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Hack Your Way to Better Association Value

Association Adviser

Bonin Bough, author, entrpreneur & marketing executive explains how associations can hack their challenges and their futures. The post Hack Your Way to Better Association Value appeared first on Association Adviser.

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

.orgSource

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. Associations revolve around relationships, but the shape of those connections has changed.

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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.

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Why Association Leaders Need a Vision

Association Adviser

Republished from Associations Now Associations face an increasingly competitive market for members, attendees, and education. Time was, the association value proposition was pretty simple: “We’re the only ones who care about you.” Experts recommend finding a “superpower”—and building a culture that supports it.

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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. Member Engagement and Retention. Growing Non-Dues Revenue.

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Recruiting Members Face-to-Face

Eric Lanke

And when I found myself across a conference room table from its president, listening to him describe his company, its products and services, the markets it served, and the workforce development challenges it faced, I felt even more confident in that assessment. The prospect company now plans to join our association.