June 2011

Abraham Harrison LLC – Case Study for Habitat for Humanity International

Abraham Harrison LLC: Case Study – Habitat for Humanity

Challenge:

To raise the profile of World Habitat Day online.

World Habitat Day is held on the first Monday of October every year. The theme of the October 2009 event was “Planning Our Urban Future” which tried to raise awareness of the need to improve urban planning in communities all over the world. In August 2009, Abraham Harrison LLC was tasked with helping Habitat for Humanity raise the online profile of World Habitat Day to encourage advocacy, foster education and increase donations

Abraham Harrison LLC: Case Study – Habitat for Humanity

Strategy/Tactics:

Leverage the influence of bloggers in target demographics to increase coverage of World Habitat Day.

Abraham Harrison reached out to over 2,600 bloggers covering topics relevant to urban planning and humanitarian aid.

To better equip each blogger with special content relating to World Habitat Day, the team at Abraham Harrison created a social media news release including embeddable pictures, videos, banner ads and message copy that bloggers could paste into their blogs.

The purpose of the blogger outreach was to earn bloggers’ support and encourage them to act as amplifiers of the World Habitat Day message motivating readers to become involved in the effort.

Sample of AHLLC secured blog posts

Abraham Harrison LLC: Case Study – Habitat for Humanity

Results:

Drastically increased the amount of online coverage for the event over 635% from the previous year – 31 articles to 228 articles.

With a boost from Abraham Harrison’s extensive blogger outreach in September, online coverage of World Habitat Day 2009 increased 635% from the previous year.

Those 228 earned blog posts resulted in an estimated 1+ million impressions and boosted SEO results.

Abraham Harrison LLC: Case Study – Habitat for Humanity

Testimonial:

“On behalf of Habitat for Humanity International

(HFHI), thank you for your company’s pro bono

work on World Habitat Day blogger outreach

during the fall of 2009. We were astounded by the

results achieved by Abraham and Harrison (A&H),

and we appreciated your donation of staff time and

resources.”

- Colleen Fitzgerald, Director of Advocacy

Implementation, Habitat for Humanity International

Further Questions? We look forward to speaking with you again soon!

Mark Harrison CEO Abraham Harrison www.abrahamharrison.com mharrison@abrahamharrison.com +1.202.657.4769