This document discusses tactics for engaging website and email users, including:
- Using social media feeds and sharing on websites and confirmation pages.
- Segmenting mailings and customizing content in newsletters, surveys, and prompts.
- Sending automated email series after donations, registrations, or to welcome new donors/registrants with updates over 3 weeks.
- Testing emails using A/B testing and ensuring emails display properly on different devices.
- Allowing opt-outs of specific campaigns instead of full unsubscriptions and promoting social media as an alternative connection channel.
2. Current Tactics
Social Media
Feed on Home Page
Robust Social Media Connect Page
Providing Relevant Content
Segmented Mailing
Conditional Content in Newsletters
Personalized Content
Surveys
Personalized Prompts for Further Engagement
7. Email Tactics
3 Weeks Later3 Weeks Later
Additional Ways to Connect blog, social
media links
2 Weeks Later2 Weeks Later
Update Progress Email (info-graphic)
1 Week Later1 Week Later
Who We Are Email
DonationDonation
Welcome Campaign for
Donors and Registrants
(Automatic Email Series)
Each email in the series is
set up as a weekly
scheduled email.
The email pulls its mailing
list from a dynamic query.
(For example, the first email in
the series would pull a query
that identifies first time donors
that made a donation in the
last 7 days.
8. Email Tactics
Welcome Series Data
People who open one of your Welcome Series emails are 20%30% more
likely to open emails long term.1
The average open rate for Welcome emails is 50%, making them 86% more
effective than email newsletters.2
Subscribers that receive a Welcome note show 33% more long term brand
engagement.3
88% of the top non-profits do NOT send a Welcome series;4 however,
automated Welcome email is a no-brainer.
1 http://powerthruconsulting.com/case-studies/whats-email-welcome-series-worth/
2 Marketing Sherpa
3 Cheifmarketer.com
4 Online Fundraising sponsored by Dunham + Company
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9. Email Tactics
Types of Triggered Email Series
Email signup welcome series
Donation welcome series
Event registration welcome series
Community signup welcome series
Membership purchase welcome series
Membership expiring series
Monthly donor credit card expiring series
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10. Email Tactics
Testing Emails Using a/b Testing Tool
1. Target audience
2. Landing page
3. Subject line
4. Call-to-action link
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11. Email Tactics
Engagement Reading Environment
There are third party tools available that help you test for all kinds of
readers and devices and can also supplement your email reports.
They work with your current email service provider tools.
Emailonacid.com
Litmus.com
12. Email Tactics
Robust Opt-Out Page
Associate e-mails
with campaigns so
constituents can
opt-out from that
campaign instead
of unsubscribing
altogether.
Promote social
media
as another channel
through which to stay
connected.
Different
subscriptions are
created by using
attributes.