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5 Practices for Improving Concurrent Sessions

Velvet Chainsaw

These learning experiences are primarily guided and selected by committee members who have little to no training or experience in adult learning principles. Partner with a speaker coach or recruit members/staff who have great reviews for their presentation skills to develop and lead a series of webinars. This model can be very risky.

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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. Chapter, committee, or business group meetings.

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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. Recruit your staff.

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Partnership v. Membership: ROI

Spark Consulting

Someone on your board of directors, or in your membership committee, decides that it would be a terrific recruitment tool. This is different than calculating cost to serve , which you absolutely need to know, and which is absolutely an internal-only metric.]. “That’s a savings of MANY, MANY dollars! per person.”

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Is it time to boost your association’s ROI with a technology upgrade?

Nimble AMS

Choose a modern AMS to invest in innovative reporting with user-friendly dashboards for your entire organization, including key stakeholders like your board and essential committee members. You’re more likely to recruit new employees and members when you embrace innovative technology and its practices. Continuous innovation.

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Association Brain Food: 4.21.23

Reid All About it

They describe the seven steps of starting a successful association mentoring program from pre-evaluation and research to planning, design, recruitment, matching, training, support and evaluation. Host: ASAE Young Professionals Advisory Committee Mon 4/24 at 8 a.m. Membership marketing. More info/register. More info/register.

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Association Brain Food: 12.1.23

Reid All About it

Member recruitment. To attract young members , you must recruit in ways that make sense to them. That’s on us, says Jay Cost at The Dispatch. How to Effectively Facilitate Board and Committee Meetings Learn best practices and practical tips to manage and facilitate board meetings. 1 CAE credit.

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