A Recipe for Building a High-Performance Marketing Revenue Engine
How UNICEF USA boosted donations by 300% with mission-aligned, micro-targeted marketing The most successful marketing leaders I know naturally want to go, to do, to act. They’re instinctively ambitious and they’ve honed their edge by being productively impatient — leading instead of following, proactively chasing opportunities instead of reactively dealing with challenges. But in the most successful marketing transformations I’ve been a part, I’ve seen marketing leaders harness their impulse toward...
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A Recipe for Building a High-Performance Marketing Revenue Engine
How UNICEF USA boosted donations by 300% with mission-aligned, micro-targeted marketing The most successful marketing leaders I know naturally want to go, to do, to act. They’re instinctively ambitious and they’ve honed their edge by being productively impatient — leading instead of following, proactively chasing opportunities instead of reactively dealing with challenges. But in the most successful marketing transformations I’ve been a part, I’ve seen marketing leaders harness their impulse toward...
How First-Party Data Transformation Helps Build Competitive Advantage
Marketing leaders can hardly escape all the talk about first-party data today: the need to focus on first-party data, to capture it, activate it and drive marketing transformation. When it comes to the why the answer is almost always, “Because you have to,” backed up by warnings about the shift to privacy, the cookieless future, etc. But nobody ever got to the top by simply following what others tell them they have to do. The trust is first-party data isn’t a next-best alternative — it’s the fuel...
Get Your E-Commerce Business Growing with Recommendations AI
Learn how Google Recommendations AI can drive new e-commerce success—using your own first-party data Why to read: Understand how a product recommendation engine is a powerful first-party data strategy to drive better personalization—without cookies or third-party dataSee how Google Recommendations AI provides an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective way to get started with personalized product recommendationsLearn how established e-commerce organizations can use Recommendations AI to drive new growthSee how...
Create Personalized NFP Landing Pages: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn how implementing a tailored page for each initiative can help maximize your marketing and advertising investments. Previously in this series, we discussed that donation growth comes from personalization driven by the right first-party data strategy, how NFPs can develop initiative "flags" in their marketing warehouses to enable personalization through data, and the importance of ad creative personalization. In this article, we will address the importance of landing page personalization. Landing pages...
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...
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