It’s time to move beyond open, click through, and unsubscribe rates when measuring our email marketing performance. Here’s my idea.
Start looking at revenue and activity. Did your email inspire participants to fundraise? How much was raised after you sent your email? Give it a couple days to see how much revenue was generated. If you’re sending one of my favorite task based emails, did participants take action? Compare the number of participants who personalized their webpage before and after your email. This is will tell you if your email was effective. If you asked participants to send emails, again run a participant detail report to see if they actually sent emails. Also check the conversion rate. How many participant emails resulted in a donations? There’s a ton of cool reports you can run to measure participant activity and these results should be connected to your marketing efforts.
Here’s today’s tip. After running your revenue and performance reports add the results to your marketing calendar. Over the course of your event keep track of your results. This will help when analyzing your overall event performance and planning for the next year.
Opens, clicks, and unsubscribes are important, but it’s time to see if your marketing and communications are effective. Revenue and participant activity is the way to go.
By Amy Braiterman on Jan 13, 2012
Tagged: Analytics data data mining event fundraising fundraising Non-Profit nonprofit Strategy