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Social Change Anytime Everywhere:
Best Practices to Build a
Multichannel Campaign Plan
Amy Sample Ward & Allyson Kapin
February 27, 2013
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Today’s Speakers
Amy Sample Ward Membership Director
NTEN - Nonprofit Technology Network
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Allyson Kapin Co-Founder
Rad Campaign
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Best
Practices to
Build a
Multichannel
Campaign
Plan
Why is “multichannel” so
important?
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Your Supporters Are Superheroes
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Your Supporters Are Superheroes
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Your Supporters Are Superheroes
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Help Them Save the Day
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Reach Them Wherever They Are
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Reach Them Wherever They Are
Reach Them Wherever They Are
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Reach Them Wherever They Are
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Fact: 5.2 Billion Mobile Accounts Worldwide
Fact: 1 in 2 Mobile U.S. Subscribers Own a Smartphone
Mobile Facts to Know
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Mobile Facts to Know
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Fact: Americans spend 25% of their time online on social networks.
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Social Media Facts to Know
What to consider before
creating your multichannel
campaign plan?
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Focus on Shared Goals
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Identify Hot Topics:
• How did you become aware of
our work?
• Which of our
programs/services/campaigns
are you most interested in?
• Would you like more information
about any of our
programs/services/campaigns
to share with your friends and
family?
• What aspects of our work are
you least interested in?
• What do you think we should
focus on together in the coming
year?
Focus on Shared Goals
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• First occupy camp started in New
York City.
• People posted and re-shared
information about issues, actions,
and personal stories on Twitter and
Tumblr, live-streamed video on
Vimeo, and shared pictures on their
mobile phones.
Design for Distribution
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Design for Distribution
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Oxfam’s Use of
QR Codes
For A Benefit Auction
Cross-Channel Promotion
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8 Steps to create a
multichannel campaign plan.
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1. Identify Short-Term And Long-Term Goals.
Solving World Hunger?
NO!
Raising $25K to support local soup
kitchen to distribute 300 meals to homeless people in DC in Dec.?
YES!
Creating A Multichannel Campaign
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Example: What goals will we achieve by raising $25,000 for the local soup
kitchen?”
Goal One: To illustrate that homelessness has risen 25% in our city over the last
year, resulting in a rising demand for our free meals and job training services. We
want donors to understand that every night there are lines of hundreds of hungry
people outside of our door waiting for a hot meal.
Goal Two: For every $50 donated, 25 homeless people will get a nutritious dinner
for one week at our soup kitchen, beginning next week.
Goal Three: For every $25 donated, our soup kitchen will provide computer-
training classes to 10 people homeless people we are serving for one month.
Goal Four: To tell the personal story of a soup kitchen volunteer who has
benefitted from eating regularly at our soup kitchen and participating in our job-
training program.
Creating a Multichannel Campaign
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2. Identify Your Target
Do you have an advocacy target? Who are you supporters? Are they:
• College students
• Parents of toddlers
• Environmentalists
• Insert your supporters here
Creating a Multichannel Campaign
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3. Craft Your Core Message And Define The Messaging Hook
Creating a Multichannel Campaign
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4. What Actions Do You Want People Take?
Creating a Multichannel Campaign
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5. Understand How Your Supporters Think
Creating a Multichannel Campaign
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6. How Do Your Target Audiences Prefer To Get Info?
• Direct Mail
• Texting
• Social Media
Creating a Multichannel Campaign
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7. Setup A Campaign Calendar
• Email appeals and graphics.
• Welcome series for new donors.
• Website donation landing pages, graphical callout boxes,
and homepage hijacks.
• Direct Mail, Telemarketing, Advertising (on and offline) etc.
• Social media strategies and messaging.
• Text-to-give messaging if appropriate.
• Fun interactives that don’t ask donors for money.
• A/B testing which is to analyze two different versions of a
webpage, appeal, or message to see which is more
effective.
• Segmenting for various channels
• Thank you messages and fundraising campaign updates.
Creating a Multichannel Campaign
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8. How Will You Reach People In Online Communities?
• Niche blogs • Facebook/LinkedIn
Groups • Online networks like
Care2 or Change.org
Creating a Multichannel Campaign
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What to consider for
rolling out your multichannel
campaign plan?
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Launch Your Email Series
Email 1: Tell the story of the overall campaign, lay out the
campaign goals and the impact donors can expect to see
from their action.
Email 2: Update people on the campaign’s progress. Remind
people of the story you shared in the previous appeal.
Reinforce the message that you still need their help to make
an impact and meet the campaign goals.
Email 3: The final message is another update and one last
ask for help to truly make that tangible impact and meet your
goals.
Roll-Out A Multichannel Campaign
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• Follow Your Campaign Calendar
• Tailor Messaging To Each Channel
• Segment Your List
• Conduct A/B Testing
• Promote Your Campaign
• Measure the Results
Roll-Out a Multichannel Campaign
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• Focus on 1 objective not 10.
• Don’t get lost in “pleasing”
everyone – funders, every target
audience, staff.
• You are not your target audience.
Your heroes are!
Do It Wrong Quickly
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Thank you
socialchangeanytimeeverywhere.com
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Connect with us:
Allyson Kapin: Rad Campaign, Women Who Tech
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Twitter: @womenwhotech
Rad Website: http://www.radcampaign.com
Women Who Tech: http://www.womenwhotech.com
Amy Sample Ward: NTEN
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @amyrsward
NTEN Website: http://www.nten.org
Blog: http://www.amysampleward.org
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