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Membership Q&A: Don’t Leave Us!

Spark Consulting

At the endof the next year’s renewal cycle, with your next conference coming up in Boston, you notice that he’s lapsed, so you put him back into your lead cultivation cycle. We’ll just recruit more early-career Millennials to make up for it.” Your conference is in Seattle, and he lives in Seattle.

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Top Tips and Tricks From 2019 Membership Hacks

Associations Now

Other incentives can help you recruit new members. And you can also get existing members in on a recruitment drive using referral dollars. This year, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council created a flexible workspace near its Boston headquarters that members can use for impromptu meetings and large-scale events.

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Daily Buzz: How One Association Is Re-Creating History

Associations Now

Taken at the Boston Public Garden footbridge, the iconic image marked the first convention of photographers in the region, a five-day conference by the National Photographic Association. The meeting, which was held at the Horticultural Society of Boston, ended with all participants gathering for the photo at the footbridge. “If

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What to Do When Membership Is Booming?

Associations Now

There are so many innovations, like collaborative robots and vision technologies, in more places, what I call robotics clusters—Pittsburgh, Boston, Silicon Valley, San Diego, and Austin, to name a few,” he says. “A Four years ago, we decided to host our first workshop about this topic in Boston,” Doyle says. Post your comments below.

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What’s the Business Case for Paid Family Leave?

Associations Now

A new Boston Consulting Group report makes the case that organizations that offer paid family leave see higher retention rates, better results from employee recruitment, and improved morale—especially since relatively few employers offer the benefit at this time. What does the furniture retailer IKEA have in common with the U.S.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.25.22

Reid All About it

Because I used 3 pounds of boneless pork shoulder (aka Boston butt), I doubled the marinade/sauce ingredients—and added a hefty amount of spicy sambal oelek to the mix. AWTC Salon: Recruiting and Retaining Tech Talent. Join an interactive conversation on recruiting and retaining tech talent. Host: Hubilo. Thu 3/31 at 12 p.m.

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Will Chapters Be Relevant in 2021?

Mariner Management

Case in point is the Boston-Washington corridor. Pre-pandemic associations tapped their components for four key roles: member engagement, leadership development, member recruitment and professional development delivery. In the throes of the pandemic, many components running programs actively sought attendance across chapter lines.

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