Why SEO Matters, Even for Nonprofits 4 Lessons about SEO for Nonprofits from Real Keyword Data Do you get those annoying emails from obscure companies promising you thousands of ‘leads’ and better traffic if you let them do your SEO? In the era of the coronavirus, these types of sales tactics are even more distasteful, […]
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Increase Your Online Donations by 284% in Less than 60 Minutes
Increase Your Online Donations by 284% in Less than 60 Minutes Use Real Experimental Data to Improve Your Online Donation Form and Remove Fields that Distract Would-be Donors Online donation forms represent one of the simplest ways to boost your donations. Why is this true? Because the hard part of fundraising comes in attracting and […]
Why Donation Page Content Turns Away 83% of Potential Donors
Why Donation Page Content Turns Away 83% of Potential Donors New Donation Page A/B Testing Data Reveals 7 Ways Nonprofits of Every Size Can Increase Their Conversion Rates How much more donation money can your nonprofit collect just by improving your donation page content? Look at it this way: Suppose your donation page gets 1000 […]
Want Results from Google Ad Grants? Then Don’t Do This
Want Results from Google Ad Grants? Then Don’t Do This Analysis of 5 Ineffective Ad Grants Landing Pages, and 1 Strong One Nonprofits and businesses invest a lot of time, effort, and money into launching, managing, and benefiting from their Google Ads accounts. You can spend many hours per month perfecting your ads, researching new […]
16-Point Landing Page Checklist for Nonprofits
16-Point Landing Page Checklist for Nonprofits How to Create a High-Converting Call to Action Page that Grows Your Email List, Wins More Donors, or Mobilizes Social Action Too many nonprofits are not fully utilizing the potential of their websites. They often set up their sites from a “come here and look at our site” perspective, […]
How to Write a Nonprofit Blog that Engages Supporters and Motivates Action
How to Write a Nonprofit Blog that Engages Supporters and Motivates Action Nonprofit Blog Writing Best Practices: Content, Structure, SEO, Growth, and Examples Many nonprofits struggle to write blogs consistently. Reasons why this happens include a lack of time, but also an uncertain confidence that blog writing accomplishes anything. However, another reason nonprofits fail to […]
Is Giving Tuesday Worth All the Trouble and the Hype?
Is Giving Tuesday Worth All the Trouble and the Hype? 5 Keys to a Successful Giving Tuesday Campaign Is Giving Tuesday worth it? Does it really work? Or is it just another fad that, even though now several years strong, will eventually fade into the online dustbin of history next to Myspace, Aereo, and every […]
How to Create the Perfect Donate Button
How to Create the Perfect Donate Button A Quick Analysis of Color, Size, Placement, and Text for Nonprofit Call to Action Buttons, Plus a Free Button Evaluation The smallest parts of your website can produce the biggest change. Namely, the donate button. One of the missions of ProActive Content is to find ways to boost […]
ProActive Content Is Speaking at the 2019 AFP NW Forum on Strategic Fundraising
ProActive Content Is Speaking at the 2019 AFP NW Forum on Strategic Fundraising Come Visit My Booth and Supercharge Your Fundraising Skills I’m pleased to announce that Dan Magill from ProActive Content has been chosen as a speaker at the upcoming Association of Fundraising Professionals Northwest’s annual Forum on Strategic Fundraising. The 2-day event happens […]
4 Reasons Why So Many Nonprofits Fail to Produce Consistent New Content
4 Reasons Why So Many Nonprofits Fail to Produce Consistent New Content Is Your Nonprofit’s Content Strategy Failing? This Could Be Why Consistently publishing new content has a direct impact on the awareness of your cause and your growth in fulfilling your mission. Conceptually, this isn’t hard to understand. The more people who know about […]
5 Foundations for Building a Nonprofit That Changes the World
5 Foundations for Building a Nonprofit That Changes the World Why Nonprofits Fail, Part 2: Your Charity is a Business, not a Passion Project Read Part 1 here Your nonprofit is a business. If you started your nonprofit, then you are an entrepreneur. This is true whether you want to admit it or not. It’s […]
Case Study: Why Nonprofits Fail
Case Study: Why Nonprofits Fail – Part 1 3 Sobering Lessons from a Nonprofit that Disappeared Read Part 2 – Get Five Foundations for a Fail-Proof Nonprofit If you’ve read any number of my blogs, you may have picked up that one injustice I care a lot about is human trafficking and all its twisted […]
Donation Page Giving Options – Testing Data Uncovers Huge Revenue Loss from One Simple Change
Donation Page Giving Options – Testing Data Uncovers Huge Revenue Loss from One Simple Change On your donation page, how should you present your giving options? Your three main giving options are: Only an open-ended field with no suggested giving amounts One or more suggested amounts Both suggested amounts and an open field for other […]
The Worst Mistake Nonprofits Make on Their Thank You Pages
The Worst Mistake Nonprofits Make on Their Thank You Pages 5 Thank You Page Essentials to Unite Donors with Your Charity Thank you. There, that wasn’t so hard, was it? Thanking people who do things they didn’t have to do that benefit you and your cause is really important. Possibly the single most important thing […]
4 Insider Secrets to Boosting Your CTR in Google Ad Grants
4 Insider Secrets to Boosting Your CTR in Google Ad Grants What Works, What Doesn’t Work to Surpass the 5% Ad Grants CTR Requirement Google’s Ad Grants program demands a 5% click-through rate (CTR) for your overall ad campaign. If you drop below this pretty high threshold for too long, they will suspend your account. […]
Nonprofit Blogs: Why Your Charity Should Be Producing Content Even If Hardly Anyone Else Is
Nonprofit Blogs: Why Your Charity Should Be Producing Content Even If Hardly Anyone Else Is 7 Donor-Attracting Benefits of Content Marketing 55% of Nonprofits Are Ignoring Booming site traffic. A growing email list. Brand and site authority. An engaged and active audience. Steady streams of new donors. Does that sound like something your nonprofit would […]
Nonprofit Guide: How to Set Up a Google Adgrants Account That Doesn’t Get Cancelled 5 Months Later
Nonprofit Guide: How to Set Up a Google Adgrants Account That Doesn’t Get Cancelled 5 Months Later 10-Step Guide Written for Non-Tech Normal People Just Trying to Make a Difference Google Adgrants is the nonprofit branch of Google Ads. You get up to $10,000 in free online advertising per month, $329 per day. Sounds great […]
“Help! My Nonprofit’s Home Page Stinks!”
“Help! My Nonprofit Home Page Stinks!” 12 Home Page Do’s and Don’ts for Every Nonprofit that Wants to Put Donors and Website Visitors First I’ve got good news: You’re not alone. I’ve got better news than that: There’s help. If your nonprofit is like most others, your home page isn’t just failing to get the […]