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Membership recruiting: It’s like spring rush, except it’s all year long

Ungrated

This month, as spring rush gets underway at some colleges and universities, my daughter is following in my footsteps and serving as her sorority’s recruitment chair. Rule number one in Greek recruitment is: Make every person in the room feel welcome. I explained that recruitment often can be easier than engaging and retaining members.

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Membership Recruiting Is Like Spring Rush, Except It’s All Year Long

Ungrated

This month, as spring rush gets underway at some colleges and universities, my daughter is following in my footsteps and serving as her sorority’s recruitment chair. Rule number one in Greek recruitment is: Make every person in the room feel welcome. I explained that recruitment often can be easier than engaging and retaining members.

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Community Leadership: Getting Everyone to Participate

Higher Logic

Leadership hype always focuses on the C-suite – are your executives on social media? But here’s another consideration: have you ever tapped leadership beyond the C-suite? 66% Mature communities had formal leadership/advocacy programs. 66% Mature communities had formal leadership/advocacy programs.

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Association Brain Food: 4.28.23

Reid All About it

Member recruitment. Impexium suggests member recruitment strategies that will successfully drive your marketing efforts in this very different marketplace. Online communities are extremely popular with younger audiences—the toughest ones to recruit and retain. Frankly, we’re smarter about it now. Online community. 1 CAE credit.

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Association Brain Food: 7.21.23

Reid All About it

He reminds us that “every time we go through a wave of automation, whole classes of jobs go away, but new classes of jobs get created.” Hear tips to recruit and retain these generations. Associations not offering mobile technologies to reach these generations will miss the opportunity to engage and recruit them.

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Chose Your Dimensions of Diversity and Get Started

Eric Lanke

Baby Boomers and Gen Xers tend to think of diversity in terms of protected classes. In either worldview, as Joe Gerstandt points out: "We can be different from each other in many ways, but the key words here are 'from each other.'" This is leading many organizations to try to think about diversity more broadly than protected class.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 8.21.20

Reid All About it

The ROI Member Recruitment Brochure: How to Create Brochures That Positively Influence Membership Decisions. Experience a best-in-class virtual event to inspire and start building your new event strategy. Experience a best-in-class virtual event to inspire and start building your new event strategy. Where are the pitfalls?