More than Email: A look at an Integrated Approach to Converting Activists to Donors
Event Details
How do you convert your activists to donors? (Should you convert your activists to donors?) In this webinar, Jeff Regen, Defenders of Wildlife, will take you through examples of an integrated email/direct mail/telemarketing approach to converting online activists to donors. He'll also talk about the benefits of doing this to build a deeper relationship with both your activist and donor supporters. Finally, there will be an opportunity to discuss how to best measure success.
Takeaways:
1. Online and offline methods of converting an activist to a donor
2. Value of multi-channel donors and donors with emails vs. offline-only donors
3. How to measure success
Presented by: Jeff Regen, Vice President of Online Marketing & Communications at Defenders of Wildlife, an industry leader in online fundraising, advocacy, and education. Defenders has a list of over 750,000 e-supporters, generates over one million advocacy actions and raises over $3 million online each year. Prior to joining Defenders in 2004, Jeff spent twelve years in the private sector. He learned private sector database marketing techniques at Capital One where he managed the marketing and business development teams in the Internet Acquisition Division. Jeff also built and served as President for a dotcom, and worked for the consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. In the early 1990s, he worked in the former Soviet Union--first on environmental issues, and later on privatization and capital markets development. Jeff received his Bachelors from Swarthmore College and MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
