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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.18.21

Reid All About it

Billhighway describes the chapter self-assessment exercise used by the Associated General Contractors of America to collect data for chapter benchmarking. The labor shortage America is currently experiencing is the largest issue disrupting supply chains, disrupting every industry and causing every member to rethink how they get the work done.

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For Member Onboarding, Think Outside the Inbox

Associations Now

Many associations have begun to use marketing automation tools that help to personalize email communications and move new members through the onboarding process. Getting social with the onboarding process is something that the Air Conditioning Contractors of America does every month with its Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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Best Benefit Ever: Hitting All the Pins

Associations Now

Bowling University, the online educational platform offered by the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America, helps make a lot of sense out of a complicated business. For the past few years, the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America (BPAA) has offered its members access to education through a program called Bowling University.

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Group Touts Local Flavor During National Farmers Market Week

Associations Now

Department of Agriculture’s farmers market database had 8,144 listings—that’s more than double the number 10 years ago. Check out the USDA’s Farmers Market Search or LocalHarvest to find one close to you. With its ‘Markets Are Up!’ That’s where the Farmers Market Coalition comes in. ” U.S.

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SCD Group: Do "Best Practices" prevent association innovation?

SCD Group

You CAN clone a cow (apparently), and the cow operates pretty much the same in Iowa as it does in Nebraska. I seek key trends from business and consumer marketing that stimulate your thinking about your organization and its members or donors. Does print still work for association marketing & Tune-up Your Association.

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Mo Rocca on Creativity, Comedy, and Obit Con vs Comic Con

AssociationChat

And I do wonder, like, if we continue, I really mean this meeting in congregating part of the time online, how we can replicate the experience that we actually get when we you know, meet in a warm market. And, you know, because their pop culture is really important in America. Mike’s uncle is a salesman for Willowbrook in rural Iowa.

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Corn Growers Group Plots Quick Response to Super Bowl Ad

Associations Now

Corn farmers across America joined in the fray. The Iowa Corn Growers Association also decried the ad. The Iowa Corn Growers Association also decried the ad. “As And it wasn’t just NCGA that responded quickly and decisively to the ad. Much of what happened after that [ad aired] was organic,” he said.

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