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Is Earning More Non-Dues Revenue an Obstacle Course for Your Association?

Association Adviser

Two out of five respondents (41 percent) to the 2017 Association Communications Benchmarking Survey feel their inability to generate non-dues revenue from communications is a significant challenge. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of changing old, tired revenue streams no one is excited about anymore. What are these obstacles?

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Associations Increasingly Adopting Communications Popular in Mainstream Life, But Do Members Care?

Association Adviser

The number of association professionals claiming this as a challenge has more than doubled since Naylor first conducted this survey in 2011. A lack of revenue earned from communication channels is a serious or significant problem for 46 percent of associations.

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A Letter to My Association Family: Embrace the Pursuit of Non-Dues Revenue!

Association Adviser

To my association family: Generating non-dues revenue (NDR) and increasing those figures year over year for associations is a key responsibility of being a Senior Group Publisher (that’s me!) Source: 2017 Association Communications Benchmarking Survey. Source: 2017 Association Communications Benchmarking Study.

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SCD Group: Ready or not, here comes Gen Y: Is your association.

SCD Group

By 2017 (just five years from now), millenials will have more spending power than any other generation in America. Reinventing membership as a revenue tool for assoc. ► 2011. (42). Depending on who you talk with, they were born between 1980 and 2000 so are in their mid-teens to early 30s. What is Happening?

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

All the factors above have led to the emergence of what has become known as the “ creator economy ,” basically a technology-enabled business environment in which individual creators are able to generate revenue from their content. billion acquisition in 2015.

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Ready for SURGE Growth? Meet the 3 keynote speakers for our digital conference

Association Success

In 2008, he was named Ernst & Young’s New England Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Entrepreneur of the year and, in 2011, he worked with President Barack Obama’s council of science advisers on the future of national research. In 2017, he was a finalist for the Breakthrough Ideas Award for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards.