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Social Media for Nonprofits and Eventbrite is presenting a FREE workshop offering clear strategies, tactics, and resources for using social media to ensure the success of nonprofit fundraising events. If your nonprofit is planning an upcoming gala or fundraiser, this webinar is not to be missed! Join industry experts for straight talk and helpful tools for posting and promoting your upcoming event; learn how to use Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to maximize the success of your fundraisers; and find out how free scheduling, analysis, and optimization tools can help you save tons of time and work smarter, not harder.

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Sponsored by:

Leveraging Social Media for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Darian Rodriguez Heyman

and

Laura Huddle

October 1, 2013

Use Twitter Hashtag #4Glearn

Part

Of:

Sponsored by:

Protecting and Preserving the

Institutional Memories of

Nonprofits Since 1993

www.cjwconsulting.com

(866) 598-0430

info@cjwconsulting.com

Part

Of:

Sponsored by: Part

Of:

Coming Soon

Sponsored by:

Today’s Speakers

Darian Rodriguez Heyman Co-founder

Social Media for Nonprofits

Hosting:

Cheri J Weissman, CJW Consulting & Services, Inc. Assisting with chat questions: Jamie Maloney, Nonprofit Webinars

Laura Huddle Senior Category Marketing Manager

Eventbrite

Part

Of:

Leveraging Social Media for Your

Next Fundraising Event

Who are we?

Darian Rodriguez Heyman

Co-Founder

darian@sm4np.org

@dheyman

www.sm4np.org

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Laura Huddle

Sr. Marketing Manager

laura@eventbrite.com

@lauracoltrin

Eventbrite.com/npo

The Agenda Understanding the event ticketing lifecycle

Social media tips, tricks and time savers to maximize engagement

Leveraging social media before, during and after your event

Tying it all together with data

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Defining Event & Social Media ROI

ROI = Increasing donations + Raising

awareness + Maximizing ticket sales

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Average Ticketing Lifecycle

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On average, fundraiser

tickets go on sale 4-6 weeks

before the event.

(Hint: People procrastinate. Don’t let them.)

Ticketing Lifecycle

You can influence the ticketing lifecycle!

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Communication & Content Calendar

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Create a communication plan

• Work backwards from the date of the event until the first invite

goes out

What are the strategic times to email people?

• 9-11am, Tuesday-Thursday

Where to post information?

• Your website, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, local community

calendars

Sample Content Calendar

Event Date: June 25th, Calendar Highlights Content Plan Leading up to the Event.

Create your Registration Page

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Drive Every “Touch” to Registration

Registration

Twitter

Email

Facebook

LinkedIn

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Create a Facebook Event

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Further your Facebook Presence

Pro Tip: Integrate ticket purchases in Facebook via apps. 16

The Agenda Understanding the event ticketing lifecycle

Social media tips, tricks and time savers to maximize

engagement

Leveraging social media before, during and after your event

Tying it all together with data

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Promote

1. Post regular updates: Pictures, performers, VIPs, auction items, partners and even attendee stories

2. Post more pictures & videos (cute stuff helps!)

3. Invite attendees to RSVP as they register

4. Be sure to tag attendees, VIPs, partners, and others

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pre-purchase 40%

post-purchase 60%

The motivation to share is higher once

the purchase has been made.

Facebook Shares

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• Post 6-7 times a day

• Reach out to influencers

• Retweet & thank!

• Use a Hashtag- a word preceded

by # sign – keep it short! (6 – 8 characters)

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#sm4np

Twitter Direct Message Campaign

Step 1: Create Twitter List

Hootsuite Publisher Window

Download all your twitter followers in an excel sheet & segment by location.

Step 2: Draft Direct

Message

Twitter Direct Message Campaign

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Step 3: Upload to

Hootsuite

Twitter Direct Message Campaign

• Create Groups & Cultivate Community for your Members

• Pre-approve/Invite all Attendees to LI

• Share Exclusive Content on LI

• Host Post Event Chats/Discussions

• Participate in Industry Groups

The Agenda Understanding the event ticketing lifecycle

Social media tips, tricks and time savers to maximize

engagement

Leveraging social media before, during and after your

event

Tying it all together with data

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Keep the Conversation Going During the event:

• Provide a twitter wall

• Prominently display the #hashtag

• Display the conversation

• Use free services like

tweetchat.com or twitterfall.com to display tweets

about the event

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The Conversation Lives On

After the event:

• Ask for feedback, share a

survey

• Create and share recaps

• Post event pictures

• Use platforms like Storify to

summarize event experience

• Review your tracking and

analytics to know which social

channels were most effective

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The Agenda

Understanding the event ticketing lifecycle

Social media tips, tricks and time savers to maximize engagement

Leveraging social media before, during and after your event

Tying it all together with data

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Track your Sales Sources 1

• Create unique links for each of

your sales sources

• Monitor throughout the

promotion process

• Review which sources not only

brought in traffic, but ultimately sales and donations

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Productivity Tools

Hootsuite

Automatic scheduling

Mass tweeting (Only when appropriate)

Mass direct messaging (Be very selective)

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Productivity Tools

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Wrap Up

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• Decide which channels are right for you and your organization

• Encourage early ticket purchasing to get the wheel in motion

• Collect donations from those who can’t attend

• Encourage post-purchase sharing

• Give attendees reason to engage before, during and after your

event

• Analyze which social media efforts are most effective

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Ritu Sharma

Co-Founder and Executive Director

ritu@sm4np.org

Social Media for Nonprofits

Laura Coltrin

Product Marketing Manager

laura@eventbrite.com

Eventbrite

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