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3 Strategies to Recruit Members Through Association Software

Blue Sky eLearn

When it comes to recruitment for your association, you have to walk a thin line. Instead of creating a plan just to promote your program, focus on promoting the value of your program whenever prospective members naturally encounter it. Ready to recruit a fresh pool of members for your program? Let’s get to it!

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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

The goal: Every year, bringing in new members is likely to be on your association’s list. In order to recruit new members, associations need to provide a unique value proposition , something compelling enough that people see value in paying for membership on their own or asking their company to sponsor their membership.

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3 Myths: The Reasons New Members Join Associations

Smooth The Path

Members join to go to the annual conference. Much more often members do not know a thing about the association when they join. While members do not join for the value, they stay for the value. Myth #3: Members Join Because the Association is the Leading Authority. A director sent the team to the conference.

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Associations and the Network Effect

Smooth The Path

For example, the Florida Society of Association Executives (FSAE) recruited me to speak at this year’s annual conference. I am estimating it took another 300 posts, many calls with industry contacts, and about 70 presentations before I was first paid to speak. Making conference networking more inclusive.

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Your Conference Is Offering Learning Scrap That Is Not Even Worth Recycling

Velvet Chainsaw

Your conference and association value proposition is under attack! Education and networking are two benefits of conference attendance and association membership. From my back of the envelope calculations, that leaves 28% (or about $335 per employee) for conferences/external investment.

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Who is Solving the Member Engagement Problem?

Smooth The Path

”, an association CEO and big thinker in our industry asked me yesterday. Many indicators point to a member engagement problem for associations. Many associations are facing shrinking annual revenues, low retention ratings and, are having a harder time recruiting volunteers and quality volunteer leaders.

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Common Trap for Association Professionals

Smooth The Path

. “I am upset because I can’t drill down and see the benchmarking data from the 15 companies just like mine, the association should have made this study more robust,” members say. We think, “man, we killed ourselves to get as many responses as we did, this member should go out and recruit more respondents like her.”