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How User Groups Defer Customer Support Costs While Creating Raving Fans

Higher Logic

That’s up from 2013 by a whopping $20 billion. These tools help members find information more quickly via self-service tools including: Product documentation. Innovate and Generate Higher-Quality Solutions. Your user group’s input will likely help you build products with fewer support issues and more market relevance.

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Lean Methodology: Before and After

Association Success

How I adopted the innovative start-up strategy for the benefit of my association. I first read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries in 2013. We created a simple report based on this information and circulated it in an email marketing campaign to people who were set to take the test in the following months. The rest will follow.

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Leading People Through Change: An Essential for Success

Association Adviser

Whether you need to adapt to a changing market, innovate your programs, engage new volunteers or develop new activities to advance your mission, your success requires changing the mindsets and behaviors of your team. Not a 10-page document that sits on the shared drive never to be opened. Jennifer Blenkle, Frameworks.

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Millennials+Content+Mobile = 6 Great Reads for Association Professionals

SCD Group

The national survey was conducted online by Harris Interactive© from August 13 to September 6, 2013, and included a representative sample of 2,134 workers across industries and company sizes who graduated from college. Disruptive innovation is the name of the game. They don’t just need this asset called “content.”

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IMEA – Combining Fabulous Wealth & Potential You Need to Put on Your Radar

GlowGlobally

Since 2001, emerging markets have become the world’s economic engine. As companies fiercely compete for market share, professional and trade associations are also seeking to penetrate these rapidly growing economies, with many looking to build and grow chapters by defining locally relevant member value. This article was written by Ms.

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What Associations Need to Know About Technology

Association Adviser

You don’t have to be the first to market or the earliest adopter of new technology. Search engine marketing represents a huge opportunity for associations that can help their small business members understand the power of SEM. “You don’t have to be the first to market or the earliest adopter.

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Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons

Beth Kanter

Think about how you feel when you have spent five hours writing a grant proposal only to have your computer crash and completely destroy your document. In 2013, GiveMN, one of the first and longest running Giving Days, experienced a catastrophic platform fail (on Razoo). Midland Gives, a member of the peer learning group, had a Plan B.