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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. P.S. Here are some tips on getting people to take your online survey.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wild Woman Fundraising

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Tags: Board Conflict Fundraising answers birthday blog charity income on the side inspiration mazarine treyz nonprofit questions school stats survey wildwomanfundraising.com you

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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MAY 7, 2009

It's important to note that *how* you invite people to participate in your surveys & forms - with an eye toward being relevant , personal and clear - is as important as the survey itself when it comes to your overall survey results. That way, folks seeing your survey's invitation in their email program's preview pane (at least 60% of your audience) will only need a quick preview to click through and take it.

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MAY 7, 2009

It's important to note that *how* you invite people to participate in your surveys & forms - with an eye toward being relevant , personal and clear - is as important as the survey itself when it comes to your overall survey results. That way, folks seeing your survey's invitation in their email program's preview pane (at least 60% of your audience) will only need a quick preview to click through and take it.

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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.

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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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