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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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Customer Journey Mapping 101: The What, Why, and How

Higher Logic

In 2005, Bain and Company released some staggering research : 80% of firms participating in the study said they deliver a superior experience , while only 8% of their customers agreed. This difference is called the “perception gap,” and we haven’t evolved much since 2005. Revisit Your Map (And the Data) Regularly.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Making Sponsorship Special Again

Idea Architects

in order to generate extra revenues. need members and customers to pay a greater percentage of the real costs of a product or program so we can more accurately assess the market’s. Nov 2005 (1). Oct 2005 (1). Sep 2005 (2). Aug 2005 (1). Jul 2005 (2). Jun 2005 (1). May 2005 (2).

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Association Hunger Games: Victory or Defeat?

Aaron Wolowiec

According to a 2005 Harvard Business Review article, “Companies typically realize only about 60% of their strategy’s potential value because of defects and breakdowns in planning and execution.”. The resulting gap represents lost opportunities and revenue. What opportunities exist in your market you can benefit from?

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What Smart Associations Do Differently

Association Adviser

The economy, financial markets and labor market are greatly improved (see chart below). Stock Market #. 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. . TiK ToK(Ke$ha). Rolling In The Deep (Adele).

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The One Way to Deliver Unwelcome News

Idea Architects

Because that was the approach the Indianapolis Museum of Art (and presumably the PR firm that advises it) opted for in announcing the elimination of free general admission, a practice in place from 1941 to 2005 and 2007-present (according to this article in the Indianapolis Business Journal.

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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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