Association Freak

AUGUST 31, 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes This article first appeared in Associations Now as “Baby Come Back! How to Win Back Lapsed Members and Why You Should” Learn common reasons why members leave their associations and creative strategies to pull them back in for the long term.

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Associations Now

APRIL 12, 2024

Becoming a good, strategy-minded board member is often another matter, though. Boards don’t always come in with a solid grounding of the work they’re being asked to do, or how to do it. Engle’s process distills governance down to three pillars—strategy, structure, and culture.

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MemberClicks

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We’ll also discuss how these organizations can use marketing strategies to enhance their recruitment efforts and ensure ongoing growth and success. Personal stories can be powerful in showing how membership makes a real difference. Wrapping Up: Recruiting Members with Trade Association Benefits Colleagues in office.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

TopClass LMS explains how to keep industry professionals (and members) close with a learning subscription. Mercury Creative Group explains how to build an association brand that attracts and builds the loyalty of young members. We’re scrolling alone—and it’s getting worse every year, per this Atlantic article by Derek Thompson.

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MemberClicks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

To be more specific, in this article, you’ll learn: What member retention is Why them matter What retention rates can tell you Top 10 membership renewal strategies. This makes it way more cost-effective to retain the support of existing members than recruiting, onboarding and engaging new members all the time.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 21, 2023

They describe the seven steps of starting a successful association mentoring program from pre-evaluation and research to planning, design, recruitment, matching, training, support and evaluation. They describe how webinars, blog posts, podcasts, YouTube, social media and influencer content can help you attract and retain members.

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CMA Solutions

JUNE 16, 2022

Your SEO strategy should be clear: Move your brand on the first page of search engine results. At CMA, we devise a thorough SEO strategy for every digital marketing campaign that addresses three critical components of our award-winning program. So, how do I know what some closely related LSI keywords are? close rate.

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Reid All About it

JULY 24, 2020

To get a sense of what your association is missing, take a few minutes to read Jeff’s article and then share it with your staff and board. I had never heard of “backcasting” until reading this article from the American Alliance of Museums. Fri 7/24 at 1 p.m.* – How to Go Virtual (While Still Creating an Engaging Experience).

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MARCH 19, 2021

This is one of the best articles about self-care I’ve read because it dismisses the usual tripe spewed out as self-care advice. At First Round Review, Jessmina Archbold says self-care is not what you buy yourself, it’s how you work on yourself. How to Find Your Hidden Culture Patterns. Fri 3/19 at 1 p.m. – 1 CMP credit.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 28, 2020

it’s why you feel awful: here’s how to pull yourself out of despair and live your life. Learn how to measure your current ROI in actual dollar numbers, use the numbers for influencing the membership decision, grow your ROI, and prove beyond a doubt that membership in your organization is a good business decision. . Tara Haelle ).

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WBT Systems

APRIL 4, 2017

There have been some interesting articles and blogs posted in recent weeks with great ideas for engaging members in learning, curating online content to ensure relevancy, and ensuring your organization has a strategically digital mindset. How to Really Involve Learners. Using Digital Credentials to Close the Skills Gap.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 9, 2023

They also share change management strategies for change-fatigued association professionals. Some of these strategies are new to me but look very promising. This PCMA Convene article by Vanessa Page of mdg is essential and fascinating reading. We all know that and think we do it, but her examples show us how often we don’t.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 2, 2019

They often become involved in advocacy efforts (or not) based on how it may help them grow professionally and achieve their career aspirations. The content (inclusive of articles, tips, tools, and other resources) you need to maximize your career center’s success will be found across the organization.

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WBT Systems

JULY 31, 2018

Every association wants to recruit millennial members, but the cost of membership may exceed a millennial’s budget. Recruitment strategy: help millennials get jobs. Consider topics such as: How to prepare for an interview. How to prepare for a networking event. The state of millennial membership. Career webinars.

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WBT Systems

JANUARY 3, 2017

The key step to a designing a new strategy or plan for association learning is to set achievable goals. As an example of this, back in June 2016 an article in Association Now magazine referenced a study titled “ Member Engagement Study: Aligning Organization Strategy With What Matters Most to Members.”

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Reid All About it

JUNE 2, 2023

Learn how integrating culture, strategy, and execution can make things happen in associations that are, frankly, long overdue—like being wildly profitable, attracting the best talent in the world, and being nimble and agile. But when negotiating with counterparts in real life, how do you use your preparation to the best effect?

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The article also covers Bitcoin, Ethereum, initial coin offerings, and promising use cases. But, you have to read novels or poetry, not articles about blockchain, if you want to get those benefits. WBT Systems explains how learning pathways benefit your industry, association, and learners , and how to get started.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Quick hits before we get to the list of next week’s free education: How to adapt your communication approach and expectations with both mentors and mentees during pandemic times. How to update old blog posts for SEO. How to read more books. .* – Member ROI Simplified: Safeguarding Your Organization’s Future.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In a 2019 survey of high-tech companies, more than 40% of the respondents said they hire Customer Success Managers , according to an article in the Harvard Business Review. Billhighway provides advice on what to do if one of your chapters is a victim of fraud and, more importantly, how to prevent fraud from happening in the first place.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 2, 2021

MemberSuite tackles one of the most perplexing questions about the future of conferences: how to provide an integrated experience at a hybrid conference —and why you should. . I followed a quasi-recipe from the late actor (and amazing cook from what I’ve heard) Vincent Schiavelli—the recipe is at the bottom of this article.

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Ewald Consulting

APRIL 28, 2022

Their library is massive, with shorter, bite-sized content ranging from “how to be more inclusive as a leader” to leading virtually. A great place to start is their resource page organized by topics such as strategy, executive transition and recruitment. Many of these articles are available at no cost.

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Reid All About it

JULY 21, 2017

Kai-Fu Lee debunks dystopian AI scenarios in a Wired article. He says love will always differentiate us from AI—a prediction that reminds me of an article I mentioned two weeks ago about the value of emotional labor in the future. Here’s another good article about phishing attacks—this time the focus is on chapters.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 12, 2019

In this post, he focuses on data management and digital strategy. WBT Systems identifies ten traits of an innovation mindset to cultivate at your association if you want to turn innovative ideas and strategies into reality. How to Lead Enterprise Agile. How Nonprofits Can Raise More Money Through Crowdfunding.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this MIT Technology Review article , he said, “What they wrote was remarkable, and remarkably consistent.”. Billhighway explains how to handle and prevent chapter data privacy issues —another post in their series on chapters in crisis. How to build a successful content marketing strategy from scratch. 1 CAE credit.

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Membership Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2011

How to Recognize a Good Strategy? We are told that the organization is going to launch a bold new strategy. In sports, we see the impact of strategy played out in game situatons right before our eyes. ” All of these items have their place, but they should not be mistaken for a strategy. . Publications.

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SCD Group

JULY 22, 2012

7 Association Membership Articles Worth Saving. You may want to share these articles with your membership and marketing teams. Seven Levers to Increase Membership Recruitment Posted in the Membership Marketing Blog. So Why Test in Membership Recruitment? Shows what to test as well as how to test. Causeaholic.

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Reid All About it

JULY 16, 2021

In another ASAE article, Brooke Wilson of Live 360 Media, a YP herself, suggests five changes to consider if you’re serious about appealing to the next generation. How to create an editorial calendar that will streamline your content strategy. Young professionals. Newsletter suggestion. Quick hits. Neil Patel ). Host: Fridays@4.

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Reid All About it

JULY 23, 2021

WBT’s post describes why your association would want to offer mixed-age learning programs and suggests how to get started. MemberSuite explains how to ensure your AMS reports provide the data your co-workers and volunteer leaders need for insight and decisions. Hear how to become a more culturally competent association professional.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Make a checklist out of this one: Kylee Coffman at DelCor Technology Solutions explains how to make Google love your association website. “ Here’s an article that will give you the heebie-jeebies before Halloween. Learn what the new rules around CME and performance/quality improvement mean, and how to prepare for implementation.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… If, like me, you’re sick of all the negativity around, you’ll appreciate this article by Wes Trochlil of Effective Database Management about what’s good in data management —yes, data management, we’ve come a long way, baby! 1 CAE credit.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

The YouTubers who manage those channels know how to tell a story and they are experts in their field. The term was coined in 1994 by Joel Kurtzman , who was the founding editor-in-chief of Strategy+Business magazine and editor of the Harvard Business Review. Thought leadership is a strategy that seems tailor-made for associations.

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Association Success

OCTOBER 26, 2020

MORE: 5 signs your association’s strategy needs a refresh. Add to this, all the recent global and domestic issues confronting us that will further challenge the member recruitment efforts of many organizations for years to come. Common to all these engagement strategies is authenticity and creating a targeted experience.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 18, 2020

How are your chapters really doing? Billhighway explains how to get access to real-time chapter financial data , reduce the risk of financial mismanagement and alleviate the chapter leadership burden. At the Harvard Business Review, Siri Chilazi and Iris Bohnet explain how to best use data to meet your DE&I goals.

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Elevating Engagement

APRIL 28, 2023

Emotions are a big part of our human decision-making process, especially when making decisions about belonging to a community and how to spend our time. Experiences trigger emotions, and this is good news because purposely creating positive experiences is how we can make the decision to engage easy and fun.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 17, 2017

Aptify shows how associations can use inbound marketing for lead generation and, ultimately, membership recruitment. In the last few years, I’ve seen many articles in Associations Now about associations rethinking the chapter structure. Gmail users: beware the latest phishing attack. Be careful what you click! 1 CAE credit.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 27, 2021

If virtual or in-person conferences are part of your organization’s strategy—whether you’re a non- or for-profit, large or small organization—please participate in the Tagoras 2021 Virtual Conferences survey. I’m seeing a wave of articles about the “bad science” of generationalism. Virtual conferences survey. Generationalism.

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Optimist Consulting

MAY 31, 2016

I was delighted to recently present at CHASE on how to develop your membership marketing strategy and plan. PR: Via articles, blogs in online/offline media. Use your members to recruit other members and act as ambassadors for your organisation. How can you segment them? . – Members get members.

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