Leverage Your Influencers to Drive Social Media Engagement
Dan Gillett & Tim Kachuriak - Social Fundraising Strategy and Success Stories
1. #SM4NP @KimbiaInc @DigitalDonor
SOCIAL FUNDRAISING STRATEGY
AND SUCCESS STORIES
DAN GILLETT AND TIM KACHURIAK, KIMBIA INC.
How Nonprofits Can Leverage Social Media to Acquire New
Relationships, Convert New Donors, and Raise More Dollars
10. Results
• $2.1 million dollars raised in 36 hours
• 3rd highest Twitter trend in local market
• 25% new donors to nonprofits
• 247,000 search results on Google post event
• Donations from 48 states & 7 countries
32. The KMA Bowl: The Results
• 18% - Response Rate - Post Card
• 2,087% - Increase in Response Through Social
Media
• 408% - Total Effective DM Response Rate
• 12 degrees - Sharing penetration
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35. INTERNAL RELEVANCE:
•Name Personalization
• Organization
• Favorite Team
EXTERNAL RELEVANCE:
• Super Bowl Week
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36. Incentive
Nonprofit Incentive: User Incentive:
– Most points wins
$5,000 donation – Most individual yards
– The more players, the wins an iPad 3G
faster your team
racks up points – You can only call one
– Drives users to share play per day
with friends and – Drives users to visit site
recruit as many
players as possible every day to rack up the
most yards as possible
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37. Keys Principles
• Start by defining the ultimate goal
– KMA Bowl: Generate excitement for new capabilities
• Look to the data to determine relevance
– Internal Relevance: applied through segmentation
– External Relevance: applied across segments
• Lead with an idea that is not about you
• Develop incentives to drive the right actions
• Social integration is the key ingredient
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39. Moody Radio Strategic Goals
• Name and Email Acquisition
Empower existing constituents and donors to recruit others
Engage current radio listeners
Capture email addresses for existing donors and friends
• Community Outreach and Involvement
Encourage and reward “racers” to visit local business
Develop partnerships with local businesses to promote the
event
• Market Research
Capture demographic and psychographic data
• Brand Engagement
Introduce “racers” to full suite of Moody web resources
• Enhanced Brand Positioning
Provides an example of Moody’s innovation to marketplace
40. The Moody “Virtual Marathon”
• An Incentivized Viral Acquisition Campaign designed
to create excitement for Moody and the local
community
Designed to target and empower the “Connected
Authorities”
• Crafted to target the ideal target audience based on
Scarborough Research
Women 44+
Spend 10+ hours per week online
More likely to visit social networking sites
Interested in jogging and running
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48. Key Strategic Insights
1. Leveraging Social Media to Grow Your Email Lists
2. Engagement Halo Effect of Social Gaming
3. Downstream Power of Recruiting
49. Key Strategic Insights
1. Leveraging Social Media to Grow Your Email
Lists
2. Engagement Halo Effect of Social Gaming
3. Downstream Power of Recruiting
51. Key Strategic Insights
1. Leveraging Social Media to Grow Your Email Lists
2. Engagement Halo Effect of Social Gaming
3. Downstream Power of Recruiting
52. Engagement Halo Effect of Social Media
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53. Key Strategic Insights
1. Leveraging Social Media to Grow Your Email Lists
2. Engagement Halo Effect of Social Gaming
3. Downstream Power of Recruiting
54. Downstream Power of Recruiting
Starting with one person, who found the site through an organic Google search…
60 Recruits
90 Recruits 522 Recruits
458 Recruits
1,131
Participants
55. Things That You Can Do Tomorrow
1. Get to know your audience
a) What do your web site visitors like?
b) Quantcast data
c) Facebook Insights
2. Develop an *idea* that resonates with your
audience
a) Goal is to be loved, not liked
b) You are in the inspiration business!
3. Testing trumps best practices
a) Get acquainted with failure
b) Become a marketing philosopher
I am a fundraising scientist. My job is to challenge best practices by performing fundraising experiments. The goal of these experiments is to understand why people say “Yes!” So I guess in a way, I am a philosopher as well. I learn from the world around me. I want to share with you something I learned over the past 2 years that I think has a lot of relevance to our conversation today.
As I reflected on that, I wondered how the same concept might be applied to integrated marketing. There’s a big difference between “integrated marketing” and “multichannel” marketing. Multichannel just means you are conveying the same message through multiple channels. Integrated means that you are combining channels to create an experience that is more than just the sum of its parts. The goal is to leverage the best of each channel– in the right measure, and under the right conditions– to bake a cake.
So here’s the first experiment with that idea. In this example, I wanted to see if it was possible to effectively launch a social gaming campaign from a direct mail post card. Note: the company that worked at at the time was primarily a direct mail company, so this campaign was as much to show them the power of social media as it was to show our nonprofit clients. The timing for this campaign was in early January 2010 and the Super Bowl was right around the corner. That year, it happened to be in Dallas which is where KMA is located. So I decided to use the Super Bowl as the creative construct for the campaign.
Listener-Funded nonprofit radio network. 12 markets across the country.
Primary Goal– Acquiring New Email Addresses through Social Media Referrals
Incentivized is a keyword here. The goal is to create an experience that leads to behaviors that allow people to discover your unique value proposition. One of my mentors once told me, “Tell me…Show me…allow me to experience.” The experiment here was, can you create a experience that helps your existing and potential donors engage more deeply with your organization?
Competition is such a powerful motivator. Adding the element of a scoreboard helped to motivate people to stay engaged in the campaign.
Visitors could sign up to participate by filling out a form or by “logging in” with their Facebook account. - Integration with Facebook provided us with access to email address as well as other profile information.