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Association Management: Online vs. In-person Engagement

Blue Sky eLearn

Your engagement efforts should aim to meet those needs—after all, the value your association offers has to outweigh the cost of membership. If you can only focus on either recruitment or retention, it’s more cost-effective and beneficial to focus on the latter. How often are your members interacting with you on social media? .

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6 Data Points to Track in Your AMS + Why You Need Them

MemberClicks

In this short guide, we’ve compiled the six most important data points to collect for your database to better connect and understand members: Contact Information Demographic Information Firmographic Information Committee, Group and Event Involvement Communication Preferences Reason(s) for Joining. Committee, Group and Event Involvement.

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From Idea into Reality: 8 Steps to Start an Association

MemberClicks

Expense budget – Includes expected costs, ongoing costs and associated costs. Break-even analysis and business ratios – Outlines your fixed costs relative to your profit to give insight into your revenue and potential costs against your growth and profits. Recruit your board.

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5 Signs You Need to Reevaluate Your Membership Management Software

Aptify

Or, has something like this happened: The governance director asks you for committee service and meeting attendance history of a group of members being considered for the board, and: It takes far too long to produce the report. Outdated, dirty data is cluttering your system. Or worse, do you have to pay a developer to create reports?

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Member Engagement Strategies: A Guide for Associations

Fonteva

The former will typically look at event attendance, while the latter might refer to their learning management system (LMS) to gauge how often members take advantage of further education opportunities. Using a data-driven approach, observe how your members engage with those experiences, including: Social media platforms.

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Leverage Technology; Don’t Be a Slave to IT

Association Adviser

The answer is never: ‘Well we should hold a meeting or put together a committee.’ Social Media 2.0. As the successful initial public offering of Twitter stock confirmed earlier this month, social media is a force to be reckoned with and “it’s not going away,” noted LOGA’s Gifford Briggs, “You better learn to adapt.

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Top Membership Management Software Options & Reviews

Fonteva

For example, Fonteva’s member profile platform allows members to input basic information such as job titles and contact information, link their Twitter profiles to connect with other members on social media, and keep track of their subscriptions: 2. Avoid implementation and transaction costs from a second software solution.