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Digital Strategies That Drive Donations For Your Nonprofit

When my friend, Scott Holthaus at Virtuous Software asked me to answer questions submitted by real nonprofit marketers and fundraisers, I said yes immediately, because these aren't hypothetical questions. They're the same ones I hear from organizations every week.

I want to share my answers here, because I think they apply far beyond any one organization.

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Growing Your Nonprofit’s Online Giving Through Storytelling

On a recent episode of the We Are For Good podcast, I had the privilege of sitting down with hosts Jon McCoy and Becky Endicott for a Working Session dedicated to one of the most asked questions in the nonprofit space right now: How do we grow online giving?

I want to recap what we covered, because I think the conversation went somewhere unexpected. And honestly, that's what made it good.

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Top 2 Reasons Why Conversion Rates Matter on Your Donation Page

Recently we talked about how to analyze and evaluate your year-end digital campaign data in order to make decisions and grow impact.

In that post, we talked a bit about conversion rates on your donation page, but today I want to dive deeper into why this metric matters so much.

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What is a donor lead scoring system?

A donor lead scoring system is a process by which a potential donor who enters your donation funnel is given a specific internal label to indicate how likely they are to convert to a donor.

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