Reid All About it

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Another take on the young professional recruitment challenge comes from James Young of Product Community. Competing against niche professional organizations, membership and conference revenue has “slowed to a trickle.” The writing has been on the wall for a long time—follow the link in the story to the 2014 memo written by a former ED.

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YourMembership

AUGUST 7, 2014

They were great sources of revenue for… the printing company. Ordered like clockwork, and always needing to be replenished, there was nothing not to like about them – except that was back in 1995 when email, websites, membership software , and many other technology offerings were new and not widely adopted by associations.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JUNE 17, 2014

In addition, MOOCs probably aren’t going to generate revenue, at least not at first. Rather than making money, an association can build upon a brand while creating ambassadors, who will eventually help recruit members. So it’s best to think of a MOOC as a long-term investment. While only 6.6

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YourMembership

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

This week YourMembership.com is “on the road” in Tempe, Arizona attending the 2014 AMC Institute Annual Meeting. It was our opinion that these associations were in the greatest need of the help the technology we were building could provide. How to keep up with the changing demands driven by technology advances.

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YourMembership

APRIL 14, 2015

Everybody knows that the transformations facing us—social, political, technological, economic—render obsolete the lessons of the past.”. For some folks it started with YM’s acquisition of Job Target’s career center business unit in 2014. Collins wrote that in 1995, but it could have been yesterday. But back to that BHAG.

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Tom Morrison

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Associations are currently experiencing one of the biggest dynamic shifts in technology and demographics ever experienced in human history. I’ve seen this in my own association, where in the past eight years membership has increased 13%, non-dues revenue up 132%, and our overall net member surplus increased 858%.)

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

People go to conferences for a number of reasons: to hear from industry experts; to learn about new technology, products, and research; and to network with and get to know colleagues. You’ll create new revenue streams. But a career center can also contribute to revenue in other ways.

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