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How to Exponentially Improve Member Engagement at Any Association

Smooth The Path

There is not another thing that will sustainably drive awareness, engagement, and retention more than understanding our members. Understanding our members helps us stay in lockstep with our members. It is our understanding of them that guides the organization’s strategy. Related: Member Engagement Research.

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The Association Value Trigger Point Explained by New Member Background

Smooth The Path

When I speak about a way to engage new members early in their membership by using an Association Value Trigger Point (AVTP), association professionals often ask me if their association should have just one AVTP or should we have many for our different members?

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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

While the way you align your proposed member community with your executives’ goals will vary by association, five of the most common priorities you might find in the strategic plan include new member acquisition, member engagement and retention, non-dues revenue growth, advocacy and legislation, and maintaining relevance.

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Want to Maximize Association Membership Value? Create Indispensable Engagement

Higher Logic

An engagement platform helps you provide those valuable relationships 24/7, 365 days a year. With tools like online community and marketing automation , you recreate the best parts of your association online. The great ideas and valuable connections members build with each other at your annual conference can happen all the time.

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Associations and Lousy Marketing

Smooth The Path

Bernadette Jiwa, storytelling guru wrote that good marketing, “empowers people to make decisions now that they won’t regret later, and, “helps people to do the things they want to do.” Just because we manage non-profit associations does not make us immune to lousy marketing.

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Association Awareness is Actually a Different Problem in Disguise

Smooth The Path

” Incoming association boards and staff often leap to this conclusion too. Flat membership numbers or small market share must mean low awareness. Most association’s awareness problems are member engagement problems in disguise. The superpower most associations overlook.

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From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Crafting Membership Offers They Can’t Refuse

Association Freak

Our research has confirmed that an organization’s membership value proposition is the key driver for membership renewal. So, how can you ensure that you reinforce this value through marketing that truly makes membership impossible to resist?