Faith-Based Organizations
Building a strong foundation on which your online membership can grow and be more effective begins with building strong, meaningful relationships with your parishioners, congregants and members. You must attract and engage members, understand their interests and motivations, and increase their involvement with your faith-based organization by efficiently and successfully targeting and delivering your message to the right audiences.
Data storage is relatively inexpensive and the more you know about your target audience, the more you can apply what you know to your marketing program. Religious organizations need a robust database system that securely stores vital parishioner information and tracking and reporting data, while at the same time being easy enough to create, manage, and monitor the effectiveness of all email campaigns. You'll also want a solution that enables you to segment your audience for better targeting.
Net Atlantic offers two versatile email marketing solutions that enable faith-based groups to build a more effective ministry, increase the scope of your outreach, cultivate and nurture members to help drive ongoing support, while decreasing communication costs and improving administrative processes.
Email Marketing for Faith-Based Organizations:
- Announce fundraising events, solicit donations, provide updates on how monies are being used, and thank donors
- Drive traffic to your website and online donation form
- Share news and updates about members of your faith-based organization
- Remind your members about upcoming events and announce seasonal events (youth missions, bible study, choir groups, holiday celebrations and more)
- Send electronic surveys to find out not only what your members are thinking and what key issues are important to them, but how many use email and would like to communicate that way and exactly what sections of the newsletter they care most about
Benefits:
- Less costly compared to traditional advertising media
- Increased exposure, no geographic boundary
- More personalized and relevant content; more targeted audience
- More accurate as it can be updated timely with minimal effort and cost
- Results are easily and quickly measured
Communicate, broaden awareness, and raise financial support for your faith-based organization with email campaigns. Our Email Marketing solution makes it easy for faith-based organizations to create and send email newsletters, track results, and maximize the success of your email communications.
A Typical Faith-Based Application
Target Your Audience:
- Identify your parishioners and congregants and build dynamic triggered segments to receive your latest news and fundraising appeals. You also plan for sequential mailings, auto-response mailings, and scheduled mailings reminding your audience about upcoming events.
- Segment your membership by life stage, family size, leadership, activities, giving habits, events attended, and other attributes.
Build Your List:
- Create automatic list subscription forms for your website, event attendee lists, donation forms, newsletter signups, and social media. Ask for the level of detail you need, and let your members choose.
- Load your email list names, custom demographic data, email templates, videos and images. You may also load conditional text blocks using up to 255 characters.
Create Your Content:
- Create templates for consistent messaging when creating new campaigns. Lock the header and footer, branded text, logos, and vivid graphical images with our simple HTML editor.
- Build a library of images and videos, including photos, graphics, recorded events, shapes, colors, fonts, use of transparency and shadows. Build this design into your email templates.
- Personalize your fundraising, inspirational, or event message based on your parishioners' or congregants' interests.
Automate Your Emails:
- Once your members join the list through various forms and actions, the triggered segments send them your templates with conditional content, depending on the members’ field entries.
- Dynamic segments and conditional content can be altered at any time to reflect changes in your message strategy.
- Build behavioral profiles of your members (such as prior giving, expressed preferences, demographics, or other criteria) and integrate data into one comprehensive database.
- Plan a master schedule of frequency (a single action, a regular newsletter, or a multi-stage campaign) – through testing and a continual feedback loop you will learn the optimal contact strategy for each segment of your membership.
Deploy Your Campaigns:
- Email Advisor shows you how your email campaigns are likely to perform and tells you how your emails will score for various filters.
- Build a campaign that has multiple components, use an open trigger to schedule the next email in the sequence to go out automatically at a pre-scheduled time; or use a click-open to automatically have a follow-up sent to someone who clicked on a particular link in your email.
- Send personalized auto-reply emails that function as follow-up "Welcome" and "Thank You" emails emphasizing benefits, which is a second opportunity to build a profile on member preferences.
- Get detailed support at any time from Net Atlantic’s support service staff. They can call upon additional services such as template design and list setup.
Track Your Results:
- Custom reports allow you to view real-time data at a glance.
- The clickstreaming tool follows members to your website and helps you track behavior with per-member detail.
- Review your metrics after each campaign is sent out to better understand your members' interests. Determine what changes, if any, need to be made for next iteration or adjust programs mid-stream to maximize end results.
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