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Benchmarking and its Application to Your Member-based Organization

YourMembership

For instance, a marketing association can survey its membership to find out what vice presidents of marketing in New York City earn; how much their departmental budget is; and the components of their marketing mix. Smith is the Director, Inbound Marketing at YourMembership.com. member community.

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Advocacy and Governance 2.0

Association Adviser

Selection of Top 10 Association Communication Challenges 2011-2015. Source: Association Adviser Communication Benchmarking Survey 2011-216. He was one of the first responders to the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks in New York City and he provided aid during the aftermath of Indonesia’s tsunami and the TWA flight 800 crash.

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Largest International Meetings Expo Comes to USA ? IMEX America.

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Market & Biz Plan. Plus over 2,000 American and international hosted buyers alongside thousands of US trade attendees representing the association, corporate and agency markets. Please follow this link to apply online to attend as MCI’s guest – IMEX America 2011 Hosted Buyer Program. . GrowGlobally.org.

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Lunchtime Links: The Importance of Helping Others

Associations Now

Online donations: Recent data from The Chronicle of Philanthropy show that online donations grew by 14 percent from 2011 to 2012. Do everything you can to make it dead simple for your donors every step of the way,” writes Stein on Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog. ” How do you network?

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Hostels Are Gaining Ground With Business Travelers

Associations Now

In a 2012 survey of hostel operators worldwide by industry trade group Stay Wyse , the percentage of total guests per year accounted for by business travelers had increased from 12 percent in 2010 to 14 percent in 2011. We’re in negotiations in New York now, and we’re looking at Washington, DC, Miami, L.A., and Boston.”.

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Membership Wakeup Call for Associations

Association Adviser

As we go live with this issue, the stock market is near its all-time high, housing prices are rebounding in most parts of the country and the jobless rate has significantly improved since we launched Association Adviser in March 2010. In response, NYSSA started monthly gatherings at local pubs in New York City.

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How Much Code Should You Know?

Associations Now

As an example, a 2011 story in The Atlantic reported on research done by Google that found roughly 90 percent of internet users didn’t know how to use CTRL-F, a common command that allows users to easily search through text in a document. My New Year's resolution is to learn to code with Codecademy in 2012!