In October, we hosted our Engaging Networks Community Conference in Washington D.C. The event brought together nonprofit pros from around North America to learn, share and connect.
It’s hard to believe ENCC DC 2022 has already come and gone. But lucky for you, whether you attended or not, you’ll be able to get a small sample of some of the best case studies and sessions from the event. With 20+ sessions and workshops, we couldn’t possibly cover them all in this blog post. So we’ve picked out a few highlights.
🧪 Using profiles to present custom donation form experience
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Zakeia Rogers, Direct Marketing Manager, Animal Legal Defense Fund tested different donation experiences and decided to move away from a unified donation form for different profiles – moving the payment information section, changing to a long scroll for non-donors, and more resulting in big improvements on their donation form abandonment rate. – with Chapman Cubine Allen + Hussey.
🤠 Wild Wild Test – how to test & optimize your website
Friends of the Earth
Testing can often feel like the wild wild west. Meg Sabatino, Senior Digital Innovation Specialist, Friends of the Earth and Cornershop Creative demystified the process with a masterclass on how to test content like CTAs, subject lines and other items in emails and websites, what tools helped most (Google Optimize among others) and what impact it has had on the Friends of the Earth efforts.
🏳️🌈 Texting for equality – a case study with HRC
Human Rights Campaign
Zoey McShane, Digital Strategy Coordinator, at the Human Rights Campaign outlines all of the best SMS practices to implement before the upcoming U.S. elections. From utilizing social pressure and sending polling information to making volunteer asks and more – with Lautman Maska Neill & Company.
🐈 From crawling to walking – 1 year on Engaging Networks
The Humane Society of the United States
The Humane Society of the United States team (Gabby Green, Director, Email Marketing, Sarah Braun, Email Marketing Manager and Chris Keane, Web Developer) talk about migrating from Blackbaud Luminate Online to Engaging Networks last year in coordination with Zuri Group. They share some easy (and not so easy) wins like donation page optimizations, symbolic giving (raised more than $80,000 so far!), custom Apple Pay tool (raised $300k in one year!) and email automations that you should have in place.
🏛️ Using next suggested gift levels on your fundraising pages for year-end or renewals
National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation team (Maan Sacdalan, Director of Digital Production & Database Management and Amanda Cline, Senior Manager of Annual Giving) tell us more about how they leveraged the Next Suggested Gift (NSG), Highest Previous Contribution (HPC), and conditional profile feature in their appeals and pages to raise their average one-time and monthly donation gift amounts to new highs!
🌊 Segmentation – the not so secret ingredient to enhance your email program
Oceana
Dive into this session to learn tips and tricks from Jess McLean, Digital Marketing Specialist at Oceana, on how segmentation helps keep their email list healthy, increased engagement (resulting in a 130% increase in revenue!), and cultivated better relations with their current and new supporters.
📈 Automating engagement
Oceana Canada
Oceana Canada (Rachelle Young, Communications Associate) and Grassriots shared the benefits of building an engagement funnel using marketing automations to help sustain activity in your email file – auditing your email program, building segments and supercharging any campaign with marketing automation strategy – giving you tools to measure and optimize performance over time.
🦜 Real-time supporter data scrubbing
Rainforest Action Network
Learn about how Rainforest Action Network and organizations working with Raise the Roots reduced the friction of their Engaging Networks pages by standardizing supporter-entered mailing addresses and phone numbers in real time. This change improved data consistency and appended 9-digit zip codes for congressional district mapping – using 4Site Studios’ new TidyContact service.
⛳ API magic
United States Golf Association (USGA)
Louie Zivkovic, Director of Data, Analytics & Development Operations, USGA walks through how his team leveraged Engaging Networks’ APIs and WordPress to build a custom membership renewal experience and improve business processes. It helped them save time, reduce donor friction and up their membership numbers – with Yeeboo Digital.
🏆 Engaging Networks presents the sustainer match game
WETA
In one of the more entertaining session of ENCC DC, Brandon Hemel, Senior Director – Data Strategy & Management, Membership Marketing & Development Services, at WETA, hosted a super fun Sustainer Match Game with a “celebrity panel” of nonprofit pros. They covered best practices for Monthly and Annual recurring giving – including the surprising stat that pre-selecting monthly giving on your donation page can increase conversions of monthly donations by up to 35%!
📧 Subscription management
White Coat Waste
Learn about how White Coat Waste Project leveraged a custom opt-out page and email marketing automations to cut down unsubscribe rates by 50%! Mackie Burr, Vice President of Online Fundraising, and her team utilized custom opt-out pages with an “opt-down” approach, first-time donor automations and more.
📧 Lessons on testing
Eugene Flynn
Hear from Eugene as he walks through testing best practices as they relate to principles, tools and Techniques to maxmize your impact
We had so much fun at ENCC DC 2022! Stay tuned for more information about our 2023 ENCC lineup being released in the coming weeks.
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