Presentation Summary:
Come to this session and walk a mile in your donor's shoes. We'll walk you through the donor conversion funnel - from the donor's perspective - from awareness to engagement to transaction, and help you understand how to use specific tactics to create your ideal donor multi-channel funnel. You'll learn how content marketing, advertising, social media, mobile and conversion optimization collaborate and integrate to form the funnel that drives a prospect to become your donor.
Learning Outcome #1:
Understand what a donor prospect sees during the process of first becoming interested in a cause, through finding a nonprofit, and finally making a donation
Learning Outcome #2:
See how different marketing strategies impact each other and eventually lead to compounding results
Learning Outcome #3:
Understand how collaboration is vital to success and apply learned tips and tactics to your fundraising efforts
- Liz Murphy, Founder, RedEngine Digital @lizred
- Rosa Del Angel, VP of Strategy, RedEngine Digital, @rdelangel
- Brian Rogel, Associate Director of SEO and SEM, RedEngine Digital, @BrianRogel
Digital and Social Media Marketing: Digital Strategies for Promoting and Prot...
Walk in Your Donor Prospect's Shoes and Learn How to Drive Them to Action - RedEngine Digital at 2014 Bridge Conference
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Walk in Your Donor
Prospect's Shoes and Learn
How to Drive Them to Action
Liz Murphy, Founder, RedEngine Digital
@lizred
Rosa Del Angel, VP of Strategy, RedEngine Digital,
@rdelangel
Brian Rogel, Associate Director of SEO and SEM,
RedEngine Digital, @BrianRogel
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Welcome the Digital Marketing Trifecta
PAID MEDIA
Paid search (PPC)
Display
Social Advertising
Mobile app ads
Email buys
EARNED MEDIA
SEO, Social media
(retweets, likes, pins,
shares, reputation
Management)
Mobile (shares,
reviews)
OWNED MEDIA
Mobile (apps, games)
Website content
Email
Social (FB pages,
blogs, Twitter
accounts, Pinterest,
Tumblr, etc.)
Mobile alerts
PAID/EARNED MEDIA
Social media ads,
shares, likes,
reputation management,
Mobile app ads, shares,
reviews
PAID/OWNED MEDIA
Mobile, apps,
games,
social media ads,
Twitter content,
blogs
EARNED/OWNED
MEDIA
Social, likes, shares,
retweets, mobile app ads,
shares, reviews
EARNED/
PAID/
OWNED
MEDIA
Social (ads,
blogs,
shares,
sponsored content)
Mobile apps
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What is a Conversion Funnel?
“Conversion funnel is a technical term
used in e-commerce operations to
describe the track a consumer takes
through an Internet advertising or search
system, navigating an e-commerce
website and finally converting to a sale.”
-Wikipedia
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Top of the Funnel
Strategies
Non-Branded Search Marketing
(SEO and PPC)
Display Advertising/Social
Media Advertising (Including Online Video)
Content Marketing
Video Marketing
Offline Marketing – Direct Mail/DRTV/Radio/Print
Advertising/Telemarketing/Events
Partnerships
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Top of the Funnel – American Diabetes
Association
Goal: Improve the amount of new online donors
Strategy: Increased prospecting within the display advertising
campaign
Results: Display brought 66% new online donors which was
a greater % of new donors than any other channel
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Top of the Funnel – Non-Branded Content
– Catholic Relief Services
40.47% of organic
traffic traffic to Catholic
Relief Services comes
from non-branded
keywords.
82.77% of non-branded
traffic comes from new
visitors
• what is aids and hiv
• prayers for the Philippines
• catholic service organizations
• catholic donations
• catholic refugee services
• catholic relief fund
• relief services
• food and hunger
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Top of the Funnel – Safe Kids USA
80% increase in
number of fans as a
result of FB ads
3,000 very qualified
new email addresses
from email sign up in
landing page.
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Middle of the Funnel
Strategies
Branded Search Marketing
(SEO and PPC)
Email Marketing/Email Subscriptions
Direct Mail
Telemarketing (Upsell)
Social Media Marketing
Remarketing/Retargeting
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Middle of the Funnel – Special Olympics
Goal: Improve the conversion rate of people who previously visited the
Special Olympics Website
Strategy: Ran a remarketing campaign and then used an A/B test to
gauge its impact
Results: The remarketing test group achieved a 330.81% higher
conversion rate than the control group that was not shown remarketing
ads
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Middle of the Funnel – American
Diabetes Association, Paid Search (SEM)
Using Grants and Paid search
the SEM campaign
received100% of the search
impression share on branded
terms during an EOY
campaign
As a result, search raised
$456,000 with 397% ROI
Revenue was up 64% over
previous year
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Bottom of the
Funnel Strategies
Conversion Optimization/Landing Page Optimization
Post-Conversion Marketing
Attribution Reporting/Analytics
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Bottom of the Funnel - CARE
Goal: Improve conversion rates and average gift
Strategy: Ran an A/B test between an end-of-year donation form vs. a splash
page with more information about CARE which linked to the donation form
Results: Visitors sent to the splash page were 47% more likely to donate and had
an average gift $69 higher than visitors sent to the donation form
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Bottom of the Funnel - HSUS
Lightbox test helped identify highest performing creative for EOY.
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Facebook EOY CRM Retargeting
• Facebook CRM ads targeting direct mail donors,
lapsed donors and non-donors
• Test Group A featured donors who received a
Matching Gift direct mail package AND were served
Facebook ads
• Test Group B included lapsed donors and non-donors
who received a non-Matching Gift direct mail piece
AND were served Facebook ads
• 2 Control groups (donor and non) who did not see
Facebook ads
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Facebook EOY CRM Retargeting
• For donors, FB ads generated 153% ROI with
online gifts, plus small avg gift increase in mail
• For non-donors, FB ads lifted avg gift in mail by
nearly 20% and generated 21% more revenue
than DM group who did not see ads. for every $1
spent online, we raised $8.50 in the mail.
• Match rate from Facebook was 50%
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Funnel Synergy – American Diabetes
Association, Integrated Email & DM
Direct Mail
Donors Pre-
Email
Direct Mail
Donors Post-Email
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ADA Matching Gift Campaign
• 2-email series to 20,000 direct mail donors – two
segments
• 4-email series to house file and DM donors got emails
#2-4 (suppressed from email #1)
• Pre- and post-emails integrated with direct mail
campaign (DM included GA tagged vanity url for online
donations)
• Pre-email sent March 5
• Direct mail in home March 8-15
• Post email sent March 19
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A $20K Surprising Result!
• Small return via email and 5% lift in DM giving
• BUT $20,105 attributable revenue came in via the vanity
URL donation form
• DM donors who received emails were 3x more likely to
give online and give a gift 32% higher than those who
didn’t receive emails
• Many first-time online gifts from this group
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Email was a huge influencer
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Number of Donations via Vanity URL by Date
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Direct Mail
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(mailed
3/2/2013)
3/19/2013
Post Direct
Mail Email
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Email #2
Deploys
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Email #3
Deploys
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Full Funnel Strategy – CARE EOY
CARE EOY Funnel Strategy
Top Funnel: Display & SEO
Middle Funnel: PPC & Retargeting
Bottom Funnel: LPO
The EOY integrated campaign
raised a total of $538,169 which
increased revenue by 60% year-
over-year.
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Thank you!
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Hinweis der Redaktion
What will we be covering in this session:
Changes in digital consumption, changes in digital
Understand what a donor prospect sees during the process of first becoming interested in a cause, through finding a nonprofit, and finally making a donation
Walk you through the marketing funnel with specific examples from different nonprofits
Total digital consumption has nearly doubled in the past 3 years
In 2013, 86% of American adults use the internet, up from just 14% in 1995.PewResearch Internet Project
-- comScore
Customers are oblivious to channels. All they want is to be able to buy something, when, where, and how they choose.
Removing business silos to give customers access to their entire product range no matter what device they are using and providing a "joined up" experience across Web, mobile, and offline is a must.
ClickZ, The Future of Digital Retail
Digital Marketing Budgets Increase, Reflecting New Focus on Customer Experience:
The bulk of new marketing spending in 2013 was in digital channels.
About 20 to 23 percent of marketing spending overall is digital spend
Winterberry Group analysis
Overall charitable giving grew 4.9% in 2013, while online giving grew 13.5%.
Online giving accounted for 6.4% of all charitable giving in 2013.
Blackbaud 2013 Charitable ReportInternet fundraising grew by roughly 13 percent last year, according to a survey of 100 of the largest nonprofits conducted by The Chronicle.
http://philanthropy.com/article/Online-Fundraising-Goes/146619/
Photo: Cuddling with multiple devices CC BY 2.0
Digital omnivores are consumers who are able to engage seamlessly with a steady stream of digital content across different platforms
comScore, The Rise of Digital Omnivores
Photo by Vinoth Chandar / CC BY 2.0: https://flic.kr/p/ddBxmW
So What Do We Need to Engage Donors and prospects Today?
Quote from Accenture
Multichannel MKT is necessary to engage the multi-touch point consumer
Engaging the New Omnichannel Consumer
Say Goodbye to Digital Silos
Photo, Google, Universal Analytics
Welcome the Digital Marketing Trifecta
OK, we get it, so how do we go from media silos to a donor-centric approach?
Photo: Bizio
People who are unaware of or have yet to interact with your organization
60% from branded organic traffic.
60% from branded organic traffic.
Audience Question: Who do you think are the people in the middle of the funnel?
A: People who are aware of or have previously interacted with the organization (Leads)
We utilized paid search efforts across AdWords and Bing and supported those with Google Grants efforts as well. We primarily utilized the Grants campaigns for keyword and ad copy testing. When we looked at the previous year’s performance we identified several ways to maximize branded keyword results. With an increased budget we were able to get a 100% of the search impression share on branded terms. Additionally, we developed ad copy to increase our click-through rate on
traffic. And in order to keep our targeted audiences engaged Top Ad Copy and our messages relevant, we rotated in new ads that focused on tax-deduction and urgency of giving the closer we got to December 31.
People on an organization’s website who have a goal of donating (Customers)
Goal: Improve conversion rates and average gift
Strategy: Ran a test splitting traffic between two landing pages—one, an end-of-year donation form; the other, a splash page with more information about CARE which then linked to the donation form
Results: Visitors who were sent to the splash page were 47% more likely to donate and had an average gift that was $69 higher than those visitors sent directly to the donation form
Testing groups
Would direct mail supporters give more if they received an email and how would it affect their direct mail response and average gift?
Used GA and Convio to track and analyze.
After some digging into Convio…
Pulled the transaction records to the DM forms for previous donors and existing constituents for whom this was a first time gift
The Multiplier Effect of Integrating Search & Social Advertising, Marin Software
The EOY integrated Display + SEM campaign raised a total of $538,169 with a ROAS of 608%.
Revenue increased by 60% at EOY 2013 vs. EOY 2012.
Our strategy was to increase revenue during December 2013 by using a strategic mix of display advertising and paid search ads. The display campaigns drove brand awareness to “fill the upper funnel” (prospects who are early in their consideration life cycle, they have not made up their mind regarding when and who to donate to) and increase search volume at one of the most important times of the year for charitable giving.
OK, we get it, so how do we go from media silos to a donor-centric approach?
Photo: Google
As an example, GA is last touch
Photo: Google
OK, we get it, so how do we go from media silos to a donor-centric approach?
Photo: Google
Photo: Google
Desktop is still bringing majority of donations for most nonprofits, but visits from mobile devices are increasing. This data is for December 2013, where 20.34% of visits came from mobile devices but only 6.32% of revenue as a result of mobile visits.
Track donor engagement across devices
Select the right tools, including payment tools
Develop native content for mobile, like coupons and mobile-friendly content
Track donor engagement across devices
Select the right tools, including payment tools
Develop native content for mobile, like coupons and mobile-friendly content
Track donor engagement across devices
Select the right tools, including payment tools
Develop native content for mobile, like coupons and mobile-friendly content