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Association Management: Online vs. In-person Engagement

Blue Sky eLearn

Managing your members is no easy feat— it requires dedicated association management software as well as a strategic plan for engaging your constituents. If you can only focus on either recruitment or retention, it’s more cost-effective and beneficial to focus on the latter. Learning opportunities.

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Choosing the Best Association Management Software

GrowthZone

Editor’s note: This article was originally posted on September 23, 2019. Leveraging a robust AMS system engages members and helps you develop your association, while automating many mundane and repetitive tasks. This article will help you compare and evaluate the best association management software currently on the market. .

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Tips for association member recruitment

Aptify

Here are four ideas to help you reach your recruitment goals , even in challenging times : Provide valuable , relevant content. . Your association is in a unique position to help your industry in times when the economy is up and down, and unemployment spikes. Read the guide, 50 Ways to Boost Association Membership .

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A Faster Path to Better Boards

Associations Now

But as long as I’ve been covering associations, leaders have struggled to get their boards to fully grasp their responsibilities. Mark Engle, DM, FASAE, CAE, principal of Association Management Center (and who helps run ASAE’s Exceptional Boards program), has recently been trying to address that on two fronts.

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Association Brain Food: 12.15.23

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Association management. I’ve been dipping into Associations Evolve 2024 —find it on the front page of Answers for Associations. So far, reading an article here and there, I’m liking it. Career flux.

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How Do You Get A Volunteer Board to Perform its Best?

Association Leaders

I read an article on this subject in Association’s Now recently that was very interesting. The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has conducted a three year long study into successful associations and, in particular, what the Board’s of successful associations are doing. Share them here.

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Membership 101: Ladders of Engagement Revisited

Spark Consulting

According to ASAE’s Benchmarking in Association Management: Membership and Components Policies and Procedures , the average association invests $20,000 a year on recruitment and $15,000 on retention. It’s cheaper and easier to keep an existing member than to get a new one.