Reid All About it

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Gold Circle Awards recognize excellence in marketing, membership and communications efforts across 15 different categories, and highlight the important role these campaigns have in moving associations forward. The deadline for ASAE members to apply for a judge spot is February 9, 2021. ASAE Gold Circle Awards. Forget “normal.”

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 24, 2020

WBT Systems explains what associations can learn from nurses—the most trusted profession for the last 18 years—and how to gain the trust of members, customers and prospects. Quick hits before we get to the list of this week’s free education: Your how-to plan for 12 months of customer-focused blogging. Pamela Bump, HubSpot ).

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Higher Logic

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

What do your members want? Here’s what else we know : You can reach and retain younger members by exceeding their expectations with a customized member experience that meets them where they are in their careers, and positions you to grow together. A cheer for 2020: ?? Where do they want it? When do they want it? [.Yesterday.].

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Reid All About it

MARCH 25, 2022

Member profile data. MemberSuite describes how a proactive data strategy can keep you in touch with members and customers no matter where they move. Probably every reader of this blog is Gen N, a cross-generational consumer segment. Subscribe to Blog via Email. Mastering Immersive Experiences (MIX) 2022.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Are you creating new eLearning courses to provide value to members and bring in revenue for your association’s learning business? Pricing them too high may deter members from investing. eLearning draws members in and provides the value that allows you to grow your membership and retain those learners over time.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The final post explains how to determine your association’s readiness level for developing a volunteer learning journey and how to get members started on the journey. If you’re a home cook, check out the irregularly published In The Kitchen posts on my Grabbing the Gusto blog. Subscribe to Blog via Email. More info/register.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 1, 2022

Alvin Chang at The Guardian says the pandemic experience has given people a different perspective on life: many of us have woken up from our work-obsessed culture. Subscribe to Blog via Email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Quick hits. The modern war is online.

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Reid All About it

MAY 28, 2021

With the switch this past year to online courses and conferences, many associations came to the troubling conclusion that their instructors and presenters didn’t know how to provide an enjoyable or effective learning experience. How can your association facilitate this collaboration among staff and members? AMS business case.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 6, 2021

The benchmarking data will help you compare your chapters and association with others, assess how you’re doing in various categories and identify where you need to improve (or brag). Member advisory groups. Do your members seek connections and conversations with their peers, and low-commitment ways to contribute their expertise?

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WBT Systems

APRIL 19, 2017

How can you ensure your education program provides benefits to members of all ages? In June 2016, an article in Association Now magazine referenced a study titled “ Member Engagement Study: Aligning Organization Strategy With What Matters Most to Members.”

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Higher Logic

APRIL 24, 2018

Applications – Decide whether your opportunities automatically accept interested members or if you they need to submit an application and be approved by a staff member. Profiles – Volunteers can create profiles with their skills, experience, interests, and location to help match them with the right opportunities.

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Associations Now

APRIL 23, 2019

Speaking from experience, as someone who graduated at the peak of the 2008 recession, I know the college-to-career experience can be bumpy. In a recent Personify survey [PDF] of more than 1,000 young association members, only 40 percent said their member experience was worth the dues they paid.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 18, 2019

WBT Systems recommends partnering with member companies to design and deliver learning content so they don’t send their employees elsewhere. Tue 1/22 at 2 p.m.* – Eruption Not Disruption: How to Bulletproof Your Association and Attract More Members & Employees (Association Chat). The Future of Experiences: Radical Changes Ahead.

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Higher Logic

APRIL 9, 2020

After Jive was acquired and things started changing, I knew I wanted to continue building customer communities that would make a difference for organizations and their members, but where to do it? Although this is oversimplified, these categories help explain what I mean. Check out rankings for online community providers on G2.

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Spark Consulting

MARCH 16, 2021

I wrote a Twitter thread to memorialize that fact, and realized I should probably have written a blog post, even though it’s not very association-y. But we haven’t seen any members of our families (aside from each other) in person in more than a year. There are many friends in that category as well. So here it is.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 21, 2022

Gold Circle Awards recognize excellence in marketing, membership, and communications in 15 categories. The member experience. Too much has changed in our world to keep assuming the member experience you provided pre-pandemic is the experience your members and prospective members want, need, and expect now.

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Higher Logic

AUGUST 10, 2017

It needs to meet and adapt to your members evolving and increasingly particular needs. Here are six ways that your members’ website expectations have changed in just the last few years and how you can keep up. It’s normal, which makes it an unconscious expectation for your members. (Don’t remember what Facebook was like in 2004?

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

During event registration, ask attendees to provide insight into these four categories. When it comes to event data, what kind of information should you ask to personalize the attendee experience accordingly? Dave Lutz writes on Velvet Chainsaw that these four categories are essential to the event registration process: Job information.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Sherry Budziak at.orgSource suggests you reconsider what sponsors can offer to members. She explains how you can adapt their Solution Center concept to provide value to your members and sponsors. Subscribe to Blog via Email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Check out the tips, habits and tools recommended by several successful association professionals over at the WBT Systems blog. Members need certifications and certificate programs to advance in their careers, and associations need the non-dues revenue those programs provide, says MemberSuite. Host: Event Manager Blog.

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MemberClicks

JANUARY 18, 2024

If you’re looking to enhance your member experience and have an existing WordPress page for your organization, a membership website plugin is an easy way to monetize your member content with paid member subscriptions and build your member community. Can I create a membership site in WordPress?

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Associations Now

JUNE 4, 2019

Cultivating that experience starts with understanding the data. For example, if your objective is to increase sales, is there a particular audience segment that is underperforming and could be significantly impacted by a personalized event experience?” writes the Eventsforce team on its blog. Next, dive into the data.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Rounding up a group of members who are eager to share their wisdom might seem like a fairly simple proposition. Identify Your Public Associations have several broad categories of constituents including members, industry professionals, prospective members, and the public. Do any of your members have their own channel?

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Associations can use the Storify tool to quickly and efficiently gather social posts into online stories that highlight the member experience. The stream of posts became a way to highlight RTDNA members doing the grueling and challenging work of covering a category three hurricane. How to hack it? What’s the bonus?

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Forj

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web Courseworks, a leader in innovative learning management systems and virtual event technology, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Technology for Virtual-Classroom or Conferencing Technology category. Technology is the great enabler of human capital management initiatives.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

She says in her post, Your Members Feel Very Alone : “One of the first soft benefits many new members receive from their association is realizing for the first time they are not alone.” Last year, we noticed a trend at our association: A segment of longtime members was not engaging with us or renewing. Something to think about.

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WBT Systems

APRIL 25, 2017

In the past, they achieved this in part by selling continuing education content to members, either directly or indirectly through conferences and forums. Before the rise of social media and cloud computing, associations competed to attract new members — but only in a subtle “non-profit” sort of way. It’s different now.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 2, 2018

At Association Success, Howie Berman said they created membership packages with different levels of benefits “to give members a meaningful choice, and to provide them with value for their dues. and how to get the right statistics to prevent national and chapter level members from leaving. People put themselves into their own buckets.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 25, 2013

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 7, 2013. No other single revenue category comes close to reaching that number. For comparison, the ORR reports that meeting/convention registration fees, the next-highest single category of revenue, account for just over 11 percent of revenue, on average.)

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Higher Logic

JULY 25, 2016

Do they have direct contact with customers or community members through formal feedback systems or a product advisory board? Most communities fall short in some categories and exceed in others - it’s rarely A’s across the board for executive participation. Why not improve engagement for community staff and members?

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Eric Lanke

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

One category of high-skilled workers my member companies are looking for is college-degreed engineers with detailed knowledge of my industry's technology and products. As a result, most of my member companies are used to providing their own professional education in our technology.

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WBT Systems

AUGUST 15, 2017

Find new underserved audiences, perhaps the customers of your members, professionals who don’t quite belong in one of your membership categories, employees of member companies, or partners of member companies. Provide advanced level programs for executives or 101 courses for affiliate/associate members.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

.* – The Highly Energized and Engaged Conference Experience. If your conference attendees are not engaged with your experience, what chance will they have to improve their job performance? A growing number of organizations use marketing automation to turn content into leads and gain a deeper understanding of members.

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Optimist Consulting

MAY 31, 2016

Following on from my blog “ Top 5 essentials for your membership marketing strategy ” , I outline my thoughts here on how to develop a strong membership marketing plan that links back to your marketing strategy and helps you to grow your membership. Social media: Go where your members are. – “The member experience”.

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Eric Lanke

MARCH 20, 2017

I've had two recent experiences that have made me think critically about an association board's role in selecting venues for their association's annual conference. All around the table, board member after board member, opining over which locations would be best or most convenient for them. Image Source [link].

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YourMembership

MARCH 16, 2012

YourMembership.com Blog. Ideas to help you engage, empower and retain members. March 16th, 2012 | Posted in Member Engagement + Retention. The experiences mentioned cost their respective companies very little money – they weren’t handing out free iPads or anything. Technology. Management Team.

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Association Success

MARCH 7, 2019

Read blogs, newspapers, magazines and books and listen to podcasts about your industry and beyond. Your organization may not be able support a dedicated position for a futurist or noticer, but if you have a staff member or volunteer who is naturally a noticer, they’ll be doing it anyway, no matter what else is on their to-do list.

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