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. P.S. Here are some tips on getting people to take your online survey. MORE
Nothing fancy about last week’s Agitator survey. Instead, I heard three very basic ingredients in their survey comments … 1. a survey on priorities, a brief report on whatever specific project/program brought that donor in and how their gift made a difference). 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
Last night when I checked my News Feed before bed I was interrupted by a request from Facebook – take a short survey and help us make Facebook better. Did you take this survey? 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. 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. Oh, and here’s our ad promoting our nifty little donor survey tool. MORE
Often my firm will conduct unscientific donor surveys to generate planned giving leads for our clients. Planned Giving Planned giving Planned Giving Marketing Research on planned giving donor survey online marketing research strategy survey Donors without children make the best planned giving prospects. Right? Well, I’m not so sure right now. I decided to compile some data from a bunch of the responses and see what I could find. 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? 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
Don’t know how I missed this, but back in November Harris Interactive released this very interesting survey on the charitable giving habits and plans of Americans. Here’s a link to Harris Interactive’s full archive of consumer surveys. Their report includes some interesting trend data comparing 2007 and 2010 responses. MORE
Here are two recent donor surveys that have come to our attention. The basic message of the Millennials survey is ‘get personal.’ The second phone/online survey was conducted post-2010 congressional elections by direct response fundraising agency OMP. This survey focused more on the political and issue mindset of cause supporters following the election. The survey makes no pretense of representing all charitable donors. 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. Don’t see the survey form below? MORE
Fundraising donor segmentation donor surveyIn Abila’s new donor engagement report , the first question they asked donors was, “What matters most to you?” ” Problem is… the answers they allowed were not all that great. 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
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. MORE
What the Nielsen survey for the third quarter of 2011 demonstrates, though, is that the most interesting statistics of growth lie under the gross percentages of use. Click for full image. It may not be news to any of us that the use of social media continues to grow. MORE
The Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2014 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey is out and the report has some sobering insight on how nonprofits have fared during the economic recovery. While 80% of respondents reported an increase in demand for services, 56% of those surveyed were unable to meet demand in 2013. According to the survey, in the next 12 months: 31% will change the main ways in which they raise and spend money. 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. 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 ). MORE
Jen Ross (Director, Marketing) of Charity Village was kind enough to answer a few of these questions for me about CharityVillage’s new 2017 salary survey. If you’d like to read more about their survey, just go here. MORE
Are You a Wage Slave? Do you spend more each month paying down your debts than buying new things? Do you depend completely on your job for money? Do you have a giant school or credit card debt you’re paying down right now? Do you worry every week about losing your job? MORE
Must…control…the…urge…to…be…sarcastic.In its recently-released Cause Evolution Study, (registration required) Cone, Inc. found that people are only slightly more favorably inclined towards companies employing transactional cause marketing (53%) than to lump sum charitable donations (47%).Transactional 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
We’re nearing the finish line for the Nonprofit Messages Survey 2012 , which closes June 13 COB. Here’s a swap for you: I’ll guide you in telling 5-star stories for your org (free webinar), when you take 5 minutes to answer the survey by June 13. MORE
We recently decided to ask our followers to answer a quick online survey to test our suppositions—that our social media goals up to this point are being met. Welcome back to guest blogger, Susie Bowie, Communications Manager at the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. MORE
Paper surveys. Email surveys (with rewards?). And if they still don’t want to keep being a member, can you do an exit survey, via phone, or email ? Recently I was asking around to other Wild Women Fundraisers, and asking them, “ What do you want to learn about, NOW? 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? Sarah Durham of Sarah Big Duck. MORE
Their survey also found that 37% spend six or more hours per week on social media. Nonprofits Social Media digital tools Survey transparency VerticalResponse A version of this post originally appeared on the GiftWorks Guest Blog. MORE
Join us next week for a FREE webinar with Rachel Muir: How to Upgrade Donors and Boost Revenue with Donor Surveys. But can donor surveys actually retain and upgrade your donors? Discover… Eye candy examples you‘ll want to steal from winning online surveys and learn what to ask. MORE
Many thanks to the Agitator readers who responded to our Punch Bowl Survey, looking at perceptions fundraising consultants and clients have of one another. We intended to have some fun with this survey. Hopefully our survey opens some eyes to that. Today we discuss the results. We’ve teased you the past few days with some of the more provocative — some caustic — verbatim comments our respondents have made. 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! MORE
Fundraising Major Giving Planned Giving bequests donor survey fundraising tips major gift fundraisingSo you want to know the real reason why people make major gifts and bequests? But first, I must share a quote. Confucius once said, “Life is very simple. 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 | . 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. MORE
Kivi Leroux Miller’s Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey has become the “go to” source for what’s REALLY happening in the world of nonprofit communications and fundraising. So please, take 10-15 minutes now to take this year’s Survey. Give 10— take the survey today. MORE
Read how Jennifer Charney, communications manager of Save the Redwoods League , started surveying her readers and how the results affected their content. Survey your readers about your publications. On the survey, we asked donors. Online Surveys. Jennifer Charney. 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
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. What questions do you include in your donor surveys? MORE
New subscribers to my blog get a survey asking them what topics they’d like to see me cover. . The easiest and best way to do that is by asking them to take a donor survey: In-person (face-to-face is best). After developing your list, the donor survey is where you need to start. MORE
Two surveys out this week uncover new insights about the push and pull of cause marketing. The Cause Marketing Forum is meeting in Chicago so I haven’t had the chance to talk with them, but I suspect that in the years to come this survey will turn up much bigger numbers. In the first, the Cause Marketing Forum looks for million-dollar cause marketing campaigns at checkout and finds 63 of them generating a total of $358.4 million. That’s an average of $5.6 million per campaign. MORE
via this online survey (deadline June 13). As for the survey, I’ll assess responses later this month and compare them to an earlier 2009 survey on the topic, then shape findings into practical message development guidelines. Complete the survey now to secure your seat ! MORE
A sneak peek at early responses (1,025 so far) to our Nonprofit Messages Survey shows a startling fact— 75% of nonprofit organizations like yours use their mission statement to communicate with external audiences. P.S. Please take 5 minutes to share your message habits in this brief survey. MORE
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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 | .
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. Oh, and here’s our ad promoting our nifty little donor survey tool.
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. What questions do you include in your donor surveys?
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.
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.
Cause Related Marketing
OCTOBER 7, 2010
Must…control…the…urge…to…be…sarcastic.In its recently-released Cause Evolution Study, (registration required) Cone, Inc. found that people are only slightly more favorably inclined towards companies employing transactional cause marketing (53%) than to lump sum charitable donations (47%).Transactional
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?
Cause Related Marketing
MAY 31, 2013
Two surveys out this week uncover new insights about the push and pull of cause marketing. The Cause Marketing Forum is meeting in Chicago so I haven’t had the chance to talk with them, but I suspect that in the years to come this survey will turn up much bigger numbers. In the first, the Cause Marketing Forum looks for million-dollar cause marketing campaigns at checkout and finds 63 of them generating a total of $358.4 million. That’s an average of $5.6 million per campaign.
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.
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?
Getting Attention
JUNE 6, 2011
We recently decided to ask our followers to answer a quick online survey to test our suppositions—that our social media goals up to this point are being met. Welcome back to guest blogger, Susie Bowie, Communications Manager at the Community Foundation of Sarasota County.
Getting Attention
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Kivi Leroux Miller’s Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey has become the “go to” source for what’s REALLY happening in the world of nonprofit communications and fundraising. So please, take 10-15 minutes now to take this year’s Survey. Give 10— take the survey today.
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!
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 ).
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?’
Wild Woman Fundraising
APRIL 10, 2017
Jen Ross (Director, Marketing) of Charity Village was kind enough to answer a few of these questions for me about CharityVillage’s new 2017 salary survey. If you’d like to read more about their survey, just go here.
The Agitator
APRIL 18, 2011
Nothing fancy about last week’s Agitator survey. Instead, I heard three very basic ingredients in their survey comments … 1. a survey on priorities, a brief report on whatever specific project/program brought that donor in and how their gift made a difference).
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.
The Agitator
JANUARY 25, 2011
Here are two recent donor surveys that have come to our attention. The basic message of the Millennials survey is ‘get personal.’ The second phone/online survey was conducted post-2010 congressional elections by direct response fundraising agency OMP. This survey focused more on the political and issue mindset of cause supporters following the election. The survey makes no pretense of representing all charitable donors.
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.
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. Don’t see the survey form below?
The Agitator
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Don’t know how I missed this, but back in November Harris Interactive released this very interesting survey on the charitable giving habits and plans of Americans. Here’s a link to Harris Interactive’s full archive of consumer surveys. Their report includes some interesting trend data comparing 2007 and 2010 responses.
iMarketSmart
JUNE 5, 2015
Fundraising Major Giving Planned Giving bequests donor survey fundraising tips major gift fundraisingSo you want to know the real reason why people make major gifts and bequests? But first, I must share a quote. Confucius once said, “Life is very simple.
Nonprofit Marketing Blog
APRIL 15, 2014
The Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2014 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey is out and the report has some sobering insight on how nonprofits have fared during the economic recovery. While 80% of respondents reported an increase in demand for services, 56% of those surveyed were unable to meet demand in 2013. According to the survey, in the next 12 months: 31% will change the main ways in which they raise and spend money.
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?
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
Getting Attention
JUNE 4, 2012
A sneak peek at early responses (1,025 so far) to our Nonprofit Messages Survey shows a startling fact— 75% of nonprofit organizations like yours use their mission statement to communicate with external audiences. P.S. Please take 5 minutes to share your message habits in this brief survey.
iMarketSmart
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
New subscribers to my blog get a survey asking them what topics they’d like to see me cover. . The easiest and best way to do that is by asking them to take a donor survey: In-person (face-to-face is best). After developing your list, the donor survey is where you need to start.
Getting Attention
JUNE 5, 2012
via this online survey (deadline June 13). As for the survey, I’ll assess responses later this month and compare them to an earlier 2009 survey on the topic, then shape findings into practical message development guidelines. Complete the survey now to secure your seat !
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
DECEMBER 10, 2012
Read how Jennifer Charney, communications manager of Save the Redwoods League , started surveying her readers and how the results affected their content. Survey your readers about your publications. On the survey, we asked donors. Online Surveys. Jennifer Charney.
iMarketSmart
JUNE 19, 2015
Fundraising donor segmentation donor surveyIn Abila’s new donor engagement report , the first question they asked donors was, “What matters most to you?” ” Problem is… the answers they allowed were not all that great.
J Campbell Social Marketing
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
Their survey also found that 37% spend six or more hours per week on social media. Nonprofits Social Media digital tools Survey transparency VerticalResponse A version of this post originally appeared on the GiftWorks Guest Blog.
iMarketSmart
MARCH 13, 2013
Often my firm will conduct unscientific donor surveys to generate planned giving leads for our clients. Planned Giving Planned giving Planned Giving Marketing Research on planned giving donor survey online marketing research strategy survey Donors without children make the best planned giving prospects. Right? Well, I’m not so sure right now. I decided to compile some data from a bunch of the responses and see what I could find.
J Campbell Social Marketing
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Last night when I checked my News Feed before bed I was interrupted by a request from Facebook – take a short survey and help us make Facebook better. Did you take this survey?
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. But can donor surveys actually retain and upgrade your donors? Discover… Eye candy examples you‘ll want to steal from winning online surveys and learn what to ask.
Non Profit Marketing 360
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
What the Nielsen survey for the third quarter of 2011 demonstrates, though, is that the most interesting statistics of growth lie under the gross percentages of use. Click for full image. It may not be news to any of us that the use of social media continues to grow.
Wild Woman Fundraising
JANUARY 3, 2012
Are You a Wage Slave? Do you spend more each month paying down your debts than buying new things? Do you depend completely on your job for money? Do you have a giant school or credit card debt you’re paying down right now? Do you worry every week about losing your job?
Getting Attention
JUNE 11, 2012
We’re nearing the finish line for the Nonprofit Messages Survey 2012 , which closes June 13 COB. Here’s a swap for you: I’ll guide you in telling 5-star stories for your org (free webinar), when you take 5 minutes to answer the survey by June 13.
Wild Woman Fundraising
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Paper surveys. Email surveys (with rewards?). And if they still don’t want to keep being a member, can you do an exit survey, via phone, or email ? Recently I was asking around to other Wild Women Fundraisers, and asking them, “ What do you want to learn about, NOW?
The Agitator
MARCH 1, 2012
Many thanks to the Agitator readers who responded to our Punch Bowl Survey, looking at perceptions fundraising consultants and clients have of one another. We intended to have some fun with this survey. Hopefully our survey opens some eyes to that. Today we discuss the results. We’ve teased you the past few days with some of the more provocative — some caustic — verbatim comments our respondents have made.
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