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Daily Buzz: 2019 Renewal Strategies

Associations Now

Membership renewals are one of the biggest roadblocks to an association’s growth. Audra Hopkins from the WebScribble blog recommends starting with a strong, revamped onboarding plan. Making sure your association provides a proper onboarding service can make or break the first impression your members have [of] you,” she says. “By

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3 Strategies to Recruit Members Through Association Software

Blue Sky eLearn

Prospective members are much more likely to respond positively to a recruitment strategy that feels like a natural part of their interactions with your association than they are with outright marketing strategies that, in today’s media landscape, feel obvious and forceful. Offer online-only membership benefits.

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Overcoming the association value gap: part I

Principled Innovation

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 7, 2013. In a recent post , Associations Now blogger Joe Rominiecki shared what both he and I regard as a startling fact: 53 percent of associations surveyed in 2011 had raised their dues in the previous three years.

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Overcoming the association value gap: part II

Principled Innovation

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 28, 2013. In Part I of this series earlier this month, I identified the association value gap as an underlying structural problem within membership-centric business models. You can read Part I here. Are you ready to get started?

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Don’t Ignore Non-Dues Revenue Potential of Digital Badges!

WBT Systems

In terms of the “next practices” for association eLearning, we think the greatest potential lies in digital badges , as a means of increasing both the value of education programs for members and the capacity for eLearning to generate non-dues revenue for associations. Value of Digital Badges for Association Members.

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The Hourglass Blog: Diagnosing the Problem

The Hourglass Blog

That’s what the WSAE Task Force on Innovation concluded in its white paper, and that’s why WSAE has decided to launch an online community (formal announcement coming soon) where crowd-sourced discussions can take place—discussions focused on identifying successful strategies for overcoming barriers in these three areas.

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3 Ways to Engage More Association Members in Your Online Community

Socious

That’s the mark of an effective product, service, or strategy. An effective member engagement strategy gets your members participating and interacting with your association and their peers through its website, networking events, or private member community. Your online community likely allows for public and private blogs.