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The donation page mistakes quietly costing your charity income
Mobile drives 68% of charity website visits but desktop still banks 57% of the revenue. Here are the donation page mistakes quietly costing you income — and the fixes, in priority order.
Beyond the brand mention: the audience conversations you’re missing
To your audience, your brand is probably the least interesting thing about them. So why do most organisations study their audience only through what people say about the brand? Here’s how to listen past your own mentions to the world your audience actually lives in — and why relevance is built there.
YOUR INSIGHT IS LYING TO YOU, BUT tRIANGULATION CAN FIX IT
Every research method lies to you — in a predictable direction. Social listening over-indexes the loud, surveys the people who’ll trade time for a dollar, focus groups the confident. There is no unbiased method. Here’s how to choose the right one for the question and triangulate so the biases cancel out.
How to get YOUR CHARITY cited in ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews
As AI Overviews and ChatGPT answer more questions on the page, the goal shifts from ranking for the click to being the source the AI cites. A practical GEO checklist for charities.
What is GEO? Generative Engine Optimisation, explained
GEO, or generative engine optimisation, helps AI systems trust and quote your content. Here's what it is, how it differs from SEO, and what to do to get ranked.
What good looks like: how to set digital marketing KPIs that actually measure success
What does "good" look like in digital marketing? A full-funnel KPI framework for purpose-driven organisations — from CPM to ROI — plus how to read attribution honestly.
The fundraiser's AI prompt library: smarter prompts for charities and nonprofits
A strategic library of AI prompts for fundraisers — for audience insight, donor journeys, testing, cases for support and board reporting. Built for charities and nonprofits.
WHAT AI search means for purpose-driven organisations
AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT are changing how supporters find you. Here's what AI search means for charities and nonprofits — and how to stay visible.
Decoding the 2025 M+R Benchmarks: the UK and Ireland edition
Our breakdown of the latest M+R & Rally UK & Ireland Benchmarks: regular giving now at 48% of online revenue, email earning less, and where the real growth is hiding.
Why your digital fundraising strategy should have a strong SEO focus
With an estimated 3-year ROI of 750%, it's about time digital fundraisers took their SEO strategy as seriously as their email and paid media campaigns.
The best AI tools to boost audience engagement and digital fundraising
From creating an AI chatbot to predicting the value of your lead generation efforts
Decoding the 2024 M&R Digital Benchmarks
From the rise of connected TV and SMS fundraising to falling trends for Meta and email fundraising.
Are you making your donors feel good?
So many charities feel guilty about fundraising. As a result, they overlook the primal philanthropy that lives in all of us and fail to give donors the tools they crave to feel good.
Digital fundraising tips for small charities and nonprofits
This year's M&R benchmarks showed we could learn a thing or two from the agility and authenticity of smaller nonprofits.
6 trends from the 2023 M&R benchmarks report, to boost any digital fundraising strategy
A roundup of key insights, and what it means for charities right now.
A test and learn framework you can rely on to get results
Shape a test and learn programme that’s reliable and gets results.
5 tips to maximise your social listening
Five things you might not know you could do with social listening
The diversification dilemma: is it time to shake up your digital strategy?
Why nonprofits need to change how they view ROI if they want to keep up with and convert the donors of tomorrow.
5 audience insight techniques that actually lead to action
Five techniques that are probably more useful for getting to know your target audiences than another predictable persona