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How to Turn Around Your Sponsorship Revenue

Velvet Chainsaw

If your conference is like most, sponsorship revenue is underperforming. There are two benchmarks we like to use to identify healthy conference revenue business models: Industry revenue — 30 percent or more of a conference’s total revenue should come from the combination of sponsor, exhibit and advertising revenue.

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Association Brain Food: 2.2.24

Reid All About it

Print magazines. m3Magazines shares advice on transforming your magazine into a valuable asset members will love. They explain how to develop a content strategy, know when it’s time for a redesign, decrease costs and increase revenue. Generation Z. 1 CAE credit. More info/register. More info/register.

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Lessons in leadership from 2014

Aaron Wolowiec

Athitakis has written on nonprofits, the arts and leadership for a variety of publications. And I do worry, as I wrote back in May, that social-media herd mentality might trickle down into leadership , leading to groupthink. Listening is an underrated leadership skill. 22 on Associations Now.

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Event Planning Has Risen in the Ranks of Most Stressful Jobs

Velvet Chainsaw

Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent (or more) lower than 2019. Many senior leadership teams don’t understand why the increases are so much higher than inflation rates.

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Plan to Succeed in the Magazine Production Process

Association Adviser

A clearly defined editorial plan can help ease the magazine production process and help you reach your communications goals. These best practices can organize your editorial leadership and help you develop best-in-class communication pieces that your members can trust as the voice of your industry. Tracy Tompkins.

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Five Tips for Conference Sponsorship Pricing

Velvet Chainsaw

In my experience, most large conferences this year are realizing about 80 percent of their 2019 revenue performance. For some of the major annual meetings we’re tracking, sponsorship revenue has been a bright spot when compared to exhibit revenue performance. How involved is your leadership with the budget maker?

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A Letter to My Association Family: Embrace the Pursuit of Non-Dues Revenue!

Association Adviser

To my association family: Generating non-dues revenue (NDR) and increasing those figures year over year for associations is a key responsibility of being a Senior Group Publisher (that’s me!) Often, they aren’t—which is where we run into trouble with membership growth, retention and revenue. at Naylor Association Solutions.

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