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Improve Association Value With Soft Skill Training

Smooth The Path

If they ask to take a course in communication skills, they must be a lousy communicator. Shaming around professional development is unthinkable to many of us but, some professionals say it happens at their organizations and this is a problem association can solve. When associations offer soft skill training (i.e.,

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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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How to Prove Member ROI with Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

Protech

For trade associations, institutional members might expect value in the form of internal educational resources they can share with their staff on community forums. How often are members engaging in training certification courses? . What are they saying about your association ’s online experience ? .

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Mini-Course for Association Professionals: The Optimization Trap Many Associations Face

Smooth The Path

Associations tend to lean toward optimizing. Learn how to avoid this trap in the newest mini-course for association professionals: If the embedded YouTube video is not working for you go directly to YouTube. Related: The danger of associations using optimizing strategies. Optimizing can become a trap.

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How to Get Members to Do What You Want Them to Do

Smooth The Path

They say they want a course but no on registers. Related: Potential members do not hear about associations anymore. The 40-year-old association problem. The post How to Get Members to Do What You Want Them to Do appeared first on Smooth The Path. We offer them a discount designed to drive sales, but there is no boost.

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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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Our Members are Burning Out

Smooth The Path

How about you? Are you learning how to manage the sudden increase in traffic in your online community? Of course, we are not alone. For some reason, vacation days have been scarce. Have you had to ditch most of the work you did on upcoming in-person events to turn on a virtual conference immediately? Will my parents get sick?