Aaron Wolowiec

JULY 16, 2013

Jeff De Cagna, founder of Principled Innovation LLC. To start us off, I spoke with Jeff De Cagna , founder of Principled Innovation LLC. A: Quite honestly, I was very concerned about the advice being given to association leaders about how to build organizations that will thrive in the years ahead. Q: Who should read this book?

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Association Adviser

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Most associations agree non-dues revenue is essential, but our research shows very few ask advertisers and sponsors for their input. What surprised us most in 2013? InfoComm International , the audiovisual association, is one organization that does this very well, Stern said. Re-thinking membership. Wake up and smell the coffee.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Vibrant urban areas can inspire innovation and increase productivity. Bustling urban areas offer vast educational, social, and entertainment opportunities that inspire innovation. Organizers scheduled morning bike tours and offered free electric vehicles to shuttle guests to local attractions and partnering restaurants.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 9, 2013

How the Associated General Contractors of America’s annual expo went from the chopping block to exceeding revenue goals in a few years. While AGC’s goal was to sell $250,000 in sponsorships and exhibits, it sold $305,000 and netted $183,000 for the organization—$58,000 more than its net-revenue goal. Create an expo brand.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Many conferences struggle with flat or declining revenue from exhibitors and sponsors. If your event attracts the right attendees, on the other hand, you have an opportunity to strategically grow sponsorship revenue. Organizing your sales effort around your own offerings rather than what your customers would value most.

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Tom Morrison

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It''s December 2013 and every association is about to embark on a new year. A year in which we want our associations to go to a new level, membership to increase, more members engage in our programs and a vibrant board who is thinking futuristic with great ideas and innovation at the forefront. If you do that, people will want to join.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Two critical needs of organizations seeking annual meeting improvement are increasing attendance acquisition and sponsorship revenues. Wendy will be charged with innovating and developing our recommendations in these two areas with a laser focus on improving the attendee experience.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 25, 2013

While most associations crave non-dues revenue, sometimes the expo portion of your program is a drag on profit speed. Whether your revenue is steady or not, this is a huge concern. Brace yourself because your organization is going to spend too much money acquiring new exhibitors vs. building upon past success. Hear me out.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 20, 2013

While most associations crave non-dues revenue, sometimes the expo portion of your program is a drag on profit speed. Whether your revenue is steady or not, this is a huge concern. Brace yourself because your organization is going to spend too much money acquiring new exhibitors vs. building upon past success. Hear me out.

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Tom Morrison

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Our organization lives in the world of materials and science where the content that was developed years ago is still relevant today. All of the above are pieces to a new revenue model called, “Repurpose, Repackage, Reuse,” to selling knowledge to your members. The next bit of innovation was purchasing a $300 HD camera and a tri-pod.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 20, 2015

Does the road to increased revenue run through technology offerings? Earlier this month, the association and nonprofit software provider Abila—a company that, notably, acquired Avectra in 2013 —put out a set of recommendations on what it saw as the next steps for the association space in the year to come.

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Associations Now

APRIL 27, 2016

It would work against the whole mission of the organization if we said only ASPB people can play in this space. ” Four years ago, ASPB began to examine its future, knowing that the open-access movement could soon threaten its academic journals, the organization’s primary source of revenue and relevance.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Last month, McKinsey & Company released a report on its 2013 survey of CEOs and other execs at social-sector nonprofits to gauge their confidence in the leadership structure they have and what they think they’d need to improve. It may be sensible for some associations to pursue that approach with their member organizations.

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Associations Now

MARCH 17, 2014

We write a lot here—on this particular blog, but also throughout AssociationsNow.com—about the importance of bringing fresh ideas to your organization. Without question, there’s something in your staff, your membership and leadership structure, your revenue model, and your meetings that can use a fresh look.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

No matter how innovative your culture is, if you can’t act on your big ideas effectively, they’re of no use. They can help shape those big ideas into manageable, well-organized processes that eventually turn into useful, real-world products. That’s where project managers come in. Well, that’s the potential, anyway.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 12, 2013

” The newspaper industry has had a terrible decade, losing ad revenue by the tanker-load, cutting publication frequency, and shedding staff. Bezos is arguably the greatest living innovator in the American technology business, but you won’t find the word “innovate” anywhere in his letter.

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Associations Now

MAY 30, 2014

In fact, by either embracing it or purposely introducing it, disruption could ultimately lead their organizations and tradeshows to innovation and better engagement with their community. After all, he was a huge part of the launch and subsequent massive growth of New York Comic Con , which attracted more than 133,000 attendees in 2013.

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Idea Architects

MAY 8, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. I dont try to get a certain # of clients or hit certain revenue targets. Ill officially open 2013 scheduling at the same time. Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas.

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Associations Now

JUNE 25, 2014

and Jeff De Cagna, FASAE, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation. Grefe and Lott, meanwhile, detailed the strategic pressures their organizations each faced that drove them to adopt new membership structures, both featuring a broad range of tiers of benefits and corresponding dues at which members can join.

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ChatterBachs

MARCH 15, 2013

I had the privilege of attending the ASAE Great Ideas Conference in Colorado Springs at The Broadmoor March 10-12, 2013. Also, may this post and the notes, tweets, photos, and resources below provide you with enough insight that you too will be challenged to think differently about the challenges you and your organization face.

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Beth Kanter

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 25, 2013

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 7, 2013. According to the most recent edition of ASAE’s Operating Ratio Report ( ORR ), membership dues account for an average of 38 percent of total revenue for all associations. No other single revenue category comes close to reaching that number.

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Association Adviser

MARCH 17, 2014

Technology is not synonymous for innovation; some associations are having breakthroughs by going back to old tech. “It’s changing from a traditional, bricks-and-mortar, membership-and-committee-based organization to an online and multimedia-based structure.” It starts with one of their toughest competitors—the Internet.

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Associations Now

APRIL 5, 2013

Large and small organizations alike are struggling to figure it out. Large companies face the same challenges smaller organizations and associations do in measuring social media ROI. If you can measure the revenue impact, more power to you. revenue generation. innovation. You’re not alone.

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

” As conferences and conventions evolve, organizations that perfect their listening skills will have the best chance of staying relevant. For one, there’s a lot of money on the line, as the annual conference or convention is often an association’s biggest non-dues revenue generator. Why don’t they? Appointment-based events.

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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 Now

JULY 30, 2014

A trade association eliminates dues for its smallest companies, an inclusive effort to boost innovation and safety more broadly across its industry. The math has to work, of course; revenue has to come from somewhere. ” Of course, NWFPA sells other products and services and hosts meetings that drive nondues revenue.

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Association Success

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Night Shyamalan published a book on the American education system in 2013. Like the human body, each organism has its own physical traits and talents, but remove a lung and it doesn’t matter how strong your heart is. Yep, that M. But the principles were all present. Systems eat culture for breakfast. Frequent feedback.

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Association Success

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In 2013, M Night Shyamalan published a book on the American education system. Like the human body, each organism has its own physical traits and talents, but if remove a lung, it doesn’t matter how strong your heart is. But the principles were all present. Systems eat culture for breakfast. Frequent feedback.

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