by Bill Jacobs | Feb 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Seems like one of the constant topics in the nonprofit blogosphere is this idea of growing your donor base through providing volunteer opportunities. My personal experience has been quite the opposite really. Being an introverted analyst, I am always hesitant to...
by Alanna Shores | Jan 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week I talked about lift, increasing revenue by raising more from the donors you already have. There are two driving forces to “lift”, increasing gift size or increasing frequency. Is there a way to encourage donors to give smaller gifts more often, increasing...
by Alanna Shores | Jan 17, 2020 | Direct Mail, nonprofit analytics, Uncategorized
Here at analytical ones we have identified three key ways to grow revenue: Win more donorsLift the performance of the donors you already haveKeep more of the donors you already have We talk a lot about winning, acquisition and reactivation, but we don’t often talk...
by Bill Jacobs | Jan 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
I don’t know about you, but I received far fewer direct mail appeals this fall (between October 1st and December 31st.) Last year, I received an even 50 direct mail appeals. This year, I received only 30. That’s a 40% decrease in volume, which is significant. During...
by Bill Jacobs | Nov 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
As I’ve shared before, one of our most common analyses, sadly, is projecting what happens to a donor file’s active counts if an organization decides to discontinue new donor acquisition – after all, new donor acquisition is just too expensive. Well, today’s graph is...
by Bill Jacobs | Jun 10, 2019 | Nonprofits, Uncategorized
I saw the term “hopium” for the first time in a recent blog by Victoria Christensen and immediately became fond of the term. As Ms. Christensen defines it: hopium is a false sense of positivity in the midst of dire, evidence-based scientific research. Now, while her...
