Analytics

An Over-Saturated Charitable Experience
May 22, 2017 at 9:55 am

In a previous blog post, I briefly examined what appears to be a growing sentiment in the nonprofit industry that direct mail fundraising is somehow flawed. Fundraisers have been slow to abandon outdated business practices or to evolve quick enough to react to the mounting challenges facing nonprofits todayโ€”and yes, there are many that we must overcome...

Create More Brand Awareness With Google AdWords
May 5, 2017 at 9:25 am

Letโ€™s face itโ€”thereโ€™s a plethora of information out in the vast cyberspace about different types of technologies available to help improve your nonprofit. It can all get a little confusing, canโ€™t it? But it all comes down to what your nonprofit it looking to improve. Are you looking to create more brand awareness to drive more donations? Letโ€™s take a look at a tool out there that weโ€™ve all heard of, but (maybe) are not taking advantage of...

The Future of Donor Acquisition Is Digital
April 25, 2017 at 10:53 am

Monthly giving is seeing double-digit increases in year-over-year growth, and for good reason. Nonprofits depend on a continuously scalable base of donors and revenue to fund their important missions and services. Among the many options in an organizationโ€™s fundraising portfolio, monthly giving offers a more reliable, steady income stream that is resilient to economic ups and downs...

Assisted Conversions: Storytelling at Its Best
December 20, 2016 at 10:30 am

The word โ€œattributionโ€ is feared by many in the marketing arena because it is so hard to tackle. But, at least look at Assisted Conversions in Google Analytics.

Model Wars: Data Science and Politics
November 8, 2016 at 8:00 am

The last few days have brought something unusual to the news: a battle of the data scientists. Yep, thatโ€™s rightโ€”data science people fighting about the validity of models for polling predictions. I find this very unusual. Data scientists compete all the time. But there is rarely an argument about what is empirically correct and valid...

Why This Analytics Firm Is Pledging $100M to Nonprofits
September 29, 2016 at 8:00 am

Cloud software giant Salesforce is well-known for baking corporate philanthropy into its financial model and workplace culture at its founding way back in 1999โ€”pledging 1 percent of its equity, 1 percent of its employeesโ€™ work hours and 1 percent of its products to charitable causes. That strategy has inspired many tech companies born since that…

4 Steps to Avoid Fundraising Insanity
April 7, 2016 at 10:59 am

In recent years, weโ€™ve seen the rise of two approaches to fundraising practice. Iโ€™ll call them the schools of data-nique and incantations. Thatโ€™s studying data and learning magic. Both make promises they canโ€™t deliver. Although data analysis certainly has its uses, when most organizations havenโ€™t even mastered the basics of human interaction (that is reaching…