4 Simple Ways to Improve Marketing for Nonprofits
The right combination of digital marketing and outreach can attract donors and expand the impact of your organization. Here are four simple ways to do so:
- Audit Your Website
A website audit provides key insights into what is and isn’t working for you, including efficacy of your messaging, search engine optimization, site speed and other Google core web vitals, mobile/desktop usability, and more.
- Calculate Your Return on Mission (ROM)
Return on investment (ROI) is one thing but ROM is essential for calculating and communicating the impact you have, especially to attract more donors and grants. Quantifying ROM and connecting the dots between what people donate and the ROM it can generated can strengthen your messaging and increase fundraising.
… Continue Reading >>Marketing Agency vs. In-House Hiring: Which One Is Best?
With 25 years in B2B marketing—from market research to product management to agency consulting—I have found that marketing firms have a 3x faster and bigger impact than a full-time hire, often at a lower cost – if you find the right agency, and these two approaches are not mutually exclusive.
Effective Demand Generation Requires a Multitude of Skillsets
Marketing agencies use a team of specialists vs. expecting one person to be able to do it all. Maximizing demand and lead generation today requires a multitude of skill sets – here are the top 15:
- Marketing auditing,
Is It Time to Audit Your Nonprofit Website?
Grant audits, financial audits, program audits – the nonprofit world is full of these often arduous reviews – but when it comes to auditing your digital marketing, we can make it easy for you to undertake this critical step to ensure your website is pulling its weight. Learn why website audits are a critical step for nonprofits.
Many nonprofits have a website that was developed years ago and haven’t touched it since. As a result, digital marketing has fallen to the wayside for many 501(c)(3) organizations who are rightly focused on the reach, mission and impact of their organizations. We get it: with so much going on, it can sometimes feel as if you don’t have the time to make your website and digital communication a priority.
… Continue Reading >>Digital Marketing Today: The Game Continues to Change
“The Only Constant in Life Is Change.” – Heraclitus
As with any other field, digital marketing continues to evolve and get tougher. Because of the pandemic, the way we market and reach our customers has changed. Trends in the digital marketing industry have shed light on crucial pain points for businesses.
Here at Innovaxis Marketing, we understand how important and difficult it is to constantly stay on your toes. We are an experienced digital marketing team located in Chicago, Illinois, offering a holistic range of services developed to overcome marketing challenges and increase demand generation, leads and sales. Our goal is to transform your marketing into a competitive advantage, so you can grow and focus on what matters most for your business.
… Continue Reading >>Landing Page Best Practices
Creating a landing page may sound like an easy task, and in some ways, it is. The hard part comes when your landing page isn’t getting the conversions or generating the leads you want.
Having created thousands of landing pages for our clients, we’ve learned what works and what doesn’t when it comes to these important lead generators. No single recipe will work for all businesses, but here are guidelines for developing a successful landing page.
To Gate or Not to Gate
Which content should be gated? It’s the question all marketers have asked themselves at one point. While the answer can be subjective based on your goals, here are our recommendations for deciding what content is worth gating behind a form.
… Continue Reading >>NitroPack: The Hidden Gem of Speed Optimization Plugins
Now that Google has added Core Web Vitals and page speed to its search ranking algorithm, WordPress site owners have been wondering: how can I make my website faster and my user experience better?
WordPress sites are notoriously slow with Google Page Speeds often <20 out of 100. Infinite plugins that each have their own bundle of files, especially JavaScript, are a big reason why your site may experience less-than-optimal site speeds.
Enter NitroPack: a WordPress plugin with powerful speed optimization capabilities. With NitroPack activated, Google PageSpeed scores on desktop and mobile can now reach 90+ out of 100, the largest increases we have ever seen with an optimization plugin (sorry WP Rocket and Lazy Load).
… Continue Reading >>HubSpot Best Practices: Email Marketing
Even with so many ways to reach out to your prospects in an era of multiplying digital platforms, email marketing remains an effective tool for generating leads.
But it’s not enough to just hit the send button and shower your list of prospects with selling points.
Your email has to make it through a gauntlet of spam filters, competing messages and demands on your audience’s time – not to mention that pesky “delete” button.
Even so, with modern tools, this process is easier and more effective than ever.
HubSpot’s email marketing capability, part of the Marketing Hub, provides a much-needed edge for your email campaigns with tools that let you tailor your lists,
… Continue Reading >>HubSpot Marketing Hub Starter vs. Professional: Which is Better for Your Business?
The marketing automation and CRM software market is becoming more saturated each year – market research firm Prescient & Strategic Intelligence estimates a 13.1% compound annual growth rate of the industry by 2030.
Whether or not your company already uses a marketing automation platform, the message is clear: many businesses are discovering the benefits of marketing automation to tie together all of their marketing efforts in one place. But with all the big-name systems to choose from, where do you start, and how much do you invest?
This leads to another question: what do you need? Let’s explore these options within the HubSpot Marketing Hub. While we do not work solely with HubSpot (looking at you,
… Continue Reading >>How to #Fail at B2B Marketing: The Only E-Book You Will Ever Read, Possibly
Math: 80% of businesses fail 100% of the time.
While it may seem easy, failing at business-to-business (B2B) marketing requires more than just math. It takes a delicate blend of poor judgment and a robust lack of strategy.
But don’t worry. While the internet is crawling with so-called experts spewing complicated strategies for organic, gluten-free lead generation and viral cat videos, we’re here to make it easy.
Our brave new e-book, How to #Fail at B2B Marketing, provides the insights you need for no-results marketing that will tank your sales efforts faster than you can say “where did the leads go?”
The best part? Everything Some things in this guide may have been inspired by true events and a few mishaps we’ve encountered along the way.
… Continue Reading >>A Great 2021 Starts with a Marketing Audit
Learn how your marketing compares with best practices, and how to increase B2B lead gen and sales by 30-300%
If you feel under-served by your marketing resources or would like a report card on their work, an Innovaxis marketing audit will uncover marketing gaps and reveal new opportunities to increase leads and sales.
The audit’s findings and recommendations will form the foundation for your 2021 marketing plan.
Case Studies
Here’s a case study of our work with a manufacturer of induction heating tools, which started with a marketing audit. We then implemented many of the audit’s findings, which increased their flagship product sales by 20%-100% and their ecommerce sales have grown 20% ever year since we implemented it (45% this year).
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