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Broaden Your Reach to Millennials and Gen Z with Snapchat

Associations Now

Now, Nokia makes bathroom scales , and according to Nicholas Mattar, the director of marketing at the Detroit Regional Chamber, who presented this week at ASAE’s 2017 Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference , 13-year-olds are using the social app Snapchat on their personal smartphones.

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Water Works Association Eyes Broader Lessons in Flint’s Water Crisis

Associations Now

“Working in coordination with the state, county, and municipal emergency management agencies; and emergency relief partners, IBWA’s members have so far supplied several hundred thousand gallons of clean and safe bottled water to Flint area residents,” said Chris Hogan, the association’s vice president of communications, in a statement.

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Joint Membership: The “Special Sauce” for Chapter Relations

Associations Now

Schmidt says the cost to join is a big barrier for many New Jersey nurses. It’s a critical advantage for the Global Business Travel Association, where joint membership makes it possible to communicate directly and efficiently with their 9,000 members, based in 39 chapters spread across the world.

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Lunchtime Links: Don’t Get Stung by Bad Data

Associations Now

Associations will send out mailings, make phone calls, and conduct outreach to gear up support, all of which costs money. And it will cost you even more if your database and information systems are out of date, says Rowland. Demolition derby: It’s no secret that the city of Detroit is in a bad way financially.

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Member, Meet Sponsor: A Model for Reaching Under-Served Segments

Associations Now

That’s how much it cost students to join AIChE before 2007. ASAE’s Diversity Executive Leadership Program fits the mold, too: Aimed at developing minority leaders in associations, DELP has been sponsored since its founding by the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau. Fifteen dollars. That’s it!

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SCD Group: Association Strategy: Hire Slower, Fire Faster

SCD Group

Be very clear on communicating the consequences of failing to meet established goals. Just think how much time and money would have been saved if a little more were invested on the front end of the employment process than all the costs (both real and psychological) in "managing out" misfit employees on the back end. Carl earned a Ph.D.

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Reinvent What You Do, Not Who You Are

Association Subculture

How students can't cope with rising tuition costs without incurring massive debts. And now, Detroit. Our beloved Detroit is in danger of losing its soul. There are new ways of doing business, of achieving fiscal stability, of reaching out and communicating effectively with our constituents - members and nonmembers alike.

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