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4 Steps to Inspire Innovation in Your Association

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“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Many people believe innovation is all about inventing and releasing new products. Innovation is so much more than just revamping products or services. Innovation is so much more than just revamping products or services. Defining Innovation.

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New Report Reveals a Rebound in Membership Numbers

Associations Now

Marketing General Incorporated’s 2023 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report found that associations are experiencing an increase in membership following declines during the pandemic. That growth was correlated with associations that have compelling value propositions, embrace innovation, and focus on recruitment.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

Reid All About it

Charlene Li believes you need order to create change —not what you picture when thinking about innovative organizations. Another example of wishful thinking disguised as conventional wisdom: Claire Cain Miller at the New York Times says there’s no evidence that chance meetings at the office boost innovation. Order and change.

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How to Recruit and Engage an Entirely New Generation of Members

Smooth The Path

Focusing on current stale offerings and not on innovations. Focusing on one segment of membership, but not on younger members. Each one of these behaviors can be deadly, but the last one, focusing more on younger members may have the power to solve all the others. Focusing on the wrong key industry issues.

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Daily Buzz: Event Registration’s New Frontier

Associations Now

Say goodbye to the event registration strategies of yore: Facial recognition and customized software-as-a-service solutions are taking center stage. “We It doesn’t come without risks , says member researcher Amanda Kaiser. As the second-most visited website, YouTube holds a lot of marketing power. Printed tickets?

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Our Members are Self-Centered

Smooth The Path

Only organizations that solve our member’s problems, speak their language, and understand them will get their time and attention. Associations can no longer make it by marketing benefits.The only way to get their attention and to keep them engaged is by marketing and then delivering solutions and experiences.

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Is it Day 1 or Day 2 for Associations?

Smooth The Path

We can change the organization’s strategy. We can develop offerings members love. We can attract high-quality members with our improved marketing. Let us say we know the answers to these questions. Now we can act on that information. But, we can only do this with high-velocity decision making.

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