Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Social Media Roi Slidesbk. I’m doing a panel titled “Social Media ROI&# with Lauren Vargas from Radian 6 and moderated by Roz Lemieux from Fission Strategy. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. The Four I’s of ROI.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By actively bringing together different departments and leading discussions around revenue diversification, you can set measurable goals, evaluate the ROI of each funding source, and make informed decisions about where to invest time and resources. Finance plays a crucial role in building a sustainable and scalable funding strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. His work is focused on nonprofits, advocacy, and public affairs. The key, though, is doing it in a way that delivers maximum ROI. This should generate enough data to give you a good sense of your cost per action and ROI.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2022

However, your work isn’t done yet! In this post, I’ll walk you through why that’s important and what metrics you should measure. . This includes the cost to design, mail, print, and create the appeals, as well as the time that your staff spent working on the campaign. Goals and metrics . ROI (return on investment).

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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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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2022

These key event metrics quantify the success of your events, and can show you how to improve them. Tracking these key event metrics can deliver critical insight into what you’re doing well, and where your events need improvement. So what are those metrics, and what data do you need to track to analyze them?

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Forum One

JANUARY 28, 2025

We call these big, beautiful, but often distracting numbers vanity metrics high-level data points that dont point to actual performance and its important to know the appropriate time and place to use them. Stakeholders at nonprofit and government organizations are often on the hunt for the biggest numbers.

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Here are 4 ways to measure volunteer program ROI and ensure you are getting the highest amount of value. As your nonprofit grows, so does the need to optimize your volunteer program and effectively measure ROI. One of the easiest ways to measure volunteer program ROI is by calculating the total volunteer value.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

Return on investment is a metric that measures the profitability of an investment, giving you a way to compare the yields of investments and make more effective financial decisions. ROI is usually shown as a percentage calculated by dividing the net profit or loss by the initial cost. What’s the ROI, for example, of your annual gala?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The beginning of the fundraising year often leads to fundraisers asking themselves some age-old questions: What initiatives are working? You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics. Map Metrics.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Beth and Lauren discussed both strategy and tools, tips and metrics, leaving little ground uncovered. The focus was around the ROI: how to think of the value of social media, the things you need before starting any campaign, and how to measure, analyze and sell campaigns. The Philosophy and Definition of ROI.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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. High ROI: Email marketing is a cost-effective way to stay in touch with supporters. Evaluate if these metrics change when you adjust your email frequency.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Five Simple Ways Nonprofits Can Measue Social Media ROI. 10 Social Media Metrics for Nonprofit Organizations. Keep up the good work. Five Essential Apps for Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page. Six Advanced Facebook Page Strategies for Nonprofits. Three iPhone Apps That Every Nonprofit Needs to Know About.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 16, 2021

At each hybrid event, event planners can take advantage of some critical features in order to boost ROI before, during, and after the event takes place. With some planners, event organizers can actually set up multiple levels of event management to truly maximize your hybrid event’s ROI. . Use Sophisticated Event Technology.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2011

Being new to this, we also had to determine how to measure the return on investment (ROI) of our ad buys, to help guide our efforts in the future. for the 785 clicks that turned into 281 conversions: Your actual ROI calculation will depend on the value you put on this conversion. ", we clearly have some work to do in that area.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

After 10 years of experimentation, nonprofits are learning that there are correct (and incorrect) ways to post on Facebook, format a tweet, upload a photo, and send a text alert, but if your nonprofit doesn’t know the science, then math isn’t going to work. Other Metrics. How the Spreadsheet Works: 1.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measuring training effectiveness is important for organizations to see if their training programs are working well for their employees. Having measurable metrics is crucial to pinpoint what is and isn’t working in training development programs. It helps them know if they are using time and resources wisely.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

. “The truth is: vanity metrics don’t measure how engaged potential customers are, ” writes Christopher P. Relying on vanity metrics is like attending a Little League awards dinner: Everyone goes home a winner! “They simply gauge the relative popularity of your business. This makes measuring ROI tricky.”

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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. Review Important Nonprofit Metrics. Donation ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Most people who work in the nonprofit sector do so out of a commitment to a cause or passion bigger than themselves or their desire for material things. Your work is valuable and you should be compensated for it. 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities. 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Those traditional metrics are a good starting point, but often do not tell the whole story. Data can help you think more broadly to identify a valuable product based on your specific goals and success metrics. With knowledge that certain products are more valuable, you can prioritize limited resources to work on those.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Today brings a new book and step-by-step guide for specialists, professionals, managers and independent contracts who want to achieve success in their work. Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. The description: What works and rhymes? A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value. 

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 22, 2020

They Focus on Metrics. They will never be able to get every possible fundraising activity done… so they have to spend their time doing what works. The only way to know what works, and what doesn’t is to track metrics and return on investment (ROI) for all fundraising tactics. They Prioritize Work.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. Finding the ROI. It’s no surprise that a tactic with a cost is high and unclear ROI gets minimal resources. The same is true with video.

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Classy

AUGUST 11, 2021

We make it easy to compare your current metrics against benchmarks set forth by 4,800 of your nonprofit peers. Get familiar with the campaign metrics available to you in your fundraising software. The post 6 Time-Saving Hacks to Improve Your Fundraising Efficiency and Gain ROI appeared first on Classy.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

With analytics, the benefits sell themselves: Reducing manual work Optimizing processes Growing revenue Having consistent, trusted data Increasing engagement Driving your association’s mission For example, consider an association dedicated to promoting literacy. These could be qualitative or specific metrics or KPIs.

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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. Make a list as those will be the most relevant examples for you to work with! Let’s do a deep dive on one example so you can see how this might work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

Having a content calendar that everyone can access, will not only show the rest of your team what you’re working on but also give them the opportunity to contribute. There’s no need to be active on all social channels if you don’t get ROI from them. Your success metrics can focus on likes, comments, shares, clicks, and even conversion.

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Greater Giving

JULY 5, 2024

Which Event Formats Work Best? If some of your potential attendees are interested in engaging virtually, a smaller venue and hybrid format could work instead. The post Which Event Formats Work Best? Many considerations go into deciding between in-person, virtual, or hybrid events. appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

We use Hootsuite and Sprout Social to manage our accounts and track metrics. 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. Finally, you must measure ROI.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2010

How does it work? After you access the calculator here , enter the cost per hour of your staff, and other basic web and email metrics, and you can get a realistic snapshot of how you're doing. ROI (Return on Investment) in its simplest form has has a very specific mathematical definition. The irony).

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