Tips for thinking about and utilizing the data you collect about your constituents and supporters. Presented in the context of the open source CRM, CiviCRM.org but generally applicable. http://civi.cc/cividc http://www.meetup.com/net2dc/ http://civicrm.org
How to add value to your contact list and target your outreach efforts.
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NetSquared CiviCRM User Group Meetup May 27 2014
1. Michael Z Daryabeygi
Ginkgo Street Labs
http://ginkgostreet.com
202-400-3911
@ginkgoMZD
(twitter / LinkedIn / #CiviCRM IRC / ginkgostreet.com)
4. Community Driven & Open Source
Stores info about your supporters
A little about CiviCRM.org
5. Community Driven & Open Source
Stores info about your supporters
A team player - a clearinghouse for your
data ecosystem
A little about CiviCRM.org
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16. - Your Campaigns
- Types of participation
- Contact Preferences, where, when, how
Interests & Preferences
17. - Your Campaigns
- Types of participation
- Contact Preferences, where, when, how
- Personalized (prefixes, pronouns)
Interests & Preferences
18. - Your Campaigns
- Types of participation
- Contact Preferences, where, when, how
- Personalized (prefixes, pronouns)
- Visibility of their data (to your staff, your
volunteers, other supporters)
Interests & Preferences
19. - Your Campaigns
- Types of participation
- Contact Preferences, where, when, how
- Personalized (prefixes, pronouns)
- Visibility of their data (to your staff, your
volunteers, other supporters)
- Currency or means of giving financially
Interests & Preferences
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25. - How and when did you get their contact info?
History
26. - How and when did you get their contact info?
- What events have they attended?
History
27. - How and when did you get their contact info?
- What events have they attended?
- What is their giving history and pattern?
History
28. - How and when did you get their contact info?
- What events have they attended?
- What is their giving history and pattern?
- How frequently have they participated
History
29. - How and when did you get their contact info?
- What events have they attended?
- What is their giving history and pattern?
- How frequently have they participated
- How have you contacted them?
History
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30. - Other data within CiviCRM
- Integrated Website (CMS)
- Integrated Services
Linking with other Stores
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31. Before you decide how to store your data
its useful to know how it can be usedused
and think about how it will be collected.collected.
Storing your Data
33. - CMS form integrations
How does CiviCRM facilitate collection?
34. - CMS form integrations
- Special-purpose forms
How does CiviCRM facilitate collection?
35. - CMS form integrations
- Special-purpose forms
- API for coder extension
How does CiviCRM facilitate collection?
36. - CMS form integrations
- Special-purpose forms
- API for coder extension
- Click-tracking for email
How does CiviCRM facilitate collection?
37. - CMS form integrations
- Special-purpose forms
- API for coder extension
- Click-tracking for email
- Imports/Uploads
How does CiviCRM facilitate collection?
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40. - dont treat all supporters the same
Using your Data - Segmentation
41. - dont treat all supporters the same
- know what they are ready to act on
Using your Data - Segmentation
42. - dont treat all supporters the same
- know what they are ready to act on
- target your messaging
Using your Data - Segmentation
43. - dont treat all supporters the same
- know what they are ready to act on
- target your messaging
- target your efforts and measure the results
Using your Data - Segmentation
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45. (Static) Groups
- Allow for arbitrary (explicit) group membership
Using your Data Segmentation
46. (Static) Groups
- Allow for arbitrary (explicit) group membership
- Allows for a group-hierarchy (sub-groups or
implicitly included groups)
Using your Data Segmentation
47. (Static) Groups
- Allow for arbitrary (explicit) group membership
- Allows for a group-hierarchy (sub-groups or
implicitly included groups)
- e.g. Board Members and committees
Using your Data Segmentation
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49. (Dynamic) Smart Groups
- A Saved Search
- Based off of contact properties, so auto-updates
membership
Using your Data - Segmentation
50. (Dynamic) Smart Groups
- A Saved Search
- Based off of contact properties, so auto-updates
membership
- Sorts your supporters as you learn about them
or their info changes
Using your Data - Segmentation
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51. Use groups for targeted mailings or other
types of contact
Using your Data
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52. Select segments by contact properties
- Giving History
- Event participation
- Demographics or preferences
Using your Data
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58. How well does it support creation of groups?
- Free-text not very useful for segmentation
- What is the degree of difficulty of obtaining the
data?
Planning Data Collection
59. Registrations, Donations, Email clicks, triggered
api logging
vs.
- Required filling out a form (website or paper)
- Parsing out by staff
- Have to implement new infrastructure
Planning Data Collection
60. Better strategies for gathering data:
- Hold an event, and see who shows up
- See who registers, even if they dont show up
- Which program link in an email do they click?
- Other suggestions?...
Using your Data
61. More ways to collect data
- Campaign
- Surveys
- Events
- Volunteer
- Donations
- Phone Banks
- Canvassing
62. Thank You!
Michael Z Daryabeygi
Ginkgo Street Labs
http://ginkgostreet.com
202-400-3911
@ginkgoMZD
(twitter / LinkedIn / #CiviCRM IRC / ginkgostreet.com)