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Overcoming the association value gap: part I

Principled Innovation

In addition, as Joe makes clear in the quote above, without the ability to grow the dominant revenue stream through changes in pricing, associations are typically left with only two options: increase membership numbers substantially or reduce costs significantly, both of which are usually much easier said than done.

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Lunchtime Links: Let Your Employees Define the Values

Associations Now

Writing for his personal blog, Eric Lanke, CEO of the National Fluid Power Association, talks about his love-hate relationship with values statements and how involving staff in the development of association values can make all the difference. Many of today’s leaders are “wannabes,” says Haque. Leaders enrich us.”

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Jumping Ship : Off Stage

Off Stage

On January 19, 2011, Inman News carried a feature article by Matt Carter with the headline, “South Carolina real estate brokerage drops Realtor affiliation: Company maintains MLS membership. The article continues, “The largest brokerage in the Columbia, S.C., Maybe, in fact, the product was simply over-priced.

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Is New Technology Worth The Investment?

Association Adviser

Associations have to keep up technologically or risk having members go elsewhere for information and question the association value proposition. Associations should discuss the potential ROI they are likely to receive before purchasing any new technology.

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How to Strengthen Your Association’s Value Proposition

AssociationChat

Now it’s how are we going to compete continue to compete as everyone gets into the game and they get over the learning curve and they begin to find all of these new tools that new price points that make it a lot more accessible to more people. Because Association These are weird. I’ll only crack it open and read a couple of articles.

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What Political Polarization Tells Us About Membership Marketing

Associations Now

Chances are, your association’s nonmember audience values very different things than you and your members do, those values are rooted in much deeper motivations than you suspect, and your position and experience hamper your ability to craft membership appeals in terms that address those foreign motivations.