10 Secrets to Blowing Past Your Matching Grant Fundraising Goals – Especially in the Covid Era Tips to Elevate Your Email and Direct Mail Match Campaigns Matching grants are a tried and true fundraising strategy. And for good reason. Whatever you give, the gift is doubled (or tripled, or whatever multiple you have secured). The […]
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How Long Should Your Nonprofit Emails Be?
How Long Should Your Nonprofit Emails Be? Plus: 5-Step Quick Guide to Structuring Emails so the Length Doesn’t Matter More often than not, if my business or nonprofit clients have a question about emails I’ve written for them, it’s about the length. They think the emails are too long. My response is always the same. […]
Business Reply Envelopes for Nonprofits – Are They a Good Idea for Your Organization?
Business Reply Envelopes for Nonprofits – Are They a Good Idea for Your Organization? How to Set Up a Business Reply Mail Account in 9 Steps If your nonprofit sends out more than 437 pieces of direct mail per year, you might want to consider setting up a Business Reply Mail account with the Post […]
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 […]
8 Clever Ways to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Email Open Rates
8 Clever Ways to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Email Open Rates How to Beat Typical (and Declining) Industry Open Rates According to an annual study from M&R Benchmarks, 13% of all online fundraising revenue in 2018 was driven by email. So the importance of keeping your email open rates as high as possible needs no convincing. […]
Are Your Emails Overdesigned? Online Fundraising Testing Series Part 2
Are Your Fundraising Emails Over-Designed? See How Email Design Affects Donations Online Fundraising Testing Series Part 2 In support of using data to make better fundraising decisions, ProActive Content will be reporting on some online fundraising experiments from NextAfter for the next four weeks. See Part 1 – How Much Donation Page Copy Should We […]
Complete Guide to Donor Survey Best Practices and Question Ideas
Complete Guide to Donor Survey Best Practices and Question Ideas How to Acquire Survey Data that Strengthens Your Fundraising and Communications At the 2019 AFP Forum for Strategic Fundraising in Bellevue, Washington, Ariel Glassman from The Ostara Group led an outstanding presentation about donor survey best practices. She, along with the executive director from Kirkland Performance […]
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 […]
How Nonprofits Can Increase Open Rates in 7 Seconds
How Nonprofits Can Increase Email Open Rates in 7 Seconds Changing Who Your Email is From Can Increase Opens by 18% Want to increase open rates for your nonprofit’s emails? There are three ways to do it that aren’t overly technical: 1) Write better subject lines 2) Add good pre-headers 3) Change your sender […]
Real Definition of Spam: Why Nonprofits and Businesses Need to Stop Worrying about ‘Spamming’ Their Email List
Real Definition of Spam: Why Nonprofits and Businesses Need to Stop Worrying about ‘Spamming’ Their Email Lists Don’t be Afraid of Your Supporters and Customers A common fear among both businesses and nonprofits is sending too many emails, or sending emails that are “too long.” This article has one simple purpose: To set the record […]
Etched-In-Stone: The 5 Bedrock Email Fundraising Best Practices
Etched-In-Stone: The 5 Bedrock Email Fundraising Best Practices Let No Email You Send Lack One of These (Even When Emailing Your Grandmother) Most emails are too short. Most emails also give the impression they were thrown together at the last minute. The thing is, doing email fundraising and marketing the right way doesn’t take that […]
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 […]
4 Reasons Why Long Fundraising Letters Beat Short Ones 90% of the Time
4 Reasons Why Long Fundraising Letters Beat Short Ones 90% of the Time Are You Ready to Let Facts Confront Your Beliefs About Donors? Yes, long fundraising letters work better. It’s true for nonprofits. It’s true for direct mail in many for-profit industries. It’s generally true in email too (though not as often). But don’t […]
Why You Should Ignore 90% of Email Survey Data
Why You Should Ignore 90% of Email Survey Data Send Emails Based on the Data that Matters – Actions and ROI Many nonprofits and businesses go looking for email survey data to get answers to questions like these: How long should our emails be? How many emails should we be sending? Should we do just […]
Copywrite Or Copyright?
What Is Copywriting? It’s becoming comical, but many times when I tell people I’m a copywriter, they start conjuring images of angry consumers and artists battling it out for content ownership. They remember the Napster-Metallica fight in the 90s, and the more recent conflict in which movie studios put the illegal downloading and file sharing […]
