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Salesforce Nonprofits Landing Page: What Changed and Why
Andreas review, June 2026. Two rounds of changes to the Generic landing page. Round 1 is the launch-prep cleanup (shipped as v1). Round 2 is a proposed restructure (v2) to review before it replaces v1.
Overall: the messaging is great, and the core pitch is strong. Everything below is tightening, not rethinking.
Round 1: launch prep (already applied)
De-identification finish:
- The page body was already mostly anonymized
- Excluded the assets/clients/ images from the deployed repo (not referenced by the Generic page).
- Confirmed the archival diagram PNG contains no client names.
Style cleanup: Removed em dashes per Civis house style. The page had 49 of them; all replaced with commas, colons, or restructured sentences.
Made it standalone + integrated with the main site:
- The nav logo pointed at the internal overview page (index.html); it now links to civisanalytics.com, using the same header logo as the main site, with a "Civis for Salesforce Nonprofits" crumb (same pattern as the Audience Builder microsite).
- Footer "Company" links were placeholders (href="#"); they now go to real civisanalytics.com pages, plus a legal/social row matching the microsite. "Applied Data Science" was dropped because there's no public URL to point it at; easy to restore if one exists.
Responsive fixes (pre-existing):
- The page scrolled horizontally on phones. Two causes: the stack-diagram rows kept a fixed label column at all widths, and the nav buttons plus gutters exceeded narrow viewports. Fixed with media queries; clean now from 360px up.
- The hero h1's inline font-size:52px was overriding the 46px mobile rule, so the intended mobile sizing never applied. Fixed.
- Added a mobile hamburger menu (the section links previously just disappeared below 1000px). Same pattern as the microsite.
- The form's Name/Role fields now stack on phones instead of squeezing side by side.
Round 2: proposed restructure (v2)
A copy review focused on conversion drove three structural changes:
- The hero's Reason 02 card had Reason 03's body. Both cards said Claude gives "non-technical marketing and fundraising staff" answers "in plain language," so the three-reason frame collapsed into two. Reason 02 now carries the warehouse/analytics story: "A true data warehouse and analytics workbench behind your CRM: unified data, real reporting, and predictive models your team can act on." Labels sharpened too (Cut storage costs / A real analytics layer / AI for everyone).
- The savings story was told three separate times (archival callout, the before/after bars three sections later, the 31% stat ring two sections after that), interleaved with other content. v2 merges all the evidence into one archival section: 50% callout, then before/after bars, then the 100%-accessible and nightly-sync stats, then the flow diagram. The standalone stat-ring section is gone; its 31% number still appears in the before/after bars and case study 1.
- Four consecutive Claude sections repeated the same points ("governed" appeared 10 times on the page, "plain language" 5, "MCP" 9). v2 keeps the readiness ladder, the whole-team section, and the stack diagram, and folds the unique content of "Claude in practice" into them (context-freshness became a governance chip; the "one analyst's spreadsheet" line moved into the publishing pillar). The "Why Civis" grid at the bottom of the stack section also repeated earlier material; its two unique points (flat-fee nonprofit connectors, federated chapters/affiliates) replaced the two feature-grid cards that duplicated other sections ("Salesforce archival" and "Claude, built in").
Other v2 changes:
- The Salesforce Trends stat band (34/33/31%) moved up to follow "The challenge" section, earlier in the page where it does the motivating; it also no longer sits next to the CTA, where three numbers near 31% could blur with the storage stat.
- Section eyebrows now carry "Reason 01 / 02 / 03" so the hero's promise pays off as you scroll.
- "Your archival savings alone will nearly pay for the Civis Platform" softened to "For many nonprofits, the storage savings alone offset much of the platform's cost. The rest is upside: a true analytics workbench and AI tools for your entire team." (The original read as a pricing guarantee.)
- Case study 1's challenge paragraph repeated "The challenge" section nearly verbatim; rewritten to be case-specific.
- "See the Civis Platform running against a data model like yours" appeared three times (CTA, form, modal); now varied.
- "We worry about security so you don't have to" was inside the form's consent line; removed (security reassurance already sits in the chips above).
- Net effect: three fewer sections, roughly 14% shorter page, no message lost.
Emails: what we changed
All four arcs and their CTAs are kept. The copy was restructured for a cold audience and rebuilt in the approved Civis Pardot template, so the renders in this package are exactly what recipients would receive. They exist in Pardot as templates; nothing is scheduled or sent.
Across all four: they now open with a greeting and short, problem-led paragraphs instead of headline blocks (matching the structure our Pardot prospect sends use), one CTA each, a standardized "The Civis Team" sign-off, the standard Civis template footer, and no em dashes.
- Arc 1 (storage): kept nearly as-is; it's the strongest of the set. The closing Claude teaser moved to a P.S. so the email stays one message.
- Arc 2 (analytics): rewritten around one concrete outcome: "Your CRM can tell you who gave last year. It can't tell you who's most likely to give again." The tool list was compressed to one reassurance bullet; the full tool wall reads analyst-facing while the buyer for this campaign is a fundraising or marketing leader.
- Arc 3 (Claude): now leads with the lapsed-donor question, the best line in the campaign. The governance paragraph moved after the demo moment, where it answers the objection it raises.
- Arc 4 (three reasons): works as the recap; its CTA escalates to Book a demo.
Sequencing (open option): these can run independently as designed, or as a 4-touch sequence (1, then 3, then 2, then 4) where each touch is a new angle. If we sequence, splitting the first touch between Arc 1 and Arc 3 would tell us whether cost savings or AI curiosity converts better with this audience, which then informs everything downstream (including which LinkedIn angle gets budget).
Open items
- "Up to 50%" (hero/archival) vs roughly 31% (case evidence): both kept; one clarifying line could reconcile them.
- Email sequencing: independent sends vs the 4-touch sequence above.
- The form isn't wired up yet; easy to do once we ship it.