Online Fundraising Strategies - What Digital is good at
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The document summarizes key points from a workshop on integrating digital into fundraising. It discusses how digital is one part of the fundraising puzzle and how communication hasn't changed but behaviors have. It provides case studies on how organizations like The Wesley Mission, Greenpeace, and Animals Australia have successfully used digital along with other channels. The document also covers metrics for digital fundraising success, trends in mobile donations, and the importance of data, storytelling, onboarding donors, designing donor journeys, and focusing on retention.
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Online Fundraising Strategies - What Digital is good at
- 1. Integrating Digital into Fundraising Lunch & Learn Workshop Wednesday 26th March 2014 Proudly Presented by Shanelle Newton Clapham
- 4. Digital is just one piece of the puzzle
- 5. Communication hasn’t changed, our behaviour has
- 6. What is the purpose of your website?
- 7. Stay focused on the donor
- 8. Integrating Digital into the Overall Fundraising Mix • Data • Storytelling • Onboarding • Donor Journey • Retention
- 9. Case Study The Wesley Mission F2F + Mobile + SMS + Email + Video
- 10. Can digital onboarding reduce attrition?
- 12. How much do you know about your online supporters?
- 13. Do you have a single view of your database?
- 16. Digital success benchmarks Online Revenue (% of total fundraising income) •7% is non-profit industry average •It’s 14% in small non-profits under $1mill •12% in medium non-profits between $1-10mill •Only 7% for large non-profits.
- 17. Digital success benchmarks Non-profit website conversion rates •3% conversion rate from visitor to donor • On par with Retail sector & above eCommerce sector •15 - 18% of peer-to-peer donations are referred from Facebook •11% of online revenue is from regular gifts (89% from cash) • but there was significant growth in online RG from 2011- 2012. Website conversion Source: Mailchimp Facebook Source: Artez Interactive Facebook Report Jan 2013 RG gifts Source: 2013 eNonProfits benchmarks report
- 18. Email success metrics Email Marketing - Non-Profit Industry •Open Rates 47% •CTR • 3.6% from sent 13-18% from Open based on PD experience •Email click to donation conversion 2-6% • based on PD experience •79% of smartphone users open emails on their mobile. Open rates Source: Mailchimp Conversion rates Source: Parachute Digital Smartphone Source: Source: 2013 Adobe Digital Publishing Report
- 19. Trends starting to emerge • Higher percentage of peer-to-peer & online donations via mobile channel • Leading to more donation transactions but at lower values • Online gifts are of higher average value than offline gifts • Search is delivering higher percentage of online conversions due to better utilisation of Google Grant.
- 22. Case Study Greenpeace – Ken & Barbie’s Break-up Viral Video + Petition + Stunts + Media + Advocacy
- 24. Case Study Animals Australia – Live Animal Exports Media + Online Petition + Advocacy + DM
- 26. Online helps supporters connect the dots & provides a destination
- 28. Onboarding
- 31. Keep it simple
- 32. Map out your onboarding strategy
- 33. An onboarding strategy that includes digital channels
- 35. The donor Journey How we want our donor journey to look Reality
- 37. Case Studies Greenpeace. F2F + TM + Email + DM Wesley Mission F2F + Mobile + SMS + Email + DM
- 38. Ideally, the donor journey should integrate all channels
- 39. Design the donor journey for retention
- 40. What does your retention strategy look like?
- 41. Retention, or Loyalty is From the donor’s point of view •I like the brand •The cause matches my values •The organisation values my contribution •They keep me up to date •They have great customer service •They have a product that I want (to be a part of) •They make me feel good.
- 42. Online is great at retention
- 43. Personalisation
- 44. Case Study Amazon, eBay. iTunes Email + Personalisation
- 45. Integrating Digital into the Overall Fundraising Mix • Data • Storytelling • Onboarding • Donor Journey • Retention
- 47. Book a half day digital strategy workshop for your organisation. You choose the topic of your workshop. Sydney half day workshops are $860 and $100 will be donated back to your organisation. BOOK NOW. Strategy Workshop
- 48. Digital Capability Training 12-week Online Marketing course
- 49. Thank you. It was a pleasure.
Editor's Notes
- 2. To connect people to me tell them a story about me - that's related to the topic My story and how Parachute Digital was born - out of frustration and sick of hearing excuses. I'm quite hard on people - I've been going through this coaching and I got a profile that had a scale of 1-10 on how self critical you are and I was a 1 - the highest possible. What this means is that I also hold others to high standards and most brand experiences weren't meeting my expectations - online and offline. So I wanted to do something about it - and online is my space. "I believe that there is no excuse for a bad online experience".
- Start by asking people what they think "Digital" means? Q: ask them Tell them what Digital means to me. How its different from "online" or "internet marketing"
- Our desire to communicate hasn’t changed. But HOW we communicate definitely has Tell story about “Did you get my message?” I would connect people to themselves and each other by asking them to think of their own behaviour and that of their children and their spouses. To think back over the last 5 years and how that behaviour has changed. Q: How many times this morning have you picked up your phone to use it for something other than a phone call? A holiday they went on and what they packed. This will force them to acknowledge how common the use of mobile devices are for them, and thus their audience.
- Statement. What is the role of online for your organisation? Or more specifically, what is the purpose of your website or mobile site? There is always a role that it can play - for some its a time & cost saver, for others its about new audiences and engagement, for others its a direct response channel and a revenue channel. Of course it can be all of these things, but if you're able to prioritise them, your digital strategy will be more focused and successful. Get one thing right, learn from the journey and keep expanding and evolving. Q: What is the current role of online in your org? What could the role of online be? Where do you think you could utilise it?
- Keep the donor clearly in focus. Give them what they need. Online and offline
- Be clear that I love digital and believe it is a worthy fundraising channel, but that I think it works best when integrated with the overall fundraising mix and as a support or destination channel for your other mediums. Today we're going to talk about how you can integrate Digital Marketing & Fundraising Data - make informed decisions, no guess work Storytelling - tell the donor stories they care about (the data guides this) - Leads into engagement Onboarding - strategy is no different online, its just a different way of executing it. Engagement Donor Journey - strategy is no different, its still multi-channel, just adding another channel. Might not be for all donors Retention - cheap, easy, fast, passive and active, financial and non-financial. Just part of the mix. Same strategy, just another channel in your multi-channel strategy.
- Integration chapter of the book I gave them to read, and remind them of the Wesley mission case study on integration, and how simple, but effective it was. Q: Discussion Are any of you using this type of digital integration? Who is creating video regularly, for each appeal? or Campaign? Who is using SMS Whose F2F team are signing up with iPads or still using paper? What is your Welcome email strategy? Is online a component at all in your acquisition and onboarding? I will give them a statistic about attrition rates - Over 6 months the attrition rate has been reduced 10% by using email and SMS and content. Ask TWS to share their F2F attrition wins when introducing mobile app.
- Exercise: How much money are you losing by not implementing the email/ mobile on boarding? How much is 10% to your business over 6 months? Over 12/ 18/ 36 months. Map out Acquisition, Drop Off and CPA/ Gifts in worksheet for them to crunch numbers. Wrap up Questions & Exercise: You don't need to tell me, but write this down. How much income do you get through online channels? Lets say 10% How much do you spend annually maintaining your offline Database? Growing it? How much do you spend annually maintaining your online database? Growing it? If its not 10% of the offline, then that might explain why you're not getting the same numbers online - because you're not nurturing it and investing in it. Q: What could this mean to your business? Get them thinking about their organisation and how much money they are potentially losing. Is it worth investing the money to test it?
- Q: Whose online and offline database are housed in the same place? If not, do you know what the cross-over is? How many online supporters are also getting DM?
- Exercise Did they bring their numbers?
- Exercise
- Q: Do you understand the metrics Explain which metrics to focus on (engagement, repeat visitation, conversions) Compare with Social Media - you want comments and shares, not likes
- Exercise: Log into Google Analytics Explain which metrics are hazardous (bounce rate, time spent on site). For email, the open rate is a reflection of your brand & relationship (and the subject line). The CTR is a reflection on the content/ relevancy/ appeal. What content is most popular? I'm sure you know anecdotally because you know which delivers the best revenue, but do you know which pages/ appeals have the best ongoing traffic? At WWF our GBR page was by far the most visited page on the site, but it wasn't a successful appeal.
- Source: Blackbaud report
- Website conversion Source: Mailchimp Facebook Source: Artez Interactive Facebook Report Jan 2013 RG gifts Source: 2013 eNonProfits benchmarks report
- Open rates Source: Mailchimp Conversion rates Source: Parachute Digital Smartphone Source: Source: 2013 Adobe Digital Publishing Report
- Use TV Series, Episode analogy. Like a Book, The SLAP - characters/ chapters in the same overarching story. Great book on storytelling - The Art of Immersion, Frank Rose Sequencing of story-telling. You can use different channels to trigger action from supporters. - Social media is about awareness, "share this video with your friends" - Email - take action to stop this - DM - long-form personal account of story. Call to action to do more - Telephone appeal, give more snippets of information.
- Case Study: Greenpeace Ken & Barbie breakup (Mattel) Seeding characters/ chapters in social media or on the website first, then launching TV appeal, then using video to expand. Launch online campaign, then DM follows with a new character, or another perspective within the same character's story. Media runs with personal stories - push to online for hard facts. Action & response. Sequencing of story-telling. You can use different channels to trigger action from supporters. - Social media is about awareness, "share this video with your friends" - Email - take action to stop this - DM - long-form personal account of story. Call to action to do more - Telephone appeal, give more snippets of information.
- Digital is the great connector between channels. Case Study: WSPA and Animals Australia - export of live animals. New audiences see something on TV, reach for the phone/ iPad and search for it, find more online. Email/ SMS pushes known supporters to the website for more information. DM pushes known supporters to YouTube or website for the next chapter in the story, another character's point of view.
- Exercise: Lets map out the channels & sequencing of one of your recent campaigns Q: Will one of you let us use your most recent Christmas Appeal that you've just rolled out as an example? Q: Did you have a content plan for the appeal? For your website or on Social Media? What was your calendar of rollout of the appeal and the engagement with supporters throughout? Scripts that Supp Rels had etc.? Q: How could it have been done differently to use online?
- It’s the same strategy
- You already have an on boarding strategy - don't you? Q: but do you give your online supporters the same attention that your offline supporters get? Q: Have you implemented your on boarding strategy online at all? It's the same strategy, its just a different execution. You probably have two on boarding strategies 1. For new donors - nurturing them as part of the donor journey. We'll touch more on that later 2. For new prospects. This is what we'll focus on now. Exercise: What does your on boarding strategy look like? Let's map it out as a group - let's assume its a prospect name and address we have. What is the journey we take our prospect on? For how long? What stories and channels do we use to engage them? What do we ask them to do? When do we ask them for their first gift? What reporting do you do? What testing have you done in this space recently?
- Q: Now apply this to online. Where do you get prospects? Social Media Email subscribers Search Engine marketing Mobile app? Q: How is online any different? Only in how they are introduced to you – engagement & acquisition strategy But how do they become aware of you? Campaigns and appeals and STORIES Acquiring new supporters is easy online as you can pre-qualify them because there is SO MUCH DATA. But you need to be prepared to invest some budget into this. If you do it organically, you need many more man hours and time.
- Exercise: What does your on boarding strategy look like? Let's map it out as a group - let's assume its a prospect name and address we have. What is the journey we take our prospect on? For how long? What stories and channels do we use to engage them? What do we ask them to do? When do we ask them for their first gift?
- DONOR Journey brings us back to keeping users engaged and telling stories that interest them. It’s also about retention. Use TV Series, Episode analogy Keep the donor interested. Talk to them about only slight variations on the same thing. We’ve talked about how Online can assist in the onboarding journey. Just the same way, online can support the ongoing donor journey – namely RETENTION
- We’ve talked about how Online can assist in the onboarding journey. Just the same way, online can support the ongoing donor journey – namely RETENTION
- Exercise: You already have your Donor Journey mapped out, now we just need to insert online into that. Give them a standard Donor Journey - first month on boarding then rolling programs. Get them to use coloured texters to put an arrow where they would add in online. What channel, what message/ ask/ action?
- Case Study: Wesley Mission. I told you at the start of today's session, and used it in my book, how great the Wesley Missions integration of digital was with the Face2Face acquisition. But they didn't continue to onboard me with digital. I've been rolled straight into their direct mail program. Now I get mail. I haven't had a digital piece of communication since I signed up. I'm an online giver, but they haven't tried to activate me this way at all. When I give cash, I only ever give online. The DM might remind me, but usually it goes straight in the bin. But I react to Media and give online and I react to email and give online. They're losing additional revenue. Reduced attrition rates.
- Really, the donor journey is just about retention. And this is where online comes into the fore.
- Q: What do your retention strategies look like? Q: So how do we integrate digital into our Donor Journey and Retention strategies? How do we plan it out and track it? For how long do we plan it out?
- Be clear that I love digital and believe it is a worthy fundraising channel, but that I think it works best when integrated with the overall fundraising mix and as a support or destination channel for your other mediums. Today we're going to talk about how you can integrate Digital Marketing & Fundraising Data - make informed decisions, no guess work Storytelling - tell the donor stories they care about (the data guides this) - Leads into engagement Onboarding - strategy is no different online, its just a different way of executing it. Engagement Donor Journey - strategy is no different, its still multi-channel, just adding another channel. Might not be for all donors Retention - cheap, easy, fast, passive and active, financial and non-financial. Just part of the mix. Same strategy, just another channel in your multi-channel strategy.