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Why email success starts with a clean subscriber list

Association Success

Way back when, before the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 , we were able to send out emails with the voracity of water coming out of a firehose. Since 2003, additional legislation regulating how businesses manage customer data has been enacted. In short, if you have a business that markets to people in the EU, the GDPR applies to you.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

The drop in the cost and effort required to capture, edit, and deliver video has dramatically increased our ability to use it for developing educational content. For learning businesses, the rise of SaaS has meant better, lower-cost access to a wider variety of learning platform options. The E-learning Cost Cliff.

Course 101
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Political Black Swans: Ignore Them at Your Association’s Peril

Association Success

Beware of political risks when exploring new global markets. In 2003, widespread protest broke out around me in Azerbaijan, a country formerly part of the Soviet Union. We spent a year researching the economies, politics, legal frameworks and markets of the countries. But these are not enough for entering a market.

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Getting Married to Membership May Require Engagement First

Idea Architects

With many companies and nonprofits offering some degree of value under a freemium model , potential members and customers may only be more likely to invest in the cost of membership only after becoming involved in some of the benefits of joining organization. community that people value and that our organizations market. Oct 2003 (1).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Making Sponsorship Special Again

Idea Architects

reduced cost courtesy of others’ doing the underwriting. As a result, the registration fee or product cost individuals have been paying hasn’t had to carry the full value proposition of the event or product itself. need to pass on more of the real cost and finding members and customers. Oct 2003 (1).

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Bringing Credibility to the Conversation: Katie Butler, IIABA

Association Adviser

Katie has served IIABA since 2003 and has helmed the communications department since communications since 2004. Katie manages a team of six across three functional areas: editorial/content strategy, public relations and marketing. Now I oversee the association’s publications, marketing and public relations.

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Engineering Group: Cellphones Need Better Repairability

Associations Now

The association, in its latest initiative, is encouraging smartphone manufacturers to make devices easier to repair, as a way to save costs and provide alternatives to simply recycling raw materials. This approach can also reduce manufacturing costs, he says. They could have significant effects on the environment.