Associations Now

AUGUST 5, 2013

There are about 50 aspiring farmers in the ALBA program, which trains them in organic farm production, marketing, recordkeeping, labor law, pest management, and numerous other aspects of operating a small farm business. An article at NPR profiles 45-year-old Raul Murillo , who leases a three-acre strawberry farm from ALBA.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 31, 2017

Here’s a bit of a conundrum to start out the year: Despite all the complaints about email filling up our inboxes and generally annoying us, email newsletters and marketing messages are doing pretty well from an attention-grabbing standpoint. A recent article in Digiday underlines this point pretty well. Make Design Less Painful.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 21, 2014

But, he did teach me three valuable lessons about learning about your customers: (a) You can never know too much about your customers or target market; (b) You don’t get if you don’t ask and (c) Ask for forgiveness, not for permission. Those in the association world are a little less blunt about the information gathering process.

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