Association Adviser

MAY 18, 2018

Last year’s survey results revealed that associations are communicating with members more frequently and via more channels than at any time since we began this survey in 2011. Other outsourced communication functions include magazines, directories and social media. Why segment your member communications? Student status.

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Association Adviser

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Results of the 2015 Association Communication Benchmarking Report suggest that associations still struggle with content relevancy, communication integration and using data advantageously to learn. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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Association Subculture

AUGUST 24, 2011

Beloit College Mindset List 2015 vs Your Association. A big Association Subculture shout out to Colleen McMahon who posted a link to the Beloit College Mindset List of 2015 on Google+. How about communications? communications. (4). community. (3). marketing. (2). skip to main | skip to sidebar. advocacy. (1).

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Vanguard Tech

DECEMBER 7, 2015

ASAE’s 2015 Technology Conference and Expo is just a week away and one of the most exciting topics will be the MarComm & Technology Pathway exploring how marketing, communications and technology present a true digital experience for associations and their members.

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Aaron Wolowiec

MARCH 31, 2015

1, with marketing and communications taking the No. In a major shift from 2014-2015, our survey results show that it has become a candidate’s market, increasing the challenge for nonprofit managers to find and hire the staff they need and to pay the higher salaries required,” the report says.

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Spark Consulting

MARCH 4, 2015

In addition to upcoming chapter leader training for the California Dental Association, the Consortium for School Networking, and the American Academy of Family Physicians, I’ve also been working on some session for my association peeps: The Mission Driven Volunteer, ASAE Marquee Management Series, March 2015.

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Higher Logic

MAY 8, 2019

If your target audience has opted into your communications, the open rate should be on the higher end. Follow our tips to improve your association’s email open rate and boost member engagement, building a stronger communications strategy along the way. Resource: Email Marketing vs. Marketing Automation [Explained].

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Optimist Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I think hard copy mailings still have a place in your marketing plan. Secondly, with the amount of emails we all receive, it’s no surprise that email marketing messages can get lost in the general noise. I generally suggest to clients to think about including it in their marketing/campaign mix. I outline my thoughts below.

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Higher Logic

MAY 23, 2019

Getting your new members involved in your online community from the start is a good way to build future engagement and retention. Plus, thanks to complementary tools like marketing automation, it makes the work of your membership staff less labor-intensive. Tip: Customize your online community home page.

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Membership Marketing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The truth is that there is no stand-alone marketing channel that can fully support membership marketing. You may hear marketers say that they have done away with direct mail and now only communicate with email. Here are six marketing channels that can work together to support a thriving membership program.

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AssociationChat

MARCH 28, 2023

David Allison launched the Valuegraphics Project in 2015 to create a worldwide map of core human values. How can association leaders use valuegraphics for making better decisions about everything from strategy to marketing? His new book is called The Death of Demographics: Valuegraphic Marketing for a Values-Driven World.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JULY 12, 2016

According to Marketing General Inc. ’s s 2016 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report , it’s issues such as balancing a limited budget, engaging younger members and understanding what members truly want, especially in terms of networking and professional development. What keeps association leaders up at night?

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Membership Marketing

JULY 11, 2016

I am pleased to announce the release of the 2016 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. This edition of the report represents the eighth consecutive year that Marketing General Incorporated (MGI) has produced this research which explores the membership marketing initiatives and outcomes of 828 distinct participating associations.

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Higher Logic

MARCH 6, 2020

Top Digital Marketer of the Year: Beth Arritt, American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE). Beth, Staff Vice President, Marketing, at AAAE, is a mastermind at using Higher Logic’s marketing automation platform with her association management system, iMIS, to create precise target groups for personalized messaging.

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Associations Now

MAY 20, 2015

Drafting a strategic communications plan is hard enough, but keeping it relevant can be more difficult. Putting the words “strategic” and “communications” together can strike fear in the hearts of many association executives. An effective strategic communications plan is a living document.

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Higher Logic

AUGUST 28, 2018

When you integrate your AMS with your online community platform, the community becomes a spoke on that wheel. Your marketing automation software becomes another spoke on that wheel. Your online community starts adding the member into the right communities. Think of your database, your AMS, as the center of a wheel.

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Associations Now

MAY 18, 2015

To make sure your team works best, all parties must be committed to regular and clear communication. The reason that worked so well was because we communicated well with each other. The key to that project’s success—and our satisfaction with it—was our commitment to communicating clearly with each other. Ask questions.

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Potomac Core

MARCH 3, 2020

Factors including Coronavirus Disease , supply chain disruptions , political polarization , innovative technologies, cyber threats, trade policy, shifting consumer attitudes, & workforce shortages all complicate markets. Research sets the stage for market focused discussions. Communicate Industry and Profession ROI.

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Timberlake Membership Software offered associations an efficient way to organize and track member data, manage member dues, communicate with members and more. Timberlake Membership Software became Timberlake AMS Solutions after Naylor acquired the company in early 2015.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Which apps are helping you with content and marketing for your association? We'll explore apps that impact your business, personal, spiritual, and physical lives. Here are some questions we'll discuss: Which apps are you using to improve what you do at work? How are these apps improving your jobs?

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Higher Logic

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Every Super Forum, we present our Floyd Awards to recognize our customers for their outstanding work in community. This year, we’re extra excited to include awards for success in online community and marketing automation. Marketing Automation Masters: American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

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SCD Group

JUNE 15, 2015

Kids Skate Free represents a great example of a locally-initiated, association-managed cause marketing campaign that benefits a struggling industry. It demonstrates how associations can use cause marketing to enhance their members while benefitting a cause. While nationally-coordinated, all cause marketing is locally implemented.

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Higher Logic

JANUARY 30, 2019

AARC sought help through marketing automation. By 2015, the organization had over 18,000 lapsed members within a 24-month period. With new insight and perspective, AARC developed a targeted, custom win-back campaign strategy. None of us have the time to constantly be manually sending out emails of this kind.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JULY 12, 2016

According to Marketing General Inc. ’s s 2016 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report , it’s issues such as balancing a limited budget, engaging younger members and understanding what members truly want, especially in terms of networking and professional development. What keeps association leaders up at night?

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YourMembership

DECEMBER 30, 2014

creates the first overall image someone experiences when looking at your web presence, marketing and member communication pieces and should […]. The 10 Essential Questions to Answer for the 2015 Association Budgeting Season. Budgeting now for 2015 purchases both large […].

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Associations Now

MAY 17, 2013

85 % The percentage of Americans who have a mobile subscription of some kind, with the vast majority of those reaching data speeds of 3G or higher, according to the MMA Mobile Marketing Economic Impact Study. million in 2015. billion by 2015. It also predicts the industry will explode financially, jumping from $6.7

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Higher Logic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

It is natural that the first question they ask when we talk about community is: Can community affect the bottom line? Delivering a top notch product or service is important, but what ensures relevance for customers in today’s market is to ensure you know what they need and care about. And if so, how?

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Higher Logic

MAY 17, 2016

If you’re a community manager, you can use effective blog posts to recruit and communicate with both current and potential community members – and all of these principles apply. As you may know, this familiar technique is called content marketing. I wrote a bunch of posts about clear writing in early 2015.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JUNE 9, 2015

But thanks to periods of economic stability, for the first time in a decade, these always-on-go folks will have time to take a breath and think strategically, according to Meeting Professionals International’s Meetings Outlook, 2015 Spring Edition. It was developed in partnership with Visit Denver. What do you think? Let us know.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 17, 2017

Now, onto more mundane things… Is inbound marketing still a bit perplexing for you? Aptify shows how associations can use inbound marketing for lead generation and, ultimately, membership recruitment. Fisk, director of public and science communications, Soil Science Society of America. Have no fear. When the U.N.

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Beekeeper Group

AUGUST 10, 2016

Dr. Kelton Rhoads, a psychologist and influence consultant (among other things) spoke at the December Innovate to Motivate 2015 conference and argued (quite compellingly) that after being “cloyed with slick marketing appeals and fake public figures,” audiences are, now more than ever, “starved for authenticity.”

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Association Adviser

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

When you have a four-person staff managing the production of a handful of association publications, content marketing for offline and online platforms and event marketing for two 35,000-attendee annual trade shows plus several smaller events, it’s SMART to have a goal-oriented plan of attack.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Here are the important takeaways from two new reports on the email marketing landscape. The Association Email Marketing Benchmark Report from Informz is required reading for membership teams considering how to tweak their next email campaign based on their members’ behaviors. Marketing automation is growing—significantly.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

MARCH 24, 2015

The March 24, 2015 edition of Association Chat will focus on The Digital Organization - inspired by this great book. How has technology opened up new opportunities for more effective marketing, customer service, and even management? Does your organization use technology to better communicate internally?

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

American Water Works Association’s strategic objective to expand into seven priority markets was accompanied by the mission statement, “Better World Through Better Water.” Its first office outside North America was opened in Mumbai, India in 2015. – Omni-Channel Marketing: How to Layer Your Channels to Increase Leads.

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Higher Logic

AUGUST 29, 2019

For example, your customer success, support, product management, implementation, and customer marketing teams may all have a hand in influencing the customer journey. Check out a recent webinar we did with Jama Software, where they share how they’re maximizing customer growth and retention with community.

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Virtual

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Social Media for Associations As a full-service association and alliance management company, we help groups create smarter marketing campaigns—including active social media profiles. This blog explains where and how different associations should be speaking to their audiences—a question that will only get more complicated in 2015.

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