3 Ways to Optimize Your Fundraising Communications Using Constant Contact and DonorPerfect

3 Ways to Optimize Your Fundraising Outreach

1. Save time with engaging email templates

It would be great if we all had the time and talent to be digital design gurus – but there are faster, easier ways to create fundraising emails that grab your donors’ attention without any design experience. 

For example, with fundraising tools like Constant Contact and DonorPerfect on your side, you can simply plug the information you need into nonprofit email templates that have already been designed for you, and with email marketing best practices in mind. 

In fact, DonorPerfect users have access to more than 30 fundraising email templates from Constant Contact, formatted for everything from monthly appeals to Giving Tuesday and more. These templates can provide a professional starting point for your nonprofit’s brand and flair, while also ensuring your message is mobile-friendly, reaching your audience in the moment, no matter what device they are using.

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Included with Constant Contact and DonorPerfect:

• Monthly giving series
• New donor welcome series
• Crowdfunding series
• Giving Tuesday series

2. Create meaningful, personalized communications 

It’s not easy to ask people for their time and money. But it becomes even harder when the request feels impersonal or, worse, targeted to the wrong person entirely. To ensure your messaging resonates, you can sync your donor information to your digital marketing efforts, including email, SMS text messaging, and more. This enables simple customizations like addressing your donor by name, but it can also give you the opportunity to segment your donors to more effectively tailor your communication based on data like previous pledges, length of the donor relationship, and more. 

When using DonorPerfect and Constant Contact, you don’t have to lift a finger to sync your donor and email data for better results – both platforms automatically refresh your latest activity in real time. With your information up-to-date, you can set each mailing list to auto-sync or automatically add donors to a mailing list when they meet your specified criteria.

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3. Measure results and optimize for the future 

Measure your email efforts with DonorPerfect and Constant Contact:

• Email receipt status (opened, bounced, opted out, etc.)
• Email click-through rates (who opened your email links)
• Contact records, noting responses to campaigns

Examining metrics like email opens, bounces, and opt-outs can help you measure whether you’re reaching the right audience at the right time, and information like email clicks, campaign responses, and donations can determine how effective your email messaging is. 

Typically, once you hit “send,” the work has only just begun, but tracking email and campaign performance doesn’t have to be a headache. There’s no need to consult different spreadsheets or platforms to compare information. The DonorPerfect and Constant Contact integration consolidates your information in one place so that once your campaign goes out the door, you can ensure your metrics are accurate in real time.

Revise, repeat, and reap the rewards

Fundraising can be difficult and time-consuming, but using the right tools can help you revise what doesn’t work, repeat what does, and keep track of the responses you get from your supporters. Constant Contact and DonorPerfect are specifically developed to help you engage your audience, track donations, and make the process of fundraising that much easier.