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Refocusing on Jobs and Education in 2015

YourMembership

Three areas of concern come to light when looking at the overall potential of LinkedIn and other for profits crowding into areas of service previously “owned” by associations: Non-Dues Revenue – The potential loss of much desired revenue generated through recruiting fees via paid job postings and online advertising.

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Where are the YPs?

Spark Consulting

How can I recruit young professional members if there are no young professionals entering our industry?” Associations Now recently profiled an initiative by the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association focused on exactly this: recruiting young people into the industry.

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Retention is a Relationship

Spark Consulting

This topic has come up frequently with clients in the past six months, both within full engagements, where we’ve been looking at how to increase membership, and in speaking engagements, where I’m trying to help chapter leaders learn how to be more effective. Record that somewhere that your colleagues can access.

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Identifying Association Trends – It’s About the Data

YourMembership

This month we’re focusing on trends and strategies for associations in 2015. We just released The Essential Guide to 2015 Association Management Trends , where we examine evolving technologies, changing member preferences and differences in generational values that pose management challenges for associations.

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Build Your Customer Journey Map With 7 Community Touchpoints

Higher Logic

Learn how to build your customer journey map with these seven online community touchpoints. You have a ready-made list of active, happy, and unhappy customers at your fingertips, and a reason to recruit them. Streamline Customer Onboarding. Proactively Address Problems. The webinar is available on demand through the link below.

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Survey: Charitable Groups Losing More Donors Than They Recruit

Associations Now

As reported by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy 2015 Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP), those offsets resulted in that $3.611 billion figure being trimmed to just $173 million in net giving growth. ” Big Hurdles for Smaller Groups.

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Business Groups Aim to Change Mindset on Hiring Ex-Convicts

Associations Now

At a recent event, Koch called on companies to remove questions about criminal histories from employment applications, something his own company did in 2015. “If Employers need to embrace greater inclusivity when recruiting and hiring and give qualified individuals a second chance at success in life—particularly when the U.S.