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How to Convince Employers to Pay for Professional Development

WBT Systems

According to the 2014 Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement survey of the Society for Human Resource Management, 40 percent of employees rated job-specific training as “very important” to their satisfaction, and 36 percent rated professional development the same way. Employers with this mindset have it backwards.

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5-Step Guide to Calculating Your Member Retention Rate

Higher Logic

How to Calculate Your Member Retention Rate. Tip : If you're calculating your current retention rate, it might be as easy as determining how many members you currently have. Step #3: Check How Many Members You Recruited. Over the course of a year, you gained another 50 members and lost 20. src="[link].

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A New Perspective on Work

Association Success

million since 2014. One of the current challenges is that our business systems aren’t structured to identify and recruit freelance talent. Associations need to be familiar with the resources that are online and understand how to search for the people and skills they need. Onboarding and managing a remote team is more complex.

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Refocusing on Jobs and Education in 2015

YourMembership

At the beginning of 2014 we started a conversation on the importance of a career center strategy for associations, especially in light of social networking giant LinkedIn’s aggressive efforts to become the leading online job board aggregator.

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Membership Goals: What’s in a Number?

Associations Now

In “ Do You Know How to Grow ” (page 62): When it comes to growth, the old saying is true: Smarter is always better. ” (They share plenty of practical advice for how to do this, but I won’t spoil that here.). NANN exceeded its goal in 2013 and, was up to 8,077 members by April 2014. It worked well.

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Have You Heard? Tips on Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Associations Now

A recent survey of academics found that word-of-mouth marketing can play a significant role in helping to recruit them into scientific societies. That is, of course, if those societies have high satisfaction levels among members. According to the “ 2014 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report ” [PDF] from Marketing General, Inc.,

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Retired Members: Tough to Serve, Too Many to Ignore

Associations Now

There aren’t a lot of clear best practices in associations for how to craft a successful membership offer for your industry’s retirees, but with baby boomers moving past 65, it seems like an opportunity ready for the taking. OK, one number: As of December 31, 2014, all baby boomers are 50 and older.).

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