13 Nonprofit Marketing Changes to Make in 2013
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Wondering what you should be doing in 2013 as a nonprofit marketer? Here are 13 suggestions to get you started. Join us at http://nonprofitmarketingguide.com throughout the year for help in making it happen.
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- 1. 13 Nonprofit Marketing Changes to Make in 2013 Kivi Leroux Miller, President
- 2. 1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/6648032895 Decide what to UPGRADE on your WEBSITE. It will always be under construction.
- 3. Website Upgrades: How to Do It • Accept that the site will never be done. Lobby now for annual website tinkering budget. • If overhauling, move to a CMS/template that allows you to switch out modules or blocks. • Add content that makes the site feel more real-time (e.g. social media feeds, dashboards). • Add more faces/people stories.
- 4. 2 Add a TRACKING DASHBOARD to your website.
- 5. Add Tracking Dashboard: How to Do It • Figure out a few key indicators of progress (ideally) or activity (better than nothing). • Work on an engaging way to share on your site. • Add regular updating to your to-do list!
- 6. 3 SEGMENT more of your email communications.
- 7. Segment More Email: How to Do It • Figure out what technology you’ll use to track data about people. See idealware.org, click on Managing Constituents • See what you already have available to you. See your email analytics, registration forms, donation history, etc. Are you storing/using that data? • To which groups can you provide specialized content, or communicate more/less frequently?
- 8. 4 Make EMAIL and WEBSITE more MOBILE FRIENDLY. flickr.com/photos/d_space/5076488785/sizes/l/in/photostream/
- 9. Mobile Friendly: How to Do It • Know what your website and email look like on smartphones and tablets. Fix what is easy; plan to fix what’s not. • Priority Email Fixes: Buttons are big enough to click, and landing pages from email clicks are mobile friendly. • Explore: Website CMS plugin versus separate mobile website. • If you use QR codes, make sure they land on mobile friendly pages!
- 10. 5 Get STRATEGIC and INTENTIONAL about your direction on Facebook and/or Twitter. http://www.flickr.com/photos/y_i/2330044065
- 11. Get Intentional and Strategic: How to Do It • Really examine what’s working and what’s not. • Figure out how to do more of what’s working. • This means having clear guidelines about what you put there and WHAT YOU DON’T.
- 12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/3793960703 Pick one SOCIAL MEDIA PLAYGROUND. 6
- 13. Pick a Playground: How to Do It • Where other nonprofits are playing: Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Google+ • Worry less about strategy right now, and instead focus on experimenting and seeing what happens. • When in doubt, try a mix of updates that encourage followers to Do (calls to action), Think (information) or Feel (most powerful, from anger to humor).
- 14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jroberts72/7559338306 Take and Use More PHOTOGRAPHY. 7
- 15. Take and Use More Photography: How to Do It • Learn how to use the technology you already own – like on your smartphone • Play around! Experiment on kids and pets! • Get an app that lets you put text on top of photos.
- 17. Share Progress via Video: How to Do It • Watch progress or annual report videos from other nonprofits and note their patterns. • If you have two minutes of video time, think about what you would say/show. • Format as “thank you” videos, or annual reports, or “here’s what happened after that fundraiser”
- 18. Content Strategy: Mix your 9 BROCCOLI with their CHEESE and serve the content up together. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitneyinchicago/4324896667
- 19. Broccoli and Cheese: How to Do It • The Broccoli: What are the topics your organization wants/needs to talk about? • The Cheese: What do your supporters and participants read, use or otherwise engage with the most – regardless of your preferences? • How can you deliver both? • Can you lure with cheese and then suggest the broccoli?
- 20. CURATE something. 10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/7776885762
- 21. Curate Something: How to Do It • What are you sorting through anyway, because you have to or because you want to? • On what topics could you easily add some value (e.g. commentary, categorizing, best of . . . ) • Make this a regular habit and part of your editorial calendar
- 22. 11 Every message gets REPURPOSED and shared MULTI-CHANNEL. flickr.com/photos/urbanwoodswalker/3585443379
- 23. Repurpose and Multi-Channel: How to Do It • Get over it: repetition is good, especially when done right. • Identify what stays consistent (e.g. call to action) and what can be changed. • Everything new goes into at least three channels. • Build repurposing into your workflow and editorial calendar from the start.
- 25. Reshare Your Greatest Hits: How to Do It • Watch what people like (it’s the cheese thing again). • Reshare especially on Twitter and Facebook where even great stuff is easily overlooked. • Reshare the really, really good stuff via email and/or blog. • Just resend it, or package as “Best of” or “Top Ten”
- 26. Experiment to see 13 which METRICS have MEANING. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabby-girl/5391313484
- 27. Play with Meaningful Metrics: How to Do It • Track what people respond to: clicks in email, website traffic, interactions on Facebook. Talk about it and then experiment. • If the numbers don’t give you information you can act on, so what? • What does it mean if certain numbers go up, down, or stay the same?