Personalize Your NFP Ad Creative: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn more about creating personalized campaigns, using programmatic advertising as an example. So far in our NFP series, we discussed how a strong first-party data strategy will allow your NFP to group existing core audiences by implicit or explicit signals into logical interest groups or "initiatives," and how your internal or agency Media teams can upload these segmented audiences into their media platforms for search, display, social and other digital platforms, and execute personalized advertising that...
Use Segmentation to Target Donor Interests: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn how to export your segmented audiences to ad platforms—and power personalized advertising. The first article in this series, Improve Performance with Personalization, described how your NFP can “flip the script” with traditional channels (direct mail, email) and personalize messaging to resonate better with your core audiences. Now, let's talk about integration among direct mail, email and digital—in other words, how to deploy a personalization-driven omnichannel strategy. What do we mean by a...
Enrich Core Donor Files with Data Flags: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn how initiative-based data can help power personalization, increase advertising ROAS, and grow donation volume. In our previous article, Improve Performance with Personalization, we made a case for declining performance in DM and EM being driven by lack of personalization. To be more specific, we believe that lack of "cause-centric" flags in your first-party core donor files—and the inability to segment DM, EM or digital files by what donors care most about—is holding back performance. In...
Improve Performance with Personalization: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn why personalization across direct mail, email and all digital channels is the key to donation growth. As the inaugural chapter in our NFP-centric series, this article has one singular goal: to make a case for personalization as the key to improving direct mail and email performance. We recognize that NFPs must lean on digital to attract net-new donors, such as Millennials, who will donate on a recurring monthly basis. However, we also strongly believe that an omnichannel approach to marketing and...
The DELVE Manifesto: Not for Profit Transformation
How DELVE's "data first, advertising second" model helps NFPs attract net-new and younger donors—and drive donation growth. At DELVE, we recognize that marketing and advertising budgets are some of the biggest expense line items for many Not for Profit organizations. We're also very aware that the work that we perform for our NFP clients must have a very direct, measurable impact on marketing and advertising performance. And, of course, we believe in doing things the right way—which is why our motto is...
Branding After COVID: Restoring Trust Through Purpose and Meaningful Action
On July 14, 2021, DELVE hosted a webinar with UNICEF USA, Virgin Voyages, and branding agency, Mother, to discuss how brands can restore trust after the COVID pandemic. During the webinar, we discussed: Why consumers expect businesses and NGOs to be a force for positive changeHow businesses and NGOs can lead change during the post-COVID trust and information bankruptcyHow businesses and NGOs can re-establish trust in channels such as search engines, traditional media, owned media and social mediaHow...
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