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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. This is most important conversation your association will have.

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Overcoming the association value gap: part I

Principled Innovation

Unfortunately, this effort can only go so far, as securing increasingly limited and targeted third-party marketing dollars becomes a more competitive endeavor. IMPORTANT NOTE: Google Reader will be shut down on July 1, 2013, making this an opportune moment to subscribe to the Principled Innovation Blog via email.

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The Hidden Problems in Membership Marketing That Are Stopping You

Smooth The Path

If your member marketing is not woking there is a problem with one or more of these things: The channel – the method used to get the message to members and potential members. The product – is the thing you are trying to market. Most times the problem with our marketing is in the story and/or the product.

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Are You Addressing Member’s Top Worry Today?

Smooth The Path

Business owners and leaders may want to collaboratively innovate to survive the downturn and meet new market demands. Unemployed members need help connecting with future employers, and hiring managers need to connect with qualified candidates.

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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

Additionally, you could suggest a “freemium” community membership for potential members to showcase the value of joining your association. Download our eBook, Maximize Association Value with Engagement , for the full list of ways a community builds your association’s member acquisition and member engagement efforts.

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Associations Please Help Fix Time-Poverty

Smooth The Path

Association agency services that help members with time-consuming media and content production. Or what about an association service that helps members connect with just the right member. Perhaps what your strategy, marketing, and innovation needs is a focus on how the association can save members’ time.

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Association Brain Food: 2.24.23

Reid All About it

Cierra Loflin at Superpath identifies the telltale signs of an underperforming blog and shares the turnaround advice of three content marketers who inherited mediocre blogs. Organizer: ASAE Black Association Executives *All events are online at Eastern Standard Time unless otherwise noted. AMS implementation. Stakeholder capitalism.