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10 Ways to Communicate Better with Instagram

Association Adviser

It is easy and inexpensive to get started with Instagram, but integrate it with the rest of your member communication platform for the biggest impact. Advertise merchandise and discounts: Hawk your next paid program or new association accessory with an Instagram photo. By Kelly Donovan.

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SXSW is here! Association Weekly Wrap-Up for March 8th!

YourMembership

What makes the Facebooks, Amazons and Starbucks of the world become the first resource people turn to when they think of communicating, shopping or meeting a friend over a cup of coffee? According to a recent study, CEO social engagement at some of the world’s largest companies has almost doubled since 2010.

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How Much Is Too Much for a Membership Dues Increase?

Associations Now

Before Connor joined NACDL in 2010, dues increased sporadically and noticeably, usually in the 10 to 15 percent range. Communicate Member Value. When a discount was applied, the member usually renewed the following year at the full rate, Connor says. The new dues model is a big success story for NADCL.

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Leadership Limerick: Putting a Price on Value

Idea Architects

As Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu note in their May 2010 Harvard Business Review article entitled "How to Stop Customers from Fixating on Price," there is indeed a cost to be associated with free. It's a small attempt to ensure the value (and what I charge for it) remains as the anchor associated with my work.

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The Leadership Gap Beyond the Generation Gap

Associations Now

Don’t discount other reasons for the divide, though. Back in 2010, I wrote an Associations Now feature about rising generation X leaders at associations who had to get past the cultural feeling that the very idea of leadership needed to be kept at arm’s length. But we can agree on what leadership is , right?

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Association Subculture: Associations Are the 99%

Association Subculture

Nobody needs your 10% Hertz rental car discount. I'd love a 30% Hertz discount though. communications. (4). community. (3). ► 2010. (24). For far too long we have wandered in the wilderness of non-dues revenue, return on investment, sales and marketing. Customer service. Posted by Shelly Alcorn, CAE.

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Mizz Information: Association Swing and a Miss--CEA Tech.

Mizz Information

These include free and discounted products, advance product launch information, access to industry events, and beta testing opportunities. Communication --Weve all heard of "build it and they will come" syndrome when it comes to social media, but a whole member category basically built on pay your dues to join then figure it out from there?