YourMembership

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In February, we discussed how social media giant LinkedIn would be a disruptive force in the job board market in 2014. In June, we highlighted that LinkedIn was moving fast towards their goal , yet niche job boards remained highly effective and extremely popular with recruiters.

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YourMembership

APRIL 14, 2015

Member recruitment, new revenue growth, generational shifts, technology demands, and the need to transform their organizations into “On Demand” service providers to meet the growing demands of their members – some or all of these make up the business climate associations must compete and succeed in today. But back to that BHAG.

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YourMembership

OCTOBER 16, 2014

LinkedIn generates revenue through three main channels – talent solutions, marketing solutions, and premium subscriptions. Marketing solutions generates revenue through the ads that you see on a LinkedIn page. This is where companies and recruiters pay to access LinkedIn’s tools for talent acquisition.

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YourMembership

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

This week YourMembership.com is “on the road” in Tempe, Arizona attending the 2014 AMC Institute Annual Meeting. Some associations are losing market penetration within their industry when looking at the percentage of potential members versus the number actual members. They need leadership in all areas of their business.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Do the math: If 43 percent of associations have membership staff and 5 percent (at most) outsource membership work, that leaves more than half (52 percent) where membership functions such as recruitment, retention, engagement, and customer service are distributed among other staff.

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Association Adviser

MAY 20, 2014

There’s an eye-opening chart you’ll see soon from Association Adviser’s 2014 Association Communications Benchmarking Report. Too many associations still treat social media as a one-way broadcast medium and are missing great engagement and intelligence-gathering opportunities from members. percent agree); member recruitment (10.8

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Associations Now

APRIL 18, 2014

And by allowing them to do so, your association may not only be increasing member engagement with your meeting and its venue and host city but also building a repository of photos you can use in the future. Take some advice from the Association of Donor Recruitment Professionals. Choose a Creative Hashtag.

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Associations Now

JUNE 25, 2015

“In 2015, organizations are using a greater variety of social media platforms, combining paid, earned, and owned tactics, and utilizing measurement and accountability to identify new opportunities and increase member engagement,” the report noted. Almost three-quarters of associations are using YouTube, up from 64 percent in 2014.

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Holly Duckworth

JUNE 23, 2014

Summer 2014 Reading List: Each summer I find many of my association leaders “check out”. Here is the 2014 Leadership Solutions International Summer recommended reading list. They take the summer off. A few might ask me for what book I am taking on my vacation. Association Leadership: The Art of Membership, Sheri Jacobs.

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Association Adviser

MAY 20, 2014

Sarah Rosenberger , membership, communication and marketing coordinator for the Indiana Society of Association Executives (ISAE) , agreed. ”We tried a large email segmentation project last year, and it actually hurt our member engagement. The days of having membership committees cold call members are over.

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