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How to Make Your AMS a Revenue Generator, not a Cost Center

MatrixG

Historically, associations view their AMS as merely a cost center: technology with a fancy price tag to track what the association and members are doing. Can you look at previous purchasers, create demographic profiles and market to others like them? This is a mistake. confusing directions, bad login page). Keep tweaking.

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Skyrocketing Costs Squeeze Event Budgets

Velvet Chainsaw

Travel costs are rising due to strong demand (led by the leisure sector). Following are considerations gathered from industry media, meetings market surveys and anecdotal reports from Velvet Chainsaw Consulting clients. As the cost of jet fuel and gasoline increases those costs are borne by the meeting organizer.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our expert for guiding associations through tough markets. This methodology was used to evaluate expanding the American Board of Medical Specialties, ABMS CertLink®, platform into new markets. Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology.

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5 Must-Have Nonprofit Digital Marketing Tools

Wild Apricot

Here are the top 5 nonprofit digital marketing tools I’ve seen used most effectively. For each tool, I’ll show you how to use its best features and how much it costs.

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Debunking 5 Marketing Automation Myths

Higher Logic

In my quest to educate on marketing automation, I run across a lot of misconceptions. Someone always has a story about some other marketer, from some other organization, that had some sort of major difficulty or near catastrophe, caused by a malfunction of an automated campaign. Myth #1: Marketing Automation Is Far Too Difficult.

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5 Breakthroughs in Membership Marketing

Association Freak

Reading Time: 5 minutes This article first appeared in Associations Now as “ Five Breakthroughs in Membership Marketing “ It's Time for a Breakthrough in Membership Marketing Traditional membership marketing is predictably low return and has stayed the same for years. This is even more important than you might think.

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Of Crowdsourcing and Cassandras

Spark Consulting

Because the model may always have been to push the cab companies out of business by offering the service WAY below actual cost and then, once cab companies were disempowered and consumers were accustomed to summoning rides via an app rather than a raised arm or whistle, to jack up the price.

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