Although Organisation A’s income took a dip in 2005, it recovered nicely in 2006 and had an
outstanding result by the end of 2007.
Organisation B doubled income from 2005 to 2006 and saw a further 20 per cent increase
in 2007.
Organisation C has doubled income from online fundraising every year.
Establishing a web presence was just the first step on the road to success for these
organisations. Other vital aspects of their online strategy include:
- website content management – ensuring the home page is regularly updated with
strong, emotive fundraising appeals, and that donors receive visual report backs
on projects via up-to-date ‘news’ pages;
- building online communities and harvesting e-mail addresses of web visitors via
newsletter subscriptions, prayer requests, daily inspirations, online surveys, etc.;
- integration of offl ine and online communications;
- a regular e-mail programme to previous donors, subscribers and other prospects;
- Google pay-per-click promotions;
- Offl ine advertising and promotional activities.
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