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San Antonio CVB Takes Steps to Transition to Nonprofit

Associations Now

Council approval would allow SACVB to seek 501(c)(6) status, giving it the ability to bring in revenue from fundraising, corporate sponsorships, partnerships, advertising, and membership dues in addition to city funding.

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Building and Protecting Your Association’s Brand Is Vital

SCD Group

Brands – whether companies, products or associations – are difficult to create, hard to nurture and easy to destroy. Louis Cardinals brand – one of the icons of professional baseball – took a hit when the FBI announced it was investigating whether the Cardinals hacked into the computer system of the Houston Astros baseball club.

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Making Business Sense of Climate Change ? A Green Meeting Guide

GlowGlobally

Vanessa Cotton and I reprised for another session on Tuesday at MPI’s PEC NA in Houston on the topic of “making a business case for developing a sustainable strategy” for meetings and events from a planner and supplier perspective. They actually have a worm farm that converts waste to compost as a new revenue streams.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Making Sponsorship Special Again

Idea Architects

in order to generate extra revenues. Since we are an advertising savvy people, I believe almost all of these efforts to attract our attention to a company’s name or products go almost unnoticed. Perhaps even more egregious is how organizations have conditioned their members and customers to get great products or programs at a.

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Associations Respond to Hurricane Harvey

Spark Consulting

In case you missed it, ASAE’s Collaborate forum (member login required) has recently been hosting a robust discussion of how associations are helping their members and the local community in Houston and southwest Louisiana respond to Hurricane Harvey. Some are doing it automatically, while some are doing it only upon request.

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PODCAST: The Power of Change with Michael Praeger: Strategy 123’s Cat Carmichael on CAM Industry’s Most Pressing Challenges

AvidXchange: Association Management

Since profit margins in the industry tend to be thinner than others, it’s crucial to find a way to increase revenue while decreasing expenses. So they need to figure out a way to increase revenue and decrease expenses, clearly to make their margins better. MICHAEL PRAEGER Yeah.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.10.21

Reid All About it

I’ll be happy to feature it as long as it’s not too product centric. Presenters: Nathan Chin, Senior Product Manager, Cvent. Presenter: Tirrah Switzer, Director, Product Marketing, Your Membership. Gonzalez, CMP, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Houston First Corporation. 1 CMP credit. More info/register.

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