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Bridget L. Brandt
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About me
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Sage, 30 years of experience
Over 32,000 Unique Not-For-Profit Customers in North America
6.1 Million Customers Worldwide
3rd largest ERP solution provider to businesses worldwide
The Sage Group, plc. (London: SGE.L)
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Agenda
• Identify your current donor experience• Evaluate your current donor experience• Enhance your current donor experience• Strategy & Planning• Real World Tips and Techniques
(Yes, it is that simple.)
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Treat customers like we would like to be treated
Program consists of many elements:
1. Series of e-mails and direct mails designed to help new customers be successful.
2. Annual thank-you programs
3. “Love Bombs”
4. Making decisions that replicate how we would want to be treated.
Results:
4X the revenue for customers in the program.
Our Program
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So…what is your experience like today?
Do you really know what it is like to work with your organization?
You should.
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How to Identify & Evaluate Your Experience
1. Get more information– Act like a donor/customer– Get someone else to act like a donor– Listen to your staff and volunteers– Survey-See appendix for tips– Research-Understand your current donors
2. Examine all of your touch points
3. Be honest when you evaluate yourself and don’t punish people for that honesty.
4. Accept the truth
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How to Enhance Your Donor Experience
1. Establish a plan after you understand the value of the base.• What are you trying to solve for? Recurring gifts, new donors,
loyalty, etc…?
2. Consider a pilot – to provide proof of concept.
3. Review and Revise – Donors change, economy changes, patterns change….review and revise your strategy.
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Employees: 92% of loyal employees will go above and beyond the call of duty**
**Walker Information Group, http://www.walkerinformation.com/pics/wlr/Employee_ExecSumm_07.pdf
Attitudes1.Development
opportunity
2.Employee focus
3.Job quality
4.Brand
5.Reputation
Experiences1.Fairness at work
2.Care and concern
3.Trust in employees
4.Feelings of accomplishment
5.Satisfaction day-to-day
Top Five Drivers of Loyalty
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Volunteers: They are you.
Make sure they understand they represent you & what that means.• Provide talking points, not
scripts• Provide them with the tools they
need to share our story • Be available, open, and honest
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Mailings: Are your mailings making an impression?• Be Interesting• Think about “What’s in it for me?”• Engage, do something that creates the need for participation
Social Media: What are you doing with it? What are your donors doing with it?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHGuofPUnLo
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Facebook Reveal Page Facebook Donation Widget
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Others doing this well:http://www.facebook.com/Tortuga.Day.Spa.and.Salon
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Tips:• Be interesting• Use pictures• Use Hootsuite
Want more info and stats: http://favoritethingsforacause.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/very-few-charities-are-taking-advantage-of-social-media-fundraisers/
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Website: Does your website share your mission and bring in donations? Is it Viral? Can it be Shared?*
– Tips: • Only 43% of websites include a description of the nonprofit
organization’s goals and objectives • Only 4% of nonprofit Web sites state on their home pages
how they use donations. • In 17% of the sites people were unable to find where they
could make a donation.• Make it easy to donate online—one click.
• Confusing Web Sites Discourage Donors From Online Giving, http://www.nngroup.com/reports/donations/• *Data provided by Internet research firm Nielsen Norman Group
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charitywater.org Does it deliver?
1. Impact 2. Success3. Details on org4. Accountability
Best Practices—Progress Bar, Interesting Donation Page
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Things to remember:• Do what you say you are going to do!
“There’s a disconnect between what organizations
say and what they do.”• Enhancing experience is “easy” think about what makes
working with your organization effortless and then make it happen.
*The Customer Experience IQ (CEIQ) study, conducted jointly by Vovici and CGA
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Thank-you!
Bridget L. Brandt Director of Marketing, Nonprofit Solutions
Sage Business Solutions12301 Research Blvd. Building IV, Suite 350
Austin, TX 78759 512-861-3039
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Added Value: Survey Tips• Don’t over survey your customers• Make a plan—how many people in your organization are surveying?
Centralize the process.• Write a short questionnaire • Use simple words • Relax your grammar • Assure a common understanding –Don’t use terms specific to your
organization• Don't write leading question- You want honesty, to truly identify• Don't make the list of choices too long • Avoid difficult concepts • Avoid difficult recall questions • Put your questions in a logical order • Pre-test your survey • Cover memo or introduction- tell them why you are surveying• Use some open ended questions-You want to provide an opportunity
to tell you more, good and bad.
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