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In Recruitment, a Little Recognition Goes a Long Way

Associations Now

There’s no one way to make a member-get-a-member program a success, but recognition for recruiters is a must. In a perfect world, your members would do your recruitment for you. Your recruitment budget would be zero: All word of mouth, all the time. Here’s why. Recognition is a rare resource.

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Survey: Charitable Groups Losing More Donors Than They Recruit

Associations Now

As reported by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy 2015 Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP), those offsets resulted in that $3.611 billion figure being trimmed to just $173 million in net giving growth.

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Tiered Benefits: A Better Solution for Trade Associations?

Associations Now

Hence PSAI’s tiers, which offer specific quantities of specific member benefits [PDF] in increasing volumes and at increasing discounts at each higher level (Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum). Now we have a better ability to plan, and the members are locking in prices and discounts, sometimes a year in advance,” she says.

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Must Member Dues Always Be Monetary?

Associations Now

In July, Melody Kramer, a 2015 Knight Visiting Fellow at the Nieman Journalism Lab and a former digital strategist and editor at National Public Radio, published “ Putting the Public Into Public Media Membership ,” a lengthy look at future funding models for public broadcasting stations in the United States.

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SCD Group: 7 Association Membership Articles Worth Saving

SCD Group

Discounting fees for the unemployed? Demographic shift – by the year 2015 there will be more Generation Y employees in the workforce than any other age group. Seven Levers to Increase Membership Recruitment Posted in the Membership Marketing Blog. So Why Test in Membership Recruitment? Find the need.