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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. She is a futurist and avid consumer of the latest research, data, and provocative insights from industry thought leaders.

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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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Do You Need a Member Engagement Strategy?

Smooth The Path

She often buys the research reports and sometimes purchases a book or two from the association’s bookstore. Arlene is a promoter; she frequently recommends the association to other professionals in the industry. Many of the members Arlene refers, rise to volunteer leadership roles. She is an active mentor.

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7 signs of a successful enterprise association

Nimble AMS

Study interviewees shared the importance of defined, long-term planning that encompasses the current and future state of the industry and organization. Authentic leadership How would you measure your association’s culture ? Take care to implement this feedback to show how your association values all your stakeholders. “As

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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.

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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

You don't have to be a hypnotist or a master of persuasion to build support for an online community among your association’s board and executive team. Instead, you need to align your new online community with the mission and priorities of your association's leadership. Where community fits in: Be your industry’s thought leader.

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Associations that Overreact or Underreact in a Crisis

Smooth The Path

The trouble is, these leadership teams might cut and layoff so severely there may not be enough person-power to figure out how to add member value in this new environment. Other associations find themselves paralyzed.