s required to mimic any vital reports or data you’re pulling in UA, and experiment with new metrics in GA4. The shift to GA4 is a massive undertaking for everyone.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The key is to look at your data and see which metrics you want to improve. For one organization, a desired outcome might be to test a new creative package against their control package to see which one converts the most donors. Another may want to track more information around response rate as they grow their program.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

How does donor data help with retention rates and relationship building? Whether it’s information taken from your online donation forms or metrics on past campaigns, your fundraising data can clue you into which supporters are likely to give and do wonders for your donor communication strategy. Email tools.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Conduct A/B testing. A/B testing is the process of creating two different versions of your year-end appeal and assessing which version receives the most engagement or inspires the most action from recipients. After the year-end giving season ends, assess relevant metrics to determine how well your strategy played out.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

Your team tests the new solution with new data points to see how it responds and the accuracy of its outputs. You’ll further test and refine the tool over time the more you use it to support your fundraising. You might send a feedback survey to donors at all levels and track email open rates for messages related to this campaign.

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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%. And while those numbers might seem modest, when you compare them to social media engagement rates, they become truly impressive. Test your subject lines.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

This allows you to successfully test and evaluate your personalization strategies and tactics. This stage of personalization doesn’t require automation, and you can test and gauge impact by simply monitoring opens and click-through rates. Test different messages and calls-to-action (CTAs). How will you measure success?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need. In terms of metrics, focus on engagement metrics (such as engagement rates or bounce rates), rather than vanity metrics (such as audience size or page views). Analyze with actionable data in mind.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Start testing your outreach plans. For example, if you discover your donor retention rate is falling, you can focus on donor stewardship in the months leading up to Giving Tuesday to boost retention. Start testing your outreach plans. Get a head start on prospect research. Spend time strengthening donor relationships.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

That’s because all nonprofits have similar goals, including connecting with more donors, boosting their donor retention rates, and developing strategic, sustainable partnerships with other organizations. Donor stewardship helps you boost your donor retention rate , helping you earn much more over time. Major gifts.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. We offer a number of analytics-related services including web analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and data reporting and visualizations, so we can certainly assist your team. However, not all metrics will be useful for your organization’s strategy.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

The top 50 organizations outperformed the also-rans on a variety of metrics, as they have in the 13 years this study has been conducted (not a surprise). For the rest of the nonprofits, the 90% rating in 2021 slipped to 86% this year.

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Media Cause

JUNE 2, 2024

also increases the rate at which audiences remember brands, products, and ads. Gauge audience preferences by exploring your metrics for your past content. Learn from what’s working and start testing components like color and style elements. Use photos in your designs, ads, social posts, emails, and more!

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Byte Technology

MARCH 11, 2016

According to Louise Craft, digital marketing executive at Metric Mogul, Analytics “ensures marketers can make data led decisions to streamline their marketing efforts, increase their conversion rates and ultimately achieve their business goals.” Here is a sampling of some advanced features and set-up tips that Craft recommends.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Learn what motivates your supporters to take action by analyzing your email metrics , such as open rate, click through rate, conversion rate, unsubscribes, and revenue generated. . Test, and Test Again. Find out if there’s a better way to engage them by sending an A/B test of your email campaigns. .

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

From a steep learning curve to having to interpret new metrics, the frustration is real. Here at Forum One, we have been busy helping organizations prepare for GA4 , and even though our partners have now had time to test it out, GA4 still poses a steep learning curve, and frankly, prompts a lot of complaints.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

increase in email conversion rate. Here’s a great read on the “death of the open rate. ”. Ensure you have access to accurate email metrics including click, action, and conversion tracking so that you can determine the success of content, messages, and segmentation. 1 in 40 online donors is a recurring monthly donor.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For nonprofits, this means rigorously testing different emotional appeals, stories, and calls-to-action and then reusing what proves most effective. This opened Ogilvy’s eyes to how direct response advertisers carefully test and optimize tactics for immediate action and sales conversion rather than just broad messaging.

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