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Our ability to produce this report is entirely dependent on your participation in the annual survey, which is now online. Please take the 2018 Survey now (You’ll need about 20 minutes). . When you complete the survey, you’ll be invited to a special preview webinar before the report is released. Take the 2018 Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey now. P.S. Please encourage your nonprofit communications friends to take the survey too at [link]. MORE
On Monday, I shared some links to some national polling and survey data to help you learn more about your target audiences. But you’ll probably want to supplement that with a survey of the people on your list. Instead, I’d recommend some questions that give you some insights that you can then translate into content, rather than asking the survey recipient to do all of that work for you. P.S. Here are some tips on getting people to take your online survey. MORE
At the bottom of the receipt was an 800-number keyed to a customer satisfaction survey. to the cause in question whenever someone completes their customer satisfaction survey?’ Framed that way customer satisfaction surveys are a natural fit for cause marketing. By contrast, the survey at Taco Bell gives responders a shot at a $1,000 weekly giveaway. Complete the survey from a regional seafood restaurant and you get a free dessert. MORE
Please take this quick survey – it should only take around 3 minutes. Create your own user feedback survey. Don’t see the survey? Anonymous Survey] appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. You want me to do what, when? At the end of the month author and psychotherapist Sarri Gilman is joining us for a two-part webinar series called Transform Your Boundaries and Get Better Results. MORE
Learn the power of surveys, what words to use, why donors like them, how best to utilize them, and much more. The post Donor Surveys – Episode 3 appeared first on MarketSmart, LLC |. Learn more about MarketSmart at [link]. Podcast MORE
Thought you might be interested in the results of a survey ConstantContact did recently on nonprofits Here's the text: Constant Contact Nonprofit Pulse Survey: Attracting New Supporters Keeps Nonprofits Up at Night Majority of nonprofits see potential of social media marketing to help with engaging supporters WALTHAM, Mass. August 7, 2012 – According to new survey data from Constant. MORE
But we need you to fill out the survey. Please help by going here to take the survey. BONUS : Plus, if you take the survey now, you’ll be able to see the results so far. I really need your help. I funded a study to help you. Basically, we’re trying to help you and your peers understand more about major gift fundraising. I don’t think there are enough studies on the subject. MORE
Thinking about sending out a donor survey ? If so, be sure to use the survey responses properly so you ‘speak’ personally and relevantly to each individual respondent over time with ongoing cultivation. Bottom line: Be careful with donor surveys. MORE
2017 Burk Donor Survey. Donor advised funds: Only 5% of Respondents qualified to respond to questions in this part of the survey, so findings are interesting but anecdotal. IMPORTANT NOTE: Always remember that this research is based on survey responses (what I call ‘ verbatims ‘). Do you know Penelope Burk? I first found out about Penelope Burk when I was running a marketing agency that solely helped private sector companies (not nonprofits) back in 2009. MORE
Here are 19 reasons why nonprofit donor surveys are awesome: They help you learn about why your donors care about your mission, how their life story entwines with your mission and why they give. They make donors feel good since you invited them to participate (even if they decided not to return the survey). Oh, and here’s our ad promoting our nifty little donor survey tool. SEE ALSO: >> 2 Reasons Donor Surveys are Valuable – Clairification. >> MORE
Shape your survey questions to get the most valuable information. In a world full of emails, advertisements and direct mail, adding surveys to your communication mix can be an effective way to let your subscribers know that you’re listening as well as talking. Like email, however, a successful survey needs some careful planning and execution. MORE
But instead of this rather standard issue campaign, what if instead Pizza Hut offered a donation to your charity of choice… say $0.25… plus the opportunity to donate a much larger amount when you respond to customer satisfaction survey? When you complete the customer satisfaction survey on the phone or online, you are entered into a drawing for a free iPod along with 10 chances to win a daily prize of $1,000. Pizza Hut would like to do some cause marketing with your charity. MORE
At the bottom of the receipt was an 800-number keyed to a customer satisfaction survey. Taco Bell’s survey gives out $1,000 per week. The satisfaction survey at a regional seafood restaurant gives me a code that garners a free dessert when I complete their survey. Finish Home Depot’s survey and you’re entered to win a $5,000 gift card good at the retailer. to the cause in question whenever someone completes the survey?’ MORE
Surveys are a great way to better understand - and build relationships with - your donors and supporters. Here are a few ways surveys might help you connect with your donors and supporters: 1. Surveying people who have stopped donating can help you boost retention in the future. This article is adapted from a series on surveys from The Emma Blog. MORE
I’ve set up a quick survey to collect some of your thoughts and experiences about this process of moving from print newsletters to email newsletters. If you are anywhere in this process from just considering it to having completed the transition, I’d love for you to take the survey. Don’t see the survey form below? MORE
You can and should do some original research via surveys, interviews, and informal focus groups with people on your lists (which I talk about in Chapter 3 of my book ). But you can also learn a great deal from polls and surveys conducted by others. Cornell Universities List of Public Opinion Surveys. What are some of your favorite free resources for polls and surveys so you can learn more about your target audiences? MORE
We ran an Agitator Survey to get a more detailed picture of just what nonprofits are running into. If you care about the retention of monthly your monthly donors you’ll want to read and share the results of this Survey. The answers in the Survey are seemingly random and range from “office manager” to “bookkeeper” to “database analyst.” In Can Your Monthly Donors Be Held Hostage? MORE
A few weeks ago, CEPSM partnered up with Environics Research Group to launch the “ State of Social Media Monitoring in the Public and Non-Profit Sectors Survey “ If you haven’t yet responded, please do so asap. The survey takes less than 3 minutes to fill out. Therefore if you work for government, a nonprofit or an association, please take the survey and help spread the word. Once in a while, my organization CEPSM.ca MORE
The survey only takes 2-3 minutes. Create your own user feedback survey. Don’t see the survey? The post Last Chance to Take Our Survey on Boundaries at Work appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Do Your Bosses and Co-Workers Respect Your Boundaries? MORE
We’ll open our Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey this month, so Kivi will be sharing updates about that. The post On Tap This Month: Trends Survey, Graphic Design, and, Of Course, Thanksgiving appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Here’s what’s happening at Nonprofit Marketing Guide this month: Online Training: November 6: Your Design Is Full of C.R.A.P.: MORE
Our just-completed Nonprofit Messages Survey of more than 1,500 nonprofit leaders reveals that most organizations fail to connect quickly and strongly with the people whose help they need. That’s a serious—but fixable—problem, and the survey findings carve a clear path to boosting connection and action! Dig into the full survey report now to understand what’s between you and memorable, motivating messages, and learn the Aha! messages nonrpofit messages survey MORE
As you know, our annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey is open, and will be through November 30. Warm my heart a little more and take the survey if you haven’t already. Take it now ). Even though we’ll collect data for another 10 days, I can’t help but take little peeks into the early results. MORE
Our recent survey of more than 900 nonprofit leaders reveals a major crisis among charitable organizations: Many are doing an inadequate job of connecting with their key audiences and characterize their primary messages – intended to motivate donors, volunteers and advocacy – as poorly targeted, difficult to remember and uninspiring. More immediately, complete survey results, plus specific recommendations on how nonprofits can start to immediately improve key messaging, are available here. MORE
Please complete the survey below. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool. Do you follow the 50-50 rule for content creation ? (OK, OK, it’s not a real rule, it’s just a starting point I made up.). The idea is that about half of what you share in your communications is original content that you created recently and that hasn’t been published anywhere else yet. MORE
Donor surveys of course! After all, my company built the only donor survey platform exclusively designed for nonprofits and institutions. We’ve sent out hundreds of millions of surveys by now and generated hundreds of thousands of highly-qualified leads for major gift officers and legacy gift officers to help make them more efficient and effective while sparing donors from spam, junk mail, and interruptive cold-calls. MORE
Please take a minute right now (literally, this is a 1-2 question survey) to tell me how you select your marketing activities. Your answers will guide me to create the guidance you need to save time, money and anguish in that process. Please answer these 2 questions right now. Thanks, in advance, for your input. You’re the best! P.S. Can you do this right now, while it’s on your mind? I’d appreciate it. Planning and Evaluation MORE
Each year, more than 1,000 nonprofit communicators complete the annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey. But our ability to produce this report is entirely dependent on your participation in the annual survey, which is now online. Please take the 2019 Survey now (You’ll need about 20-25 minutes). . Help us collectively get the answers by taking the 2019 Survey now. When you complete the survey, you’ll be invited to a special preview webinar. MORE
Sarah Durham of Big Duck is presenting this week’s webinar, Focus Groups and Surveys: Easy, Affordable Research for Nonprofit Marketers , on Tuesday, July 12 at 1 pm Eastern (10 am Pacific). Who doesn’t love online surveys? Tools like Survey Gizmo ( www.surveygizmo.com ) and Survey Monkey ( www.surveymonkey.com ) make it easy, cheap, and downright fun to gather information that would have been a total pain to gather years ago. Sarah Durham of Sarah Big Duck. MORE
Join us next week for a FREE webinar with Rachel Muir: How to Upgrade Donors and Boost Revenue with Donor Surveys. Donor surveys are the key to unlock donor’s interests, make them feel connected to your cause, build the right appeals, grow your major gift pipeline and even optimize your current donor portfolio. But can donor surveys actually retain and upgrade your donors? How to survey your donors in person with an in person donor thought circle cultivation event. MORE
It’s time to take the Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey for 2016 ! Last year, over 1,500 nonprofit communicators took our annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey. BONUS: Special Preview Webinar only for people who complete the survey! On December 16, we’ll share our preliminary analysis with survey takers only. In this year’s survey , we ask you to share: Your most important communications goals for 2016. MORE
A poll by job board CV-Library, which surveyed 2,000 UK retail workers, found that the most common concerns workers in the industry have had during lockdown are about: losing their job (44%), not being able to. MORE
Surveys raise money. Clean up your list – When done right, 7% of survey respondents will update their contact information for you. Deliver value – Surveying your supporters makes them feel valued and appreciated. Related Resources: >>Engagement Fundraising Podcast – Episode 3: Donor Surveys. >>The The Ultimate How-to-Guide for Conducting Nonprofit Donor Surveys. Raise money – If you want advice, ask for money. If you want money ask for advice. MORE
I was wondering who might have created the first survey ever. . ” Apparently, in AD 771 , he created what might have been the first survey to help him understand his own kingdom. Are you using surveys to help answer questions with which you struggle? . Surveys help nonprofits understand their donors (especially their major donors and planned gift donors). >>Top 10 Reasons Why Donors Like Taking Surveys. MORE
Here are the top 10 reasons why donors like taking donor surveys: 1. They simply find surveys to be fun and relaxing. The post Top 10 reasons why donors like taking donor surveys appeared first on MarketSmart | . They want to be perceived as (or see themselves as) a helpful person. They want to be more involved in your mission. They want their voice to be heard. They want to affect change. They want to complain about how your organization hurt them sometime in the past. MORE
In the next week, I’ll be finalizing the questions for the 2016 Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey, so we can start taking your responses on Monday, November 2. We’ve heard some great ideas , and I’m leaning towards adding sections that get more at life on the job, in addition to which marketing tactics you plan to use. I am considering sections on. Compensation/Salaries for nonprofit communications staff. MORE
Sometimes people ask us why we don’t allow donors to be anonymous when taking donor surveys. We’ve also learned that it’s important to tabulate the results of donor surveys and offer them to the donors in a report (whether they took the survey or not). . Asking supporters to take your survey without reporting back what you learned from them basically implies: “We are the Wizard of Oz and we pull the levers behind the curtain. MORE
Almost 10 years ago, when MarketSmart was a marketing agency for private sector businesses and I first offered to help a charity generate leads, I recommended an outreach effort that included a mini-survey. So we expanded it to a more comprehensive survey and it worked even better. These people were pouring their hearts out in those surveys. This leads me back to the title of today’s post: Don’t survey your donors unless you have cultivation ready to go. MORE
Our ability to produce our annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Report depends entirely on YOUR participation in the annual survey. The sooner you take the survey , the more drawings you’ll be in! MORE
What’s important in terms of today’s post is not that he singled out the best (IBD/TIPP, Google Surveys, and Mellman) and the worst (Gallup, Rasmussen, and Mason-Dixon) pollster accuracy, but the fact that he addresses the channels through which the polls were taken — online vs. telephone and robo-telephone. Any Agitator readers want to share their experience with online vs. telephone surveys? MORE
Why feedback surveys are a must-have. It’s for those reasons alone feedback surveys are so vital to sustaining and growing your success. Feedback surveys help challenge perception while opening your organization to constructive criticism. A simple feedback survey will either reaffirm what you think you know or it will shed light on new topics, perceptions and opinions about your organization. Feedback surveys are great for employees, volunteers and donors. MORE
I’m getting a lot of questions about questions — the ones you should ask donors or other supporters of your work in surveys. First, yes, surveying your donors a couple of times a year is a great idea. It not only gives you information you can use to adjust your programs and how you market and fundraise for them, but surveying also demonstrates that you actually care what your donors think! What questions do you include in your donor surveys? MORE
here – I’m going to get straight the point and tell you that you CAN NOT make a full time living while working from your couch, filling out surveys in your underwear that pay you $30-$50 for 15 minutes of work! Alright, no B.S. MORE
And this time he’ll be talking about one of my favorite subjects — donor surveys. MarketSmart has been conducting surveys on behalf of hundreds of nonprofits in 4 countries around the world. Plus his take on donor surveys is a bit different from mine (although not all that much). The post FINALLY REVEALED: Dr. Russell James’ secrets to conducting donor surveys appeared first on MarketSmart, LLC |. He’s back! MORE
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Getting Attention
MAY 11, 2020
here – I’m going to get straight the point and tell you that you CAN NOT make a full time living while working from your couch, filling out surveys in your underwear that pay you $30-$50 for 15 minutes of work! Alright, no B.S.
iMarketSmart
JULY 6, 2021
Thinking about sending out a donor survey ? If so, be sure to use the survey responses properly so you ‘speak’ personally and relevantly to each individual respondent over time with ongoing cultivation. Bottom line: Be careful with donor surveys.
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iMarketSmart
DECEMBER 1, 2017
Surveys raise money. Clean up your list – When done right, 7% of survey respondents will update their contact information for you. Deliver value – Surveying your supporters makes them feel valued and appreciated. Related Resources: >>Engagement Fundraising Podcast – Episode 3: Donor Surveys. >>The The Ultimate How-to-Guide for Conducting Nonprofit Donor Surveys. Raise money – If you want advice, ask for money. If you want money ask for advice.
iMarketSmart
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
Here are 19 reasons why nonprofit donor surveys are awesome: They help you learn about why your donors care about your mission, how their life story entwines with your mission and why they give. They make donors feel good since you invited them to participate (even if they decided not to return the survey). Oh, and here’s our ad promoting our nifty little donor survey tool. SEE ALSO: >> 2 Reasons Donor Surveys are Valuable – Clairification. >>
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Our ability to produce our annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Report depends entirely on YOUR participation in the annual survey. The sooner you take the survey , the more drawings you’ll be in!
iMarketSmart
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
Donor surveys of course! After all, my company built the only donor survey platform exclusively designed for nonprofits and institutions. We’ve sent out hundreds of millions of surveys by now and generated hundreds of thousands of highly-qualified leads for major gift officers and legacy gift officers to help make them more efficient and effective while sparing donors from spam, junk mail, and interruptive cold-calls.
iMarketSmart
JULY 27, 2017
Learn the power of surveys, what words to use, why donors like them, how best to utilize them, and much more. The post Donor Surveys – Episode 3 appeared first on MarketSmart, LLC |. Learn more about MarketSmart at [link]. Podcast
Social Media Bird Brain
AUGUST 7, 2012
Thought you might be interested in the results of a survey ConstantContact did recently on nonprofits Here's the text: Constant Contact Nonprofit Pulse Survey: Attracting New Supporters Keeps Nonprofits Up at Night Majority of nonprofits see potential of social media marketing to help with engaging supporters WALTHAM, Mass. August 7, 2012 – According to new survey data from Constant.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Our ability to produce this report is entirely dependent on your participation in the annual survey, which is now online. Please take the 2018 Survey now (You’ll need about 20 minutes). . When you complete the survey, you’ll be invited to a special preview webinar before the report is released. Take the 2018 Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey now. P.S. Please encourage your nonprofit communications friends to take the survey too at [link].
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
MARCH 7, 2012
On Monday, I shared some links to some national polling and survey data to help you learn more about your target audiences. But you’ll probably want to supplement that with a survey of the people on your list. Instead, I’d recommend some questions that give you some insights that you can then translate into content, rather than asking the survey recipient to do all of that work for you. P.S. Here are some tips on getting people to take your online survey.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JUNE 10, 2014
I’m getting a lot of questions about questions — the ones you should ask donors or other supporters of your work in surveys. First, yes, surveying your donors a couple of times a year is a great idea. It not only gives you information you can use to adjust your programs and how you market and fundraise for them, but surveying also demonstrates that you actually care what your donors think! What questions do you include in your donor surveys?
Getting Attention
JUNE 20, 2012
Our just-completed Nonprofit Messages Survey of more than 1,500 nonprofit leaders reveals that most organizations fail to connect quickly and strongly with the people whose help they need. That’s a serious—but fixable—problem, and the survey findings carve a clear path to boosting connection and action! Dig into the full survey report now to understand what’s between you and memorable, motivating messages, and learn the Aha! messages nonrpofit messages survey
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
It’s time to take the Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey for 2016 ! Last year, over 1,500 nonprofit communicators took our annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey. BONUS: Special Preview Webinar only for people who complete the survey! On December 16, we’ll share our preliminary analysis with survey takers only. In this year’s survey , we ask you to share: Your most important communications goals for 2016.
TalkingRetail
JULY 14, 2020
A poll by job board CV-Library, which surveyed 2,000 UK retail workers, found that the most common concerns workers in the industry have had during lockdown are about: losing their job (44%), not being able to.
iMarketSmart
JULY 17, 2017
I was wondering who might have created the first survey ever. . ” Apparently, in AD 771 , he created what might have been the first survey to help him understand his own kingdom. Are you using surveys to help answer questions with which you struggle? . Surveys help nonprofits understand their donors (especially their major donors and planned gift donors). >>Top 10 Reasons Why Donors Like Taking Surveys.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JULY 11, 2011
Sarah Durham of Big Duck is presenting this week’s webinar, Focus Groups and Surveys: Easy, Affordable Research for Nonprofit Marketers , on Tuesday, July 12 at 1 pm Eastern (10 am Pacific). Who doesn’t love online surveys? Tools like Survey Gizmo ( www.surveygizmo.com ) and Survey Monkey ( www.surveymonkey.com ) make it easy, cheap, and downright fun to gather information that would have been a total pain to gather years ago. Sarah Durham of Sarah Big Duck.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
MAY 17, 2018
The survey only takes 2-3 minutes. Create your own user feedback survey. Don’t see the survey? The post Last Chance to Take Our Survey on Boundaries at Work appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Do Your Bosses and Co-Workers Respect Your Boundaries?
iMarketSmart
MARCH 20, 2017
Here are the top 10 reasons why donors like taking donor surveys: 1. They simply find surveys to be fun and relaxing. The post Top 10 reasons why donors like taking donor surveys appeared first on MarketSmart | . They want to be perceived as (or see themselves as) a helpful person. They want to be more involved in your mission. They want their voice to be heard. They want to affect change. They want to complain about how your organization hurt them sometime in the past.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2015
In the next week, I’ll be finalizing the questions for the 2016 Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey, so we can start taking your responses on Monday, November 2. We’ve heard some great ideas , and I’m leaning towards adding sections that get more at life on the job, in addition to which marketing tactics you plan to use. I am considering sections on. Compensation/Salaries for nonprofit communications staff.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
As you know, our annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey is open, and will be through November 30. Warm my heart a little more and take the survey if you haven’t already. Take it now ). Even though we’ll collect data for another 10 days, I can’t help but take little peeks into the early results.
Public Sector Marketing 2.0
JULY 21, 2011
A few weeks ago, CEPSM partnered up with Environics Research Group to launch the “ State of Social Media Monitoring in the Public and Non-Profit Sectors Survey “ If you haven’t yet responded, please do so asap. The survey takes less than 3 minutes to fill out. Therefore if you work for government, a nonprofit or an association, please take the survey and help spread the word. Once in a while, my organization CEPSM.ca
Cause Related Marketing
APRIL 15, 2011
At the bottom of the receipt was an 800-number keyed to a customer satisfaction survey. Taco Bell’s survey gives out $1,000 per week. The satisfaction survey at a regional seafood restaurant gives me a code that garners a free dessert when I complete their survey. Finish Home Depot’s survey and you’re entered to win a $5,000 gift card good at the retailer. to the cause in question whenever someone completes the survey?’
Care2
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Nonprofit Benchmark Studies Online Fundraising Online Advocacy survey reportWe need your help to understand the nonprofit sector’s biggest digital challenges and opportunities in 2021.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
We’ll open our Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey this month, so Kivi will be sharing updates about that. The post On Tap This Month: Trends Survey, Graphic Design, and, Of Course, Thanksgiving appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Here’s what’s happening at Nonprofit Marketing Guide this month: Online Training: November 6: Your Design Is Full of C.R.A.P.:
iMarketSmart
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
And this time he’ll be talking about one of my favorite subjects — donor surveys. MarketSmart has been conducting surveys on behalf of hundreds of nonprofits in 4 countries around the world. Plus his take on donor surveys is a bit different from mine (although not all that much). The post FINALLY REVEALED: Dr. Russell James’ secrets to conducting donor surveys appeared first on MarketSmart, LLC |. He’s back!
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
MAY 3, 2018
Please take this quick survey – it should only take around 3 minutes. Create your own user feedback survey. Don’t see the survey? Anonymous Survey] appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. You want me to do what, when? At the end of the month author and psychotherapist Sarri Gilman is joining us for a two-part webinar series called Transform Your Boundaries and Get Better Results.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
MARCH 5, 2012
You can and should do some original research via surveys, interviews, and informal focus groups with people on your lists (which I talk about in Chapter 3 of my book ). But you can also learn a great deal from polls and surveys conducted by others. Cornell Universities List of Public Opinion Surveys. What are some of your favorite free resources for polls and surveys so you can learn more about your target audiences?
iMarketSmart
JULY 25, 2018
Sometimes people ask us why we don’t allow donors to be anonymous when taking donor surveys. We’ve also learned that it’s important to tabulate the results of donor surveys and offer them to the donors in a report (whether they took the survey or not). . Asking supporters to take your survey without reporting back what you learned from them basically implies: “We are the Wizard of Oz and we pull the levers behind the curtain.
The Agitator
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
What’s important in terms of today’s post is not that he singled out the best (IBD/TIPP, Google Surveys, and Mellman) and the worst (Gallup, Rasmussen, and Mason-Dixon) pollster accuracy, but the fact that he addresses the channels through which the polls were taken — online vs. telephone and robo-telephone. Any Agitator readers want to share their experience with online vs. telephone surveys?
Fundraising 123
AUGUST 9, 2010
Surveys are a great way to better understand - and build relationships with - your donors and supporters. Here are a few ways surveys might help you connect with your donors and supporters: 1. Surveying people who have stopped donating can help you boost retention in the future. This article is adapted from a series on surveys from The Emma Blog.
iMarketSmart
JUNE 20, 2018
Almost 10 years ago, when MarketSmart was a marketing agency for private sector businesses and I first offered to help a charity generate leads, I recommended an outreach effort that included a mini-survey. So we expanded it to a more comprehensive survey and it worked even better. These people were pouring their hearts out in those surveys. This leads me back to the title of today’s post: Don’t survey your donors unless you have cultivation ready to go.
iMarketSmart
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
But we need you to fill out the survey. Please help by going here to take the survey. BONUS : Plus, if you take the survey now, you’ll be able to see the results so far. I really need your help. I funded a study to help you. Basically, we’re trying to help you and your peers understand more about major gift fundraising. I don’t think there are enough studies on the subject.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
MAY 9, 2017
Join us next week for a FREE webinar with Rachel Muir: How to Upgrade Donors and Boost Revenue with Donor Surveys. Donor surveys are the key to unlock donor’s interests, make them feel connected to your cause, build the right appeals, grow your major gift pipeline and even optimize your current donor portfolio. But can donor surveys actually retain and upgrade your donors? How to survey your donors in person with an in person donor thought circle cultivation event.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JULY 11, 2012
Please complete the survey below. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool. Do you follow the 50-50 rule for content creation ? (OK, OK, it’s not a real rule, it’s just a starting point I made up.). The idea is that about half of what you share in your communications is original content that you created recently and that hasn’t been published anywhere else yet.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JANUARY 4, 2012
I’ve set up a quick survey to collect some of your thoughts and experiences about this process of moving from print newsletters to email newsletters. If you are anywhere in this process from just considering it to having completed the transition, I’d love for you to take the survey. Don’t see the survey form below?
NonProfit Hub
JANUARY 20, 2017
Why feedback surveys are a must-have. It’s for those reasons alone feedback surveys are so vital to sustaining and growing your success. Feedback surveys help challenge perception while opening your organization to constructive criticism. A simple feedback survey will either reaffirm what you think you know or it will shed light on new topics, perceptions and opinions about your organization. Feedback surveys are great for employees, volunteers and donors.
Cause Related Marketing
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
But instead of this rather standard issue campaign, what if instead Pizza Hut offered a donation to your charity of choice… say $0.25… plus the opportunity to donate a much larger amount when you respond to customer satisfaction survey? When you complete the customer satisfaction survey on the phone or online, you are entered into a drawing for a free iPod along with 10 chances to win a daily prize of $1,000. Pizza Hut would like to do some cause marketing with your charity.
Cause Related Marketing
JUNE 1, 2012
At the bottom of the receipt was an 800-number keyed to a customer satisfaction survey. to the cause in question whenever someone completes their customer satisfaction survey?’ Framed that way customer satisfaction surveys are a natural fit for cause marketing. By contrast, the survey at Taco Bell gives responders a shot at a $1,000 weekly giveaway. Complete the survey from a regional seafood restaurant and you get a free dessert.
The Agitator
MAY 30, 2018
We ran an Agitator Survey to get a more detailed picture of just what nonprofits are running into. If you care about the retention of monthly your monthly donors you’ll want to read and share the results of this Survey. The answers in the Survey are seemingly random and range from “office manager” to “bookkeeper” to “database analyst.” In Can Your Monthly Donors Be Held Hostage?
Fundraising 123
AUGUST 5, 2010
Shape your survey questions to get the most valuable information. In a world full of emails, advertisements and direct mail, adding surveys to your communication mix can be an effective way to let your subscribers know that you’re listening as well as talking. Like email, however, a successful survey needs some careful planning and execution.
Getting Attention
JANUARY 26, 2010
Our recent survey of more than 900 nonprofit leaders reveals a major crisis among charitable organizations: Many are doing an inadequate job of connecting with their key audiences and characterize their primary messages – intended to motivate donors, volunteers and advocacy – as poorly targeted, difficult to remember and uninspiring. More immediately, complete survey results, plus specific recommendations on how nonprofits can start to immediately improve key messaging, are available here.
iMarketSmart
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
2017 Burk Donor Survey. Donor advised funds: Only 5% of Respondents qualified to respond to questions in this part of the survey, so findings are interesting but anecdotal. IMPORTANT NOTE: Always remember that this research is based on survey responses (what I call ‘ verbatims ‘). Do you know Penelope Burk? I first found out about Penelope Burk when I was running a marketing agency that solely helped private sector companies (not nonprofits) back in 2009.
Getting Attention
JANUARY 30, 2013
Please take a minute right now (literally, this is a 1-2 question survey) to tell me how you select your marketing activities. Your answers will guide me to create the guidance you need to save time, money and anguish in that process. Please answer these 2 questions right now. Thanks, in advance, for your input. You’re the best! P.S. Can you do this right now, while it’s on your mind? I’d appreciate it. Planning and Evaluation
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