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.

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Survey Question Lead Generation Non-profit 158

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.

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Survey Donors Lead Generation Question 164

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.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

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.

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Trends Survey Nonprofit Communications Communications 195

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

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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). . Take the 2018 Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey now.

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Trends Survey Nonprofit Communications Communications 221

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.

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Survey August Contact Nonprofit 114

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?

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Survey Question Donors Satisfaction 275

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!

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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.

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Survey Work Price Pricing 151

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. messages nonrpofit messages survey

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Survey Relevance Generation Audience 196

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? Sarah Durham of Sarah Big Duck.

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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? .

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Survey Portal Europe Satisfaction 130

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.

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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 | .

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Survey Donors Satisfaction Lead Generation 163

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 ).

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Survey Stats November January 204

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.

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Trends Survey Design Help 216

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.

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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).

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Survey New Jersey Donors Words 130

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?

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Survey Jobs Consulting Training 169

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). .

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Survey Best Practice Best Practices Donors 141

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?’

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Satisfaction Custom Customer Survey 121

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.

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Survey Free Candy Donors 154

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.

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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?

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Survey Newsletter Email Frequency 202

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.

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Survey Donors Best Practice Best Practices 109

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?

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Survey Audience Research Census 185

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. In Can Your Monthly Donors Be Held Hostage?

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Survey Vendor CRM Free 85

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?

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Satisfaction Custom Customer Survey 161

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?

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Survey Aggregator Automation Firm 66

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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.

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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.

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Survey Content Rules Price 156

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. Do you know Penelope Burk?

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Survey Best Practice Best Practices Not For Profit 130

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.

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Custom Customer Survey Cause Marketing 121

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.

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Survey Design Effective Effectiveness 103

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.

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ROI Survey Social Media Media 227

Non Profit Marketing 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. This is a repost of an article that originally appeared in August, 2010. As our regular readers and Twitter followers are aware, MKCREATIVE has recently and proudly received ‘ Gold Status ‘ by the Green Business League.

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Distribution Mail Resources Survey 141

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.

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Survey Audience Case Study News 115

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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Activities Survey Guide Question 145

The Agitator

JUNE 20, 2018

When you are in the business of asking donors about themselves and customizing their donor journeys based on that, you almost always get the question: “But what about those folks who don’t answer the survey?”

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Survey Tennessee Correlation Rate 61

Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Surveying the small membership community. So Wild Apricot is conducting an online survey for insight into the world of small member organizations. This is a guest post from Lori Halley is the blog writer for the Wild Apricot Blog.

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Survey Organic Organization Groups 89

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

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Survey Cause Marketing Charitable Release 134

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).

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Survey Donors Acquisition Class 65