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Kids Skate Free: Association-Managed Cause Marketing Campaign

SCD Group

Kids Skate Free represents a great example of a locally-initiated, association-managed cause marketing campaign that benefits a struggling industry. It demonstrates how associations can use cause marketing to enhance their members while benefitting a cause. It was able to recruit FedEx as a sponsor.

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Membership Marketing Blog: Your Membership Value Equation

Membership Marketing

Membership Marketing Blog. Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Philip Kotler, Marketing Management, Prentice Hall; 11 edition (May 2002). Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report.

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Getting Married to Membership May Require Engagement First

Idea Architects

How would you adjust your recruitment and involvement strategies to capitalize on this potential shift? community that people value and that our organizations market. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3). Jul 2002 (3). Jun 2002 (2). May 2002 (4). May 2004 (5).

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Arrested Development? A Strategic Approach to Technology Reboots Association Growth

.orgCommunity

This requires looking at how we position ourselves in the market differently. Identifying new markets and sources of revenue – relying too heavily on dues revenue can be catastrophic for associations. Scan the Market. Jobs and markets that were once unrelated are aligning. In this excerpt from our book, Association 4.0—Positioning

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Context Is Everything: Online Communities

Beth Kanter

We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. The Netpreneur AdMarketing list , one of the longest running Internet marketing lists and still active, is an adventure of the Morino Institute. Customer service is really important.

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2104 Summer Recommended Reading

Holly Duckworth

Member engagement, recruitment, and retention are fundamental activities that all membership organizations must master to ensure the growth and viability of their organizations over the long term. A few might ask me for what book I am taking on my vacation. Here is the 2014 Leadership Solutions International Summer recommended reading list.

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Big Data: Big Headache or Big Opportunity for Associations?

Association Adviser

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. It’s also a great member benefit and new member recruiting tool. Be careful what you wish for.

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