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2013 Membership Marketing Observations

Membership Marketing

Squeezed Marketing Budgets : During this past year, I have seen some rather large associations cut budgets for membership recruitment. Good analytics can tell you who the best candidates are to recruit, who are most likely to renew, and what strategy will produce the best membership ROI. Please feel free to share your thoughts.

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The Folly of Suppressing Overhead

Eric Lanke

But any organization that needs talented staff to design and deliver service programs needed by its constituents, must allocate the appropriate resources to recruiting and retaining that talented staff. Are you attending the 2013 ASAE Marketing, Membership and Communications Conference?

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How Beta Testers Can Help Build Grade-A Exams

Associations Now

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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Auto-Renewal and Monthly Payments: The Perfect Mix?

Associations Now

Then, two weeks ago at ASAE’s Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference (MMCC), automatic dues payments came up in two sessions I was in, once from a presenter and once from an attendee during Q&A. The first came in Susan Carawan’s Learning Lab “Is the Price Right?”

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Inside a 29-Month Membership Growth Streak

Associations Now

August 2013 was its 29th consecutive month of membership growth. Some kind of recruitment and retention superjuice? August 2013 was its 29th consecutive month of membership growth. All of these have been major drivers of improved recruitment and retention in the past few years. So, what’s in the water at ACA?

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How to Test Big and Win Big in Membership Marketing

Membership Marketing

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.