Classy Digital Marketing Checklist Flashcards
What are 3 aspects of email, social media, and in-person engagement to think about?
- Acquisition
- Stewardship and Retention
- Increasing Commitment and Engagement
What are 4 things to ask yourself about your email-subscriber acquisition strategy?
- Is it easy to subscribe to your email list?
- Do you have any partnerships through which you can collect emails of people interested in your organization?
- Do you ask people to sign up for your newsletters after they make a personal donation, sign up for an event or create a personal fundraising page.
- Do you immediately send a confirmation and thank them for signing up for e-mails?
What are 5 things to ask yourself about your stewardship and retention strategy for email subscribers?
- Do you have a welcome series of emails for new donors?
- Do you have a distinct welcome email series for different segments of supporters?
- Do you send a newsletter on a regular cadence?
- Do you share your key brand content?
- Do you have a robust annual email strategy with defined stewardship touch-points?
What are 3 things to ask yourself about your strategy for increasing the commitment and engagement of your email subscribers?
- Are you offering your current supporters the opportunity to increase their commitment to your cause?
- Does your organization have certain committees or boards that supporters can join, such as an advisory board, host committee for annual events, or young
professionals group? - Do you send an annual survey?
How can you make it easy to subscribe to to your email list?
Give visitors the option to subscribe or opt in on your website homepage, donation page and blog posts.
Have people indicate when they subscribe, what they are interested in learning about ( e.g. specific
programs, events, volunteer opportunities).
How might you collect emails through an organizational partnership?
Send an email to thank employees who participated in a corporate peer- to-peer campaign raising funds on your behalf
People should be asked to sign up for the email newsletter after they… (3)
- Make a donation
- Sign up for an event
- Create a personal fundraising page
What are 7 possible segments of email subscribers?
First-time donors Event attendees Third-party donors acquired from peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns Recurring donors Donors acquired on Giving Tuesday Volunteers Peer-to-peer fundraisers
How often should a mid-sized organization send a newsletter and what should it include? (1+3)
Every other week or once a month.
- Community-based events.
- Opportunities to sign up to volunteer
- Volunteer or supporter spotlight describing how they connected with your nonprofit and why the cause is important to them
What is key brand content and why should it be used as part of your email strategy?
Key brand content are your videos, impact stories and photos from the field and you want them in your emails to maximize you ROI on these assets.
Your annual email strategy should have touch points related to (5):
- Cause awareness days and holidays
- Personalized dates, such as the anniversary of the supporter’s first donation
- High-level progress towards organizational milestones
- Celebratory emails sharing campaign progress or programmatic impact
- Personal emails to donors who make gifts over a certain amount, following up months later to show the tangible impact of the campaign
How could you offer donors the opportunity to increase their commitment to your cause?
- Ask one-time donors to make a recurring gift
- Ask recurring donors to increase their gift size
- Ask donors to volunteer
How could you offer volunteers the opportunity to increase their commitment to your cause?
- Ask volunteers to become peer-to-peer fundraisers
- Ask volunteers to donate to a campaign
- Ask volunteers to make a recurring gift
In what 3 ways can all of your supporters be invited to increase their commitment to your cause?
- Ask them to share you campaigns
- Ask them to share volunteer opportunities
- Encourage them to engage on Social Media
What are 3 types of committees or boards that more engaged supporters might be invited to and how might they be invited?
Advisory board, host committee for annual events, young professionals group. By Email.
What are 3 different approaches to annual surveys?
- Ask for feedback on topics, frequency, and messaging of newsletter content (i.e. Is there anything you’d like to see more or less of? Do you prefer to watch videos or read stories?)
- Ask for feedback following events
- Open it up for general feedback