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Industry Study Brings a New Way for Association Professionals to Think About Member Engagement

Smooth The Path

There was one theme running so strongly through each member research project I could not ignore it. It was that members who engaged very early in their membership were more excited about the association than members who reported that “the association just grew on them.”

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Case Study: In-depth Member Interviews Feed Association’s Strategic Plan

Smooth The Path

And still could be better – when asked when did you realize the value of the association? members could point to the exact event. This association had a very strong Association Value Trigger Point which is key to life-time member engagement and now that they know what their AVTP is they can fully leverage it.

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Why Just One Kind of Member Research Isn’t Enough

Associations Now

When he took on that job about four years ago, most of what the organization thought it knew about members were “gut hunches,” he says. That’s where in-depth qualitative research came in, and CFMA turned to Amanda Kaiser, chief path finder at Kaiser Insights LLC, who specializes in interview-based member research.