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How to Create a Donor Pyramid to Raise More for Your Capital Campaign

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Last Updated on March 7, 2022

Are you starting a capital campaign? Discover how using a donor pyramid can help you prioritize development efforts.

Yet, not all pyramids are created equal. Read on to see how to build one that will boost your campaign and help you exceed your goals.

What is a donor pyramid?

A fundraising pyramid is a visual that categorizes prospects by their engagement level. Further, it provides nonprofits a path to move donors from lower levels of giving to greater commitment.

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While some donors will move from one -time donations to planned giving, not everyone has the same journey.  For instance, mid-level donors are generally a reliable segment. They need a strategy that is tailored to them and they shouldn’t always be pushed up the giving ladder. However, there are still hidden gems in your donor base who can be nurtured all the way to the top of the pyramid.

Donor Pyramid Modeler

A donor pyramid, also known as a gift pyramid and as a gift table when presented in table format, gives you a clear understanding of how much you can raise. When created manually, producing a donor pyramid can be time-consuming since you have to take into account numerous data points. These include an individual’s capacity, propensity and intent to give.

WealthEngine has created the industry’s first AI-based donor pyramid modeler to empower all nonprofits, small and large, to generate a donor pyramid in minutes. This 2-minute video shows how it works:

Simply enter the amount you want to raise and you will automatically see how many prospects you need for each fundraising tier. Use built-in thresholds and conversion rates, or make adjustments using our What-If analysis. Then, instantly see how much you can raise with your current contacts, identify who to talk to in each tier, and know how many new prospects you need.

WealthEngine does all of the segmentation math and analysis for you in minutes to identify wealth strata and propensity.

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When you are ready to find new prospects, use WealthEngine’s powerful prospecting tool to identify ideal opportunities and import them directly into your CRM/DMS like Salesforce.

Why Donor Pyramids can Make or Break Your Capital Campaign

A fundraising pyramid helps you focus your campaign dollars to the right set of prospects. When you build a data-driven pyramid, your data will automatically reveal patterns that you can use to build your campaign.

Starting a campaign that is aimed at a random sampling (or the entirety) of your database will dilute your ROI. When your entire base receives a generic message from your nonprofit, the number of people who will engage will naturally be low.

Even if you’re in the middle of a capital campaign and you realize that you’re not seeing results, a donor pyramid can help revive it. All you have to do is segment your base and prioritize those prospects who have the propensity, capacity, and intent to give.

How to Create a Data-Driven Fundraising Pyramid

Wealth screening is the first step. Screening data gives you a holistic picture of who your prospects are. In other words, you can understand your prospects’ wealth, lifestyle, interests, and affinities.  This means you now know their potential not only in terms of capacity to give but also interest and intent.

By learning more about who they are, you can really speak their language. For example, United Way of Greater Saint Louis says,

“We really like the level of granularity we can get in the data, understanding details, such as propensity to give and giving capacities helps to fill in gaps in the profiles….Finally, learning about a prospect’s interests can help us better shape the conversation to customize our asks. We are a lot more cautious about the ask now that we have more intelligence…”

Therefore, screening helps you segment your prospects into different rungs of your donor pyramid. Those with the highest capacity and engagement (for instance, those with high P2G scores) are candidates for major gifts or planned giving. Similarly, those with lower capacities but high engagement are well suited for mid-level or recurring donations.

Interested in learning more about creating data-driven campaigns? Download our Data-Driven Major Gifts Campaign Workbook!

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Using Modeling to Enhance Your Donor Pyramid

Wealth Screening is the first step, which means that a wealth model can drive your capital campaigns much further.

Screening can give you a broader view of your donor base. Modeling can actually help you predict the outcome of your campaign. For example, WealthEngine’s Gift Pyramid Model can automatically build a pyramid and predict campaign success.

In that sense, modeling is predictive based on custom insights that are deep and actionable. The model builds a specific formula for your organization’s donor base. The model generates a score against which you can compare your prospects. By doing this, the model automatically splits your list into 10 equal deciles. The top decile will represent the top 10% of prospects for your campaign. The top two represent the top 20% and so on.

Going from Fundraising Pyramid to Campaign: Practical Implementation

Predictability allows you to improve your goal-setting. With your targeted campaign, you can not only set ambitious goals but also exceed them. Follow these steps after creating your data-driven donor pyramid:

1. Segment and target those donors who are apt for your campaign. Annual fund campaigns, for instance, can focus on prospects who have the highest inclination and capacity for this type of gift.

2. Evaluate your deciles to see which ones will be most effective for your campaign.

3. Set your budget based on the number of deciles you would like to include, or include deciles based on your campaign budget.

4. You can go down the list of deciles until you meet and exceed your campaign goals.

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How to Enhance Your Video Conferencing Experience

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As offices around the country start planning for a return to the office, many of us are still working remote and connecting with our colleagues and teams via video conferencing. Video platforms like zoom, GoToMeeting, and Google Meet have all become an integral part in the way we communicate and hold each other accountable at a distance. And though video conferencing etiquette isn’t something that’s often discussed during COVID-19, it is something that should be considered while navigating work to enhance your meeting experience.

Over the last few months, we have all been on more video conferences than we can count with many of us working in situations that are out of our control including multitasking with children in the background, pets barking, or living next door to a neighbor who has decided to mow their lawn midday. However, what we can control is the appropriate way to present ourselves. Similar to in-person office meeting etiquette, there is etiquette that should be taken into account when video conferencing.

Consider your headspace.

Although often overlooked, your headspace and the appropriate amount is a big factor in creating a presentable look on a video call. A rule of thumb is to reference the rules of framing that journalists use while capturing their interview shots. In most cases the 90-degree rule or The Rule of Third applies. Similar to interviews, it’s important to ensure the top of your head isn’t cut off and the entirety of your face and head is shown with 2-4 inches of headspace above to spare. Avoid severe profile shots and too much of your body being shown – as you should always be able to see both eyes and the face straight on. Viewers are attuned to seeing someone’s whole face when they speak and profiles are also unflattering to your team.

Backgrounds for video conferencing.

Not only do we focus on faces when we’re on video, but the backgrounds of others. Busy backgrounds are distracting and can distract others on the call if you let it. We’ve all experienced gazing for long periods of time and strain from spotting things in the background. Similar to shooting an interview, a best practice is to keep it simple and consider a clean and neutral colored background or both while you’re working from home. If you are outside, make sure you’re not video conferencing in a busy area and that the lighting and colors don’t affect your presentation on screen. Another option to consider is creating a company-branded background that you can distribute to your teams and upload via zoom. This is something that doesn’t take too much time and that as a company we have implemented for our Sales division.

Achieve the best lighting.

Proper lighting is a big factor in creating a presentable look during a video conference call. Similar to our eyes, the cameras on our laptops need light to render the best image and achieve the highest quality video possible. When there isn’t enough light or too much light, it can cause cameras to render a lower quality image. It’s important to know how to use proper lighting in order to optimize your video conferencing calls. It’s not necessary to go out and purchase new lighting; any amount of sunshine or room lighting will do. However, minimizing distraction as much as possible and avoiding poorly lit rooms, which can result in harsh shadows or glares on video is best. Proper lighting eliminates this and keeps everyone focused on the speaker and current meeting.

Minimize noise level.

There are many pros and cons of capturing volume from a computer. A con being that all background noise is usually amplified to those who are on the video call. Though a quiet space may be difficult to find during this time, don’t be afraid to use the mute button. Many of us have experienced audio fading in and out while video conferencing or someone working in close proximity to their partner. It’s always worthwhile to test your volume prior to joining a call as this can make a huge difference. Still experiencing issues? Keep a phone nearby and stay dial-in ready.

Adapting to a changing work environment over the last few months has taught us a lot about the resiliency of our teams. No matter what you’ve experienced in the past, implementing these tips going forward during your next meeting can enhance your video experience and take your meeting to the next level. 

 

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How to Increase Your Assets Under Management in a COVID-19 World

Tune in for an executive briefing and live Q&A with Chady AlAhmar, CEO of Wealth at Old National Bank, and Raj Khera, EVP at WealthEngine, as they share best practices to help you grow your portfolio in the midst of economic uncertainty.

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This Executive Briefing will show you:

  • How to uncover insights like estimated net worth, investable assets, business ownership, accredited investor status, likelihood to buy a specific financial product, and more
  • Ways to find and connect with wealthy and soon-to-be-wealthy prospects
  • Techniques to identify clients in your portfolio who are ripe for expansion
Chady AlAhmar
CEO of Wealth

Old National Bank

Raj Khera
EVP and Chief Marketing Officer
WealthEngine
Raj is a past CEO and co-founder of several software businesses, two of which were acquired by public companies. At WealthEngine, he helps to create more value for customers through thought leadership and game-changing product enhancements. He is passionate about supporting higher education and cancer research and volunteers his time at the University of Maryland and local schools.
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Short Term Fundraising Action Plans: The Next 90 Days

WealthEngine caught up with Ian Swedish from CCS Fundraising to reflect on the current landscape after 60 days and prepare for the next 90 days. Tune in for an engaging session about creating strategic short term action plans that will help you define opportunities and devise solutions amidst today’s challenges and uncertainties.

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Areas of focus will include:

  • Maintaining and sustaining key relationships
  • Leveraging leadership
  • Communicating meaningfully with lapsed donors
  • Evolving your case for philanthropy to meet the moment
Ian Swedish
Corporate Vice President

CCS Fundraising

Raj Khera
EVP and Chief Marketing Officer
WealthEngine
Raj is a past CEO and co-founder of several software businesses, two of which were acquired by public companies. At WealthEngine, he helps to create more value for customers through thought leadership and game-changing product enhancements. He is passionate about supporting higher education and cancer research and volunteers his time at the University of Maryland and local schools.

 

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How Healthcare Organizations are Pivoting to See Fundraising Success in a COVID-19 World

WealthEngine caught up with ChristianaCare’s Vice President of Development Gordon Brownlee and Spectrum Health’s Director of Finance and Operations Greg Workman to talk about how healthcare organizations are successfully navigating today’s challenging environment due to COVID-19.

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Tune in to learn:
  • Guidance on developing a Caregiver Relief Fund for those on the front lines
  • How ChristianaCare is coordinating hundreds of PPE donations, including face masks, shields and gloves
  • A strategy to look for new donors within your community and ways to optimize your messaging for fundraising as a result of COVID-19
Gordon Brownlee
Vice President of Development

ChristianaCare

Greg Workman
Director of Finance and Operations

Spectrum Health

Raj Khera
EVP and Chief Marketing Officer
WealthEngine
Raj is a past CEO and co-founder of several software businesses, two of which were acquired by public companies. At WealthEngine, he helps to create more value for customers through thought leadership and game-changing product enhancements. He is passionate about supporting higher education and cancer research and volunteers his time at the University of Maryland and local schools.

 

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5 Critical Steps for Successful Giving Tuesday Now Follow Up

These 5 critical steps for your Giving Tuesday Now follow up will increase your fundraising beyond what you capture from initial donations.

Giving Tuesday Now follow up

As many nonprofits send appeals for donations to help in their response to the massive economic downturn caused by COVID-19, most will not know the true potential of their donors. You can fix this. Use these steps to generate bigger donations from your Giving Tuesday Now follow up efforts.

1. Share Your Impact in #GivingTuesdayNow Follow Up

You may have a set of thank you letters to use in your initial Giving Tuesday Now follow up. Send your emails and letters out quickly to acknowledge donors for their contribution. If you received donations electronically, send your follow up by email. For paper check donations, respond in kind with a printed letter.

Mention the impact you are having. Donors want to feel that their contributions are making a difference.

giving tuesday now toolkitFor more messaging ideas, use WealthEngine’s Giving Tuesday Now Toolkit, which contains many templates that you can copy/paste and edit to customize your words.

2. Screen Donors to Know Who Can Give More

You will get donations of all sizes, $10 or $1000 or more. How many can – and would – give far more than $100? How many are millionaires and should be targeted for major gifts? There’s a very strong likelihood that if you nurtured these high capacity donors properly, they would donate more.

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Nurture donors with high estimated giving capacity and propensity.

Leslie VanSant, Chief Philanthropy Officer, at the Rainforest Trust had a donor who regularly gave a small donation, under $500. She did a simple check in their WealthEngine account to see this donor’s estimated giving capacity. Leslie saw that the donor had much greater potential than her past donations. This was an opportunity for building a stronger relationship.

Through personalized engagement resulting from her wealth screening using WealthEngine, the Rainforest Trust soon got a $25,000 donation from this donor.

Listen to Rainforest Trust share their strategic plan that enabled them to grow from 1000 donors per year to 1000 per week →

After your donations from Giving Tuesday Now are in, it’s time to investigate. You now have the opportunity to nurture many new donors who can give much more than they gave.

Screening your donors for their actual giving capacity and propensity will be the most important thing you do in your Giving Tuesday Now follow up. It can double or triple the funds you raised.

If you use Salesforce, get the WE Insights for Salesforce connector to append your donor record with these details instantly. For other tools, use WealthEngine’s API to save time and get all of the information you need right inside your CRM/DMS.

3. Take a Closer Look at Your DAF Donations

Fidelity Charitable reported that during the first 4 weeks of lock downs and economic turmoil, donors of their Donor Advised Fund gave $90 million to help nonprofits deal with COVID-19 issues. So, they challenged their donors to hit $200 million by today. Compare this to $60 million that was donated in all of 2017 in response to the seven natural disasters that year, such as the California wildfires and Houston floods.

Listen to Fidelity Charitable share the exact steps you can take to get donations from DAF donors →

Donors who participate in a Donor Advised Fund generally have a higher giving capacity than what they donated to your organization. Fidelity reports that their average donor has $17,000 in their DAF. Vanguard’s minimum amount to deposit in their DAF is $25,000 whereas Fidelity and Schwab have a $5,000 initial minimum.

When you receive a donation through a DAF of $50 or $500, it’s time to learn more about your donor. They should get special attention in your Giving Tuesday Now follow up. The simple fact that they used a DAF indicates that they likely can give more.

People use DAFs to set aside cash for future donations while taking the tax deduction on the total set-aside amount at once. This allows donors to decide which charities they want to support over time. With the havoc caused by COVID-19, DAF donors are being quite generous.

DAF donors often include their personal name in the donation. Use this to research the donor’s actual giving capacity.

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This adds to the information in your donor segmentation analysis so you get a clear picture of where to put your efforts.

4. Use a Donor Pyramid to Project Your Fundraising Potential

It is time consuming to nurture major donor prospects. With limited bandwidth, you and your team want to focus on the most promising opportunities for growth and expansion. Donor segmentation can be hard.

A donor pyramid is a wonderful solution. It can help you segment your new donor list to create a prioritized list of prospects. For many organizations, this is a manual exercise that requires knowing the scores, capacity, propensity and other information about donors.

WealthEngine’s upcoming release makes creating your donor pyramid very easy. Rather than manually sorting and segmenting your donors, our new Donor Pyramid Modeler allows you to see which donors fit into each giving tier instantly.donor pyramid

This saves you weeks, even months, of grueling hours manipulating spreadsheets and digging into the backgrounds of your donors.

The Donor Pyramid Modeler can automatically screen your Giving Tuesday Now list for appropriate follow up. Using data from WealthEngine’s scores and insights, you will know which new donors to nurture for additional giving. Appropriately assign them to your major gift or planned giving officers, or keep them on your annual fund campaign list.

Reserve your seat for a free Donor Pyramid Modeler trial →

You will also see the total giving capacity of your Giving Tuesday Now donors so you know your full fundraising potential. Try it and see how quickly it can help you find your best donation opportunities.

5. Identify the Shortest Path to Reach New Connections

WealthEngine’s connections enable you to see who in your circle of close contacts can put you in touch with others you are trying to reach.

You can find common connections through personal relationships, other nonprofit board members, and professional activities.

Our client constantly report high ROI and big increases in fundraising once they start using WealthEngine. Even in a climate with tight or frozen budgets, bringing in donations is the key to your survival. A tool as powerful and easy to use as WealthEngine can mean the difference between funding new initiatives or turning off your lights.

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How This Nonprofit Grew from 1000 Donors/Year to 1000 Donors/Week

WealthEngine caught up with Leslie VanSant and Michelle Husko of Rainforest Trust to talk about how they have transformed Rainforest Trust into a world-renowned fundraising organization.

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Tune in to learn:
  • The strategy that grew their donor base by 50x in the last decade
  • How they use data to convert small donations into major gifts
  • The messaging and tactics they found to have the most impact
Leslie VanSant
Chief Philanthropy Officer
Rainforest Trust

 

Michelle Husko
Director of Donor Services
Rainforest Trust

 

Raj Khera
EVP and Chief Marketing Officer
WealthEngine
Raj is a past CEO and co-founder of several software businesses, two of which were acquired by public companies. At WealthEngine, he helps to create more value for customers through thought leadership and game-changing product enhancements. He is passionate about supporting higher education and cancer research and volunteers his time at the University of Maryland and local schools.

 

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How to Reach DAF Donors Who Are Funding Millions in Response to COVID-19

WealthEngine caught up with Amy Pirozzolo, Head of Marketing at Fidelity Charitable, to find out how healthcare organizations and educational institutions can get in front of donor-advised fund donors during this critical period.

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Tune in to learn:
  • How DAFs work
  • Examples of how other organizations are reaching DAF donors
  • What your organization can do right now to get donations from DAF donors
Amy Pirozzolo
Head of Marketing
Fidelity Charitable

 

Raj Khera
EVP and Chief Marketing Officer
WealthEngine
Raj is a past CEO and co-founder of several software businesses, two of which were acquired by public companies. At WealthEngine, he helps to create more value for customers through thought leadership and game-changing product enhancements. He is passionate about supporting higher education and cancer research and volunteers his time at the University of Maryland and local schools.

 

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Financial Advisor Prospecting As COVID-19 Lockdowns End

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Last Updated on March 7, 2022.

How has the pandemic impacted the way organizations do business? 45% of US workers are now able to work remotely, compared to just 7% who had that capability before, your approach to financial advisor prospecting needs to take into account new ways to reach people.

McKinsey reports that 89% of consumers feel their routines will return to normal in two months. As the country slowly comes out of COVID-19 lockdowns, the way you approach private wealth management prospects will be different. Thanks to WealthEngine’s Prospect Research machine learning technology, you are better equipped to handle these rapidly changing and challenging times than ever before.

A 90-Day Financial Advisor Prospecting Plan

This guide covers best practices for financial advisor prospecting. We will go over easy options, like content marketing campaigns, educational webinars,  and video conferencing. We will also go into cross and upselling to help you accurately target financial advisor prospects who are most likely to turn into clients. 

Most importantly, we will touch on how you can quickly segment your existing clients and prospects by expansion potential based on estimated investable assets, net worth and other wealth insights. Using data and predictive analytics to know your prospects, you can speed your time to closing new deals dramatically. These options are included in the wide range of advanced analytics provided by WealthEngine.

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Best Practices for Financial Advisor Prospecting

Even during times of extraordinary circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, it’s important to remember the basics when it comes to prospecting.

The first step is to narrow your focus to the specific customers you need to reach. Understand your target market and find common elements between those leads. 

Doing this will make you better equipped to define your ideal client within the current market. Armed with the information gleaned from your lead research, you will be ready to begin prospecting.

Create Content Marketing Campaigns

With your ideal private wealth client in mind, start creating content marketing campaigns. Write content that speaks to the issues your target customer is facing. Send them emails with financial tips on ways to cope as we ease out of the pandemic lockdowns.

Topics for financial advisors or brokers to consider exploring with their clients include:

  • Should you review your risk tolerance in light of recent heavy market swings?
  • How can you reduce debt to increase available cash?
  • What considerations should you take into account to rebalance your portfolio?

Prove yourself to be a valuable resource, consistently providing answers to the questions customers most often ask. When they’re ready to convert, you will be the foremost expert in their minds and they will trust the information you give. 

WealthEngine can help you strategize your campaigns by assessing your existing business processes and identifying potential problems and opportunities. WealthEngine helps you design and implement financial advisor prospecting campaigns through advanced data modeling and predictive analytics. For example, our proven system helped one of our clients increase average email open rates by 25%. Another client reduced the number of touches to get an initial meeting with a prospect from 5 to 2.7. They did this simply by knowing unique insights about prospects that only WealthEngine is able to provide.

Host or Participate in Financial Educational Webinars

The inclusion of educational webinars in your marketing campaigns is a demonstrably effective tactic for increasing your marketing content audience. A whopping 72% of customers admit they would prefer to learn about services via video: It is one of the best ways to get clients to consume your content.

Share the educational information – don’t sell! Host webinars on timely topics like those listed above. It will keep you top of mind and help potential customers understand why they need your services.

If creating fresh content requires too much time or slow internal approvals, share insights from your company’s web site or other content from reliable sources. You can post them on LinkedIn or other social media channels and provide commentary with a call to action.

When you pose timely questions, like the ones suggested above, you increase your chances of encouraging conversations with the right prospects. Then, coupling that outreach by focusing on the right audience segments using WealthEngine, you can reach high net worth prospects who may not be having with their existing financial advisor and could turn to you for advice.

Schedule Virtual Meetups

A certain percentage of people still prefer to meet face to face when consulting someone about their finances. Of course with social distancing measures, connecting with clients in person isn’t an option.

As a solution, you should offer digital meetups using video conferencing software. This technology allows you to give customers the personal interaction they’re looking for while keeping you and your clients safe. 

Leverage Your Current Customer Database

If you haven’t already, now is the time for you to cross-sell your current customers. Around 65% of a company’s business comes from existing customers, making them an ideal place to go when you start prospecting. While your existing clients have invested a portion of their assets with you, you can increase your total assets under management by exploring how well your clients’ other investments are doing.

A good place to begin would be to make a list of all the services you offer and choose one to prioritize. Then, take your current customer list and filter down to those who aren’t currently using that service or are not getting as high a return on investment that you are providing. If you find they’re a good fit, open up a dialogue with these targeted clients about your chosen service.

By applying WealthEngine’s lifestyle insights, you can start dialogs that relate to saving for college education, vacation homes, retirement plans, and philanthropic pursuits.

Upsell Modeling

Take the manual work out of finding potential cross-sell opportunities through filtering with WealthEngine’s upsell modeling wealth intelligence data analytics. It builds a formula which predicts and identifies upgrades or complimentary services that will appeal to your current clients. During the COVID-19 pandemic, automating your processes will help decrease your overhead costs. This will make financial advisor prospecting yield a much higher ROI. 

WealthEngine’s Inner Circle Feature

WealthEngine provides you with yet another way to leverage your current client list with its  Inner Circle feature. Simply upload a list of your closest contacts and let Inner Circle create a list of their connections. 

Once you have this information, you can ask the Inner Circle for an introduction to the secondary connection. This feature enables you to find the shortest path to a prospect by seeing their personal, nonprofit board, and personal connections.

The WE Analyze Tool and Look-Alike Modeling

It can be difficult and time-consuming to find new customers, even when we’re not battling a pandemic. With WealthEngine’s highly effective WE Analyze Tool, you can take advantage of look-alike modeling to create a list of your top sales leads based on the ideal characteristics of your target customers.

Even if your data is incomplete, WealthEngine will fill in the gaps with data on potential clients’ wealth, lifestyle, interests, and more. Then, WE Prospect scans your current customer lists to find new ones with those same traits. This is look-alike modeling, and nobody does it better than WealthEngine.

Use Predictive Analysis to Find Financial Advisor Prospects

WealthEngine’s predictive lead analysis compares new lists against your best customer list. Everyone on the new list is scored in comparison to your best customer list, then divided into segments. 

Using segmented lists enables you to prioritize your financial advisor prospecting efforts and concentrate your resources on the highest value prospects first. This saves time by pinpointing  your most valuable leads based on their likelihood of conversion.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Using Artificial Intelligence to aid with prospecting will help you build predictive models by analyzing your database. These models can then be used to identify your next best prospects without requiring you to do the manual work. Machine learning continues to make your lists better through its rapid learning process.

Since artificial intelligence powers the WE platform, it’s able to quickly analyze records much better than you could manually. For example, if you provide a list of 200,000 people with over 50 attributes for each person, the AI could quickly handle this request and rapidly give you feedback. Again, the more you do this, the better machine learning will refine your unique model.

Help Your Community

During this time, financial advisors should go beyond their usual community outreach programs. Your goal is to extend a hand that helps relieve stress and aids others as they struggle to make it through these economically uncertain times. For example, you could reach out to your clients and connect them with people who can assist with mortgage refinance. 

Even comparatively small gestures such as offering to grab groceries for elderly customers goes a long way toward building trust in the community. Of course, doing these things won’t give you immediate leads. However, if you’re able to go the extra mile, once this pandemic is over, your neighbors will remember your name. 

WealthEngine’s Financial Advisor Prospecting Software

WealthEngine’s predictive prospecting platform helps you focus your financial advisor prospecting funnel. The platform serves as a valuable educational tool that keeps your current customers informed while identifying new opportunities. Our filtering and modeling systems are unmatched and will help you successfully find, reach out to, and close new prospects.

Our application program interface (API) will connect seamlessly to your current customer relationship management (CRM) tool, such as our WE Insights for Salesforce, or other systems to ensure data is updated in real-time, giving you the most accurate view of your customers. WealthEngine is easy to use so you can spend your valuable time building relationships, not looking for new leads.

To get started with highly effective financial advisor prospecting using wealth data and analytics, contact WealthEngine today.

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WealthEngine 9.3 Automates Donor Segmentation and Charts the Next-Best Connections to Prospects

WealthEngine announced today the release of WealthEngine 9.3 (WE9.3), an upgrade to its nonprofit version of its flagship platform which now includes unlimited screening and prospecting for one flat rate. The advanced prospect engagement platform, which features the industry’s first machine-learning-based Donor Pyramid Modeler with SmartActionTM technology to identify their next best action and a visual layout of their best connections to new prospects. The new features use WealthEngine’s predictive analytics, continuously refreshed data, wealth and propensity scores, and actionable insights to help organizations achieve their fundraising goals faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.

With over 165 million donor records in the WealthEngine platform and 500,000 new ones curated each week, users have access to the latest charitable, political and philanthropic giving information. Along with nearly a trillion additional data points, WealthEngine’s proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities curate predictive scores and models that help fundraisers to proactively identify their next-best action to drive more revenue.

Donor Pyramid Modeler – the fastest way to segmenting your donor base

The Donor Pyramid Modeler enables organizations to segment their donors into fundraising tiers instantly. Campaign managers and fundraisers simply enter their fundraising goal and optionally adjust their giving thresholds and conversion rates to create a What-If analysis, or use WealthEngine’s benchmark settings, to see how many prospects are needed for each tier. The tiers include Planned Givers, Annual Givers, Mid-Level Givers, etc. and are customized at each level. The Donor Pyramid Model algorithm can be applied to any list of donors automatically to see who belongs in each tier, giving users an instant snapshot of their fundraising potential from existing donors and a fast way to find prospects with the right profile to achieve their total fundraising goal.

WealthScore – easiest way to prioritize your most-likely prospects

Organizations can now save even more time, cost, and effort by using one single score from 1-100 that takes into account a prospect’s wealth, propensity, intent, affinity and more. Users can apply this score to their prospects as well as existing donors to make informed decisions that identify the most promising new opportunities as well as determine which donors have expansion potential.

Leslie VanSant, Chief Philanthropy Officer at Rainforest Trust, notes how WealthEngine plays a critical role in converting small initial donations into major gifts. “We invited people of a certain propensity to give on a trip. They went on the trip and enjoyed it so much that they came back and gave a 5-figure gift,” says VanSant. “That proved to me within weeks of purchasing WealthEngine that this was going to help us do our jobs.”

Visualization of Connections – shortest path to reach next-best donors

A new visual connections display allows users to chart the shortest path to prospects by seeing who is likely connected through personal, nonprofit board and professional relationships. This single-pane view of connections includes the predicted strength of those relationships so users can identify people they already know who can make warm introductions.

Future releases will integrate 1-click fundraising email templates where users can directly enable their best donors to facilitate these highly personalized connections. Customers have seen 3x-5x increase in engaging with lapsed donors, renewed memberships and increased the lifetime value of existing donors.

“With new donors from #GivingTuesdayNow and increased philanthropy in response to COVID-19, WealthEngine’s clients will be able to segment their donors in the proper giving tiers instantly to identify who the right prospects are for planned gifts, major gifts, mid-level gifts and annual donors,” said WealthEngine CEO PV Bocassam. “The Donor Pyramid Modeler does all of the calculations automatically, which saves our clients weeks of time and effort and pinpoints specific highly valued targets. Combined with the power of curated connections to their best donors, clients can now engage potential donors with a personal touch.”

Real-Time Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Integration – seamless bi-directional support

Evolving from WE9, this latest version of our platform easily integrates with Salesforce allowing WealthEngine to instantly append each new record added with their latest data, scores, and insights. The WealthEngine Insights for Salesforce certified app can be downloaded from the AppExchange and connected to a WealthEngine account quickly, allowing users to maintain their current fundraising and campaign workflow while enriching new and existing contacts with significantly improved scoring to help them prioritize outreach activities. Salesforce campaigns can also build and activate any predictive models, via our SmartActions™ API, directly from Salesforce.

Industry’s leading consultants and resellers who use WealthEngine’s data and models to provide informed recommendations to their clients can use the new Donor Pyramid Modeler and visual connections features to offer enhanced services that lead to more effective fundraising efforts.

“WealthEngine provides us with important data we need to develop smarter strategies for our clients’ fundraising efforts,” says Ian Swedish, Corporate Vice President at CCS Fundraising. “In particular, we find that the accessibility and quality of their wealth intelligence to be a leading solution in the marketplace. By integrating scores and ratings into our own tailored analytics work we are able to identify, segment and prioritize high potential prospects that are critical to attaining sustained fundraising growth.”

New Admin Module reintroduces “Per-User” Pricing – allows for easy user administration for large organizations

Among the many new features in WealthEngine 9.3 is the new pricing option which allows clients to screen and append all of their records for a flat price without incurring additional “per record” fees. The new pricing packages also include access to all 250M individual prospecting records each with over 1,800 attributes. This saves countless hours of time and reduces the cost to acquire a customer or donor dramatically, which is becoming ever more critical in today’s COVID-19 environment.

The platform currently ships with a pre-built “Look-Alike Model” and applies advanced machine-learning techniques to find their ideal prospects across all 180M households that fit that specific criteria. These models can also be user-defined on the platform or avail our WealthEngine’s Data Science services team to build custom models or scores that are specific to the organization needs. These pre-built library of models have a published API endpoint that can be called-back directly from any CRM/DMS application.

About WealthEngine

WealthEngine is the industry’s premier wealth intelligence software provider for more than two decades. We have been supporting more than 3000 industry-leading higher education, healthcare systems, advocacy, financial services, and high-end luxury brands and hospitality organizations in capturing and retaining tens of billions of dollars. Fueled by our wealth and lifestyle signals, our customers measurably improve their personalization and effectiveness across fundraising, capital campaigns, marketing, and overall engagement with their audience.

Rooted in machine learning, with a cloud-native architecture, the WealthEngine 9 platform boasts an entirely new user experience to provide wealth, demographic and lifestyle signals that come together to formulate powerful scores, available in real-time. Underpinned by the company’s SmartAction™ technology, pinpoints, predicts and helps personalize engagement with potential prospects. Unlike other point tools, our platform is the most convenient way to continually send and respond to changing motivations for their audience to connect, save, buy or donate.

The company is an active participant in Pledge 1%, regularly giving back to the community it serves through time, product and donations. Based in Bethesda, Maryland, the company has offices throughout the US and India. Learn more at http://www.wealthengine.com.

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