It's Time to Optimize and Innovate our Peer-to-Peer Events

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Slides from the session of the same name at the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Fundraising Day New York conference, June 2012.

Transcript of It's Time to Optimize and Innovate our Peer-to-Peer Events

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Optimize and Innovate Peer-to-Peer Events

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Presenters

Melissa LeeAccount Director

SankyNet

Kelley StewartVice President

Pursuant Ketchum

[email protected]

@expetesso

[email protected]

@pursuant

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What is Peer to Peer?

Forget about “Best Practices”.

Forget about your “Competition”.

Before you get excited, ask yourself:

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Before you get excited, ask yourself:

What role does Peer to Peer play in MY portfolio?

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Acquisition

• Team Captains/Leaders

• Participants

Acquisition Empower don’t enforce

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• Participants

• Donors (via your TC/TL

and Participants)

• Data

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Acquisition

Acquisition Think outside your box

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Fall Acquisition Campaign generated 710 new members in less than 2 weeks

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Prospects, in this sense, are:

• Registered Leaders who aren’t recruiting

• Registered Participants who aren’t

Conversion

Prospects Active Participants

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• Registered Participants who aren’t

fundraising

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Provide access to information & tools via low-touch vehicles

Conversion

Prospects Active Participants

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Then follow-up via high-touch vehicles to gauge effectiveness

Conversion

Prospects Active Participants

• Indicate what you’ve observed.

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• Indicate what you’ve observed.

• Give the person time to respond

with information.

• Score their response, and support

them as necessary.

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Lapsed Participants Active Participants

Reactivation

1. Assume everyone will lapse. 2. Begin reactivation efforts immediately – with the post-event Thank You.

3. Score as you go.

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• Event After Party

• Post-Event Thank You

• Survey about the Event

• Social Media touches

• Email Invitation series

• Direct Mail Invitation (singular or series)• Telephone Invitation

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Lapsed Participants Active Supporters

Reactivation

• Survey about the Organization

If scoring indicates that a contact will not reactivate as a participant, focus

your efforts on winning them to the organization in new ways.

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• Survey about the Organization

• Connect them to staff or volunteers

DO NOT sit on lapsed participants

whom you know to be organizational

prospects.

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Upgrade

Peer to Peer Donor Organization Donor

Peer-to-Peer donors usually have an

affinity to your cause, but they give to their

friends, not to your organization.

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friends, not to your organization.

So don’t treat them like your donors.

Take some time to cultivate them

independently, first.

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Peer to Peer Donor Organization Donor

• Thank them for what they’ve done.

• Acknowledge the connection to their friend.

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their friend.

• Build a connection to the peoplewho benefit from your organization.

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Peer to Peer Donor Organization Donor

• Tell stories about your work.

• Track the interest and engagement of individuals over time.

Which story attracted

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• Use what you learn to inform very targeted appeals 6 months later.

Which story attracted

attention from your

peer-to-peer donor?

Use the information to

target your appeal.

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VideoVideo is a powerful tool use it carefully

• Games

• Variable Data/Personalization

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Personalization

• Stewardship

• Appeals

• Recruitment

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Innovation

Innovation Requires an innovative culture

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Integrated StrategiesMulti-Channel Cross Channel Strategic Focus

Integration: Coordinating or blending a group of parts into a unified system

Multichannel Marketing: Use of multiple communication

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Cross-Channel Marketing: Use of one communication channel to support or promote another

Strategy vs. Tactics: An overarching plan vs. tools or methods to achieve the plan

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Prioritization

Personal URL

(Direct Mail)

Personalized

Letter

Website

DATA

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Cultivation

Email

Survey/Engagement

Phone Conversation

StewardshipPersonalized

Update

DATA

Welcome

Series

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Analytics & Optimization

• Make data a priority

• Set measurable goals

Analytics Activate Test Evaluate

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• Set measurable goals

• Prioritize based on impact

• Track your participant life cycle.

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AVERAGE

Analytics & Optimization

• Know what you’re tracking

Optimization > Track > Plan > Test > Adjust

AVERAGE GIFT

WEB

TRAFFIC

REVENUE

CONVERSION

RATE

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• Assess areas of greatest opportunity

• Prioritize based on impact

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Analytics & Optimization

Destructive Crises Proactive Urgency

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Pick Your Puzzle Piece

• Acquisition

• Conversion

• Reactivation• Upgrade • Video

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• Video

• Innovation

• Integrated Strategies

• Prioritization

• Analytics & Optimization

Free resources available upon request

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Thank You!

Melissa LeeAccount Director

SankyNet

Kelley StewartVice President

Pursuant Ketchum

[email protected]

@expetesso

[email protected]

@pursuant

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