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2014 is done. Bring on the New Year!

YourMembership

Goodbye 2014. So as a final toast to 2014, we look back at some of the ideas and strategies we shared with you the past 12 months. So as a final toast to 2014, we look back at some of the ideas and strategies we shared with you the past 12 months. Forget the Polar Vortex, Ignite Your 2014 with These Tips and Resources.

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5-Step Guide to Calculating Your Member Retention Rate

Higher Logic

Step #3: Check How Many Members You Recruited. You also need to know how many new members you recruited during your period of interest, so that you don't include them as retained members in your final retention measurement. Over the course of a year, you gained another 50 members and lost 20. Member Retention Rate Example.

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New Member Engagement – Looking For Value Beyond the Welcome Kit

YourMembership

We recently held a webinar called Flipping the Membership Equation: Thinking Different About Member Retention and Recruitment. In the webinar we highlighted the work being done at the Association of Otolaryngology Administrators (AOA) to recruit and retain new members. That’s where member engagement lives. See you in NashVegas!

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You Won’t Believe the ROI on This Member Recruitment Campaign

Associations Now

I’m just going to let the following numbers from an association member-recruitment campaign speak for themselves: Total cost for recruitment campaign: $25,000. Then they adapted existing membership recruitment material to be used in the ads, InMail, and updates, all of which pointed to a dedicated landing page.

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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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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. Of course, written guidance is also important for full-time staff and volunteer leaders. That impressive statistic has significant implications for associations. IMPACT ON PROCESSES.

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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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