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Survey Reveals Top Community Association Manager Challenges

AvidXchange: Association Management

In this episode, our Jarett Tran, senior account executive, Community Association Management, interviewed Maegan Woytek, a senior account executive at Vantaca. Both Tran and Woytek have worked as community association managers, bringing decades of experience to their current roles. I’ve just about seen it all.

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The Safest Time in Human History

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In 2006, a coup d’etat in Thailand forced a last-minute change of winter meeting venue to Montreal, where nighttime temps plunged to a frigid 30 degrees F. And that doesn’t count association management software solutions that incorporate collaboration tools of their own. below zero. But not so any more.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Crowdsourcing.

Idea Architects

Summary: Three thought-provoking websites, from beyond the association management realm, that offer new ideas for association executives. In this edition, explore examples of crowdsourcing in action, experiments in new forms of management, and a case of learning driven by a behind-the-scenes look at conference planning.

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The Hourglass Blog: Do You Want Your Members to Be "Smart" or.

The Hourglass Blog

In it, he dissects the difference between customers who know how much your services really cost (referring to them as "smart" customers) and those who dont (referring to them as "stupid"), and shares experiences hes had with companies that charge "stupid" customers much higher prices than "smart" ones. Labels: Association Management.

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Inability to Scale Biggest Mistake in Trying to Grow Globally.

GlowGlobally

As this recent story in Fast Company illustrates, globalization creates some fascinating challenges and opportunities for associations. Saw this first hand in 2006 while meeting software executives in Bangalore. Calculated risk management – you do that by keeping the costs to enter/exit a market manageable.

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The Hourglass Blog: The Chief Detail Officer

The Hourglass Blog

It is the person responsible for finding small things that cost little that have tremendous impact and making sure they are done right and consistently. Ive been in association management for 18 years now. Association Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture. Heres a quick story.

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The Hourglass Blog: Internalizing the Externalities

The Hourglass Blog

Internalize the externalities yourself, or society will internalize them for you, at much higher cost. Labels: Association Management. Association Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture. For me , his last line says it all. Posted by Eric Lanke. at 1:18 PM. 0 comments: Post a Comment.