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Is a Four-Day Workweek Right for Your Association?

Associations Now

Rising gas prices after Hurricane Katrina and the 2007 financial recession led CUPA-HR to introduce the shorter workweek into its 2008 summer schedule to better support staff. “We Email communication also makes the shorter workweek a bit easier.

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The benefits of educating about benefits

Aaron Wolowiec

In fact, just the other day while I was grocery shopping, two women were discussing their benefits while they compared the price of cheese. Surveying 1,521 working adults, it revealed that employee satisfaction with their workplaces and benefits is at its lowest since 2008. Communicate with your employees on a regular basis.

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Tech Groups Warn of Ripple Effects From App Store Ruling

Associations Now

Pepper holds that lawsuits claiming that Apple unfairly keeps the price of apps high by running the App Store as a monopoly may go forward to trial. The Computer & Communications Industry Association had argued in an amicus brief [PDF] that the lawsuit could make software developers less willing to build platforms. “If

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

Value-based accreditation: Continuing with the CE credit economy, we note that many CE providers are concerned with competition in the market, which we can describe in economic terms as deflation of the price of CE credit. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models. We are all for it.

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So You Think You Know Non-Dues Revenue

Association Adviser

economy that’s in better shape than at any time since the Great Recession of 2008-09. More than half (54 percent) of the executives who took part in our annual association communication benchmarking study felt their organization’s inability to generate non-dues-revenue (NDR) was a serious or significant challenge — up substantially from 2015.

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The Case for Incremental Dues Changes

Associations Now

” Between 2008 and 2015, the number of associations raising dues annually rose from 18 percent to 25 percent overall, and MGI’s 2015 research found 31 percent of associations with renewal rates over 80 percent raise their dues annually, and 33 percent of trade associations do so. Share your experience in the comments.

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Membership Marketing Blog: ASAE Marketing, Membership.

Membership Marketing

ASAE Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference. There promises to be many great speakers and sessions at the upcoming ASAE Marketing, Membership and Communications Conference held May 23 and 24 in Washington, DC. Pricing Your Product, Service, or Membership. Does Wal-Mart Announce a Price Increase? ► 2008.