Award Winning Blog - Agitator

E-Commerce Spending Up

comScore reports that e-commerce spending in the US was up 10% in the first quarter of 2010 over the same period in 2009, the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, after four quarters of declining e-commerce spending. A total of $34 billion was spent online in the 1QTR, excluding spending on autos, travel and online […]

Learn More May 24, 2010

Donor Insights From Fenton Communications

Fenton Communications has just released its latest survey of donor attitudes and behavior, looking at 1000 nationally representative US donors who have given at least $20 in the past year. Plenty of interesting findings to chew over here regarding giving plans for the coming year, attributes of nonprofits that donors find most important, most trusted […]

Learn More May 21, 2010

Dr NeuroFocus

“Let me listen to your brain.” That’s the refrain of this catchy video from NeuroFocus, a company that specializes in measuring brain reactions to various stimuli (e.g. words, images, TV commercials, logos, etc) to gain marketing insights. What they claim to measure is attention, emotional engagement, memory retention … to gauge purchase intent, awareness, and […]

Learn More May 20, 2010

Fundraising Technology Even I Like

Here’s the lead paragraph from a recent article in Fast Company: "Anyone–and I do mean anyone–can sign up to use Square and begin accepting credit card payments. Here’s how it works." It’s about a device from SquareUp.com that you (or say, your canvassers, or volunteers at a fundraising event or booth) can use to process […]

Learn More May 19, 2010

Fundraising Up For Public TV

Nice to see this good news for the public TV sector, as reported in Philanthropy Journal. DMW Direct Fundraising reports an upswing for the 73 stations on which it has data over the 2005-2009 period. Revenue per 1000 pieces mailed was up to $295, and average gifts were $42. The public TV market bottomed in […]

Learn More May 18, 2010

SMART Goals and Fundraising

Last week in my Promise Me post, I urged nonprofit fundraisers to connect your "asks" as much as possible to specific goals. Then commit to your donor/prospect that your organization will break its back to achieve those goals, and report regularly on your progress toward them. Then I noticed a comment about SMART goals in […]

Learn More May 17, 2010