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Three Challenges – Three Opportunities

Spark Consulting

Per Marketing General’s annual Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report , the Q4 2007 economic crash didn’t fully show up in association metrics until 2009. This impacts association meetings, which in turn impacts everything most associations do because the conference often provides 30-50% of annual revenue. Ouch, I know.

Revenue 221
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MTI's Story: Harnessing Community to Digitally Transform

Higher Logic

MTI adopted an online community in 2009. Wondering how your association can stay relevant, effectively connect with younger members, save staff time, increase revenue, and boost retention? Before MTI adopted an online community, it was short on staff, didn’t have an AMS, and its revenue was decreasing. We’ll let MTI tell you.

Revenue 207
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Members Hire Relevant Associations

Potomac Core

Boards and their CEOs aren’t interested in hemorrhaging balance sheets that come from dues losses and shrinking Trade Show revenues. From 2009 forward, leading Associations find ways to maintain their relevance and are perceived as the Industry or the Profession. The most recent Convention had record setting attendance.

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Is it Time to Recession-Proof Your Association?

Associations Now

As it happens, I entered the association world 10 years ago, and 2009 was the year associations began truly feeling the pain of the recession that formally started in 2007. As revenues began to trickle at associations and travel budgets tightened, there was much talk about what kind of technological fixes might help right the ship.

Revenue 74
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The Key to Taking Risk in 2014 is Non-Dues Revenue

Tom Morrison

There is a lack of innovation, seeking out member''s business needs, and listening for those things that could be huge drivers to member engagement, expanded revenues, and rising net worth. After the 2009 economic bust, every non-profit should be doing everything it can to enhance revenue streams to build its reserve funds.

Revenue 40
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Leadership ? Continued Discussion 8/17/09 ? on Leadership ? by.

on Leadership

on Leadership … by Steven Davis, CAE. Leadership … an Ongoing Discussion. « Leadership … Continued Discussion 8/3/09. Leadership … Continued Discussion 9/9/09 » Leadership … Continued Discussion 8/17/09. Follow “on Leadership. Tags: Leadership.

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Does the Future of Membership Live at 501 Mission Place?

Reid All About it

501, a term that resonates with any nonprofit professional, is the section in the Internal Revenue Code covering tax-exempt nonprofit organizations. For $27 a month, members have access to online forums, seminars, articles, blogs, leadership interviews and resource libraries. The “501” in the subject heading caught my eye.

Library 150