Success and measurement go hand-in-hand. Unless you’re measuring every aspect of your organization, you can’t possibly know if you’re succeeding or failing. You can’t even set realistic goals for the future unless you’ve measured where you are now and where you’ve been in the past.
Bottom line, measurement helps you determine your success or failure, allocate funds and effort to achieve the best return, justify further investment, and make needed adjustments. Plus, it helps you keep everyone in sync from your board to your staff to your donors. They all need to know where things stand.
Given the imperative for measuring results, what’s HubSpot and how does it help you measure success?
HubSpot is an all-in-one marketing platform designed to drive actions that make the biggest difference for your organization. HubSpot is driven by content marketing. For nonprofits content marketing results in attracting more website traffic, growing the size of your member/volunteer/donor database, and driving the actions that result in success for your organization.
It does all this by providing a website content management system, blogging platform, email and social media marketing tools, marketing automation workflow, contact database, search engine optimization, and that all important reporting tool.
For a more detailed overview try HubSpot for Nonprofits: Brilliant Ways to Market and Generate More Donations.
There are, of course, about as many ways to measure success as there are nonprofits. But there are a few key measures that are vital to their health and wellbeing. For example, in fundraising here are a few of the keys:
The HubSpot platform can then take these broad measures to a much deeper level and do so all along the marketing effort.
The big categories shown in the nearby list drive right down to how your landing pages are doing, your call to action buttons, lead nurturing emails, email blasts, blog posts, and social media posts. This is the world of opens, clicks, page views, shares, and most importantly new leads and new donors.
This is the type of information you need to make the needed adjustment to optimize your results.
The National Institute for Fitness & Sports reported in a HubSpot Case Study that when they implemented the system they achieved a 228% increase in web traffic along with a 216% increase in leads. Read more and see the video at their Nonprofit Success Story.
They cite the use of HubSpot analytics to see what was working and what wasn’t and made adjustments driven by HubSpots keyword grader to help optimize their search engine results. They also used HubSpot’s lead management system to better manage potential donors.
The key is measurement along with the online tools to make things happen. HubSpot is one excellent way to bring that all together for your nonprofit.
There’s nobody better at building excellent content to attract you to their website than HubSpot. After all, they wrote the book on it. Literally. One excellent source of further reading is their Nonprofit Step by Step Guide to Inbound Marketing.
Campaign Now uses HubSpot to drive and measure their success as well as to guide any needed course corrections in their marketing efforts. With that experience, they would be an excellent starting point to learn how HubSpot could work for your organization.
While you’re on the phone with them, ask them about all the other services they offer to support your fundraising including data, contact services, text message marketing, direct mail, email marketing, digital development, media advertising, as well as public and media relations.
Leverage their expertise for your organization. Give them a call.
Contact them at (855) 329-4327 or info@campaignnowonline.com.