Comments on: Did You Say A Half-Billion?! http://www.theagitator.net/dont-miss-these-posts/did-you-say-a-half-billion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=did-you-say-a-half-billion Fundraising and advocacy strategies. Trends, tips ... with an edge Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gene Austin http://www.theagitator.net/dont-miss-these-posts/did-you-say-a-half-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-3665 Gene Austin Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:40:16 +0000 http://www.theagitator.net/dont-miss-these-posts/did-you-say-a-half-billion/#comment-3665 Tom – I wanted to follow-up on the June discussion. While the identity of “don’t tell” remains safe (for now) our clients crushed the $550 million in online revenue in 2008 hitting $777 million. We’d still love to see you at Summit 2009 too. Here’s some overall data from the Convio system in 2008: Our clients used Convio to: Process $777 million in online donations power more than 3,500 web domains deliver more than 3.1 billion email communications, with greater than 95% deliverabilty rate enable 44 million advocacy calls to action Nice year for our clients. Tom – I wanted to follow-up on the June discussion. While the identity of “don’t tell” remains safe (for now) our clients crushed the $550 million in online revenue in 2008 hitting $777 million. We’d still love to see you at Summit 2009 too. Here’s some overall data from the Convio system in 2008:

Our clients used Convio to:

Process $777 million in online donations

power more than 3,500 web domains

deliver more than 3.1 billion email communications, with greater than 95% deliverabilty rate

enable 44 million advocacy calls to action

Nice year for our clients.

]]> By: Gene Austin http://www.theagitator.net/dont-miss-these-posts/did-you-say-a-half-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Gene Austin Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:53:54 +0000 http://www.theagitator.net/dont-miss-these-posts/did-you-say-a-half-billion/#comment-446 As we all know there is a fair amount of seasonality in fundraising (Spring, October and the end of year), but I actually think $550M is achievable this year. Remember that this is only actual online giving and many of our clients will testify that their offline results are significantly impacted by their online communications and strategy. If you are a “betting man” Tom we could put a little wager together on $550M. If we don’t hit it, I will fly you to our Summit and pay for your registration….now what do I get if we beat it? As we all know there is a fair amount of seasonality in fundraising (Spring, October and the end of year), but I actually think $550M is achievable this year. Remember that this is only actual online giving and many of our clients will testify that their offline results are significantly impacted by their online communications and strategy.

If you are a “betting man” Tom we could put a little wager together on $550M. If we don’t hit it, I will fly you to our Summit and pay for your registration….now what do I get if we beat it?

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