Donor data often lives in silos. Reports trail behind real behavior. Personalization takes hours of manual work. For fundraising teams, it’s a constant challenge to turn insights into action. For one nationally recognized pediatric healthcare organization, these challenges were compounded by the need to ensure every outreach effort was efficient, relevant, and HIPAA compliant. This organization set out to solve a familiar problem in fundraising: how to connect donor insights directly to marketing execution without adding more strain on their teams. To do this, they turned to two of their […]
We like to talk a lot about list verification and cleansing in the email marketing industry. It’s one of those marketing best practices that can make a real difference to your deliverability, campaign engagement, and return on investment. But talk is cheap. How many of us are actually doing it? While many email marketers understand the importance of list verification and cleansing, they also see it as a chore. It’s like painting your bathroom ceiling or tidying your garage, there’s always something better to do. If only there were a […]
As wacky as some of our marketing ideas get, there is always a rhyme or reason behind our actions. As marketers, we aren’t just chasing down anyone who stops by our storefront, whether virtually or physically. We understand that the most effective way to grow a business is to use a lead scoring model. A properly fleshed out lead scoring model is one of the most impactful strategies to put in place to keep track of where your potential clients and customers are in the sales funnel. This is a […]
It’s a question that email marketers have been asking for almost as long as we’ve been sending emails. Should I collect every email that legitimately comes my way and maximize the size of my lists? Or should I adopt a double opt-in strategy and risk losing potential subscribers with an additional step in the sign-up process, but guarantee the quality of my lists? A single opt-in strategy can indeed help you build your lists approximately 20-25% faster than a more robust double opt-in process. But does this growth come at a cost? If you had asked me a few years ago what my preference was, I’d have erred on the side […]
You may have noticed a couple of small, but extremely useful, updates to the emfluence Marketing Platform. If not, read below and find a couple of new tricks in looking at your data! Contact Details Now when you are viewing the Contact Details of an individual contact record, all groups which that contact is a member of will migrate to the top of the list. You will also see a new search bar allowing you to search the column for other groups which you may want to add that contact. […]
