Associations Now

JULY 28, 2017

Recruiting beta testers can help identify trouble spots, so long as you have enough testers—and offer them a few shiny incentives. This week, for instance, it put out a call for beta testers for an updated version of the cloud-computing certification exam it released in 2013. How do they do it?

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Eric Lanke

JUNE 10, 2013

image source Thanks to my co-presenters, Elizabeth Engel and Peggy Hoffman , and all the folks who joined us at our "Walking the Walk of Deep Member Engagement" learning lab at last week''s ASAE Marketing, Membership and Communications Conference. They would organize the necessary conference calls and meetings. Thank you!

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Membership Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2014

However, all membership organizations could do this better. When it comes to planning some groups simply do not have a documented plan in place to recruit and retain members. Other organizations suffer from the paralysis of analysis. Some groups do this very well, so this may be a simplistic resolution for you.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 8, 2014

Last year, Knight Foundation published the Giving Day Playbook , a soup-to-nuts guide to 24-hour online campaigns that community foundations are increasingly organizing to promote local philanthropy. What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day? for five hours.

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Mizz Information

JULY 19, 2013

And of course, each year I read the report from the social media/community management lens. Each year, Marketing General puts out a Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report.

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Association Adviser

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Source: Association Adviser eNews and Naylor, LLC, 2013. ” Everything from the way your members pay, she said, to how you communicate with your members—being flexible will become increasingly important to your sustainability. ” Naylor’s annual Association Communications Benchmarking Report seems to bear that out.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 21, 2015

They found that specific factors such as satisfaction and commitment to the organization matter differently at various stages of volunteering: Novice (first-time volunteers), Transition (sporadic volunteers over two to four years), and Sustained (volunteers who return for five to six years consecutively). Unported license. .

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Tom Morrison

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It''s December 2013 and every association is about to embark on a new year. One of the biggest challenges associations face today is motivating and inspiring their boards to face facts and take steps to move their association’s communication strategy, value propositions, and member service models into the future.

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Association Adviser

JUNE 18, 2013

In April, Association Adviser readers reaffirmed that non-dues revenue makes up a good chunk of their organizations’ operating funds. Your association can afford to continue publishing and expanding its magazine, plus other communications and events. By Janet Frank and Kelly Donovan. Advertisers renew their ad(s).

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.” Some courses, like this one for nonprofits and communications taught by my colleague Shonali Burke , often include a student project working with a nonprofit.

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Membership Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Membership organizations are using Google Search and Content, Facebook and LinkedIn ads, Google Remarketing, and web ads to initiate a dialogue with a prospective member by gaining an email opt-in request to start and relationship with the organization. What have you observed in your 2013 membership marketing experiences?

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Aaron Wolowiec

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Organizing it around a specific theme. Content curation maximizes resources and builds community. So, it quickly becomes evident that a simple content curation strategy could easily help qualify some of this information, further promoting the organization as a valuable resource and content expert. Online community.

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Membership Marketing

JULY 12, 2013

In our 2013 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report only 16% of responding associations said that they conducted A/B split testing (a control versus a test segment) as part of their membership marketing efforts. The same idea applies to membership recruitment. And that is down from 20% who said that they did so last year.

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Association Adviser

MAY 14, 2013

In this 24/7 always-connected world, we have to figure out a way to stay up current with all the new technology available without becoming a slave to it and allowing it to drain valuable time and resources from our organizations. ” The fax is back. “You don’t have to be the first to market or the earliest adopter. .

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Associations Live

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Communications Networking Group Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Use Google tools: Google + , Google Reviews, Google Authorship , etc. Communicating to a Dual Audience: Members and the Public Sell the experience! Positive pay service - helps protect organization from fraud. Use technology.

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Association Adviser

APRIL 16, 2013

Dues-based organizations of all shapes and sizes are wrestling with ways to stay relevant and competitive in a world where potential members put you through the wringer before they’ll commit to joining (and staying onboard). And the organization will soon be adding a full-time sponsorship account manager to oversee all of its relationships.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

“And so the structure that we used here was to make a treatment plan for our organization: We know there are things that need to be addressed, and here’s how we know them. ” NAADAC’s major symptom circa April 2013 was declining membership, Storie says. And, here’s how we know we’ve done it.

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

In 2013, Zoe Amar and Matt Collins, digital strategy consultants for nonprofits, started the “ Social CEOs Award ” after being inspired by LinkedIn’s top 30 social CEOs list. Listen to any feedback your communications staff have about what you tweet. Social media is just another form of communication.

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Beth Kanter

JUNE 2, 2015

She wrote a memo to the board telling them that their organization had lots of data but they were not listening to it. She wanted to hire a Data Scientist. The West Coast part of the board said yes. But the real words to describe how the organization thinks about data, “It made us better at learning and growing.”.

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Spark Consulting

APRIL 21, 2015

One of our biggest concerns with creating all these additional volunteering options and levels of engagement is that they put the burden on the staff to organize and direct. While you’re in transition, test procedures, technology, communications channels, etc., Any suggestions? Doing this trumps any “gift.”

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