Higher Logic

JANUARY 29, 2019

It's difficult not to get discouraged by such speculation when your member engagement is so critical to the success of your association as a whole. Member engagement isn’t an easy, snap-your-fingers kind of thing, but when you have an engaged member base, the work is totally worth it. Most important?

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Competing against niche professional organizations, membership and conference revenue has “slowed to a trickle.” The writing has been on the wall for a long time—follow the link in the story to the 2014 memo written by a former ED. Host: Professionals for Association Revenue Wed 10/11 at 11 a.m. Association staff retention.

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Tom Morrison

JULY 30, 2014

You see, in 2006 we decided the number one strategy in the strategic plan was to put members FIRST.do Look at our key numbers and the increase since 2006: Membership Increase: 13% Dues: 25% Revenue Per Member: 33% Non-Dues Revenue: 132% Associate Sponsorships: 68% Net Worth: 1,058% 98.5%

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Aaron Wolowiec

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Has your organization’s meetings function experienced a year-over-year revenue decline – however slight – since the 2007 recession? If you’ve answered yes to one or both of these questions, 2014 may be a great opportunity for your organization to conduct a strategic meeting audit. Does event pricing reflect the projected profit margin?

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Spark Consulting

MAY 5, 2014

Last week, Associations Now did a story on my awesome client NICSA and the new membership model project we worked on together last summer. They’ve graciously given me permission to reprint it below: By Joe Rominiecki / Apr 30, 2014 . The winter of 2014 brought a lot of cold weather and snow to much of the United States. “It

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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. That’s a huge missed opportunity.

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Association Adviser

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Gifford, to what extent were you and your members impacted by last month’s government shutdown? Most of the big projects, and permits for those big projects, were issued years in advance. Well for one, there’s a lot more revenue, and we tripled the size of the magazine without changing the ad-to-edit ratio.

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