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Stop Fighting, Start Analyzing:Data Driven Strategy & Collaboration for Non-Profits
Presenters: Keidra Chaney
Elizabeth Finlayson
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Who we are…
Keidra Chaney
• Started as web content manager, knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP at mid-sized non-profits
• Trained through books, courses and experience.
• Became a web analytics evangelist (and nag) at my workplace.
• Started consulting on digital analytics and website optimization to non-profits of all sizes
Elizabeth Finlayson
• Started in development right before September 11th and have managed flourishing programs during 2 recessions
• Because of my direct mail training, database and analytics have always been a personal passion
• Started consulting on fundraising program development, analytics, and providing coaching to non-profit professionals
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What we are here to solve
• Lack of budget• Lack of strategy• Siloed organization• Lack of understanding of data• Too much data• Poor technology• Lack of staff• Lack of trust in analytics
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WHEN FALL APPEAL MEASUREMENT GOES WRONG…
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Let’s meet the cast…Development Director Development Associate- New!
-10-year senior managerLikes:-Free food-Wine from ArgentinaDislikes:A lot of numbers
-Right out of college-Happy to have joined the non-profit workforceLikes: -Creating new vegan dessert recipes
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Marketing Director Marketing Associate
-15-year senior manager, 8 years at this organizationLikes:-Monkey figurines-BellydancingHates:-The Development Director
-5-year Marketing Associate, waiting for the Marketing Director to leave so she can take her job.Likes:-Experimental, noise music-Playing the viola
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That guy in your office who only makes suggestions after the plan is in motion…
Likes:-To make suggestions after a plan is in motion-Russian ballet
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How it starts…The Development Director says to the new Development Associate…
Hey new girl, it’s time to
write the fall campaign letter.
Go do that.
Yes, ma’am. You can count on me. I’m on
it!
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“New Girl, we need to do a Facebook campaign…”
Development Associate doesn’t know the organization has a Facebook page and makes a new one!
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Marketing Director pushes for a postcard mailer with no trackable response. The Development Director
pushes for a landing page or reply device to no avail.
I’ve been doing this longer than her, why doesn’t
she listen to what works?
I thought this was my
campaign!
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A week before the campaign
Someone mentions…
Development Associate copies last year’s e-blast, makes a couple of changes & sends it out.
Got it!
Hey, don’t we normally do an e-
blast?
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“That Marketing Director is a real stickler, you’ll need to tag everything for the campaign.”
Um, okay.
The Development Director shows the Development Associate how to tag in Google Analytics. Her profile was incorrectly configured by the previous Development Associate. Also, she doesn’t know is that the Marketing Director also has her own unshared profile.
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A few weeks later…
• The Development Director goes to the Marketing Associate…
…who goes to the Marketing Director…
I didn’t!
Hey, can you get me the
numbers on the last e-blast?
Huh, what e-blast?
Why did you send an e-
blast without
telling me?
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They discover…
This e-blast went out the same day as the e-blast for their first advocacy campaign!
Oh, no! Can you draw up the metrics?
Nothing is tagged!
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“These development people don’t know what they’re doing.”
The Marketing Associate & Marketing Director both go to their offices and tag everything- resulting in all campaign communications being double tagged!
I know!We need to
tag everything right away!
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Last year, an intern ran a Twitter campaign that brought in $2,000- unfortunately, because she saved it on her home drive,
there was no documentation of the campaign.
What Twitter campaign???
Hey, whatever happened
to the Twitter
campaign?
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My postcard was
awesome!
What about my new
letter concept?
What about my new letter concept?
When the direct mail portion of the campaign beats last year’s goal, the Marketing Director takes full credit.
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The hardworking, idealistic Development Associate is fired.
Due to:• Missing income from
the Twitter campaign• Missing metrics• And……Pissing off the Marketing Director.
Don’t let this happen to you!!!
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PLANNING A MEASUREMENT STRATEGY
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Top Down vs. Bottom Up Approach to Measurement?
• Top Down: Starting with defined set of goals and a selected group of relevant metrics
• Bottom Up: Starting without a defined set of goals
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Planning a Measurement Strategy
• What is your campaign’s overall goals? • What specific outcomes will help achieve
your goal? • What is the purpose of your organization’s
marketing materials? (ex. sell tickets, raise awareness?)
• How will you measure whether your outcomes have been achieved?
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GOAL SETTING
MARKETINGEFFORT
AUDIENCE ACTION GOAL METRIC
Blog Increased readership
Reading an article
Average time on website
EventProspective
donor engagement
Collecting potential donor
information
# info form signups
Direct mail letter
Completed and returned
mail donation
$$$# of direct mail replies
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Then think measurement tools!
METRIC TOOL
Average time on website
Your Web Analytics Tool!
# info form signups Your database!
# of direct mail replies Your database!
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Success Metric Example: New Visitor Engagement
Subject: A mid-level ($1 mil annual budget) non-profit’s newly launched fundraising website, rich with multimedia content
(videos, blog)
Objective: Increase leads for offline individual gifts through engagement with
website content
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New Visitor Engagement
• Standard Metric: video views• Key Online Success Metric: # of videos
viewed per visit
• Standard Metric: offline donation• Key Online Success Metric: # of
newsletter/info contact signups
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Is it the right success metric?• Does it show results? Can you use it to show definitive ROI
on your efforts? Does it show that it’s helping you sell widgets, create awareness? Increase registrations?
• Does it give insight? Can you learn more about your users, the effectiveness of your content/campaign by looking at it?
• Is it actionable? Can you look at it and take some kind of immediate action to make things better?
• Can you benchmark it? Can you look at data month or month/week or week and see trends?
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The one metric you need to know…
Donor retention/attrition Website Bounce Rate
Created by Bloomerang based on Fundraising Effectiveness Project 2013 Survey Data
Principle: If you’re not keeping people, you are wasting your time.
From survey by KISS Metrics
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Know your benchmarks: ROICost per D
ollar Raised
Acquisition/Capacity Building
Direct Mail$1.25 - $1.50
Special Events$1.00 of gross
Web & social media $35.00 -$100.00
Fundraising
Direct Mail$.20 - $.25
Special Events$.50 of gross
Major Gifts$.10 - $.20
Planned Giving $.20 - $.30
Grants$.20
Sources: Fundraising, Second Edition by James M. Greenfield and ROI Analysis by Baruch College's Nonprofit Management Group.
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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BREAK!!!Take 10 minutes
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Advanced Scenario
• “I manage a donor group of individuals who give between $1k and $10k and we are about to mail out our fall promotion to a list to around 14,000 potential donors (including both cold leads from a purchase list and warm leads from our own database).”
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Lifetime Value- Quick & Dirty
Historical LTV Formula
Average first giftAttrition Rate
Current Project LTV Formula(Total Dollars to Date - Total Costs to Date)
Number of First Gift Donors
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Lifetime Value in Practice
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9
Lifetime Value $100 $139 $154 $160 $162 $163 $164 $164 $164
Average Gift: $100Attrition Rate: 61%
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Lifetime Value in Practice
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9$0
$20
$40
$60
$80
$100
$120
$140
$160
$180
$100
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$154$160 $162 $163 $164 $164 $164
Lifetime Value
Average Gift: $100Attrition Rate: 61%
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Segmentation
• Trends in aggregate may hide actual insights. • Look at segmented traffic to compare traffic from
different audiences.• Segmentation allows you to give context to your
data by focusing on a specific slice of your audience or audience behavior.
• Recency, frequency, amount (RFM)• More helpful: Interaction with your organization
• The future…
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Testing
Source: Lior Levin, InstantShift
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Why Testing is hard
• It’s not, but working with people can be.
IT Dept says:You want to put CODE on MY pages? No way.
Designer says:My design is rock solid. You’re an idiot and don’t know anything about design.
Marketing says:I know what I’m doing. You want to prove me wrong? No way!
So present it to the BOSS: Long term, we can make more money/get more signups/ for a
minimum cost. It’s stupid not to do it. Oh, and the utility is free.
Dev. Asst. says:I have enter all these stupid numbers???
Dev. Dir. says:I have to pay for two mailing lists???
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Source: Avinash Kaushik, Occam’s Razor blog
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Your Turn…
• Start with your audience & donors…• Think about your groups• What separates these people? What is similar
about them?• Can you look at behavioral as well as financial
data?• Ex. Click-throughs, attend events, average gift
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COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION
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Data Silos & Communication
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Internal Communication Channels
Communication Channel Use When
In-PersonStrategically
& Relationally Important
High levels of uncertaintyPersuasive
What, why, not how
Phone Strategically Important
What, why, not how
EmailUse for highly
routine activities
Spending more than 3 minutes, it’s a phone call
Details of How
TextUse for highly
routine activities
Confirming existing plans
Details of How
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Getting Ready for the Predictive Analytics Future
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Getting Qualitative & Subjective Data into Your Database for Analysis
• Turn qualitative data into quantitative data • Sources of this data:
– In-Person meetings– Surveys– Social media- follow your donors on Facebook and
LinkedIn- have a relationship manager keep track of important posts from major donors
• Get into your database
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Closing your Campaign
• Do a quantitative & qualitative summary of the campaign
• Make it visual
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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If We Have More Time…
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Arts Org. Analytics Project
• $1.8 million organization• 20,000 donors in database• $1,000 major gift entry point• $5,000 - $25,000 majority of major givers in
this range• Goal: looking to create a donor and major
giving profiles to predict future giving
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Show Attendance by Donor Quartile
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Show Attendance by Giving
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Modes of Contact by Giving