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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

While the way you align your proposed member community with your executives’ goals will vary by association, five of the most common priorities you might find in the strategic plan include new member acquisition, member engagement and retention, non-dues revenue growth, advocacy and legislation, and maintaining relevance.

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9 Steps to Make a Case for a New AMS

Membersuite

Your AMS isn’t integrated with other systems so staff and leaders can’t access the data and reports they need to understand member/customers and make decisions. You can’t use the AMS to track member engagement—volunteering, events, certification/education and purchases. 6: Round Up Allies. Don’t use technical jargon.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.4.22

Reid All About it

Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. How to Write an RFP (Request for Proposal) for Merchant Services: Improving Your Business Process and Net Income. Presenter: Todd Unger, Chief Experience Officer, SVP Marketing & Member Experience, American Medical Association.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.29.21

Reid All About it

Instead, when you hear crickets, he suggests you ask board members to use specific language—he shares several examples—to express their stance on an issue or proposal. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. Sponsorship sales. Mon 11/1 at 3 p.m. Wed 11/3 at 1 p.m. –

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Solutions for Your Membership Conundrum

Association Adviser

Certifications. We have a lot of benefits you may be interested in,’” he says, including technical details they can put into proposals and other benefits they wouldn’t immediately recognize. They’re used to the “freemium model,” Notter said, and then they upgrade to the paid model if they like it. Job opportunities. Socializing.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 4.17.20

Reid All About it

Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. COVID-19: Knowing How and When to Develop Partnership Proposals (Partnership Professionals Network Idea Exchange). Join a discussion on how and when to develop partnership proposals. A new episode is posted every Monday by 1 p.m.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.8.19

Reid All About it

The deadline for proposals is next Friday, November 15. Presenters: Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. The new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations are here at last, and they look very different from those proposed by the Obama administration. 1 CAE credit.