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New Revenue Streams Slow Decline of Newspaper Industry

Associations Now

Adjusting business models and finding new sources of income helped the newspaper industry slow its revenue decline to just 2 percent in 2012. The newspaper industry’s revenue peaked in 2005, and it’s been downhill ever since. Lang offered two keys for organizations trying to create new and valuable revenue streams of their own.

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Leading the way in a flattened world

Plexus Consulting

Worth, President at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC Two books that go a long way to explaining our world, how we got to where we are, as well as the factors that will determine where we are going, are Guns, Germs and Steel (1999) by Jared Diamond and The World is Flat (2005) by Thomas Friedman. Two years ago, the Washington Post Co.

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What Smart Associations Do Differently

Association Adviser

Since 2005, the two groups had jointly produced a successful annual show and realized that many constituents knew each other and were members of both associations. They can also provide new sources of sponsorship revenue and member leads by identifying trends in attendee behavior and content interests. The value of high-touch/low-tech.

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