YTH Live 2019 (youth+tech+health): Online to Offline Impact Measurement

Whole Whale
Whole WhaleDigital Agency for Nonprofits at Whole Whale
YTH Live 2019 (youth+tech+health): Online to Offline Impact Measurement
George Weiner
Whole Whale | Power Poetry
george@WholeWhale.com
Who am I?
George Weiner
● Chief Whaler of Whole Whale
● Co-Founder Power Poetry
● Chair of America’s Charities
● Former CTO of DoSomething.org
And a confused new dad
Contents
Models and measures for digital impact
Where does traffic come from?
Measurements and dashboards
Why do you have a website?
How did you get here?
Journeys can tell the story and
present opportunities to help
YTH Live 2019 (youth+tech+health): Online to Offline Impact Measurement
Shaped by your communities
on and offline
Your searches
Digitally and IRL
Your insta feed
Per Day...
3.5 Hours (U.S.) 5.6 billion searches (world)
Source: Pew Internet 2018, Google 2018
Online search/behavior
Offline thought Offline action
Why Offline to Offline
Case studies used
DIGITAL IMPACT CHASM
“We’re lost, but at least
we’re making great
time”
- Leap of Reason
DIGITAL LOGIC MODEL
Input:
What you invest
Output:
What you make
● Content
● PDF guides
● Training videos
● Social
● Users
● Downloads
● Time Watched
● Poems
Outcome:
What you expect to happen
Short-term
● “Super” poets
● Guides read
Long-term
● Improved literacy
“... information consumes the
attention of its recipients.
Hence a wealth of information
creates a poverty of attention”
- Herbert Simon
● Specific
● Measurable
● Actionable
● Relevant
● Time Bound
● Valid
● Understandable
GOOD INDICATORS
IMPACT MARKETING FUNNEL
Traffic & Off Platform Impression
Awareness
Goal
Metrics
● # Site users by source
● Organic Sessions
● Video views
● Social Reach
Teens find PP online
Change
Goal
Metrics
● Qualitative improvement
of super poet’s work over
time
Longterm
● College rates
● Prison rates
Increased youth literacy
Increased literacy &
emotional expression
Activity: Draw this funnel
LEVELOFCOMMITMENT
TIME ENGAGED
Low-barrier
actions
Medium-barrier
actions
High-barrier
actions
LIKE
SHARE
SIGN UP
CONTRIBUTE
DONATE $$
ATTEND
VIEW
$1.46 per email*
$65 per donor*
$0.48 per click*
*Data Source: AdStage and M+R nonprofit benchmarks 2018
Digital Commitment Curve
Game: When I say go...
Raise your hand OR Stand up
Game: When I say go...
Stand up OR Do a push-up
Laziness Curve
LEVELOF
COMMITMENT
TIME ENGAGED
low-barrier
actions
COMMITMENT CURVE
medium-barrier
actions
high-barrier
actions
Stand up
Push-up
Raise your hand
Do nothing
Tactic: Anchoring
$2.50$5.50 $6.50 $4.50
LEVELOFCOMMITMENT
TIME ENGAGED
Low-barrier
actions
Medium-barrier
actions
High-barrier
actions
LIKE
SHARE
SIGN UP
CONTRIBUTE
DONATE $$
ATTEND
VIEW
Activity: Draw your curve
“Any more than 3 KPIs
is a circus”
-Peter F. Drucker
WHAT TO MEASURE?
● Poets/Poems ● Literacy
improvement
● Content
Visits
● Public
opinion of
poetry
● Organ registry
● Sentiment
around donation
● Twitter followers
Activity: Draw and
plot 3-5 KPIs
Frequency of measure
Where does traffic come from?
YTH Live 2019 (youth+tech+health): Online to Offline Impact Measurement
6 Sources of Traffic
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Write content that answers a question people have
WholeWhale.com/University
Code: IMPACT
Tip: Google.com/Trends
Grew monthly web traffic by 900% by
maximizing Google Adwords, new communications
and SEO strategies, and a website redesign
Case Study
National Aphasia Association
9x traffic
Google Ad Grants
$10k PER month in search ads!
google.com/nonprofits
wholewhale.com/adwords
0 to 420,000 teen poets in 6 years
In-kind Ad Grant value:
Traffic & Acquisition Case Study
Power Poetry
Show for critical need searches that drive
texters in crisis.
Crisis Text Line
How is it measured?
What is ?
Google.com/analytics
● Free, Web analytics for your website
● Javascript that lives on every page
● Every website codebase can handle this
● Takes less than 30min to install
● Shows what/where/how/when activities on your
website (not so much why)
analytics.facebook.com
Goals/Events
?
Gather
AnalyzeInsights
Learn &
Act
Ask
Questions
Q: What are people doing on our site?
Is a bad, broad question…
Leaving on weekends, returning during the week
Coming from major cities
Coming from 4 major sources of traffic
Bouncing from our homepage 60-80%
Increasing when we send our emails
Good Questions
Where is the front door of our website?
How is our organic traffic YoY?
How is traffic converting to goals?
Ask your team what they need to know.
Q: Where is our ‘front door’?
AKA where are most people landing on our site as their first
page?
Only 4.6%
Action: fix your real front door
Make every page work toward your goals.
How is organic traffic YoY?
● Are we growing/flat/declining?
● Month vs Month last year
● What % total?
Action
● Set up Google Search Console and connect to GA!
● Explore keywords and content that are working or declining
● Do an SEO audit
● Learn more about SEO/Content Marketing
WholeWhale.com/university free code: IMPACT (for uDemy courses)
Results
Why do you have a website?
The spectrum of nonprofit websites
Brochure Digitally reliant
Thought to action
Google Ad
Grant
SEO
content
Thought to action
Google Ad
Grant
Traffic vs Impact
Attribution
Steal this data studio dashboard
wholewhale.com/dashboard
Final Thought
Democratize your Data
Your work matters when heard
In NGOs We Trust
Your work matters,
We need you to be heard
Online is Offline
WholeWhale.com/podcast
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